Nortel demonstrates how not to do PR
Nortel has prevented a former subsidiary, Blade, from buying from a rival. The resulting publicity is far more damaging to Nortel than the original, far less widely read coverage, of Blade’s choice of a PBX from Fonality (based on the open source Asterisk) over Nortels own products. (more…)
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Bush-Blair memo: heros imprisoned
The heroic David Keogh and Leo O’Connor have been jailed. It is no longer news that Bush wanted to bomb Al-Jazeera in Qatar and flatten Falujah, which fits with claims that US forces deliberately targetted journalists. Peter Kilfoyle’s early day motion here, people willing to risk jail to get the truth out here (who include Borris Johnson).
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Off-shoring professionals work
I have blogged before on the increasing off-shoring of professional jobs. The issue continues to attract comment from bloggers, with Richard Murphy arguing against expecting large scale off-shoring of professional work. I think he is wrong. (more…)
Change of licence
Sharp eyed readers may have noticed a subtle change to the Creative Commons licence notice in the side bar. The logic is quite simple. I do not, at the moment, intend to directly make revenue from this blog. I do intend to use it to spread my ideas and to enhance my reputation. So I should encourage people to reproduce my material, as long as they attribute it. (more…)
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Stumbleupon sucks
Sorry for the title, but it matches what people search for. I have been seriously trying out “web 2.0” social networking for the first time and I got very annoyed. (more…)
How to pay CEOs
Eric Rasmusen has an interesting proposal on how to pay CEOs. I think the underlying ideas is right, but I see one danger in his proposal, and one aspect of motivation that he is missing. (more…)
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Immigration and the economy
Putting together the information from these articles from the Christain Science Monitor and the Washington Post, (found via Greg Mankiw’s blog) once more emphasis the enormous economic benefits of immigration. It also demolishes the arguments of those “concerned” about immigration, in Britain as well as the US. (more…)
Telecity Redbus float plans
Although Telecity Redbus is not yet known to investors, it is very well known in its business: renting space in its data centre for critical servers, together with. The Telegraph reports that it is considering a floatation for around £500m (found via FT Alphaville.) (more…)
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Economist deflates some hype
I am not always nice about The Economist, which I feel is not as good as it once was. However, their chief information officer, Andrew Rashbass seems to be as independent minded and analystical as one could wish, deflating technology hype, and being amusing while doing it.
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Analyser for Google Webmaster Tools link info
I have written a simple program to provide a slightly more convenient summary of information in the CSV of incoming link information you can download from Google Webmaster Tools. (more…)
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