I will write more about this soon, but I just wanted to say a big thank you to Lucy Whittington of Inspired Business Marketing for bringing me in to present to members of BASDA (Business Application Software Developers Association) after their AGM this evening. This will sound like an exaggeration, but it’s not: I had […]
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Hillary Johnson is now writing for them; her first post, about WalMart in China, is now up.
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According to this Reuters story, ’showbiz’ (whatever/whoever that means) isn’t sure if YouTube - the site that gets them bigger audiences for their shows than they can hope for through the teevee - is a good or bad thing.
‘Showbiz,’ of course, has the IQ of a pat of Land o’ Lakes.
I really think […]
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ME (half-seriously): Am I a reflection of your most deeply held values?
ANTOINE: Where did you…You’ve been reading too much Rand.
Perhaps. I’m reading The Virtue of Selfishness and want to shove copies of it into the hands of everyone I meet. (Also, Antoine has been reading aloud, for several weeks and with several more to go, […]
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I barely knew him - indeed, I met him less than five times - but am very sad that Dr Chris R Tame has, within the hour, died. My fiancé, Antoine Clarke, has been friends with Chris for many years, travelling as far as South Korea with him as they gave their best to advance […]
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I am happy to say that I will be heading back to Zaragoza, Spain again in May for this year’s edition of Innovate Europe. Last year I saw some pretty cool products, heard some thought-provoking speakers, and met many interesting people there (including, but not limited to, Jeff Clavier and Dennis Howlett), so I’m looking […]
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I’m getting pretty tired of reading and hearing - from people who really have no idea what they are talking about - that Europe is such a much more wonderful place to live than the US because of the superior ‘culture’. I’m very familiar with the argument (which I used to make, before I’d been […]
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John Bryant reports from the Gulf region of the southern US:
Some owners of fast food restaurants in New Orleans, because of Hurricane Katrina oriented worker shortages, are now paying upwards of $12 an hour, plus a $500 signing bonus, just to secure one of the limited pool of available employees in the area
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Nancy writes at the Ristretto Roasters blog:
Every day, we get people in the shop asking if we carry fair trade coffee; I tell them, no, and that if they really knew what fair trade has devolved to, they wouldn’t support it. Then I hand them “Absoultion in Your Cup,” a great article by Kerry Rowley […]
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Last week at Techdirt Greenhouse, I was rather blown away by the young entrepreneurs, like Ian Sefferman, in attendance. Then I came back to London and read about Kristopher Tate, the 17-year-old who’s built the big new threat to Flickr (in 16 languages and in three months, no less).
Today, Hillary sent me scooting over […]
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(It feels like I’m the only one in the UK who isn’t watching the rugby right now. I am supposed to be reading the 20+ pieces of reading material I brought back from America, though. Hence, I’m Skyping and blogging and arranging flowers.)
One of the nice things about living in London is that when you […]
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Talking to Hillary on Skype, just now:
[16:48:25] Jackie D says: sometimes i feel like i’ve found the secret to not feeling like a failure, because i rarely do anymore
[16:48:31] Jackie D says: but i don’t know what the secret is!
[16:48:34] Hillary Johnson says: heh
[16:48:35] Jackie D says: so i can’t tell anyone else
[16:48:37] Jackie D […]
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Judy Breck reads Kathy Sierra’s Reducing guilt is the killer app and concludes that guilt in education has to go, too.
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Did you hear the one about the Israeli anti-semitic cartoon contest?
Contest open to Jew creators only! Sorry! This is Jews joking about themselves here!
As Amy Alkon says:
Oops! We forgot to riot and kill each other!
And as someone else says:
It strikes me that people with a secure sense of their own faith are often the least […]
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