Kick the free market to the curb

TheStar.com | Business | Let markets curb banking: Flaherty

Hey Jim, the “free market” operating as the psychopath that it is is what got us into this mess in the first place.

Time for fair and organic

TheStar.com | Business | Wal-Mart offers organic, fair trade coffee

Starbucks has resisted moving to fair-trade organic coffee because it cites the fact that there is not enough in the marketplace to procure the volume of beans it needs. If Wal-Mart can do it, anybody can. If Howard Schultz really wants to make over […]

Advertising on Traffic Widgets

There are over 1500 downloads of my Traffic Widgets for Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver per month. Unfortunately that has correlated into 2 donations, one independent and one no so (thx sweetheart).
Do you use one the Toronto, Calgary, or Vancouver traffic widgets daily? Would you mind seeing some ads if it helps […]

Money to AECL in the Budget 2008

CBC News In Depth: Federal Budget 2008
Under the heading of Environment:
$300 million to the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) for its operations, including development of the Advanced CANDU nuclear reactor.
Considering its environmental policy (or lack thereof), the Chalk River affair, and the fact that the Harper government isn’t hiding the fact that it wants […]

Net advertising slows

The Associated Press: Internet Ad Revenue Exceeds $21B in 2007
Internet advertising is expected to slow from the previous exponential growth, but still accounts for less than 10% of all ad spending. Do you advertise online? What is your return on investment? Is that the most effective use of your spending?

Time to tax coffee cups

Paper Cups Versus Styrofoam Cups: Surprise Winner | Green Thinking for the Average Joe
“A study by Canadian scientist Martin Hocking shows that making a paper cup uses as much petroleum or natural gas as a polystyrene cup. Plus, the paper cup uses wood pulp. The Canadian study said, ‘The paper cup consumes 12 times as […]

It’s not the product stupid

Business & Technology | Starbucks stores to shut 3 hours on Feb. 26 for retraining baristas | Seattle Times Newspaper
“The equity of the brand is based on the experience they create, and we want to unleash that creativity and that passion. They have it. We just have to give them the tools and the resources […]

Web advertising metrics

Slashdot | 6% of Web Users Generate 50% of Ad Clicks

Worse news for advertisers: these clickers are not representative of the population as a whole, most have incomes under $40K, and their clicks are not related to any offline buying. (They are mostly males between 25 and 44 years of age.) The number of clicks […]

MSFT offers $44.6 billion YHOO

Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo in $44.6 billion deal | Top News | Reuters
CBC.ca: Microsoft offers $44.6B US in cash and stock for Yahoo
Too little, too late, and for too much. Is this going to be Bill’s legacy? Going to make for lots of tech talk in business and tech circles. Google […]

100 Business Books Everyone Should Read

Do you read business books? 800CEOread has a poll looking for you to rate the 100 Business Books Everyone Should Read. If you don’t, here is a good list for you to start on. Many of these books are not just for application to your business career, but also in every day life. […]

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