The Next Five
Continuing yesterday’s ruminations on how the news’ agenda should change:
6. The obesity clamour dies down as does the fake drama over cholesterol, two manufactured disease scares that the news media have unwittiingly fuelled. Obesity is not a disease and cholesterol matters a lot less than we’re led to believe. How do we make medical issues […]
Ten Things
There’s a natural tendency in bubble days like these to regard technology as the source of all innovation. Not only is that untrue it’s also misleading. Not much has changed in 2006 when you look at the stories that make up the news agenda. Though the technology of newsd and opinion, such as syndication […]
Mobile Social Networks with That UGC Factor Built In
The developers at game array are hoping to take user generated content into the mobile games arena, along with a little social networking. Games are an area I’m concious of neglecting. I’m not a gamer, though all my children are and I have a feeling that in the fan and game culture is a little […]
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me
Donncha tagged me here to do the five things. Five things you don’t know about me. He doesn’t say they have to be interesting things.
I have five kids but only one daughter and she’s an unbelievable influence in my life. All men who have only sons should keep trying. Actually it was my wife who […]
The Billions $ User Generated Content
Plenty of enterpreneurs have been complaining about the lack of adventure from VCs in supporting content related businesses so Post Le Web 3 I took a look around European web 2.0 commentary sites to see if there was a sensible point to make. One stop off was Coffee Shops of Mayfair, Paul Fishers VC blog.
What […]
Lap It Up, Miss USA: The Ads Are Also Short
Time is short especially at the top. I do want to point out one thing though Tara. You should read my blog. The most amazing things happen when I reference a celebrity in it, so much so that I’m thinking about including a weekly celeb watch.
What drives traffic other than names? I found out […]
Second Life Could be a Second Chance
I mean to get things right. It’s amazing to report that most people I talk with about Second Life are thin on detail. What is it good for? Oh, simulation, you know. So I wanted to ask a few questions of different scenarios on the off-chance that SL fans would have the answers. Earlier in […]
Wasted: A Project or Two That Went Wrong
The presence of projects that go wrong is one of those modern events ever present in the lives of people like me - I assume also people like you otherwise you wouldn’t be here reading. In the old days economists measured productivity in simple terms. Goods went into the back door of a factory and […]
Ten Steps to the Future
In the old days imagining the future was a regular routine for a few gurus called futurists such as Alvin Toffler who took in upon themselves to predict how our lives and society would unfold. The tools are there now for us to do it ourselves, or rather the tools are there to allow […]
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If you’ve been following the coverage of the five murders over in Ipswich, UK you may be wondering why the TV newscasters continue to insist on describing the women as prostitutes, as in “the 19 year old prosititute”. Does any 19 year old deserve to be described as a prostitute and only a prostitute? This […]
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