Credit Crunch | What’s wrong with Renting?

Ok so here’s the deal. In the UK (and frankly all over the world) we are going through a recession, or to use the word of the moment CREDIT CRUNCH (who makes these phrases). Banks are not lending as much, according to the BBC News report last night mortgages are down 71% in the last [...]

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Make Your Mark | Are you top Banana?

Whose the banana then? From the Enterprise Insight website.
In 2007, over 38,000 students took part in the Make Your Mark Challenge so you’d be bananas to miss it! Students across the country will be challenged to come up with ideas for new and innovative products and services in response to a secret brief launched here [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk | Business Advice. Straight. No Chaser.

Gary Vaynerchuk is a successful entrepreneur and famed internet personality. His show Wine TV Library is one of those online TV shows that has both underground kudos and has been featured on shows like Ellen, Conan and other shows mainly in the US that over here in the UK we don’t really check.
My buddy DK [...]

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BBC | The Speaker

OK all I am saying for now is that what I have seen so far from the young people involved is great!
Yeah that’s it.

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Career Planning | Are You Alert?

Last weeks meltdown at Lehman Brothers was not nice. I am not just talking about the knock on effects to other companies but for me it was watching the heart rendering pieces to camera by staff at the lower end of the scale who lost their jobs. People crying because they were mortgaged to the [...]

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Penelope Trunk | That Book Thing!

Career Blogger Penelope Trunk wrote an interesting post on the need (or not) to write a book. 5 Reasons why you don’t need to write a book is shall we say a controversial post but worth actually reflecting on.
So let’s reflect.
1. People who have a lot of ideas need a blog, not a book.
2. A [...]

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North America | Farai Chideya:News and Notes

NPR News and Notes is a one-hour daily program is hosted by well-known broadcast and digital media journalist Farai Chideya. The show provides a series of interviews and profiles and world news from an African American perspective and is one of the most refreshing and finely balanced representations of news from around the Diaspora.
Farai provides [...]

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FaceBook Redesign. Who Cares?

Ok first of all let me start by saying I will publicly eat humble pie (with cream please).
After a big song and dance about time management, weird wall posts and the like and leaving Facebook I returned (the freaky thing is I didnt have to set up a new account!)
Anyway I realised it wasn’t so [...]

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Lets Talk About Sex | Are We Still Prudes?

Last night I attended a debate at Channel 4 called Sex-ed Up which as I wrote in an earlier post focused on how and when should we teach our children about sex? The panel included Dr Terri Apter, Jane (forgot her surname) from the Sex Education Forum, Dr Petra Boynton, Lynette Burrows – Author of [...]

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AfroSphere – 05.09.08

Some news and views from around the world.
Africa
After some funding and damn hard work by Eric and his team the Ushahidi website relaunches and is looking rather fantastic.
Afrigator the largest African blog aggregator has has a majority stake acquired by MIH Print (a subsidiary of Nasper). There is no understating how huge this is.
Americas
Bar [...]

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