Category: Trends

  • Comparing the economic state of the states

    Is the USA the world’s richest country, as many believe? I guess much depends on how you measure that. What about individual states? I’ve sometimes pondered that question myself, either in terms of outright wealth or economic measures like gross…

  • Blogging isn’t dead, it’s evolving

    There’s been a bit of commentary and opinion in recent weeks that blogging (meaning, written content longer than just a paragraph or two) as we know it is dying or even already dead when compared to the rise of Facebook…

  • Facebook in the mainstream

    How Facebook has now become mainstream, almost pervasive, is a recurring thought after seeing three examples of how that is during the course of this weekend. The first example was a hand-written poster outside a used car dealer in Sandhurst…

  • Worry-free congestion charging

    One of the realities today of driving into a city like London is the congestion charge, a tax on vehicles entering a specified zone the boundaries of which are clearly marked by signs like the one here. It’s probably largely…

  • Top 20 UK tech blogs for January 2011

    The start of a new month as well as a new year, and time for a preview look at the latest monthly ranking of technology blogs in the UK. As usual, my friends at European search engine and news portal…