Year: 2005

  • Rapid Filmmaking

    Roger L. Simon has a blog I monitor. In a post titled Something New in Filmmaking, he links to Truth Laid Bare‘s post about Instant Films a film festival set up in LA to make a film in 48 hours. These are short films and the festival has been going since 2002. Roger hopes the…

  • Sydney International Airport

    I’m off to Kuala Lumpur for a conference for three days. It is YEO’s Global Leadership Conference. I’m looking forward to learning more about the international aspects of the organisation. Part of my growth as an entrepreneur and investor is to learn from other successful business people. Yes it’s also an excuse to have a…

  • Products or Services

    My friends in YEO tend to be people who’ve outgrown a small business. The turnover figure doesn’t really matter, but I’ve noticed an attitudinal cycle. First entrepreneurs want to be in business. If they are early starters they may start washing cars or mowing lawns. Twentysomethings often start with a product business. Even if it…

  • Pamela Anderson blog

    Pamela Anderson has a blog. You may need to join friendster.com to read it. It’s an interesting case study. It appears that she is actually authoring the entries – although I’d guess a PA is actually transcribing her posts, it makes more sense in time management terms. Friendstar benefits from having a high profile celebrity…

  • Comment problem

    It turns out that the update to WordPress 1.5 exposed an incompatability in our comments system. For now we’re using the default WP 1.5 layout while we fix it. At least commenting is working again. Please leave a comment so I can test it. Our regular design will return shortly.

  • Motivated

    I was driving into the office today. Given it’s a 50km trip each way, I usually either listen to a talk on tape (or cd) or I drive and think in silence. I actually like the thinking time. I was pondering why I’m struggling with myself to get to the office. Sure a 100km communte…

  • eBay scammers and phishing

    kasia in a nutshell had the unpleasant experience of a scammer using her lovely photo of a lake to sell some land on eBay. Follow her wonderfully nasty solution via the link, As an eBay Power Seller I hate throw away bidding accounts. But throwaway scammers are worse. It would have been tempting to bid…

  • 3am Phone conference

    It’s 4am and I’ve just finished a seminar in the US. The subject is What’s New in Marketing. Interestingly I attended via international phone conference while following the Powerpoint presentation on the web. I was dialled into the conference via a phone card for the first half. At 2cents per minute it’s a hard to…

  • Comment spam

    Since the upgrade to WordPress 1.5 I’ve lost my usual comment spam filters. Until I get caught up there is a risk your comment may be lost in the noise. If it doesn’t show up within a day please email me and I’ll try to resurrect it.

  • Check your website

    As this is my personal blog I don’t regularly do health checks on it. A health check includes clicking every link and interactive step on the process. If you run a business with an online presence this is an essential regular step. Don’t wait for the log entries to alert you, and most users wont…