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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just a quick update, I forgot to make a mention on my last blog about our reliance on advertisements – so I will keep this entry quick!
The social network QQ from China earned $523 million in revenues for 07-08, four times that of Facebook. Interestingly, only 13% of their revenue came from advertising – most [...]
Ok, I’m addicted to Twitter – it often provides me with plenty of food for thought. A few days weeks ago now I received a Tweet from a long time connection of mine, SunnyC. Sunny had recently read that Twitter was preparing to monetise and we both wondered whether this would change the service in [...]