Archive for the 'Trends' Category

Many people wanting to work at home do so because they are involved in Home Schooling.
They - and the emerging “Crunchy Con” generation - are skeptical of public schools’ ability to do much more than socialize children in dysfunction.
The rub comes as kids get older. Parents who could adequatly teach basic subjects want their kids [...]

Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery, just as k Internet Explorer 7.0.
I can’t find anything about it that Google Toolbar or Firefox weren’t responsible for creating in the first place.
And still, I find it to be a pain to work with! Unfortunately some of the proprietary software I have to use only works properly [...]

CNN.com is reporting that during this last Christmas Season, Amazon.com and Netflix.com received greater competition from formerly “brick and mortar only” competitors like Sears.com and JCPenney.com…”If these traditional multi-channel retailers can keep focused on the customer and continue to achieve these types of improvements, they will [become] a tough set of competitors for the pure-play [...]

The news services are reporting that President Bush has come out in favor of a rise in the minimum wage as long is it is coupled with tax cuts and regulatory relief.
I’ve commented on the subject before here. I believe that whenever the government raises the minimum wage above a level dictated already by local [...]

Why does Google want to be a domain name registrar? The New York Times gives as good an explanation as any…to more quickly update it’s search registry, elminate well optimized but otherwise worthless pages that just have ads at expired domains, and to keep it’s free search engine results as relevant as possible. Or is [...]

Vendelo is Spanish for “sell it” and Armando Fileto Texas disck jockey turned ebay entrepreneur is selling it as a tradiing assistant for people who don’t have either the time, skills, or interest to get rid of their stuff on ebay. To minimize overhead Vendelo operates out of a small office instead of a retail [...]

Newsweek reveals that despite the carnage shown on TV, the Iraq economy is booming.
The growth is meteoric; the article uses the phrase “on steroids” to describe it. It’s both the massive companies like Iraq’s major cell phone provider and construction industry (see photo) and small shopkeepers and undoubtedly many entrepreneurs making a few extra bucks [...]

The United States has more coal reserves than Saudi Arabia has oil reserves.
So coal companies languishing that these riches seem to fewer practical uses nowadays are transforming the asset into a modern fuel capable of propelling B-52’s and private airliners through the skies…via Liquid Coal
And some believe this fuel would only cost $40 per barrell!
Talk [...]

With fears that our oil dollars are simply funding our enemies and making us poorer, there are widespread calls for “hybrid” gas and electric cars.
The question remains… if everybody got one, is there enough power generation capacity in the US to power them?
This study reports that there is.
It assumes several things…that you commute the “average” [...]

There’s a strong pessimism in the Middle Class right now and the suspicion there won’t be a “middle class” much longer.
I have to admit, my perspective on the issue is slanted… I hear from lots of unemployed people and see folks who used to make $14.49 at an air conditioner factory plus benefits start working [...]