Steve Flinter’s blog

As the price of oil heads ever higher ($131.57 Friday close for Brent Crude), we are led to believe that this is a fundamental supply and demand issue. The supply is drying up, and getting ever more expensive to extract, and the demand is growing unchecked, with the entry of China and Russia into [...]

David McWilliams, that eternal doomsayer, has an interesting post on his blog recently. Here’s a snippit that sums up his view:

We have already seen how the slump in stamp duty has affected the coffers. But long-term, no country ever got rich by its people buying and selling property to each other with money borrowed [...]

I’m waiting for a colleague to arrive from Vienna. I type in his flight number into Google at 13:45, and bam – I know that his flight has arrived.
I know that this flight search functionality has been around for a while, but it’s the first time that I’ve used it. I’m particularly impressed [...]

Pat asks have we over innovated?, to which Robin gives a resounding no.
Pat’s argument could be extended to plenty of other areas of technology. Take social networking, the tech-du-jour. How many of your friends have LinkedIn pages? How many are on Facebook? MySpace? blogs? Twitter? etc., etc., etc…. I [...]