Archive for October, 2005



Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification - Martin Fischer
As part of Guy Phillipson’s presentation at the Empathy Marketing Morning Conference in the Guinness Storehouse this week, he gave an overview of Irish Internet usage. There weren’t that many surprises, but he provided an interesting breakdown that Internet [...]

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows - Epictetus
I was at the Empathy Marketing Morning Conference today which was sponsored by Pigsback.com. It was very interesting, mostly for the wrong reasons though, but it has filled me with plenty of ammunition for this site that I will [...]

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example - John Ruskin
I honestly don’t know why people bother with websites sometimes. If you announce news and make it hard for people to find you online, then you’re unravelling all the good work you’ve done in [...]

I honestly don’t know what companies are thinking when they decide to sue disgruntled customers. Just look at BT Ireland senidng Adam Beecher a solictor’s letter. The story made the Sunday Business Post, but it never registered as I flicked through it this weekend. However, two sites that I read both mentioned [...]