chapter four – my 30s
I’ve been thinking a lot about the impact of social media on news coverage lately. Watching BBC Question Time with the BNP party leader Dick Nick Griffin, and seeing Twitter mentioned as the first way of contacting the show (ahead of email, web etc), meant I had to write about it. I love the way [...]
Is Google wave overhyped? Maybe. Is it a wash of productivity destruction and the worst of IM and email? Maybe. *Robert Scoble seems to think this about Google Wave and a whole lot worse. But people said the same thing about Facebook, and then joined and spent hours daily on it. They said the same [...]
Another day in the hospital, so while Mira sleeps and the bee showers, I write another blog post. On the way to the hospital this morning I picked up the FT and was annoyed by the cover story. Not the one about Swiss banking secrecy being amended – I don’t have enough assets in this [...]
I came across an interesting post from an Australian Entrepreneur saying that being in the middle of a cash raise and managing a growing company left him with little time to blog. I instantly thought of Duane Jackson over at Kashflow, who’s managing a move of his business and home, building a growing company and [...]
Chris Anderson’s written a book about it, Umair Haque’s written lots of manifesto’s and posts about it, and Fred Wilson’s written countless blog posts about it. It is radical and new business models (from free to freemium to radical pricing and value) and it’s use in the digital and real world. So when I heard [...]
I’m getting really tired of news outlets interpreting moves as significant when they’re not. I’m tired of sensationalist journalism when really, if people stopped being either lazy or stupid, they’d find simple explanations. Two cases of this recently have set me off. First a lot of noise around Microsoft’s search engine Bing. Bing’s nice. It’s [...]
So Seth Godin disagrees with Malcolm Gladwell who disagrees with Chris Anderson about the future and sustainability of free. I know the world is thinking, “I wonder what Farhan is thinking?” I kid, I kid. I think they’re all right. Free can and will work for a lot of publishers and content providers. But charging [...]
I hate telemarketers, and I’m not sure why they exist. With Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and other social web services getting more and more popular, the sale of goods and services is massively changing. It’s easier to know who’s dissatisfied with the products or services they’re currently using and leads can be a lot stronger today, [...]
So @Ev pointed out that Microsoft Australia was doing a marketing campaign where the buried 10K (Aussie dollars I think, but the site doesn’t specify) somewhere and have launched a social media blitz to get people to use… wait for it… wait… Internet Explorer 8! I have three major gripes with this campaign: 1- Burying [...]
It’s a starter Mac. I’ve had an iPod touch for about a month and a half now and I’m about to buy a Mac. Having had a Blackberry for over a year and a Windows mobile before that, and a Nokia for most of my adult mobile using life, I’ve tried all the different major [...]