PanNotes

Christopher’s is buzzing again, if I’m to judge by the numbers on a Friday night. A friend, Kyle Lewis, suggested it’s probably that people have begun to recover from the several Ponzi schemes that have claimed numerous victims here in recent months. Another friend, Colin Steele, believes that coming out to one of Kingston’s premier bars is probably part of the recovery.

Danville Walker knows how to make a headline. The Commissioner of Customs gave businessmen some food for thought this week when he spoke at the PSOJ’s Job Creation Awards Ceremony. He made it clear that his major mandate is to root out corruption in customs.

Writing proposals for web development is often tedious because few of the RFPs are clear and detailed. In such an imperfect market it means getting creative in our responses is the only solution.

Things seem to be getting back to normal even as the loud sounds of generators add to the clatter of chain saws and hammers. Power and water are still problems for many, but I’m assuming that traffic in some areas of the corporate area means people are getting back to business. JPS is busy clearing its many downed power poles and the NWC is moving quickly to restore water to everyone.

First World Technology in Third World Hands

As a tiny dotcom in a part of the world that sits on America’s doorsteps geographically but technologically is far removed, our experience giving clients an interface with the Internet is both rewarding and frustrating.

If nothing else, the engagement reveals that as much as they want access to this new media world, they refuse to leave behind old notions and processes, and their legacy systems. Critically, they have little desire to understand the implications for their business. The result is a strange mix of old and new thinking where ideologies clash and culture, corporate and general, is remixed.

Blogging has been called many things. Some say its amateur journalism, others see it as amateur publishing. Everyone agrees, however, it is empowering.

A Blog gives a voice to its writer, and its presence gives those writers an audience when it’s well done and has something to say that’s truly original, informative, insightful or witty.

At Panmedia, we read Blogs often, and even build them. So we thought it might be time to do our own. As a web bureau that built Jamaica’s first portal (Jamaica Today) and as marketing and advertising specialists, we believe we have something to say about those subjects and hope you find our expression useful.