My longest blogging hiatus – a month and a half now – coincided with this blog’s second birthday. I gather that this may be a fairly typical blog burn out time. In my case, however, it has simply been caused by humongous amounts of work and also work stress. Writing an anonymous blog is not [...]
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28 Jan
Development blogging and the US election
I think I probably hate most American politicians. I loved Obama’s idealism, but, just like Tony Blair, he ain’t even come close to walking the walk on environmental issues. So I’m left feeling all Fox-Mulder-ish: I want to believe but final proof is always just out of sight, and you end up reluctantly concluding it [...]
19 Dec
Break time
I am flattered. Despite not posting for almost a month my blog is still getting plenty of visits each day. My silence has not been intentional; just a result of work overload. Now I’m looking forward to a few days holiday over the festive season. But I have some ideas for blog posts dying to [...]
7 Jun
Telemarketing & Development
Although off-shore call centres don’t exactly have the best reputation in the West, up to now the rise of this form of cut-price telemarketing has been something of a development success story … up to now. Today I received a call from one – how did they get my number? – pushing some incomprehensible development [...]
26 May
Greatest Hits
Another week, another milestones: this is my 100th post on Bottom Up Thinking (plus one guest post). Since I started my readership has climbed considerably. For those newer to my blog, but interested to know what are the ‘must reads’, I therefore thought I’d provide a selection of my ‘greatest hits’. Note this is not [...]
3 Jan
Defining one’s terms
Happy 2011 all! Lots been going on in the blogosphere while I’ve been away. (Don’t you guys take a break?) One thing that took my eye was the somewhat tangential debate that followed Alanna Shaikh’s otherwise great post on the disconnect between how aid actually works and how it is portrayed in the Western media. [...]
