Monday, September 29, 2008

Apprentice - Tim Campbell!

This guy is showing the way and look and listen to what he has set up around him. Making the big break happen for yourself is the pltform and springboard to do the same for others:
http://www.brightideastrust.com/dev/index.htm
http://www.brightideastrust.com/dev/trustees.htm
Very nice to see!
Well done MUM!!
http://www.webchats.tv/chats/Business/beyourownboss/

Monday, September 22, 2008

Pitching to the VC's and the kids!

If you can take the speed of speaking and the accent this is a good recap, reminder or intro for any budding entrepreneur who is going beyond the friend family and fools, angel investors, etc in fact it will help there as well:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_s_rose_on_pitching_to_vcs.html
His background http://www.rose.vc/ and http://rosetechven.com/pitchcoach/

Like other TED postings ive made on my blog over the last 5 years, this site is well worth regular visits, it was there before youtube but perhaps isnt quite so entertaining, but thats not what its about: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ann_cooper_talks_school_lunches.html for example this one fits neatly into my post here (08/03/08 if you want a UK message, which tames the US passion and slightly OTT message of the video) on feeding kids earlier this year and also the one on local food issue http://nickhorslen.blogspot.com/search?q=locavore

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

10th of the 9th of 08!! A historic day.....

....and the start of a historic countdown 10,9,8..............
http://www.lhc.ac.uk/latest-news.html
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/

The shear excitement of this both on TV and Radio I would not have expected to be captured but BBC Radio4 and BBC news on TV really did create the excitment and show how a collosal project can be delivered to plan - unbelievable!!

The top headline on BBC and CNN and all the others this very hour as it has happened.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/10/lhc.collider/index.html#cnnSTCOther1

Just google for the rest!

Monday, September 08, 2008

"Watching the box" a whole new dimension!!

This one gets you thinking!!

"The Box is an ambitious and unique year-long project for BBC News to tell the story of international trade and globalisation by tracking a standard shipping container around the world."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7600053.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7600180.stm

This comes off the trend in the 90's for RFID and satelite tracking of everything from trucks to animals:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/worldonthemove/reports/?tag=animal-sat-nav
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/worldonthemove/species/osprey/


http://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/campaigns/oceans/whales/the-great-whale-trail/follow-the-great-whale-trail


What is good is it puts the spotlight on the real process of trade. I wonder how else it could highlight other important trends and movement?