by Tom | Jul 8, 2011 | Business, Reading
virtualeconomics: How little newspapers matter. That. Sad. #notw A quote about the UK from the US article I mentioned yesterday has been with me overnight. So I don’t think I’m out of line saying the tabloid culture is the newspaper culture there. That makes me...
by Tom | Jun 24, 2011 | Business, Reading
I wonder if any aspiring author should think about self-publishing. Why? Just look at the changes in the publishing market right now: Rowling to work Potter magic online (cutting out Amazon and Apple’s cut). $0.99 Kindle eBooks with reasonable sales. And you can...
by Tom | Jun 23, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading
Terrifying article in Spiegel about the lack of any sensible options for the Eurozone. Time for Plan B: How the Euro Became Europe’s Greatest Threat. I’d be keen on a nuclear option, because at the moment, it appears that the main effect of the pressure on...
by Tom | Jun 22, 2011 | Business, Reading
A Brief History of the Corporation. Astonishing riff on where business will go next. I hadn’t really got how independent the East India Company really was, and quite how much Britain had to do to help cement its brief hold on the world. I sincerely want to...
by Tom | Jun 22, 2011 | Business, Reading
The Big Idea: Before You Make That Big Decision… has a useful set of questions to ask before making any big decision where other people’s thinking is important. Which is pretty well all decisions. I’m a big fan of the premortem: working out what the...
by Tom | Jun 22, 2011 | Business, Personal, Tech
The downside of Facebook as a public space: Censorship has a critical point for all of us. Facebook, Twitter et al are corporate entities and have their own corporate ethics. This can result in outcomes we might see as negative (c.f. taking down pages in error). When...
