Ged Carroll

Category: business | 商業 | 상업 | ビジネス

My interest in business or commercial activity first started when a work friend of my Mum visited our family. She brought a book on commerce which is what business studies would have been called decades earlier. I read the book and that piqued my interest.

At the end of your third year in secondary school you are allowed to pick optional classes that you will take exams in. this is supposed to be something that you’re free to chose.

I was interested in business studies (partly because my friend Joe was doing it). But the school decided that they wanted me to do physics and chemistry instead and they did the same for my advanced level exams because I had done well in the normal level ones. School had a lot to answer for, but fortunately I managed to get back on track with college.

Eventually I finally managed to do pass a foundational course at night school whilst working in industry. I used that to then help me go and study for a degree in marketing.

I work in advertising now. And had previously worked in petrochemicals, plastics and optical fibre manfacture. All of which revolve around business. That’s why you find a business section here on my blog.

Business tends to cover a wide range of sectors that catch my eye over time. Business usually covers sectors that I don’t write about that much, but that have an outside impact on wider economics. So real estate would have been on my radar during the 2008 recession.

  • Salam Pax & mesh networks

    Today I talk about two things blogger Salam Pax and mesh networks, the latest thing in wireless networking.

    First off, a bit of history. The first film based on a weblog is in the pipeline. Many of you may have read in the news last year about Salam Pax, apparently someone blogging in Baghdad during the last gulf war. The blog despite doubts over its authenticity was turned into a book. Now the film rights of the book have been taken up. Coverage here from the BBC Online. Salam Pax was the pseudonym of Salam Abdulmunem.

    Friends and journalists who went to Network+InterOp the networking and communications show in Las Vegas have provided some mixed feedback.

    – Vendors dwarved the amount of customers at the show. This is being touted as an indication that business customers are not there to buy. I am inclined to think that it is much more of a cultural shift in organisations, when your job could disappear abroad, how can you justify a week long company shopping trip in Las Vegas when you can get the information off the web or by reading journals? Shows have been more of the business culture in the US than in Europe, with the exception of a few events like drupa and CeBIT in Germany

    – Lots of people where showing cool technology that will never see the light of day because computer users are in business and the home move at a slower basis than technology advances

    – Mesh networks had a higher profile. Mesh is one of them buzzwords that many people have been kicking around for a good while. One way of looking at it is that it allows a number of wireless devices be they a laptop with a wireless card or an airport hub to act as one network. This would allow wireless hotspots to be grown and managed more easily in businesses or in the home. I expect more of a push around this in the next few years, though it would struggle to be used with present technology to distribute high quality video around the home. More wireless related content here.

  • Fopp vinyl update

    Further to my posting regarding Fopp and its vinyl section. As you can see from the mail below they will still be keeping their LPs, it is only 12″ singles that they are no longer selling.

    Hi

    just so you know it’s just the 12″ singles that were are losing not the LP’s

    Hopefully, you’ll still shop at Fopp.

    Cheers

    Fopp
    1 Earlham Street
    Covent Garden
    London
    WC2H 9LL
    T: 020 7379 0883
    F: 020 7240 8355
    E: earlham.street at fopp.co.uk
    W: www.fopp.co.uk

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    Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 11:01 PM
    Subject: store_londoncoventgarden – Posted : 22:01:51 27/03/2004

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    store_londoncoventgarden – Posted : 22:01:51 27/03/2004
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    First Name : Rorsharch
    Email address : rorsharch at rorsharch.com
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    Enquiries
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    Enquiry CD :
    Enquiry Vinyl :
    Enquiry DVD
    Enquiry Book :
    General Enquiry :
    Hi, I was very disappointed to hear today that you will be getting rid of
    the vinyl section. You have gone to the trouble of building it up and having
    a top quality team to run it alongside a really good selection, not a pile
    of crap like many stores. I go to Fopp because I can buy my DVDs, vinyl and
    books under one roof. SAVE THE VINYL or I’ll shop elsewhere. Who do I need
    to take it up with at your head office?
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    More culture related content here.