THE death of blogging, says the Economist’s blogger:
The Economist has a proud tradition of anonymity. But in case you wondered who wrote the piece on the death of blogging - it was this gentleman, and he has a very entertaining blog.
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Ged Carroll memed me to find out where I get my inspiration from for my blog and thoughts? Plenty of places but here are a few ideas…
- Suggested links from blogging, Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed friends
- Delicious, Digg and other social bookmarking tools
- Traditional media reading such as The Times, The Guardian, The Economist, BBC, NY Times
- An endless array of podcast subscriptions
- ViralVideoChart.com
- Top political blogs and PoliticsHome.com
- Job experiences
- Film, music and sport
- When I’m on a run
- And most importantly pub chatter i.e. people I meet
Next up for the meme? Well, my esteemed Weber Shandwick digital colleagues…James Warren, Robert Anderson and Simon Collister.
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Five days to go until the American general election, and Obama is still comfortably ahead in the polls, and most crucially in the states which matter. The electoral college arithmetic means for him to lose he would need to lose bedrock states like Michigan, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Illinois, New York, oh the list is too long to mention; it also isn’t going to happen. Battleground states which are likely to decide this have him leading across the board and he retains at least five routes to the magic 270, when McCain currently has nothing at all.
It’s nice to see him on the Daily Show - McCain used to shine on that show, but it seems he no longer feels at home somewhere so liberal and un-American. Particularly good on that interview are Obama’s quips about...
There was a throw-away line in The Economist the other week, which made me think “how odd” at the time. Alas, I forgot about it until just now when I watched the weather report which was talking about snow in the UK - so looked it up again to see if I read correctly.
It seems that British pensioners can claim a £400 per year winter heating allowance, which considering what UK winters are like sounds quite sensible. However, any British pensioner can claim the allowance - even if they are actually living in the South of Spain at the time.
Unless I am mistaken, the South of Spain is not exactly noted for its frigid winters - and I think this is possibly one loophole which really should be killed off - although it’ll probably be replaced with a Summer cooling...
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It’s the most extraordinary bubble burst ever since the end of the 1920’s and it might even take a few more years before we start feeling the angst to the full; for we should remember that the heart of the great depression was 1934 and not 1929. Yet, despite the incessant stream of gloom and voicing of bad news - which is reminiscent of Kal’s excellent frontpage for the Economist dated November 1997, i.e. the midst of the previous global meltdown in Asia - there is no guarantee that history will repeat itself. Thank God for that. ICT expert Stewart Baines from London even goes one step further suggesting that certain sectors - and the telecom sector in particular - is bound to benefit from the crash.
This question has attracted quite a few...
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The Economist examines if management needs it's own Hippocratic Oath, which has been proposed by Harvard Business School professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria in their article It’s Time to Make Management a True...
Stamford University's Quake Catcher Network are asking anyone with a laptop to help them detect earthquakes - and all you need to do is download some software and join the network of volunteers.More from The...
The Economist on what the death of investment banks means for Wall Street.Once markets stabilise, Wall Street will start to wonder if it is better or worse off without its stand-alone investment banks. Some think they were no more worth saving than Detroit, another once-iconic industry caught up in its own battle for a public rescue. Perhaps even less so: the securities Wall Street packaged were the financial equivalent of slick-looking cars with no brakes. But they may leave a hole. As broker-dealers, regulated more lightly by the Securities and Exchange Commission, they were free to put large dollops of capital to work, providing liquidity, making markets and assuming risk. As banks, they may find the Fed takes a more restrictive...
A Milan court has rejected Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's claims that The Economist defamed him.More...
Dubai, city of skyscrapers and oil wealth is not quite so wedded to the motor car that it wont consider public transport and is nearing the completion of its own metro railway network.
I saw an advert in this weeks issue of The Economist though - and the Dubai Metro is offering naming rights for the stations, and even the train lines themselves.
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I wonder if that would work in London?
Well, technically it already has - as Surrey Docks was renamed as Surrey Quays when the shopping centre of the same name opened nearby and they apparently paid London Underground £50k for the renaming.
If a corporate sponsor came along, who would be best for which stations- or......
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I think we probably all know that the small changes some have of us have made in our lives, and are constantly reminded about doing, to reduce our environmental impact are more symbolic than really effective. Many of these, and more ambitious steps, are aimed at energy efficiency, but the more you think through the logic of this on the overall generation of CO2 the more you start to wonder the impact it is having. An article The Economist clarifies this concern, introducing a concept called the Rebound Effect.Briefly this means that there is a clear risk that savings made by insulating houses, switching to more efficient transport or energy sources can lead to consumers using the saved money on buying new energy hungry products or flying overseas for a more expensive holidays. This can...
One of the questions that’s - quite reasonably - asked by recycling-sceptics is: prove it’s more environmentally friendly to recycle than to throw away, given the respective consumption of energy in both processes.
So I was particularly interested in a long feature in this week’s Economist, The truth about recycling. It’s worth reading in full, but I thought I’d fillet it a bit… First, here...
Two good articles about how misleading statistics can be if you don’t look at other factors:
First up is Don Boudreaux who usually writes at Cafe Hayek showing how the oft-quoted statistic of French higher productivity is actually a byproduct of the restrictive employment laws in France leading to less employment for lower skilled, less productive [...]...
Smetty's Soapbox has an interesting quote from The Economist about Web 2.0. Technorati : The Economist, Web 2.0...
UK Press Gazette reports on an intriguing spat between The Economist and WH Smith (the UK's largest chain of newsagents) which has seen the title removed from the shelves of all the chain's high street stores. Technorati : The Economist...
On Wednesday evening this past week I had the immense pleasure of attending a D&AD Congress 06 lecture by the great German designer and typographer Erik Spiekermann. He is a true ‘old school’ practitioner with a very impressive body of work that incorporates the redesign of The Economist, Audi’s corporate look & feel and many other high profile projects. In terms of typography, Erik is the artist behind well known typefaces such as Meta and Officiana; in addition to corporate commissions for the Deutsche Bahn, Nokia and Bosch. Currently he heads up the “United Designers Network” after leaving the well known company Meta Design which he founded in 1979.
Erik has a really pleasant demeanour and it comes across in his speech. Everything from parables about his early and...
