Every one of the past few years has been heralded The Year of Search. And, each year, it has failed to live up to its billing. Yet, at this late stage in 2007, there are stirrings. Within days of each other Yahoo! and Microsoft saw fit to lay...

E F Schumacher became the first popular environmentalist when his Small is Beautiful book was published in 1973. His theme was Economics as if people mattered and he introduced the concept of 'sustainability' with respect to our exploitation of...

As you probably know, details of 25 million British citizens were slapped on a couple of CDs and popped in HMRC's internal mail. And the package got lost. The loss of a couple of CDs is nothing. A pound sterling. But the value of the content...

Someone I know has posted a video of himself, very drunk and largely content-free. I was going to link to it here and ask him whether he might regret it. But I realised that I would regret doing this so I refrained. He had bragged about it...

The trouble with this business is that, almost every day, you meet honest and well-intentioned people who have a convincing story to tell. Then you get back to the real world and realise that however decent these people are, many are fundamentally...

A long time ago, I invented some software called BrainStorm. It was my secret weapon at the tail end of my tenure as editor of Personal Computer World and the start of my stint as a director of Caxton Software. It help me stay on top of things by...