by Tom | Nov 20, 2012 | Business, Personal, Reading
Making Cents is a very sad article setting out quite how minimal the payments to artists can be from streaming music services. It’s a shame that these services are our preferred option for accessing music, because I’d like to reward the musicians if...
by Tom | Nov 9, 2012 | Business, Tech
How To Predict The Future has a slightly silly title but uses a very simple method to look at what hardware developments say about the likely availability of breakthrough innvoation in services.
by Tom | Nov 9, 2012 | Business
I like the ease and convenience of the three payment systems mentioned in Tim O’Reilly’s article: being able to consume effortlessly is great, and it works a little bit that way with the Auto-Top-Up Octopus card in Hong Kong. I don’t have personal...
by Tom | Oct 30, 2012 | Business, View
Alberta tar sands. Wow. These trees definitely made a sound, but very few people heard it. Can we reverse this when the tar sands are drained?
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Business, Government, Reading
People who download music for free purchase more music than people who don’t download music for free, say a survey in where do Music Collections Come From? Sounds right to me, and looks right for books as well. It seems that all those people reading Kindles or...
by Tom | Oct 16, 2012 | Business, Tech
Airline baggage tags: How their brilliant design gets bags from Point A to Point B. Surprisingly interesting account of real innovation in the design of baggage tags. My next trip is now guaranteed to be the first one I loose luggage in.
