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Time for a few early iPad thoughts (it arrived on Thursday, ahead of schedule!) Will try not to be too gushing and also to avoid topics I've seen discussed most frequently elsewhere. In no particular order:

• Its not a big iPod Touch- the relationship is the other way round. That device acts as a satellite to this one, a little outpost for the concept and technology. At times it almost feels like a little cute imitation, a knitted memento of its bigger brother.

• A pleasant unanticipated benefit has been that my iPhone battery lasts way longer. The time I used to spend fiddling with apps on the train has been displaced by eBooks and Wired magazine, leaving more juice in the most vital organ.

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Day in day out we’re bombarded with companies telling us how important it is to remove the barriers between us and our information.  The iPad, for instance, offers to put the web in the palm of your hands. No browser, no operating system, no hardware, just the web, flopping about in your control, an infinitely malleable quagmire of data cupped in your palm.

But is this really a good thing?

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What have I Foundy?

Google’s little secret

I’m not going to lie to you, I don’t have much more to ask here than the question: What is Google Findy?

I stumbled upon it during a recent search but strangely it isn’t on Google, Bing or Yahoo anywhere.  Perhaps it’s just linked to The Scottish Business and Entrepreneurship Awards but that seems unlikely too…

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What's green and "Cloud"-y?Get it?

As usual, the writing of this post was accelerated due to current events, namely the excellent new version of Spotify’s iPhone app.

But that’s not actually what I want to talk about today. In fact, there’s a much bigger picture here involving the brutally buzzwordised concept of “music-as-a-service”.

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Graham Goodkind’s recent piece on why PR timesheets should be scrapped seems to over-simplify the issue.  Certainly, they’re an imperfect system as demonstrated by his stats showing how they are inevitably filled out with less than ideal accuracy.

But so’s democracy – as Churchill famously stated, it’s the “worst form of Government except for all others that have been tried” – and you don’t see us turning our back on that institutional bastion.

Instead Graham focuses on the idea of selling ‘value’ as opposed to simple hours.

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