The Pope’s Limbo
It's official. After 800 years of being Catholic church policy, the theological construct of "limbo" has been abolished (read the International Herald Tribune on this). This was a place were unbaptised babies were said to go, awaiting some kind of final judgement at...
The Pope's Limbo
It's official. After 800 years of being Catholic church policy, the theological construct of "limbo" has been abolished (read the International Herald Tribune on this). This was a place were unbaptised babies were said to go, awaiting some kind of final judgement at...
The Pope's Limbo
It's official. After 800 years of being Catholic church policy, the theological construct of "limbo" has been abolished (read the International Herald Tribune on this). This was a place were unbaptised babies were said to go, awaiting some kind of final judgement at...
Getting and Keeping Talent
“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of similar companies, employing similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, coming up with similar ideas, producing similar things, with similar prices and similar quality.� Funky Business, Kjell Nordström and...
So just how important is the planet?
It doesn't matter what your stand is on the planet and our relationship with it, there's no denying that 2006/7 has seen a dramatic shift in people's exposure and interest in what we're doing to this planet called Earth. The New York Times featured this article about...
So just how important is the planet?
It doesn't matter what your stand is on the planet and our relationship with it, there's no denying that 2006/7 has seen a dramatic shift in people's exposure and interest in what we're doing to this planet called Earth. The New York Times featured this article about...
Role of the Media
I heard a comment on the Daily Show a while back (I think they were reviewing 'Time Magazine's Person of the Year'). Something about main-stream media turning its back on its responsibility and hence the rise of citizen media in the form of blogs and podcasts,...
Why have a "Take your kids to work day"?
This is a really nice piece from the Christian Science Monitor, from the April 27, 2006 edition. Gen Y's opt-out vision By Courtney E. Martin BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (April 27) would be a great idea if the contemporary workplace...
Why have a “Take your kids to work day”?
This is a really nice piece from the Christian Science Monitor, from the April 27, 2006 edition. Gen Y's opt-out vision By Courtney E. Martin BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (April 27) would be a great idea if the contemporary workplace...
Why have a “Take your kids to work day”?
This is a really nice piece from the Christian Science Monitor, from the April 27, 2006 edition. Gen Y's opt-out vision By Courtney E. Martin BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (April 27) would be a great idea if the contemporary workplace...
Manager, offshore thyself
A great article in the latest Economist magazine looks at the issue of corporate locations, and where you place your key executives. The subtitle asks: "Does the location of a company's headquarters matter any more?" Read the article, from the 8 March 2007 editiion,...
Religion and marketing
One of the major trends we have been tracking for some time is the rise in the influence of religious beliefs as a driver of people's values and behaviour. A MarketingWeb article on the issue (extracted from Nilewide) puts it succinctly and clearly. This is an issue...
Joost – a new way to watch TV
First there was KaZaa, a revolutionary file sharing program. Then came Skype - the software that changed telecoms forever. Now, there's Joost. These three things have one thing in common - they were conceived in the minds of two men: Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom....
One Billion new cars in the next ten years
Drive a car in any major city of the world, and you'll be forgiven your evil thoughts. And you'll wonder how it could be possible that the number of motor cars on the world's roads could double in the next ten years. But that's no stretch of the imagination. If you...
Links in a chain: How it all fits together
I was asked again the other day what the "theme" of this blog is. It can sometimes seem like a collection of rambling musings on the world. Well... Besides being just that, it is really the place that the network at TomorrowToday.biz put all their musings on the...
Links in a chain: How it all fits together
I was asked again the other day what the "theme" of this blog is. It can sometimes seem like a collection of rambling musings on the world. Well... Besides being just that, it is really the place that the network at TomorrowToday.biz put all their musings on the...
Top 10 Hottest Jobs in 2007
Fast Company's annual list of the hottest jobs, taken from a survey of trend spotters and futurists, is as follows: Experience Designer Medical Researcher Web Designer Security Systems Engineer Urban Planners Viral Marketers and Media Promoters Talent Agents Buyers...
WH Smith closes pension fund
Today, it was announced that WH Smith, the UK retailer, would close its company pension fund and restrict it only to existing members. This would mean that over the next few years, the pension fund would decline and eventually die out as current employees use it up....
Apple iPhone
So can Apple really do it? Break into the mobile phone market. They've tried once already with Motorolla and failed dismally. Could this be it?Check it out - click here
YouTube – YouBuscuit
YouTube for many is very old news (almost 12 months now). But I keep getting pleasantly surprised, hence this post. I first clicked on over while in the US reading about a debate as to whether some teenage girl posting her videos to YouTube was for real, or had a crew...