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Business Demographics
Reblogged from Flip Chart Fairy Tales: Just caught up with some fascinating reports on business demography from the ONS. (HT Chris Dillow.) This one on Business Populations for 2013 has some...
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Nameday
Today is my nameday, so feel free to wish me well. It’s also my mother’s birthday. You can wish her well too! My middle name is Andrija; that’s why today for me is what Croatians call imendan (I...
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Egyptians create app to tell families and lawyers they are being arrested
Reblogged from Citizen Media at Manchester: Sunday, December 01, 2013 4:19 PM Riot police detain a man, who was protesting against a new law restricting demonstrations, in downtown Cairo November 26,...
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Bad Biz / OK Biz / Good Biz
First, a word of warning. What follow are entirely First World Pains. Nothing of what I’ve suffered from can really be counted in any sensible (or sensitive) way as suffering. Even so, I have to...
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Controlled by our Imagination
Reblogged from Kendall F. Person, thepublicblogger: {press play} On August 4, 1936, James Cleveland Owens, better known as Jesse, would flirt with disaster. A day removed from winning his first gold...
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Android goes E Ink: Dual-screen YotaPhone now on sale
Reblogged from Gigaom: Finally available, YotaPhone is. Introduced last year and shown off at CES in January, the dual-screen YotaPhone is now on sale in Russia, Austria, France, Germany and Spain for...
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Why the Spanish celebrate our wedding anniversary
It’s our 25th wedding anniversary today. My wife and I got married on a sunny but bitterly cold December 6th, in the University of Salamanca’s chapel. You know. The one with a frog somewhere on the...
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Rekindling the beloved
Brands are curious things. Originally, they caused pain as they assigned ownership to livestock. Perhaps for many workforces, end-users and even the spied-upon, this is still the case. And whilst...
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Is Mayday Amazon’s Skype?
I’ve been playing with, and enjoying, the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 I was gifted by Amazon the other day. As I have previously described, this gift forms part of an up-and-down relationship I’ve had with the...
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How even self-censorship doesn’t work in a censorious age
One rule for the powerful. Another rule for the rest of us. This century ain’t shaking out well at all. That Facebook should register what you don’t post as well as what you do makes sense if, in...
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Exponential news
What with moon landings (but are they for real?), snow in Egypt (but is that for real?), the death from food-poisoning (remember, in 21st century Europe) of three family members so poor they had to...
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By privatising Parliament, Cameron picks up where Communism left off
There’s an interesting story just come my way via Twitter. It lists the kinds of sites now being blocked – or about to be blocked – by British Internet service providers (ISPs). From sites which...
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How the Sheriff has come to town
http://youtu.be/iSgEDKjmT5o?t=1m10s Not Santa, though – not in the event. Rather, the Sheriff. This is the year when in the UK an (arguably) excessively libertarian World Wild West (potentially)...
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Broadcasting, publishing and conversing on Twitter (or the Three Laws of...
Those of you who follow news in the UK will know there have been several highly controversial cases on Twitter recently. From jocular “threats” to the safety of an airport to aspersions cast on the...
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Parents and child – a horror story in two lines
First, if belatedly, a Happy New Year to you all. I hope that for all of us, 2014 may be a better year than the one we’ve just had. At an individual level, many may have reason for grand...
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Learning and evaluation – some thoughts
It’s been a decent start to the New Year, though the post-Christmas hangover – in particular financial, whatever belts you’ve tightened – is sometimes a challenge. Some of last year’s students have...
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Hierarchy works
Reblogged from Flip Chart Fairy Tales: There has been a lot of excitement about Zappos new hierarchy free, self-organising, boss-less organisation. The holocracy, as it's known, is all very...
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On long school days (or am I wrong to suspect GOVErnment’s motives?)
I was a bit bad-tempered the other day over at my rather more political blog, especially when I said the following: [...] As I tweeted this morning: We’re getting to the point where no civil life or...
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Will the #gagginglaw lead to the offshoring of protest?
I’ve spoken elsewhere – most recently tangentially – on the so-called gagging law and its implications. As a recent 38 Degrees email pointed out: This might be the last email about the gagging law for...
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On “trust charters”– and building the bricks and mortar of human confidence
I just tweeted the following: #Twitter: on #privacy & #trustworthiness – does a #trustcharter exist that companies can sign up to? & if it doesn’t, how about making one? What do I mean by a...
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