Shirky on newspapers

Shirky believes newspapers are unlikely to survive. A question to ask yourself: Why should WalMart subsidise a newspaper office in Baghdad? A quote to frame the thinking: society doesn´t need newspapers: what it needs is journalism.
Are you even listening?

Are you even listening?

The iPhone has done this to some of my friends. I try to tell them that I´ve been surfing the net and downloading applications for five years, but no, the iPhone is better.

Dog sledding

I very much like the fact that I got the car its first MoT this morning and that I could renew the tax disc based on that MoT this afternoon. That´s how government services should work.

Robots

FYI if you need to give people international payment details, you can find the IBAN and Branch Identifiers by going to print a statement from the First Direct online system (you don´t need to actually print the statement).

Why

A great example to use as a case study for consulting. "How much is 1.3 tonnes of opium worth"? Sadly truth and analytics were a casualty of spin as usual.