By Ian, on May 29th, 2008 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 Continue reading The New Economics By Ian, on May 26th, 2008 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 Continue reading End of the Road for Trackbacks? By Ian, on May 24th, 2008 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 Continue reading A Last Note on the Carphone Warehouse Incident By Ian, on May 24th, 2008 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 Continue reading How Carphone Warehouse Regained My Trust By Ian, on May 23rd, 2008 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 Continue reading Goodbye, Carphone Warehouse, You Lied and Cheated By Ian, on May 3rd, 2008 Fortieth anniversary of MLK’s death tomorrow. This is from one year before he died. A transcript is available here. | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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