“The Smarter You Are, The Less You Click”
If that translates to TV and radio too, it might explain why idiot talk-shows are so popular with advertisers (and broadcasters).
Archive of posts filed under the Business category.
Topics on businesses, good and bad.
“The Subscription War: You’re Bleeding to Death”
I’ve always been leery of anything that requires a subscription. As the article points out, some are inevitable — in our case, Internet access and (land-line) phone service, with fairly basic cable TV on top of that — but we steer clear of anything else that demands ongoing payments. Even so, just those three things …
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“Minnesota levies world’s first carbon tariff…against North Dakota”
It’ll be interesting to see how this fight turns out. And important as well. If North Dakota wins, it’ll put a damper on any attempts to use carbon tariffs. (Yes, it does “unfairly” give renewable energy an advantage over coal powered energy — that’s the whole point to it. But if I read the law …
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“Fact-Checkers and Certified Public Logicians”
This sounds like a really good idea. Anybody want to start a new business, fact-checking things for serious bloggers? (FYI, I would not be a customer. I’m cheap, I’m not terribly serious, and I fancy that I can check my own facts, especially as this blog has so few of them. 😉 )
“Why I’d rather be punched in the testicles than call customer service”
WARNING: If this doesn’t make you laugh out loud, no matter where you are or what time it is, then you’ve never tried to deal with a customer service line.
“The Bad Management Stimulus”
I wonder if one if the prime drivers for entrepreneurship is bad management. I have to think that bad management pushes a lot of capable people out of their day jobs, and those people go on to become entrepreneurs. […] Sorry, Scott. I’m an employee-turned-entrepreneur myself, and bad management had very little to do with …
“College students arrested for not paying tip”
The practice of putting a mandatory tip on the bill for a large party has been fairly standard for as long as I’ve been going to restaurants. But bumping this mandatory “gratuity” up to eighteen percent, as was done here and as I experienced myself a couple days ago, is ridiculous — I give servers …
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“TV admits it was wrong about PVRs”
Will wonders never cease?
“Capstone projects and time management”
Joel On Software, on one of the few similarities between student projects and professional ones: It’s taken me a while, but I finally learned that long-term deadlines (or no deadlines at all) just don’t work with professional programmers, either: you need a schedule of regular, frequent deliverables to be productive over the long term. That …
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“Comcast pop-ups alert customers to PC infections”
I don’t know why ISPs didn’t start doing this ten years ago. It was easily possible then, and there was certainly a need for it at that point too. I hope more of them pick it up in the future.