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- YouTube: Must see TV? 'User Generated Politics' presidential campaign 2008
- On January 23, I announced: Social media conversations have entered the big leagues, the high-stakes presidential ones.In Social Media conversations: Talking or selling?, the first story in my continuing coverage of what I have dubbed “User Generated Politics,” I analyzed how Hillary Clinton used a slick video-enabled Website campaign headquarters...
- Tags: Culture, Government, Hillary Clinton, Legal, Local, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, Television, TV, User Generated Politics, User-Generated Content, Video, Wikipedia, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Wikipedia: Should students trust it?
- Jimmy Wales, co-founder Wikipedia, admonished Microsoft for its efforts in seeking to correct what it deems to be inaccuracies in a Wikipedia entry, as I discuss and analyze in “Can Wikipedia handle the truth?”Conventional media “wisdom” is in accord with Wikipedia’s Wales. Google News headlines today include: "Microsoft tried...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Citizen Journalism, Culture, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Internet Data, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, Wikipedia, Content, Social Media
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
- Can Wikipedia handle the truth?
- The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is Wikipedias own notion of “verifiability,” not truth, I pointed out last September in “Is Wikipedia ‘knowledge’ merely third party hearsay?” Wikipedia has an aversion to truth, as I discussed in “Why Digg fraud, Google bombing, Wikipedia vandalism will not be stopped.”Wikipedia co-founder Larry...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Citizen Journalism, Culture, Microsoft, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, Wikipedia, Social Media
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Google search challenge from Wikipedia founder in 2007?
- Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, is set to enter the search engine fray in collaboration with Amazon, perhaps as early as Q1 2007, according to Times Online reports:"The project has been dubbed Wikiasari , a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for “rummaging search”…...
- Tags: Wiki, Google Inc., Google Search, Wikipedia, Wales
- Blog posts 2006-12-23
- Web 2.0 'community': Are 'comments' representative?
- A new month, a new TechCrunch advisory of disgruntled users of Web 2.0 free services. Michael Arrington began November with “Top Digg Users Feeling Snubbed (see "Digg vs. Diggers?”), and he begins December with “Yahoo Gets Trashed By Users.” Just as with his Digg "controversy is interesting" post, Arrington’s Yahoo...
- Tags: Television, TV, Amateur Content, Digg, Social Web, Culture, Yahoo, User-Generated Content, Yahoo! Inc., Social Media, Social Networking, Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-12-03
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- EU group demos quantum cryptography
- Under the auspices of the European Union, the world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, Silicon.com reports. It's the product of four years of work by 41 organizations from 12 countries, overseen by the SECOQC (Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication Based on...
- Tags: Cryptography, Quantum Cryptography, Cable, Network Technology, Digital Security, Security, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)
- Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for itHard to believeIt's hard to believe that the Bush Administration is on the right side of this one. I guess the RIAA didn't grease the pockets all the way to the top. Live and learn. Next time they will...
- Tags: Pro-IP, Bush, biz, labor
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureAccretionThe substantial number of miscellaneous applications appear to be unlinked. The IBM-linked approach is e-commerce, replacing another old and working system.Is what you're describing a slow-moving IBM takeover? You've included indications that IBM is gaining administrative authority.This approach is description by strobe...
- Tags: IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Why IT project post-mortems don't matter
- Why IT project post-mortems don't matterGood Article, Bad TitleI agree with your position and your content and suggestions. The title, however, is not reflective of the subject-matter. The article is about improving the post-mortems process, yet I was expecting to see an opinion piece about how they are...
- Tags: IT Project, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- The most striking thing about the appliance computing applications market is that most customers have one or two global applications and a range of special purpose stuff accumulated and refined over many years - the opposite of what happens in data processing where thousands of tiny applications get strung...
- Tags: IBM iSeries, Data Center, Contact Management, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Storage, Servers, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- France Radio (gadget)
- Introducing the Radio France gadget with 60 stations of streaming digital radio. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play the live Internet stream. Don't pay for live audio streams, when you can listen for free. This gadget uses your windows media player and real player for audio...
- Tags: Radio, Gadget, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- Edongba (zip)
- In southwestern china, east of the first bend of the yangtze river, set in a beautiful valley, lies the town of lijiang. Today there are more than 270,000 naxi people living in Lijiang. One of the most popular and distinctive expressions of naxi culture is the dongba script of this...
- Tags: Symbol, Xiaohui Yang, Edongba, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Where are all the programmers?
- I was at a conference Wednesday that covered an awful lot of ground. There were some good sandwiches, too, and the cookies were first-rate. One thing that stuck out in my mind, though, aside from the deserts, was one companies inability to hire good programmers domestically. This...
- Tags: Recruiting, Programmer, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Teaching telecommuting
- Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Webcast: Results Driven: Dispelling the Myth of the 80 Hour Work Week
- Employees that spend all their waking hours in the office don't produce more results. In fact, research shows it is just the opposite. Flexible workers can create more results in less time. But many business leaders and managers continue to believe that employees working long hours at their desks means...
- Tags: Employee, Webcast, Citrix Systems Inc.
- Webcasts 2008-10-08
- Zune 3.0
- Photo gallery:Zune 3.0 softwareIn order for Microsoft's Zune MP3 player to compete against Apple's iPod, Microsoft not only had to create a great MP3 player; it also had to create a solid software client to compete against iTunes. In doing so,it's created an attractive, full-featured digital-media jukebox that some users...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Zune
- Product reviews 2008-10-07
- News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Project tradition and IT culture [cartoon]
- Project tradition and IT culture [cartoon]RE: Project tradition and IT culture [cartoon]Our project culture, unfortunately, is "Bite off more than we can chew, do less than what's needed, and then call it finished."OuchWell, doesn't sound great, but thanks for sharing it.
- Tags: IT culture, cartoon, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- [Updated video] Bill Gates leaving might help mend Silicon Valley fences
- Here is a short clip from CNET of a tearful Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, telling employees to personally thank Bill Gates for the opportunity to work at Microsoft and thank him for instilling the culture of Microsoft, its "passion, intensity, and tenacity." ...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Antitrust, Bill Gates, Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
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