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Business

I need to begin this blog with an apology. I’ve been exploring North America and not updated here at all! Check my Important Notice to see why. Don’t worry, the identity crisis is over and Kathy and I are nearly ready!
I’m an active member of Twitter, Facebook, Skype and comment many blogs. I’m a casual [...]

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Anybody who follows me on Twitter is likely still recovering from my 5 day rant about LiveNation’s inability to sell me tickets. Not because there were none left, not because I don’t have the money, but because their billing system ‘won’t work for non-US and Canadian customers’.
Why? Probably because nobody else sells the tickets. In [...]

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Ad rates are declining!  The sky is falling.  Print media ad rates have plummeted to an all time low.   I need ads that engage me! Media will only survive selling value added services!
How many times have we read some ‘guru’ say this about newspapers, magazines or even websites? To a large degree it is true [...]

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This blog is way overdue; sadly I have been a little busy. Better late than never eh?
Several weeks ago now we all heard about The Pirate Bay founders being found guilty of copyright infringement and sent to prison. For those who don’t know, The Pirate Bay is a website where users share [...]

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The Box

by Alexander Blom on March 23, 2009

in Business

Note: This blog is a repost from an older blog of mine which has since been removed from the internet. It was perhaps my favourite entry so thought it was worthy of a repost. It was first published around Feb 08.
‘If it is my mandate to come up with an idea that is out of [...]

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I was a little unsure what to write about today, so I did a little online shopping. I frequently check online stores for a blog – I like to get a feel for the personality and see who the people in charge are. Turns out one of the shops I visited did not blog so [...]

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I was intending on putting in a longer, more researched entry today. It has actually been written, but an event happened a few days ago that I thought would make a better blog for today (I can always re-post the other one in a day or two). As my last blog was also on Social [...]

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