Peer-to-patent

Nice idea to use collaboration with expert non-patent examiners to gather prior art. It would probably be worth patent-heavy companies to invest in someone to participate for them: most patent applications won’t be yours, so the more you can steer away from...

Nielsen on Twitter

Nice to see the thought processes in action: how to write a Tweet announcing new conferences.

New ways of thinking

A few Friday readings: why don’t we come up with truly new ways of solving issues that have been with us for ages?Prescribe heroin to addicts? [I think we should find a way of bringing drugs under state control along the lines of alcohol]Remove chuggers from our...

Psychological recession

As Jonny pointed out, there are some interesting mistakes in this article (was it Datamonitor or Datavision carrying out the research?). But “psychological recession”?! Just wait until interest rates start rising: that’ll get rid of any feelgood...

Rain today

Shows you radar pictures of rain as it has happened just a little earlier in the day so you can have a predict yourself.