I received quite a lengthy comment on my previous post on this topic and rather than posting a lengthy comment in reply, I decided to post something instead as a follow up.  The comment was posted by an anonymous reader: Well, I don’t know about South Africa but in America if you are a small…

Jeremy Wright has written a great article on business blogging.  It may be a little basic for most bloggers but it is a great introduction for people who are new to the whole ‘blog thing’.

I like this one.  Jeremy Wright, the author of Ensight has written a great post that contrasts approach to work when you are employed and when it is your own business.  I have only really just started building my own business and I can already identify with most, if not all, of these comparisons.  Here…

Seth Godin, the marketing guru, has published a post about being nice.  The case study he uses is one I can readily identify with mainly because I work as a lawyer in my day job and I am often faced with situations where my clients are hopping mad and want to "sue the bastards" and…

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, drawn up by 1,300 researchers from 95 nations over a period of four years, paints a pretty dark picture for life on our home planet for generations to come.  The BBC has reported on this story: The report says the way society obtains its resources has caused irreversible changes that are…

News.com has reported that Hewlett Packard’s new CEO, Mark Hurd, has not ruled out changes which could include spinning off HP’s lucrative printer business. "I received no preconditions in accepting the job," Hurd said. He officially takes up the post Friday after two years as chief executive at NCR.… "I see a company that is…

Great news for Firefox users who search using Google: Now Google’s faster than ever on Firefox and Mozilla browsers. When you do a search on these browsers, we instruct them to download your top search result in advance, so if you click on it, you’ll get to that page even more quickly. Like anyone doubted…

Well, it is happening more and more.  All those nasty people who wrote all those nasty bugs that have plagued us unfortunate Windows users are turning their attention to the sweetheart of the computer world, the Mac: Attacks on Apple’s OS X operating system, thought by many who use the Mac to be virtually immune…