And Bilbo was like “Good morning!” and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf was like “What do you mean?”
Tags: like, linguistics, you know
And Bilbo was like “Good morning!” and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf was like “What do you mean?”
Tags: like, linguistics, you know
With the threat of our beloved and run-down pub, the Tumbledown Dick, being turned into a McDonald’s restaurant somebody pointed me in the direction of a very interesting book – The McDonaldization of Society. The book, first published in 1993, is written by sociologist George Ritzer and looks at the increasing rationalisation of the world • Read More »
Tags: Amazon, Amazon alternative, books, George Ritzer, McDonald's, McDonaldization
In my quest to find alternatives to Amazon, my latest discovery has been an interesting one. A couple of weekends ago I made a brief trip to Avebury in Wiltshire, a picturesque little English village and home to an impressive neolithic henge monument. Once I was home that same Sunday evening I had a sudden • Read More »
Tags: alternatives to Amazon, Amazon, Amazon alternative, Beetroot Books, Freeconomics, synchronicity
As previously posted, I was recently looking for an alternative to Amazon. The thought process came about after I was accused, quite reasonably, of putting money into Amazon’s pockets when there were serious questions to be asked about their ethics and morality. The main points of contention are that: 1) Amazon have been accused of • Read More »
Tags: Amazon, Amazon alternative, books, bookshops, business, hive, hive network, localism
A recent conversation on one of the comments sections of the Friends of the Tumble Down Dick website got me thinking: “Are there any alternatives to Amazon?” For many years now I’ve been an Amazon affiliate and earned a few pennies here and there from my web and blog posts. In all honesty, I don’t • Read More »
Tags: alternatives to Amazon, Amazon, Herman Hesse, localism, Siddhartha
Cash Mobbing Lifts Local Business” was first written by Paul Mackenzie Ross for the is4profit small business blog The flash mob is a public gathering where people use social media or other communications to organise and congregate on a public place and perform some usually pointless act and then disperse again. Now, after the flash • Read More »
Tags: business blog, cash mobbing, flash mobbing, is4profit, Ken Banks, localism, Means of Exchange, portfolio