IT JUST GETS BETTER. After earlier today announcing that 30,000 people visited the AMEX Cup Village for Sunday's Open Day, figures just through show it was a record week for visitors.

97,942 people have walked through the AMEX Cup Village entry points over the last week. On Wednesday alone, 13 469 people came through.

PR Manager Sue Foley said," These figures are proof that the investment by the AMEX Cup Village, the Auckland City Council and private developers in this magnificent waterfront area has been very worthwhile.

"To have just under a 100,000 people visit the AMEX Cup Village in just 7 days certainly justifies the months of hard work by many people into creating such a unique destination point.

"While we are very proud of such high visitor numbers we are well aware that the challenge is to keep the momentum going right through the next five months. It's a challenge we feel confident we can meet."

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>