Interesting Links for 20-03-2012

[andrewducker]

• The UK economy has a bigger contribution made by the internet than any other G20 country.
  (tags: uk economy internet )
• Nike puts foot in it with 'Black and Tan' trainers. Together with other examples of branding Epic Fail
  (tags: marketing shoes )
• Global arms trade grows by a quarter. Do they know something I don't?
  (tags: military business )

Comments

[theweaselking]

Should the Mirror link not say "The Mirror stole someone's"? Or am I missing something?

[andrewducker]

Thank you. Fixed.

[steer]

The UK economy has a bigger contribution made by the internet than any other G20 country.

Quirky fact for you -- the South Pacific island Tuvalu has a GDP of only $31,350,804. Of this, something around $5,000,000 or $4,000,000 comes from the fact that their domain name is .tv and lots of people want to hire that. That's 13% of GDP -- making our 8% generated by internet look poor.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than clever. :-)

The open question is, if you set up a micronation, what unused two letter combo do you choose to maximise this revenue?

[philmophlegm]

.sx

[steer]

Nice one, and still vacant. I think I'd use .om in the hope of attracting hippies to my micronation but hippies aren't generally rich (with the arguable exception of the late Steve Jobs).

[andrewducker]

.rx?

[lil_shepherd]

Re - the Black and Tan thing. The official breed name of the dog in my icon - aka Little Dog Draco - is English Toy Terrier (Black and Tan.) "Black and Tan" is the old name for the breed.

[octopoid_horror]

I bet you an ebook costing up to £10 of your choice that if the FAA say "sure, electronics are fine" then airlines will say "sorry, now you can't use them in case of terrorists"

[andrewducker]

You're on!

[octopoid_horror]

More likely outcome: some items will be fine, some not - cabin crew won't be expected to argue with passengers about whether that's an e-reader or a tablet, so nothing will change.