Kottke’s Business Influences

Jason Kottke writes on: My business influences As you may have noticed by reading the site in the past year, I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about companies…how they succeed, why they fail, how to approach them from a holistic sense so they make sense on a human scale and not just from a … Keep reading

Ad(Non)Sense

Buzz Marketing with Blogs discusses Google’s AdSense programme. Am surprised at this:  I was all set to tell you about Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist in New York who just publicly posted his exact Google AdSense revenue figures for the year.  He made $500, he says, and he’s got charts to back it up! This is notable … Keep reading

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I used to work in the same building as Tony Finch who has a blog on LiveJournal here, though we never met. He is remarkable, I am sure, for many things, but the one tat stands out is his email address, dot@dotat.at.

Improbable Research

From The Guardian: The strange case of the homosexual necrophiliac duck pushed out the boundaries of knowledge in a rather improbable way when it was recorded by Dutch researcher Kees Moeliker. It may have ruffled a few feathers, but it earned him the coveted Ig Nobel prize for biology awarded for improbable research, and next … Keep reading

Another quiet few days

Not much happened over the weekend, spent a lot of time helping out with the Elmcroft Associates website. Other than that, didn’t get near the computer at the weekend. Plenty of stuff to catch up on…