A busy November? or no? Google’s previews
I have been feeling rather smug lately with a nice 20% jump in traffic from Google since the start of November. Conversions were down, but a nice boost in traffic. Now it has dropped...
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Debt – who has it, what they do, and the way forward
Here are 2 strikingly different views on the economy, plus of course my own 2 cents. Nobel laureate Michael Spence on how major emerging economies are pulling the others along and why the rich...
Sometimes the best defense is offense
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Risk, black swans and QE2
Author Nassim Taleb, of Fooled by Randomness and more recently The Black Swan, dubbed as “the guy you can’t afford not to listen to” talks about the current move by the US Federal Reserve...
Doing it right – how to sell online
Recently I purchased an 80 gallon aquarium and have been setting it up. Amazing the difference in prices between local pet shops and sourcing online or from Ebay. In the course of my online...
Canadian Economic Outlook
Not terrible but still not good – Note negative investment in Residential Housing in 2011. On the positive side, the CDN$ should appreciate against the US$ by almost 25% by 2011 which is great...
Couple of interesting sites
Found these 2 this morning – Escape from Cubicle Nation looks very good – All kinds of pretty sound advice. Plus books and consulting. http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com/ This one I am not sure about – no...
Unemployed? Start a Web Business
WASHINGTON — When Bob Bernstein, 60, was laid off from his job as a real estate broker at the height of the recession in 2008, he says he had a feeling it would be...
World Changing Mistakes
“In all probability,” British Economist William Stanley Jevons wrote in 1874, “the errors of the great mind exceed in number those of the less vigorous one.” Making mistakes turns out to be a strangely...
Internet-enabled models will accelerate the replacement of traditional approaches by institutions, governments and organizations
Don Tapscott is an entrepreneur, consultant and author of books on the digital age. His 14th, “Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World,” is in bookstores today and was written as a result of the...