Could the Plague of Pigs Cook the Market’s Bacon?

I don’t know how many of the readers of this post were around for the announcement that I am also writing for the KenyaImagine website, but earlier this week, I did a very brief summary of the nascent swine flu not-quite-pandemic (as of time at writing) that has captured the imagination of newsdesks and hypochondriacs [...]

Big Tech Companies are Failing to Make Money… and it’s All Our Fault!

So, a couple of days ago I put up a blog post wondering when Kenya might be able to support professional bloggers. As it turns out, we may as well ask Father Christmas and the Easter Bunny for a new pet unicorn and a free pass to Heaven, because it ain’t never going to happen. [...]

Women in the Workplace Needn’t Be a Burden

This week, employers groups in the UK have been jumping up and down, heralding the apocalypse and of the collapse of British industry. The reason? From 2013 firms with more than 250 employees will be forced to publish salary data for men and women, for the purpose of detecting and eliminating sex discrimination. The British [...]

Credit: the Easy Path to Debt Slavery

Maybe it’s because I read too much Dickens and have subliminally absorbed visions of being hauled away to the workhouse if I can’t make a payment, or maybe I live a freakishly frugal lifestyle, but an article in Business Daily Africa on increasing consumer debt in Kenya terrified me. Who are these people who are [...]

An Explanation of the Inari Media Twitter Policy

As you can see from the sidebar, Inari Media is also on Twitter. The account is fairly active, and my tweets generally concern IT news, along with the odd Kenyan headline. I do, however, have a different account, under the name Penseuse. This is a hangover from the time when the blog was a collective [...]