I’ve been curious lately about the apparent social stamp collections of some Twitter users, after being added by these people as their *friend*. When they first added me, I thought they might have somehow been following my work and wanted to keep tabs on what I’m doing. But one guy had about 20,000 friends. Others […]
Effective but ethical internet vigilantism
I recently resorted to internet vigilantism when I found that a web development agency had blatantly stolen characteristic elements of the Cinnamon website for use on their own website. I asked them to remove these elements immediately. When they did not, I blogged about it. This was very effective. The company was wrong, and I […]
The importance of the 80/20 Principle
20% of what you do today will be responsible for 80% of the day’s results. 20% of a company’s clients will be yield 80% of the company’s revenue. I can imagine that almost everyone is familiar with the 80/20 Principle, also known as the Pareto Principle. Pareto was an Italian economist who discovered an economic […]