The Independent Bookseller

Last week, Jenny’s post about the future of bookselling popped into my feed reader and it stuck a chord with me. Independent booksellers are close to my heart. It’s all tied up with family too. My mother is an independent bookseller. To understand why she does it, you have to understand her. After raising a third (and surprise) baby to school-going age, she decided she had enough of [...]

On investigative economic reporting and This American Life

The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind of home decorating. Bit by bit, I’ve been working through the podcast archive of WBEZ’s This American Life. Where the archive really shines is in its economic analysis pieces. Two years ago as Lehman Brothers collapsed and AIG fell, This American Life began to try to [...]

The Disloyalty Card

Gwilym Davies is a barista. A really great barista. A World Champion barista. He makes coffee at Prufrock Coffee at Present in Shoreditch. Gwilym came up with the idea of a Disloyalty Card. He picked eight quality-focussed, interesting coffee places in London, printed their details on a card and gave these cards to his customers. [...]

World Debt in 2010

Graphic by Ben Hennig released under CC. Click for bigger.

The 5c Architect and Local Economics

Architecture 5¢ from John Morefield on Vimeo. Found this interesting video on Good.is about the 5c architect who when faced without a job, turned to a market stall doling out advice at a nickel a time. As well as keeping the momentum his nickel business, he has been able to earn $50,000 a year from [...]

On Negative Campaigns & Subverting Pop Culture Norms

Photo owned by renaissancechambara (cc) It’s interesting to note that yesterday, the BBC Radio 1 website had it’s busiest day ever because of The X-Factor vs Rage Against The Machine death-match. It doesn’t matter where you sit in the battle to the UK number one, the fact that a download-only single beat the traditional X [...]

Starbucks’ (RED) Card Campaign Comes To Ireland

Starbucks are partnering with Project RED so that for every use of a Starbucks (RED) card at participating stores, 5c is donated by Starbucks to the Global Fund for the elimination of AIDS in Africa. More details on the Join Red blog.

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