Tag: Business

  • Some bullet-points about regulation

    In case you’d got the wrong idea about how the ’regulatory state‘ is supposed to work — UPDATED 23 May 2025. I could update this thing daily. Regulation is always…

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  • The bankruptcy of the growth mindset

    Of course he’s on LinkedIn — I shouldn’t be surprised that the British Prime Minister – any contemporary national leader, really – is on LinkedIn. It’s supposed to say “I…

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  • Podcasting—the platform battle

    UPDATE 2026. When I updated this post in 2022 I concluded I’d got it completely wrong about who would wind up dominating podcasting. Now I’m not so sure. UPDATE 2022.…

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  • Amazing Radio – an interview with Trevor Dann

    [You might want to know: when I wrote this I worked at BBC Radio (and still do!) but these are the opinions of a civilian radio nut and not those…

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  • Doctors. Don’t talk to me about doctors

    I’ve not been well. Two weeks laid low by a mystery virus. My doctor disagrees: I’m in perfect health, he says, refusing me medication. He’s pursuing some kind of Californian…

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  • An Athens by the Central Line

    So UpMyStreet – apparently a latterday Athens peopled entirely by cool, fun people who worry about things like geo-encoding their web site – has gone bust. Over at NTK the…

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  • Paddy Barwise at The Oxford Media Convention

    Paddy Barwise heads the London Business School’s Future Media programme and is a perennial commentator on broadcast regulation issues – particularly ownership and quality. He’s usually defending quality thresholds or…

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