by Tom | Dec 11, 2009 | Business
Maybe I should try the business viability test. An interesting idea, though, to build a small business self-help community around online assessments. [Update: it’s run by a consortium of universities and has a nasty IP clause: “We are the owner or the...
by Tom | Dec 10, 2009 | Business, Reading
The Most Ugly & Useless Infographic Competition is a shocking reminder at how effectively computers can stop sensible people thinking.
by Tom | Dec 7, 2009 | Business, Reading
It looks like the Taliban are in effect guns for hire for the drug traffickers in Afghanistan. If there was a legal business there, would the Taliban still get funding from farmers?
by Tom | Dec 4, 2009 | Business, Reading
Howzat. Eric Schmidt makes a good case that newspapers have themselves to blame. We send online news publishers a billion clicks a month from Google News and more than three billion extra visits from our other services, such as Web Search and iGoogle. That is 100,000...
by Tom | Dec 4, 2009 | Business
I don’t quite get limited purpose banking, but it feels like a credible route to restructuring the banking system to lessen the chance of a credit bubble. The Daily Mash on the other hand… “Bankers last night rejected calls to live in the real world...
by Tom | Nov 30, 2009 | Business, Reading, Science
Lots of exciting things going on in the food world: I read about Incredible Edible in the Indy at first, but it clearly is making waves. And secondly, we are now really close to getting in vitro meat production to the eatable level (of course not at scale, yet)....
