Treat Your Staff Like Adults and See What Happens to Your Business

I’m attending the Carsonified seminar Future of Web Design later this week and popped over to their (lovely) site to check some details; I noticed “We’re hiring!” on the homepage and thought I’d have a look.
Now I knew that Carsonified has a four day work week, but was hugely impressed by the other benefits [...]

Net Neutrality Is “a Load of Bollocks”

I was amazed to see this item over at Boing Boing just now.
Virgin Media, a UK ISP, have a new CEO Neil Berkett, who in an interview with the Royal Television Society’s Television magazine attacked the net neutrality and went as far as to state
“This net neutrality thing is a load of bollocks,” and [...]

The Art of the Start

I’ve just started reading The Art of the Start - the time tested, battle-hardened guide for anyone starting anything - by Guy Kawasaki.
I’m only a few chapters in but it’s a great book. I was particularly struck by the first few paragraphs of the Introduction or “Read Me First”:
There are many ways to describe the [...]

RSS Diet - Complete

A week has passed since I started my RSS diet which brings the experiment “phase” to an end.
“Will you be going back to RSS?” I hear you ask; and the answer is no, I will not.
I really expected to find not using RSS difficult, that I would be spending more time on websites trying to [...]

RSS Diet - Day 2

It’s now the end of day 2 of my RSS diet and I’m pleased to say that I’m not missing Google Reader and my multitude of feeds at all.
Interestingly, not only am I not missing RSS but my time spent online has also dropped. I thought that I would need to spend longer reading my [...]

RSS Diet - Day 1

I’ve decided to conduct an experiment; I’ve decided to see how I get on not using using an RSS reader or following my multitude of RSS feeds for one week.
I’ve always read and followed a large number of websites for both professional and personal edification and RSS, being created for this very task, seemed to [...]