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Silly Season…
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
The truth…
Monday, June 2nd, 2008I maybe odd but hasn’t he just shot himself and his profession here?Every article has to have a single point of view, and in this case it has to fit with the general preconception of the subject! He can’t find”news” as defined as something, he has to print a confirmation of what we already know.And the point of the press is?
“One of the good things about blogs is that they allow you to add nuance. In the news business, there is little space to tell a story. To earn the limited slot you usually have to stick with one angle. That’s a preface for expanding a little on the article we wrote in the newspaper today on France’s embrace of New World methods for selling its wine.The story fits into the classic category of “French tradition surrenders to superior Anglo-Saxon forces”. The enlightened reader smiles at another Gallic retreat in the face of globalisation but feels a twinge of regret that obstinate French excellence is again compromising with the modern world.The reality is a little more complicated.”Charles Bremner – Times Online – WBLG: France fights back with better wine
Name that city…
Sunday, May 25th, 2008…seriously; would an article about your home city with this in it?
“Once again – great cities need more vision than hubris; great public transport that it is affordable and reliable and easy to use instead of tunnels that noone drives through; an airport train service with carriages built for travellers with luggage that whisks you into the city center; bars that are licenced to serve coffee and alcohol without needing to buy food; boulevards that are clean and greened and attractive instead of tacky and smelly and dangerous, especially at night; cheap, plentiful, fast broadband; a city centre built for people on foot, not for private cars; public markets with locally grown produce that spring up daily or weekly in the middle of a city and which get public support, rather than wholesale produce markets that are scattered around the edges or huge supermarket chains that homogenize the food experience. One or two truly great, world-class hotels that reset the bar for global travellers and make them want to come just to stay there. Ideally too a world class newspaper that takes seriously the issues of the city, and the world. Instead of one that, in particular online, is increasingly tabloid and banal. Good weather, which I also hear of late has gone down the plug hole.”
Time to leave!
News Maps…
Sunday, May 18th, 2008This is so simple and yet so fantastic…
Could we do this analysis in real time?
The real question is…
Monday, February 25th, 2008Why can’t everyone make presentations this good?
Google changes the game…
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Google has announced that they now have a forms interface to the Google Spreadsheet application…
Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information
This is massive news. Google is building the next generation of office and the functionality set isn’t the same as our desktop applications.
They now have applications for collecting data, manipulating data, analyzing data. All they need is workflow applications and things will get very interesting.
BBC Correspondents Map…
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Now you can see how the BBC rates the importance of each country. Just compare the number of reporters.
Italy is more important than Spain, California less than Brussels and China more than India. Can’t help that there are so many in Paris because they like living here and because it provides easy filler “death of the baguette” stories every three months etc.
Get paid for writing rubbish…
Monday, January 28th, 2008“He is the man who nearly broke the bank … and who is fast becoming a hero to millions of his compatriots.”
French rally behind rogue trader as fraud scandal spreads | Business | The Observer
I had ten adults in my flat yesterday and we all discussed “the scandal”; not one person referred to anyone in the affair as a “hero”. This morning at work I see even less sign that he’s a hero!
Who makes this stuff up?
Equity Derivatives House of the Year award for 2008…
Saturday, January 26th, 2008blog.pmarca.com: Great moments in journalism, Risk Magazine edition
“Risk Magazine — the finance industry magazine focused on risk management — presented, this very month, its Equity Derivatives House of the Year award for 2008 to… ta daa… Societe Generale.”
You can’t make things like this up.
I suppose that this the related to the curse of the Fortune cover. You know the one, boss appears on the cover of Fortune and a week later sales plummet.
A new style for Management Books…
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Why can’t he write his books like this?
tompeters! management consulting leadership training development project management
Get rid of the management speak and write it as comedy!
