I recently got into an extensive FaceBook conversation/debate with someone that was somewhat ridiculous, but we all do stupid things from time to time. This debate was about CO2 emissions and the role of man. The person on the other side of the debate is a big fan of Lord Monckton, the media shill who [...]
I have been involved in a few start up companies and I have helped quite a few others to get their businesses cranked up, funded, and operational. I have also advised many more that their ideas, their companies – were not ready for prime time. Regardless of whether the ideas are fully formed one thing [...]
(Our previous article was the first upset.) This time, Canadians have made the top ten list of countries that are “out to get” the content industries. They share this dubious honour with the following countries. Priority Watch List (Links retrieve country specific pdf reports.) Argentina Canada Chile Costa Rica [...]
Setting the Scene. Consultants are people/firms that are hired to divorce an organisations internal politics from a result and quite often, consultants bring with them a differential focused expertise in the area requiring their expert attention. There’s an accepted modus operandi for consultancy firms in business, “When you get hired, look for more [...]
“D” was something to be feared when I was a lad; especially if it was written in red on the top right corner of a homework assignment when it came back from “marking”. The recent Joel Tenenbaum case in the USA may have backfired in a bigger way than any previous litigation activity undertaken [...]
When we think of ubiquity, we think sunshine, ocean, sand, air and more recently, unfortunately pollution. If we personalize ubiquity, we think of people, clothes, food, cars, football/baseball (the lack of every night on Tele). If you were Bill Gates, you might think of the number of Microsoft Operating Systems that you have sold as [...]
In the ongoing battle between two formats, news comes to hand that the basic bill of materials to construct a player for either format is in the region of $400. I can not imagine how it will be possible to make this into anything other than a still borne technology with this basic price point [...]
We like games. Especially those new video games…..and massively multiplayer games They're incredible. Well, it seems that a “virus', as in disease element virus, was introduced into an online game. The participants found, it got free, then was out of control in no time. The guys running the game couldn't fix it easily. Fascinating blog entry. The game [...]