The sale of songs is a lost business model. The songs must be seen as publicity for mechandise and live shows where the real money is to be made. The problem of course is that the record companies and British Phonographic Industry may lose their raison d'etre. I feel for the BPI but the record compnaies who for years have skinned the very people they seek to hound, tough luck! The Internet will make it possible for bands to be famous without them and good riddance. No longer do we have to buy 1 song we like and 20 others we don't.
Read More ...People in Iceland - a country currently in desperate economic trouble - have shipped jumpers and blankets to England this week. A container of woolies arrived in the north-east of England after an appeal on an Icelandic radio station. They were handed to local charities in Hull on Thursday.
Read More ...I have savings with ING Direct and they keep trying to re-assure us savers that 'Your money is safe with ING Direct' and that it is part of one of the 20 largest financial institutions worldwide global financial company providing banking, investments, life insurance and retirement services with over £1 trillion in assets and yet....
Read More ...Only in Africa can this sort of thing happen. I laughed tears. See it here Nigeria police hold 'robber' goat
Read More ...Scenario: It is 2015, the world is recovering from one of the last great recession but Europe and the USA are not doing so well. So many people were laid off in those years and countries led by China and Asia but including African and South American countries picked up the slack and now lead the world economy. Large European and American multi-nationals, many of which have been run and owned by foreign management and finance for many years, took advantage of the down turn to shift operation to 'cheaper' regions. The banks, the ones that were the main cause of the financial crisis, now de-nationalised by returning only a percentage of the billions of tax payers' money, are under pressure to return to the pre-recession profitability, are pressurizing the now the millions of now unemployed tax payers to make good on their mortgages and loans.
Read More ...When someone does not deliver to expectations, there is a perception of failure - even if the results are still quite spectacular. President Obama is in danger of being in this category with many people. I suspect there are some, many in Africa, that do not expect too much! I have done a post about the expectations surrounding President Obama's taking of office on my news blog Obama's biggest burden.
Read More ..."Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit, a concept closely tied to religious belief and faith, a transcendent reality, or one or more deities. Spiritual matters are thus those matters regarding humankind's ultimate nature and meaning, not only as material biological organisms, but as beings with a unique relationship to that which is perceived to be beyond the bodily senses, time and the material world." [Wikipaedia] Read More ...
The 5th of January I wrote and said things where going back to normal. How I lied! If anything Christmas time is the worst time for making you break habits you have tried to hard to maintain. The few days of not following routines are fatal to anything that requires a bit of effort on your part.
Read More ...Well this is it, 2009 before we could even catch our breaths, everything's back to normal.
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