Ozzies debate the root of all evil
Only in Melbourne could they come up with the idea of getting six comedians to debate whether money is the root of all evil. The occasion was the 20th Annual Great Comedy Debate at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2009. Although a year old, I only just caught it on my flight back from Singapore…
This year’s best cartoons …
I'm an irregular reader of Prospect Magazine. It's a great UK publication that focuses on political and economic essays on current affairs, with most of this month's writing about the elections and its implications. One of the best things in the mag is its A-list cartoonists. As a monthly they pick only the best and…
Accenture’s marketing team strikes again
After Tiger Wood’s disastrous PR with golf clubs wrapped around teeth, Accenture had to rapidly come up with a new campaign to reignite their brand. So I arrive at Heathrow this morning and here it is: Brilliant. Inspired. Bodacious. Not. Quantum leaps are all well and good, but my immediate thought was Quantum Analytics. The…
Not an ash cloud, but a cash cloud
Overheard this week, a conversation between a bank’s CIO (the Technogeek), CFO (Mr. Bean) and CEO (The Governor). TECHNOGEEK: So times are tough and we need to manage costs. I suggest we do that by using cloud computing and software-as-a-service tools. THE GOVERNOR: Can you talk English, technogeek? TECHNOGEEK: Sorry, Governor. What I’m talking about…
PayPal, Microsoft and Google’s visions of the future
Today seems to be a day about future trends. For example, I stumbled across a great discussion about the future of the internet with Google CEO Eric Schmidt: This is a 45 minute interview with Mr. Schmidt at a Gartner Symposium in the USA last year. Key comments from the interview, identified by Read-Write Web,…
Your soul is mine
I know that many of you will have read the story already but, just in case, it is worth posting here for posterity and for the record. LONDON, ENGLAND, April 03, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — Gamestation has discovered that more than 88% of the British public do not read the terms and conditions of a website…
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