The Real Scottish Problem

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Despite 30 years of North Sea Oil Scotland has one of the lowest growth rates in Europe, and in some places lower life expectancy than parts of Africa. This is the same country which gave the world some of the greatest scientists, engineers, clinicians, entrepreneurs and financial managers. How does this happen.

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How Does Your Website Grade

How’s your website performing? If your like most businesses you’ve given it the SEO treatment, and then pretty much left it alone. You’re probably too busy out there drumming up business to focus on the shop window. But you might change your priorities when you’ve finished reading this article – about Inbound Marketing.
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£450 billion in managed funds salvages Scotland’s reputation for canny banking – Times Online

Fund management in Scotland has, almost unnoticed and in total contrast to the banking failure, boomed in the past year. The country’s three biggest managers have grown to look after nearly £450 billion of other people’s money, four times the size of the wealth annually produced by the entire Scottish economy.
The success has been led [...]

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Beginners Guide to Blogs and Blogging

My 79 year old mother wrote a blog about the time she was evacuated from London, as a child during World War 2. Reading it is a rich experience, not because of the writing but because its a first hand account – real life untainted by editors and publishers.
Have you seen the BBC Click [...]

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What Would Life Be Like Without Windows? Roll On the Day Please

This guy is a typical turkey denying Christmas. No surprise he’s published in the PC World blog. That company is just another cog in the Microsoft ecosystem of businesses owing their existence to the cost and complexity that company turns out. For my part the world would be a better place without Microsoft. [...]

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The Truth About Twitter’s Traffic

More great work by RJ Metrics – see the link below.

Results Summary
We analyzed data through the end of 2009. Where the data overlapped with our previous analysis (which ran through August 2009), the findings were highly consistent. However, the updated data revealed the following noteworthy trends:

Twitter ended 2009 with just over 75 million [...]

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The Beginning of the End for City Bankers Hopefully

Mervyn King said yesterday that bankers should take a permanent pay cut to align them with other professionals as he outlined plans to carve up lenders across national boundaries.
Speaking to the Treasury Select Committee, the Governor of the Bank of England said the banking sector could be sustainable only if “returns and remuneration for both [...]

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Lord Goldsmith Change his mind on Iraq war – led by US lawyers

Tony Blair only got the “green light” to invade Iraq after his Attorney General visited Washington and was told by US lawyers that he was wrong to oppose the war.
Lord Goldsmith told the Iraq Inquiry today that he altered his advice a few [...]

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