Wow. I’ve had a busy few days pulling together the last few bits and bobs for Small Business 2.0 which was held yesterday in London. I had really great (if knackering) day chairing one of the streams, meeting loads of people who run small businesses, exhibitors and old friends. About 400 hundred small business folks …
Using Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food as a hook, the Guardian published an interesting piece about how class is a key determinant of diet and always has been. There’s much lefty hand-wringing about working folk munching on takeaways and high-calorie, high-fat food with little nutritional value. Not so much angst though that they wouldn’t take …
The Guardian on Class and Diet. Would you like Fries with that? Read More »
It’s one of those things that I can’t square. I like The Sun. And yet The Sun is full of nonsense, knee-jerk near Nazism on occasion. But it is also a humourous and brilliantly crafted newspaper that knows its readers. Here’s the sort of thing it does so well. I was flicking through my (papery) …
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I spent two hours phoning voters on Saturday afternoon, on behalf of the Labour party. From a personal perspective, it’s an activity I loathe. After all, who wants to be disturbed by an activist (of any persuasion) on a glorious sunny Saturday afternoon? I’d rather give them my mobile number so they can phone me …
Tonight, on the train home. I sit down next to a man I don’t know, who’s already jabbering away on his mobile telephone to someone else I don’t know, about things that don’t interest me. Then something piques my interest. I pause my iPod and listen in. And remember, I only have one side of …
According to the new Scrabble game on Facebook, Latin is not in the dictionary. Shurely shome mishtake?
Ever since working at eBay, and then BT Tradespace, I’ve been passionate about what the web can do for small business. And with the credit crunch and a recession predicted to be just around the corner, my enthusiasm has only increased. Ecommerce is forecast to grow every year until 2012. The importance of search marketing, …
Eyes down, look in. As I sat watching paint dry, I wondered whether this was just too dull, too pointless or too trivial to blog. But no, I decided I would make my dullest blog post ever. My windows before and after cleaning, as seen from my desk. Enjoy. Amended to add this, at Lynne‘s …
Three lads in the pub. Brighton boys. They all work in bookies shops. They talk about gambling, sharing stories of foolish punters. They boast about how much money they make from “idiots.” Soon they’re talking about Betfair, how successful and profitable it is, and how much they admire the founder Andrew Brown (sic). “What a …
The Brighton Trunk Murders are the stuff of legend. In Brighton, people still talk about the unrelated murders of two women whose remains were left in trunks in 1934. The crime involving the pregnant decapitated torso with ‘pretty feet’ was never solved. In the other case, Tony Mancini was acquitted of the murder of Violette …
Way back when, I was told off by a BBC radio presenter for using the word ‘eBay’ twice in an interview about, well, eBay. I was expected to talk about ‘internet auctions’ and ‘online buying and selling’. So I was quite intriuged by this video on the BBC. The PR and Branding folks at BA …
eBay have announced another raft of changes today, this time to fees and selling formats. As ever, there’s dense detail, unanswered questions and a great dea of speculation. Sellers will be getting calculators out to try and understand whether these changes advantage them. They’ll also need to work out how they can adapt and make …
A ragtag selection of links and amusements. You know the form. First, some stuff I’ve written elsewhere on the web: – Amazon, Etsy, eBay and the eCommerce Land Grab – Get a Competitive Edge on eBay With Video And from other people: – Totally loving ProBloggers’s tips on blog stickiness. It’s really useful to review …