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Plenty of reminiscing around the twenty-year anniversary of the ‘beating’ of the Millennium Bug. The turn of the century curse on computer systems worldwide rendering Y2K potentially doomsday. I recall similar [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8400300.stm] a decade back too. Among the historical memory lanes

Who says the media isn’t forever listicle dumbing down? Lucky we have sites that report the innards of Reddit. Specifically, curating inventions [https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/28-things-that-should-be-on-every-street-corner-458810/] we really, really need in our lives. The above parking lines on walls surely a true winner. The number of times a

Here’s a fascinating paragraph from an internal Facebook memo. Labelled as Zuckerberg’s right-hand man by the media, Andrew Bosworth also posted publicly on their own investigation into “2016 US Presidential campaign interference”: > [The Trump campaign] weren’t running misinformation or hoaxes. They weren’t microtargeting or saying

> I added sea-sand to the latest batch of peanut butter and labeled it enriched with organic marine silica. It’s selling like mad. An opening (made-up, I think) sample from a broadsheet columnist [https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/opinion/words-mean-what-ad-agency-wants-them-to-40215654] bemoaning us trampled consumers being deliberately ‘caught for

More Resolutioning fluff yes, but one that could turn into tasty Sales foodstuff. One such ‘sage’ writing on the dailymail [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7822329/Lifecoach-Amana-Walker-reveals-New-Years-resolutions-fail.html] suggests that a mere one in twelve stick to their New Year commitments, with only one in five still sticking to

The world’s most successful concert arena was not always such the beacon of popularity and profitability. London’s North Greenwich regeneration in time for 1999’s New Year’s Eve celebrations got mixed reviews back then. Even James Bond opening credit stardom from The World Is Not Enough couldn’

So many an opinion piece across the waves about what the decade gone brought, and that which the oncoming may bring. These are usually fertile ground for a sales kick-off event any early-Jan. But especially 2020’s. Who foresaw all the major b2b selling changes since 2010? The near total

Boeing are such a large aviation manufacture that their recent shut down of the 737-Max plane production line looks set to reduce US economic output by a staggering 0.6% next quarter. But as so often, such largeness is accompanied by hubris. In the worst case, ongoing investigation as to

Who wasn’t a Clive James fan? Glowing anecdote laden obits to the Anglicised Aussie revealed one [https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/dec/15/clive-james-remembered-by-john-simpson] of selling skill; > I was the editor of the pretentious student magazine Granta, and he’d got a sheaf of papers in his

Who doesn’t love an old ballad of lowest price blues? As well as a battle between purchase price tag and ongoing upkeep. Let’s then go back to the 1790s. I learn of those times’ groundbreaking canal building. Linking two of the the world’s then premier trading cities,