Category: change
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The ‘E’ Trap
"E-mail now causes us the most problem in our working lives" This is a quote from Karen Renaud, Computer Scientist at the University of Glasgow. A study she’s just conducted, fitting monitors to 177 people’s computers, has revealed that people checked their e-mail up to 40 times an hour. Yes, 40. One third were stressed…
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The Trouble with Mergers
What with coverage of ill-fated mergers and all the M & A activity going on in the online world right now I was reminded me of a famous Economist cover of the 90’s…
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The Short-tail of Marketing
This Ad Age article reveals a quite astounding fact. The top ten internet players in the US market nabbed 70% of all net online ad revenue in 2006. Represent it as gross ad revenue and that’s 99% that the top ten account for. That’s up (yes up) from 95% in 2005. In the UK, i-level…
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Blogging yolk
This is my 100th post, so I thought I should mark the occasion with a few observations about this blogging lark. I promised myself I wouldn’t turn this into another of those ‘why I love blogging’ essays, so I have concentrated on what for me is the essence of its value – the really nutritious…
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I hate Macs
OK, not really. But here’s someone who does. A very funny take on the whole PC vs Mac thang from Charlie Brooker writing in the Guardian. At the risk of starting something, my favourite bit is: ‘PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into…
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Grass roots genius
Anyone else really enjoying the ‘Can Gerry Robinson fix the NHS’ on the beeb? I think its genius. Fascinating insight into how a huge public organisation works and the sort of programme that gets you shouting at the telly. But the most amazing thing is how the staff at the sharp end have all the…