Doug’s Mouthpiece – Droug.co.uk

Help Shak to Help Some People

other written by Doug Scott

http://www.mycharitywater.org/p/campaign?campaign_id=4791

Mr Khan is hoping to raise $200,000 to give people clean water, and he will then pay the same amount himself.

So please help him become broke:)

All the best

Doug

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb – interesting guy

Fun, other written by Doug Scott

Been reading some of his stuff, shary guy and interesting views of the world.

Some of his comments that came from an interview with The Times:

1 Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

2 Go to parties. You can’t even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

3 It’s not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.

4 Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

5 Don’t disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don’t understand their logic. Don’t pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific ‘evidence’.

6 Learn to fail with pride — and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error — by mastering the error part.

7 Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words ‘impossible’, ‘never’, ‘too difficult’ too often, drop him or her from your social network. Never take ‘no’ for an answer (conversely, take most ‘yeses’ as ‘most probably’).

8 Don’t read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants… or (again) parties.

9 Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

10 Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Doug enjoy

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Business Rubbish

Fun, other written by Doug Scott

Some crap I found lying round that was sent to me:)

Truth and Lies of Online Business – people lie????????

Online businesses can be a tricky business.

At first, way back when people were still using primitive inventions like the fax machine, there was a group of people who thought it would be cool to exchange information and advertise their wares on this new thing called the Internet. Surprisingly, people paid attention – a lot of attention. The Internet has evolved enormously in the past 10-15 years, bringing us consumers the opportunity to buy everything from socks to pharmaceuticals to electronic toilets seats. Seriously, if you want it you can almost certainly get it through an online business.

Now here’s the thing. More isn’t always better. Along the way many have realized that:

1. People will buy almost anything if it’s packaged and presented correctly….or it looks like something rude

2. People in general really aren’t very bright (or at least terribly Internet savvy).

3. Most customers won’t complain about bad service or an inferior product.

I could write a book about the gullibility of the general public but I might have to include some of my own exploits and I’d rather not.

Doug finding junk:):)

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What happens when your staff can think

other written by Doug Scott

They go and do interviews and then run the stories on sites we own and don’t tell me

kieron-donoghue-affiliate-interview

jason-duke-interview

Scary when you realise your staff are better at getting interviews with well known people than you are:) Well done all.

Doug

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Smiley builds profile????

other written by Doug Scott

Tim O’Shea a  friend and a extremely bright guy has launched a blog. Now as he has been a person who has hidden and kept a very low profile doing seo for a long time in many sectors I wonder why?????

Anyway read away as he can help tell you how to build a site to 400,000 visitors per day www.blurtit.com ….thats right 400K per day.

Doug wondering if he needs a seo company or is he just too dam good:)

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Natwest website is down

other written by Doug Scott

www.natwest.com

404 Not Found

Sorry not able to get a screen shot…but seems to have been down for 7 hours now…can someone grab me one and email it please

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Speedsell or Speedcell – good idea?

other written by Doug Scott

Was looking at some stuff and found these guys:

http://www.speedsell.com/

Who can recycle all those electronice games. Nice idea think we may have to do something with them on www.recycle.co.uk

Doug can now sell all that stuff.

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Pirate Bay Guys found Guilty

other written by Doug Scott

When will an industry realise that they should embrace the future. What is the point of trying to close down free sharing of music etc etc etc They have been trying it for 10 years and still can’t do it.

One day people without brains will evolve…..probably into monkeys.

Here I sit playing spotify and looking at a product that will revolutionise an industry.

Doug
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Growing food on trees

other written by Doug Scott

Thought for the day

Currently oil supplies all the energy to allow farming to exist in most countries. Basically supplying crops that grow flat, like oats and wheat. Nature wants to grow bushess and trees, so man spends energy to stop this happening. Most of Europe was originally forest.

Trees and bushes actually produce more food per acre than flat fields. Obvious really as they have more height.

So as we start running out of oil, farms will no longer be fields, but forests and bushes…..ironically that is what nature wants them to be. Strange eh

If you want to no more try this

Doug

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Behavioural Targetting is just scary

Politics, other written by Doug Scott

I have been paranoid about this for ages….hey I know how much analysis of data we do. We have nothing in comparison to Google, Facebook, MySpace and Tesco’s with those loyalty cards and codes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7936625.stm

Hopefully they will sort out some laws.

I have no loyalty cards am not a member of any socal site and do not join linkedin etc. But people always try to link me so these big sites have got me any way.

Once day I will run off into the sunset with a bag of used notes, no mobile, no internet……just a bye bye

Doug is paranoid

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