Category: Trends

  • Three books for recommended reading

    I’m not a great reader of business books even though there are some 20 such volumes sitting on my office bookshelf, all read and mostly not remembered. Recently, though, there has been a slew of excellent and compelling business writing…

  • The look of Web 2.0

    The winners of CNet Networks’ Webware 2008 contest to find the best 100 Web 2.0 applications and services were announced on Monday. This is what Web 2.0 looks like today according to the 1.9 million votes cast by Webware users…

  • Is business podcasting dead?

    Maybe the question is better phrased as: has the desire to learn how to produce podcasts for business died? I’m wondering this because two public events about podcasting I’d been due to speak at during the next month have been…

  • Too many crazy drivers

    The news last week of a woman motorist sent to jail for running down a cyclist while she was sending a text message on her mobile phone is a sobering thought for every driver. Even though I use a hands-free…

  • The continuing growth of Twitter

    An interesting stat posted on the Twitter blog shows which are the top ten countries with the most people using the Twitter social network as determined from Twitter’s public timeline. That’s how I describe Twitter, incidentally – a social network,…