This will change your life forever
August 12th, 2011 by Daniel Young | No Comments | Filed in Blogging, LifeThe biggest lie in Capitalism
August 12th, 2011 by Daniel Young | No Comments | Filed in Politics
Criticism towards the actions of big business will ultimately lead to a well used defence:
“They have to protect the fudiciary interests of shareholders.”
The implication is – “we’re protecting you”. But you hardly need to scratch the surface of this argument to see it for what it is.
Shareholders/stakeholders aren’t enriched in equal measure.
Often the actions of big business have a negative impact on the wider community/environment/future that far outweighs my dividend return as a shareholder.
And has anyone noticed that share markets are in freefall or at best out-of-control-volatile?
The duty of big business should be to protect everyone’s interests (present and future), not just vested interests.
And as global issues such as climate change, famine, civil unrest and resource shortages demonstrate we’re all shareholders at the end of the day.
*** Update *** Interesting conversation here around the concentration of wealth, which has resulted in the US becoming a centrally planned economy.
Tags: business, ethics, markets, shareholders, shares
A sad tale for a Sunday morning
May 29th, 2011 by Daniel Young | No Comments | Filed in LifeLast night I recounted to Noah the sad story of an individual who had an accident in very innocuous circumstances. This ‘man’ could not be saved despite receiving attention from some of the most highly skilled people around. Tragically we may never know what really happened to Humpty Dumpty. There is a lesson in this sad tale for all of us but I am fucked if I know what it is.
Mobile internet and the changing search experience
May 28th, 2011 by Daniel Young | No Comments | Filed in Search, TechnologyWe all expected mobile to change search and now we’re beginning to see this come to fruition. Via the seer Robert Scoble I recently learnt about two new and quite similar approaches to mobile search.
One is built into Microsoft’s l latest version of Windows Mobile, which is called Mango and the other – Do@ – is an app that will be available on multiple mobile platforms.
Both take a similar approach in that they produce results as opposed to links. Someone has already gone to the trouble if defining the best results for you.
At a macro level, google is presented with some significant challenges with its traditional approach to search, results are heavily polluted and the Google search engine leaves a lot of work with the searcher, hence the company’s foray into social search. The other problem is that the traditional approach to search simply doesn’t lend itself to the mobile experience.
Check out these videos to learn more, that’s assuming you’ve learnt anything up to now!
Dear CityRail please stop ripping me off
May 26th, 2011 by Daniel Young | 1 Comment | Filed in BloggingDear CityRail,
I have lived in Sydney for seven years. During that time, I have commuted on a daily basis from the eastern suburbs to north Sydney, by train and by bus. Not so long ago, you introduced the My Multi ticket system, I am still not sure what new entitlements that provides and yes I read the leaflet.
Elected as PM of this fine country, I would take steps to outlaw your cheeky ticketing systems. If I buy a seven day rail card, I should be entitled to seven days of travel. This is my beef.
I expect you’re aware that the five day week is exactly that, most people don’t work at the weekends. I drive my car at the weekends, its a Subaru, it actually belongs to my wife who is in fact my girlfriend. While driving said car my weekly rail card dwindles away in my pocket. I am sure that a great number of Sydney siders find them self in a similar situation. Do some research, its one if those self evident things that research can be used to verify.
This is a great PR opportunity guys, you could do the research, identify the pain point and provide a solution, i.e. Tickets that ate only redeemed on the days that they are used. What you lose in revenue you will more than make up for in good will. Monopolies should be able to afford to do this story of thing.
So CityRail what do you think?
Blogging from smartphone, is it possible?
May 25th, 2011 by Daniel Young | No Comments | Filed in Blogging, Life, LinksI find very little time to blog these days. Babies don’t leave much time for blogging, I have never been the most efficient blogger. But for a little while I will try blogging from my Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo using SlideIT. One blog post per money on the way to work each morning. Riveting.
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