Media economics

The Sun paid £8,000 for the Harry / Nazi photo and made £500,000 within a few weeks. Not bad going. And further evidence for the thought that journalists are loss leaders (this certainly used to be the case for Reuters).

Consulting tools

Came across a large range of consulting tools following a link from Headshift:Methods for interacting with large groupsMethods for generating ideasSome thoughts about people’s different worldviewsThanks to Martin Leith for putting all of this content online. It...

The King William’s College quiz

The King William’s College quiz is hard. Probably too hard, in that you kind of know or don’t know the answers. There’s not much scope for working things out by logic. I guess that would make it a logic test not a quiz, though. The old English sense...

Google Zeitgeist

A surprisingly dull Google Zeitgeist this year, despite the nice interactive version.

Postal privacy

More on privacy. An interesting thought from /. Now that US self-service postage kiosks take a picture of most transactions and that the cost of embedded cameras and storage space are plummeting, surely every interaction will be photographed in this way? It’s...