Last night I finished watching the excellent BBC series The Virtual Revolution presented by Dr Aleks Krotoski. It served as a very useful reminder of how much our lives have been changed by technology in an incredibly short space of time. Dr Krotoski had access to a host of major individuals from Tim Berners-Lee (a [...]
By Ben | January 13, 2010
As a follow-up to my recent post about Prof Charles Handy here, I was interested to come across this article in the Times last week that highlights the many entirely new jobs that will be created this century. As my wife reminded me recently, most of the jobs that will employ our children’s generation probably [...]
By Ben | December 15, 2009
As it is GazetMe’s purpose to enable our users to track their many achievements, here at GazetMe Towers we thought we’d start an occasional series of reports highlighting notable achievements by individuals across the country.
First up then we celebrate the achievements of Clare Robertson. Now fans of Woolworths and residents of Dorchester may already be familiar [...]
By Ben | November 14, 2009
More good writing from the Economist, this time about the notion of building a portfolio career. For anyone who hasn’t come across the idea before, having a portfolio career is about freelancing to use the best of your competencies, possibly for a range of clients, but possibly also for just one or two. It is [...]
By Ben | November 5, 2009
A very good analysis of the shortcomings of public sector involvement in promoting entrepreneurship and venture capital in this week’s Schumpeter column in the Economist. Interestingly (but perhaps not that surprising) it is Israel which emerges as the most successful promoter of such initiatives:
“The Israeli government’s venture-capital fund, which was founded in 1992 with $100m [...]
