Big business is such a complex beast of many heads and separate brains. One head speaks to the public, selling wares and providing the Ryan Gosling-esque white toothed grin of confidance. Another is the elusive, complex and often brilliant mastermind, finding solutions and planning new creations. They don’t often speak to each other and this often shows. So continues the drama with Telstra that began months ago. Read the rest of this entry →
Fired?
For the cherubs out there who’ve never heard of one Kyle Dalton Sandilands, he’s an Australian radio personality renowned for his outspoken and often abrasive comments about other public figures. The latest Kyle offensive was aimed at a female journalist and involved him saying that he would hunt her down. This followed comments, on air, about her weight and her cleavage. Ordinarily Kyle’s comments either boost his ratings or end with mild scoffs at his naughtiness. Not this time. This time he’s reeling after a shot to the kidneys by Twitter, the populist assassin. Read the rest of this entry →
Sitting at your desk all day. Driving home in peak hour. Plonking yourself down in front of the television. Eating a bag of crisps. Start annual leave. Watch more television. Expand your girth. Shrink your mind. Rinse and repeat.
If this sounds familiar to you, you’re not alone. With the massive increase in our “in home” entertainment temptations we’re now being bombarded by reasons to stay home and blow out that BMI.
That’s why I fell in love with an online blog featuring, in her own words, a young professional who loves food, wine, wildlife and her dog Simba. Read the rest of this entry →
As the wise pundit of TWiT network’s This Week in Google (TWiG), Jeff Jervis adds an amazing non-technical insight into the world of “Google and the cloud”. Jarvis provokes discussion, introduces insightful topics and does it all with a disarming self-consciousness.
He’s released a fantastic book, What Would Google Do?, that tries to understand the machinations behind Google’s success and how these ideas may just be applicable to other modern day industries.
In 2009 Jeff announced that he was fighting the Big-C, prostate cancer. As a result of his survival he’s influenced his audience to at least be aware of the disease and that a prostate check is vital for all of us fellas. This experience has, for obvious reasons, changed his life and subsequently given the title of his new book a multi-level spin (after he openly spoke about some manly issues he was having post-surgery).
Now comes his “Public Parts” or “How sharing in the digital age improves the way we work and live”. This will be out around the 27th September 2011 and I have to say that I can’t wait to have a read. His take on why digital “publicness” can improve work and life will be intriguing considering the advent of increased privacy on both the Facebook and Google+ platforms along with the rise and rise of “cyber” crime.
Let us know your thoughts on both of his reads.
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You can get Jeff’s books on Amazon (if you use our links we may just keep the lights on a little longer):
What Would Google Do? Hardback
What Would Google Do? Kindle Edition
Or head to Jeff’s own site for his own affiliate codes. Cheers.
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