The New Economics

Via. Freeconomics Part I – or who is paying for your Free lunch? — broad­stuff and found some­where on slashdot.

“You must be new, welcome to the Internet. Here on the Internet you are required to view any publicly held company as evil and any effort on their part to charge for a service

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End of the Road for Trackbacks?

I’ve just deleted two track­backs that led directly to malware install­a­tion routines posing as Anti-​​​​Virus scanners. On IE7, it was neces­sary to switch off the iexplore process manually to get the windows to stop. I’ve scanned for any traces using Spybot — S & D and seem to be clean.

This is obvi­ously really annoying

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A Last Note on the Carphone Warehouse Incident

If you need the history — I had a big problem with the company (blogged here), which was resolved the day after I wrote a post about it on this site (blogged here).

A lot of people might see this as a victory for blogs and bloggers. I’d agree, sure. But, on reflec­tion, I think it’s more of a victory

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How Carphone Warehouse Regained My Trust

This post is a follow-​​​​up to the last, rather less com­pli­mentary one, Goodbye, Carphone Warehouse, You Lied and Cheated

At 10am this morning — and it’s Saturday on a bank holiday weekend, you’ll note, I got a call from Sarah, a customer services manager at Carphone Warehouse. She gets Google Alerts for mentions of the company’s name on

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Goodbye, Carphone Warehouse, You Lied and Cheated

NB: This story has a happy ending!

Dear Carphone Warehouse,

We used to have it so good. I’ve been a customer for about four years, and you’ve never put a foot wrong until now. You found me good deals and gave me good advice on tariffs and handsets. But I’m not sure our rela­tion­ship can recover

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The Initiative To Stop It Must Be Ours

Fortieth anniversary of MLK’s death tomorrow. This is from one year before he died. A tran­script is avail­able here.