The transcript of my BBC piece which was just broadcast. The original Reuters story from which it was drawn is here: Global army of online freelancers remakes outsourcing industry A country like the Philippines is getting big into what is called BPO — which stands for business process outsourcing. At its most basic think call centers.… Read More »
Here’s a piece I wrote for the BBC which went out today. (They often air some time after I’ve recorded them.) It’s very hard to be in the technology business these days because you don’t know when someone is going to be a cuckoo, A cuckoo, in case you are not an ornithologist, are what… Read More »
Another piece I recorded for the BBC Up until we discovered a body in a glacier in the Italian Alps more than 20 years ago, we didn’t really have a clue about our ancestors. The body belonged to a man who died 5000 years ago,. While much of the interest has focused on how he died —… Read More »
This is a piece I wrote for the BBC World Service.. So, the iPhone 5 is here, and while it will sell well, probably better than any phone before it, there’s a sense of anticlimax: this, we are told, is evolution, not revolution. None of the mind-bending sense of newness and change that the iPhone… Read More »
Usain Bolt and Steroids – O’Reilly Radar: Good piece on why you should not only think before you retweet, but research what you’re about to retweet. And then probably not retweet it anyway: “Most of what you read in reputable publications is of questionable value, most of what you see shared online isn’t from reputable… Read More »