Why the London Evening Standard is rarer than hen’s teeth

I leave the office at 6pm every evening and walk about 10 minutes down
Victoria Street to Victoria train station.

Not a long walk, but a fairly busy one. Since the Standard went free,
it’s almost impossible to find a copy until I get to the station,
where I have to scrabble in one of the Metro bins and avoid being
knocked down by a horde of other busy commuters.

I find it hard to understand why it’s more difficult to find a copy of
the Standard now it’s gone free and there are apparently more copies
out there.

It’s easier to pick up a copy of the Big Issue.

Posted via email from Rob’s stream of web

Secret Westminster

I went for a lunchtime wander today and happened upon a beautiful
piece of hidden architecture.

The Buxton Memorial is an impressive thing, thoroughly dwarfed by the
neighbourinh Houses of Parliament.

Sited in Victoria Tower Gardens on Millbank, this is actually a
drinking fountain, erected as a monument to the 1833 Slavery Abolition
Act.

Slightly overblown, but impressive all the same.

Posted via email from Rob’s stream of web

25 Internet Startups That Bombed

via businesspundit.com

Remember Beenz? How about Lycos? Altavista? Even though it’s still only 20 years old, the web (note, not the internet) has seen more than its fair share of crashes and burns.

This piece from business pundit picks 25 of the most high-profile and tries to pick out some pearls of wisdom from the detritus.

Venture capitalist Paul Graham calls these the ‘elite of failures’. See what you can learn – apart from don’t burn through all your angel money in 6 months flat!

Posted via web from Rob’s stream of web