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Category: Society

  • Making up the rules as we go along

    This week’s Economist has a thoughtful leader story on the etiquette of telecommunications. The leader writer talks us through the evolving forms of communication since the 19th century as a parable of manners from Victorian dentists to modern airlines. That…

  • Speeding your eBay purchase to you

    It is estimated Britons will spend more than £66 million online this Christmas buying a third of all their presents, according to news reports. Apparently, research carried out by eBay also shows that almost half of shoppers who have bought…

  • If the approach is right, you get results

    Getting people’s attention to support a worthy cause is a tricky business these days. Whatever the cause, you’re competing for that attention amongst so many other causes, all undoubtedly worthy. And you have to consider compassion fatigue, especially if you’re…

  • Trust is essential for social networks

    2008 will be the year of business networking, says Bernard Lunn, who offers six predictions about some of the social networks that are getting a lot of attention at the moment – Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing and Plaxo. He also mentions…

  • A hell of a way to get up to speed about data protection

    You’d have had to be off planet not to have heard about this political disaster that blew up yesterday which led to Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling apologizing in the House of Commons. I watched the whole thing live…