Archive for the 'Trends' Category

If you’ve ever thought about growing a garden to make extra money, now may be the best time in a very long time to get ready for planting next spring thanks to a growing trend: Locavores.Locavores want food with the maximum nutritional value - not picked green and ripening in the back of a truck somewhere.
Mel [...]

It’s turning “Black” for online shoppers even before “Cyber Monday”. Crowds can even affect online shopping.  
Shoppers at Amazon.com yesterday and Wal-Mart.com today faced problems because of massive traffic surges.
Also: a new consumer warning out says that if you want to buy a “gift card” you should get one from a store that keeps gift cards behind the counter…at [...]

Health Care is one of the issues facing self employed and home business people.
Here’s part of the insanity of the system.
A lady I know wast prescribed folic acid - 1  milligram per day.
This amount for some reason requires a prescription.
She has insurance, went to get the prescription, and paid a $5.00 copy for 30 tablets… [...]

Bloggers and Websites are not liable for libel court rules.
AP reports that the California Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act of 1996 provided a San Diego woman broad immunity from defamation lawsuits for people who publish information on the Internet that was gathered from another source.
Unless Congress revises the existing law, people who claim [...]

A Japanese firm has created a “robotemp” … just add electricity and they’ll do the work.
It’s another reason to have a back up plan.

Recently a local doctor told a college student not to enter medical transcription because “medical transcriptionists won’t exist in 10 years”.
Of course, with remote doctors, it’s equally possible to say that local doctors won’t exist in 10 years, but I bet she still tells people to go to medical school.
As my wife, a very busy medical [...]

Will your home office be wireless soon? Not wirelessly connected to the Internet - powered by the transfer of energy without “cords” and electrical cables…
The technology is not new. In the nineteenth century Nikolai Tesla tried to demonstrate as much with his own experiments until he ran out of money.
But now the possibility exists that [...]

It’s official, I’m the 277,391,305 richest person on earth! (Actually I rounded the figure I put in there, so who really knows? It sounded intersting though.)
Significantly enough, this means that I’m in the top 7% of the world’s richest people.
You may be richer than you think too…
Click through to see for yourself.

I’m loaded.

It’s official.

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Technology continues to drive down the price of doing business while in some ways also limiting one’s options for doing some businesses.
Google’s CEO is now proposing that folks be able to use cell phones for free… as long as they’re willing to us ad sponsored cellphones hosting Google’s ads of course.
Should this unfold, entrepreneurs may [...]

It’s Reuters this time. The Austin, TX Business Journal reports Reuters is investing $7 million dollars in a Blogging/Social Networking firm.
The firm, Pluck, will help Reuters stay ahead of the curve (or at least with the curve) as the world transitions to the “new media”.
So keep blogging boys and girls, it might really pay off [...]