Yesterday I talked about President Obama, Prime Minister Kevin (Rudd) and Internet users in general liking “it”. Today I though I would try to explain the difference by no clue – or a lack of “it” and lots of clue (mojo), eyeballs, attention – or a surplus of “it”. To understand “it”, open [...]
The latest craze (meme) on Facebook is co-op farming. The backbone mainstay of the communist co-operatives and Israeli Kibutzes, localized farms have proven to be vital when attempting to provide food for a decentralized population (more than 5 miles from the food growing establishment (farm, dairy, piggery, hatchery, etc) What about Coles, [...]
Some good friends came to stay over the weekend just past. They brought with them a couple who are here on holiday from a Eurozone country. Their names should remain anonymous for the purposes of this story. The couple are both retired now. We got talking about his work in the police force of said [...]
To most readers it is no news that Television is migrating to the Web. With the evolution of the VCR into the TIVO, PVR, VCR, DVR and the ability to download almost any TV show from over the last thirty years via P2P using tvunderground (http://tvunderground.org.ru/index.php?show=show&bst=num) as the indexing catalogue service – why does [...]
There is a growing demand for early warning systems in business. Everyone is getting into the prediction business. The reason is pretty simple – the predictable certainty has gone out of almost everything. Think about it. In the UK supermarket chains are starting to build “Plan B” strategies because they think that their suppliers have [...]
Interesting article on the economics, banking, lending – how it all came about… Petty showed that wealth is a function not only of how much money is accumulated, but of the velocity with which the money is moved around. This led to the realization that money, like information but unlike material objects, can be made [...]
Sean Penn is one of my favourite actors. And I love the fact that his politics are so pure and worn so publicly. Here, in full, is the text of the speech he gave when accepting the 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award on December 18th in New York. (reprinted from the CounterPunch website). The [...]
Reading Stephen Roach's frequent essays on global re-balancing covers a lot of the macro-economic issues of the day. But they tend not to cover some of the historical and geopolitical issues. In this extremely interesting article the rise of Russia as the new superpower is presented along with why it is playing this way: It [...]
Google Checkout allows users to store credit card info on Google and then make one click payments. This is a big step forward in convenience ( and also potential problems with fraud and identity theft) Amazon and Paypal run equally convenient systems to pay people. So do credit cards. But interesting how the big web [...]
Two guys from KPMG have formed a forensic company, Daylight Forensic and Advisory, to track down business fraud and corruption. Headquartered in New York (where else!) today they got 30 million dollars from FT Ventures in venture capital. How much top level money laundering, fraud and corruption is there? Billions it would seem, given the [...]