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.

Ten to Avoid

I’m sure the manufacturers won’t like being listed as The Worst Products of the Year, but its exactly the sort of naming and shaming that we should have on the internet. Don’t ever get suckered again.

ID cards

It strikes me that lots (was http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2004/12/10.html#a1539 marked bad) of countries have ID cards (100 apparently including Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and Spain) and I don’t hear massive outcry about their lack of or curtailing of...

FreeMind mind mapping

FreeMind is free mind mapping software as it says on the tin. It looks pretty functional, if less customisable than MindManager. The price looks good, though. There’s another concept mapping tool that looks useful.