During my very chilly walk with my dog tonight, I was listening to the Invisible Hand podcast from Heron and Crane. This episode was a review of the book “Liquidated – An Ethnography of Wall Street” by Karen Ho. Quite an interesting interview. Many know about how the people running the big investment banks may [...]
Archive for December 2009
Wall Street: Can we live without it?
December 11, 2009HST is passed
December 10, 2009I’ve barely been involved in the discussions about the HST, too much work and American news I’ve been digesting, but here it is. There has been some negative feeling towards this tax, mostly started by those who could lose the most (realtors, mutual funds, and certain retailers). But looking a little further into this harmonization [...]
…and to follow, Politics and Social Media
December 9, 2009And of course writing the last post, I remembered what I have been seeing on Facebook recently. “Become a fan of this politician, or sign this petition, or sign up for this group”. Politics have definitely found their way into social media, which is no surprise as politics have a good deal of marketing and [...]
Marketing and Social Media
December 8, 2009Again, a slight departure from pure politics, but still something that is affecting the way the world works, and will ultimately affect the way the world is governed. We looked at the way that the internet can be called the world’s brain, but there is also a more immediate affect on marketing. It’s been [...]
SEO and WordPress
December 8, 2009One thing I’ve noticed recently is that I’m getting hits from Google searches. When I do some searches myself I notice that this blog shows up relatively early on some of the search results. In my previous position with a media company, SEO was stressed as something important. Meta keywords were studied and all kinds [...]
