A very telling graph should depict at a glance what’s going on with newspaper subscriptions. Any doubts about what the future holds for delivery of the news?
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50 Extraordinary and Attractive Billboards
Using Facebook for Professional Networking
Boris Epstein does a thorough post on using Facebook for professional networking. I’ve always considered LinkedIn more suited for professional networking, but the post lays out a reasonable approach for making something useful of Facebook as well. (You will have to ignore all the quizzes and zombie games though.)
The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time
Some of these vintage ads are pretty disturbing — makes me wonder what they’ll say about the current crop of ads in 50 years?
The Startup Entrepreneur’s Guide To Risk Management
Just skimmed The Startup Entrepreneur’s Guide To Risk Management: good piece. I always knew my background in risk management was an entrepreneurial asset, but it’s often little-appreciated in context. Tidbit: there’s a 35% chance you’ll be killed by one of the survive all ten items you have a 90% chance of getting right.
Malcolm Gladwell: The future of the media
Malcolm Gladwell interviewed in The Independent: “‘One day, I’ll write a really nerdy book’… but until then, Malcolm Gladwell will be the rock star of non-fiction. As he embarks on a British tour, the author talks to David Usborne about plane crashes, Gordon Brown – and why Obama’s election was a true tipping point”
Using Free Applications Power Your Business
A Website Magazine article covers Free/Open Source alternatives to software from Microsoft & Co. It’s a little Ubuntu-centric (I’d recommend Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, OpenSuSE…) and misstates one point: OpenOffice is not Ubuntu’s office suite, it’s Sun’s, and is the office suite Ubuntu commonly uses.