Jim Muttram

There's a thought-provoking post by Umair Haque which has been popping up on Twitter among other places which tries to set out the challenges facing us all in the current difficult circumstances. Haque, who is director of the Havas Media Lab, believes this is no…

Just read a very thought-provoking post by Jeff Jarvis which argues that the economic woes we are facing aren't just another economic downturn (even if a big one) but something more fundamental: the start of a large reshaping of entire industries being wrought by the…

I've been reflecting about this blog over the Christmas and New Year break. I started it, unbelievably, in September 2005 just ahead of the RBI Editor's Conference on the 22nd. The original purpose was to illustrate a point: that self-publishing using blogging software was powerful,…

This is a nice idea from The Unofficial Apple Weblog - using Twitter simply to poll two different options (I guess you could use more, though obviously the question has to be pretty tightly written!) UPDATE: If you need an industrial strength way of polling,…

Robert Scoble has a couple of video interviews with the guys behind Panorama, an OLAP product available through Google Spreadsheets as a gadget. Part one is here and part two here. The second part shows how a free connector for Salesforce.com works. Clever stuff, and…