Moving to another Cloud

Blogging in 2009 doesn't make a person unique.  I wrote in September that I was the 80,000,000,001 blogger... I may have been a bit ambitious... Gazilions of bloggers are out there... Yet, blogging can yield benefits... the most obvious is discipline.  Although time consuming (Twitter may be a better solution), blogging forces me to keep listening...

Ok, those written thoughts are boring... all this to say that Coherent Ubiquity will live on... but on my personal website.  Stay tuned and make sure to visit http://www.phillabelle.com.

See you there!

No Clue

I am reading the news from major papers and I can't help but to realize that politicians, central bankers, and analysts simply do not have a clue about what is going on.  While Governments are spending future generations' money to put plasters on ever growing wounds, nobody is focussing on trying to "inject antibiotics" to help solve the problem.

Central Governments may buy troubled assets from overpaid asset managers, but in the meantime, the taxpayers (who are bailing out the fat cats) are seeing their credit scores plunge.  So, even if we start seeing lights at the end of the tunnel down the road, individuals may not be capable to get access to the credit market anyways... so they will have limited expectation to eventually get back in the game and start spending again.

Is in it time to wake up and start looking at the big picture?

I'm back!

I just noticed this morning that I haven't written anything since November 30, 2008... I guess I was lazy (but I am also very busy).  I guess this is what the "deep" winter in Montreal means.  Short days, less energy, holidays, and the works...

Stay tuned, more to come in the upcoming days!

A Coup d'État - Canadian Style

For the last 3 months, Canadians were proud to tell the world that they knew how to keep their country in order, being the only major economy not being hard hit by the Wall Street's meltdown and related economic downturn...

This may prove to have been a bit presumptuous... Now it does look like Canada's economy is set to shrink like other parts of the World. But also, Canada is the stage of a "legal coup". After receiving a second minority government mandate, the Conservatives are on the verge of being pushed out by a very strange coalition composed by headless liberals, separatist bloc MPs and left wingers of the NDP.

This post is not taking stand for one party or the other, but I couldn't resist commenting on this very strange, Brit style, Coup d'État. Canada does look like a banana republic sometimes.

Let's see what happens and how our Governor General deals with it!

Outliers

I have wanted to write more during the last few weeks, but with all that I have committed to accomplish, I simply face an uncontrollable limitation... days only have 24 hours!

This post will be like most of my recents, short.

I bought Malcolm Gladwell's new book, Outliers. I got the audio version (at Audible ) and listened to it during the weekend.

Although Gladwell may face harsh critics, as he does not hesitate to qualify the fairy tales behind public icons like the Beatles and Bill Gates, his book is well written, intelligent and insightful. Please, it keeps the reader (listener) on his/her toes.

Building the Tribe

I have recently read Seth Godin's most recent book, Tribes. Godin is a very good author and a great source of inspiration. Godin's work mainly covers, explores, and explains the "new marketing" or the way ideas and brands reach us in this day and age.

With the National Broadcast Orchestra alive, the founders' group will now need to build a "tribe" of passionate music aficcionados to help organize its "backstage".

The response of the fans has been great so far and we will now launch our campaign. The Orchestra will need to raise funds, but it will also need to build a team of volunteer who can handle some of the day to day operations.

The Orchestra's website is the central point to let us know your interest. Don't hesitate... just visit us.

Finally, the last CBC Radio Orchestra's concert will be broadcasted Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 1:00 pm on CBC Radio 2. This concert was simply fantastic!