Strive Notes

On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…money, shopping, criminals, Ofcom and Led Zeppelin…?

1. I didn’t know too much about Conrad Black until recently (for obvious reasons). However, I came across him on the Top List of Best and Worst of 2007, and after I read up on him and his case, the list made me laugh. The writers asks “was it smart business to call reporters, many of whom he employed, a “swarming, grunting masses of jackals”? … I’m guessing not!

2.  Online shopping and social networking combined now here is something I know a thing or two about… or at least I thought I did. Something called ‘social retailing’ has been recently selected by Time magazine as one the best inventions of 2007. I like the idea. It makes sense, but do we need to be interactive ALL the time? Maybe people like to shop alone. I know I do.

3. YouTube wants to give you money…If you qualify that is! So far the scheme has been restricted to the 100 test subjects but now it’s open to everyone, all you have to do is just prove you deserve it?

4. Unless like him, you have been hiding your self away behind a cupboard, then I am positive you’re aware of the story of the ‘missing’ canoeist John Darwin. I am sick of hearing about it now, to be honest. However, what I did love about it all is that the picture that gave authorities the evidence they needed was uncovered not by the police but by ‘an amateur British sleuth‘ looking on Google.

5. Colin Byrne comments on the recent Ofcom report which tells us that ‘one in four UK adults do it four times a month.’ (Social networking that is!) It does seem that if there is one thing that us Brits today seem to be doing well its social networking. So we don’t watch as much TV as Americans but only because we have simply replaced the TV with a computer screen, what an achievement eh!  However I have to disagree with you on one point Colin…Maybe the Led Zeppelin comeback wouldn’t be so great to us youngsters if we had something modern to compare it to. Instead,  we have to watch Simon Cowell trying to pass of some rubbish brother sister cabaret act as THE X FACTOR every weekend. I know who I’d rather see! - Rant over

Just to clarify, I know that the 12th of December is not the 12th day of Christmas, and that those days, in fact, run from the 25th December to the 5th January. I just wanted to add at least one festive reference to my blog!

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