by Tom | Sep 23, 2009 | Business, Reading
I like the finale of this article: we shouldn’t think about micropayments for news as being fractional payment for stories. Given that, what should they be?
by Tom | Sep 23, 2009 | Business, Reading
Another semi-experiment shows that low-selling items are just that. Maybe it is the promise of the long tail that takes us to retailers where we then buy best-sellers galore.
by Tom | Sep 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
The new vetting and barring scheme brings unfortunate life to the old adage about children and animals. I’m against it mainly because it falls foul of the pointless screening argument: there are likely to be more false positives (people unfairly suspected of issues)...
by Tom | Sep 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Fascinating article exploring levels of cooperation in different animals. In summary, tolerance (e.g. lack of aggression towards humans by wolves) can lead to cooperative behaviour. Chimpanzees, though they know to deceive us (and each other) never really learn that...
by Tom | Sep 14, 2009 | Personal
First blog since our return from a splendid loop of mid-California (San Francisco, Big Sur, Santa Barbara, Sequoia National Park, Yosemite, San Francisco). We managed to avoid wild fires, bears, rattlesnakes, rock falls en route, which was very lucky for us. On the...
by Tom | Sep 6, 2009 | Reading
Nice idea to use collaboration with expert non-patent examiners to gather prior art. It would probably be worth patent-heavy companies to invest in someone to participate for them: most patent applications won’t be yours, so the more you can steer away from...
by Tom | Aug 24, 2009 | Reading
Nice to see the thought processes in action: how to write a Tweet announcing new conferences.
by Tom | Aug 21, 2009 | Reading
A few Friday readings: why don’t we come up with truly new ways of solving issues that have been with us for ages?Prescribe heroin to addicts? [I think we should find a way of bringing drugs under state control along the lines of alcohol]Remove chuggers from our...
by Tom | Aug 21, 2009 | Reading
Two very different ends of the spectrum: Hattie has a chidren’s book out and Tricky Dicky Happer has a lads book out. We’re taking mostly US literature in California, so these will have to wait a little.
by Tom | Aug 21, 2009 | Reading
Shows you radar pictures of rain as it has happened just a little earlier in the day so you can have a predict yourself.
