The future of books?
The Long Tail: Kevin Kelly’s Free Book Experiment
Why is everything about advertising? Yes companies (like Google) make a tonne of money from advertising, but I’ve yet to see a convincing display that there is a decent return on investment from it. Imagine if all that cash that goes to ads goes to advertising […]
We missed the peak party
Peak oil happened last year… get ready to to pay more for everything that is moved or powered.
World oil production is expected to decline sharply by 2030: report
Moncton buses offer wireless access
Hey TTC, want to increase ridership? Do this!
Moncton buses offer wireless access | CBC.ca
Head to the BCE Nail
Mark Evans - Still Don’t Get BCE LBO .
Mark nails his analysis of BCE, and is exactly why I have tended to avoid the behemoth telcom/media company. Too bad all those mutual funds with huge percentages of BCE (fyi 4% of a mutual fund in one company is huge) will have to […]
World Water Day & BRTC
Wars have been faught over gold and coal, they are currently being faught over oil, soon it will be over water. In North America and Europe we are sheltered from the fact that clean water is becoming an ever scarce resource. When that fact is realised by the masses the […]
Hydrogen Age Missing Piece Discovered
Hydrogen Storage: UNBF Researchers Achieve Technology Breakthrough — March 7, 2007 - News@UNB
Hydrogen in solid state, the missing link to the dawn of the Hydrogen Age… now if only we could get the energy companies to pour all the profits from the non-renewable tar sands into hydrogen Canada could lead the World in energy […]
Twitter gets us one step closer
From page 27 of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers,
Phones, faxes, e-mails, SMS, and IM all extend the conversation, as do online forums, bulletin boards, and chatrooms. But none fo them lets one person converse with many people in multiple locations until blogging… [blogs] give compelling evidence […]
Enviro perspective
Toronto Star Podcasts: Linwood Barclay - Mar. 9
There has been much ado about Al Gore and David Suzuki who have been on missions to spread the word of the impact of climate change have been hypocritical. Go and have a listen to Linwood put things into perspective.
Business Rules of Thumb
Business Rules of Thumb - A wiki to add business rules of thumb…
Welcome to the Business Rules of Thumb wiki. This public wiki is designed to track useful rules of thumb in business.
Go read, learn, and contribute.
Embedded Mac OS X, Called it
MacSlash | iPhone Dispute Settled; Both Parties To Use iPhone Moniker
What does it all mean? Linksys routers running Darwin. Mark my word.
I called it the day the iPhone was announced… go read it.