Why

Some changes to the blog

Some strange things might happen as I make a change. Bascially i am reversing two blogs to make "why" the default at ladlass.com. Why is the commentary blog, whereas ICE is just research.

- Internet Changes Everything moves to www.ladlass.com/ice
- Why moves to www.ladlass.com
- www.ladlass.com/why disappears

The newspaper model of the future?

Here is a newspaper that "get's it" and is levering the web to better understand its customers and redefine their priorities.

Marginal Revolution: The newspaper model of the future?

This revolution has occurred, says the paper's publisher Augustine Edwards, thanks to his decision to listen to "the people." Three years ago, under Edwards's guidance, LUN installed a system whereby all clicks onto its Web site (www.lun.com) were recorded for all in the newsroom to see. Those clicks — and the changing tastes and desires they represent — drive the entire print content of LUN.

Bush - the right man for these times

George Bush has to be the most underestimated politician of all time. Most people see his ability to polarise everyone as a bad thing, but I disagree. Every once in while we need whats know in business as a "turnaround artist", and in this troubled world, we need that now.

Thatcher and Reagan had that ability to create world change, and G.W. Bush is doing the same. Countries cannot maintain the pressure which they undergo during these tpyes of changes indefinitely, but its the only way to break out of the terrorist and oppressor malaise which we suffer under right now in too many parts of the world.

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No more check-outs

Internet Changes Everything: Retailing revolution on its way

Iimagine entering a grocery store, picking up what you need and walking out ... thats it - no line up, no check out. Thats the promise from RFID.

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Americans are smart after all

There is so much pent up emotion around the world following Bush's convincing win. There is also so much talk about America being a divided nation, implying that the rest of the world and those who voted for Kerry are the holders of virtue and long term hope for the planet with Mr Bush being the antithesis.

I say to all of those people - "its time to get over it"

[It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. (Churchill)]

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