Posted by David Tebbutt on 18th August 2008.
Good news that Dell has claimed to be carbon neutral five months ahead of schedule. So why do I feel so uncomfortable about the announcement? Probably because I know that it is probably untrue, except in whatever limited sense Dell has chosen it to be so. But also because, for it to be true, it [...]
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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 15th August 2008.
Not so long ago I interviewed Rachel Elnaugh of Dragon’s Den fame and made the point in passing that many of the entrepreneurs on the show had lots of kids. Rachel herself has five and other Dragons haven’t been shy when it comes to pro-creation: Duncan Bannatyne (6), Theo Paphitis (5) and Peter Jones (5).
What [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 4th August 2008.
I’ve noticed a couple of new(ish) web services recently. Each allows you to create a slide show of web pages. Does that sound boring? I’m not sure it is.
Marjolein Hoekstra in the Netherlands (she calls herself CleverClogs for good reason) alerted me to one of the services, called Diigo. It started out in 2005 [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 21st July 2008.
Do people in your company need to collaborate fairly intimately with others who are geographically distant in order to get their work done more quickly? By ‘intimately’ I mean a mix of voice and screen sharing among a smallish group of people.
And would you like to do this at a low fixed cost and with [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 6th July 2008.
Last week three reports dropped (digitally) into my lap. They were all on the subject of what ICT needs to do to keep a lid on our impact on the environment. Each was well written and well constructed but they all came from the ‘carbon is the enemy’ perspective although, to be fair, none of [...]
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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 4th July 2008.
I experienced my first recession as an adult back in the early 1990s. It wasn’t pleasant, but it gave me some perspective so I have a pretty pragmatic view about the current economic cycle.
Whether or not things are slowing down or heading towards the dreaded ‘R’ word, it’s a good time to be making business [...]
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