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- The Internet medium is the political message
- The Internet medium is the political messageRead your blogI believe House has it correct. "Everybody lies."Also, journalists really don't have access unless it is granted to them. It doesn't matter what medium it is either. It will be a different way of hurling BS at the wall and watching what...
- Tags: skepticism, Cynicism, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Fear Factor in BitTorrent debate
- Fear Factor in BitTorrent debateAmenDuopolies are a poor substitute for a free market and government has to own up to the anticompetitive consequences of its own actions.This is a republic and not a true...democracy. Therefore the few elected to represent the many are easily bought off by big business...
- Tags: Vertical industries, cynicism, duopoly, government, Comcast Corp., democracy, big business, BitTorrent
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Today's Debate: The cost-growth conflict in health care technology
- Today's Debate: The cost-growth conflict in health care technology50 years too lateThat whole issue was debated and decided while Eisenhower was President. What's good for General Motors is good for the country, after all.You and I are here to pay into the system. That is, after all, what...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Cynicism, health care
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
Additional Resources
- Prohibition 2.0
- Sunday's installment of To the Best of Our Knowledge features an interview with Larry Lessig, back at least briefly it seems, on the Re/Mix wars. One of his main themes in that interview was quite apropos of a comment on my post about the mom suing Universal over take-down...
- Tags: Criminal, Larry Lessig, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Students (unaware/don't care) about music legalities
- Students (unaware/don't care) about music legalitiesRE: Sharing amongst friendsAbsolutely not!!! This is not even a gray area! If you hand someone a physical copy of a cd (book, record, movie, etc.) you can no longer play it (read it, watch it, etc.). If you hand them a...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Digital media, music legality
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- DreamSpark fails to spark anything
- It's fair to say most people are a little reserved and somewhat suspicious when Microsoft of all people offer something for "free". There must be a catch, a hidden something, an underlying reason… well in this case there isn't, not one that I can see anyway. Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., DreamSpark, Microsoft Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Mozilla blasts Acid3 as Safari and Opera grab the brass ring
- Mozilla blasts Acid3 as Safari and Opera grab the brass ringHixie and Web Standards...I could care less about Hixie's Acid2/3, even if I'm not a web developer... As long as it works, it works! If the web standards ain't broke, don't fix or improve it...Ed, ever the cynic....Did you consider...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Corp., Acid3, Mozilla Firefox, Opera Software, Apple Safari
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
- Do drug companies need government subsidies?
- Do drug companies need government subsidies?You don't get to receive welfare AND rape your customersPick one or the other. Not both.RE: Do drug companies need government subsidies?Of course they do. How else can they prove that they can't compete on a world stage and still satisfy shareholders? Maybe...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, government subsidy, drug company
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- The end of software...
- The end of software...Mike Krigman's words made me gasp - sorta...Do you have any idea of how many times I have heard "But he's [i]just[/i] technical." when I tried to convince somebody in the "decision-making culture of the business" to do something better - or at least not do something...
- Tags: Groupware, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft SharePoint, information technology, software, Web 2.0, ConnectBeam, collaboration
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- Microsoft's real game: Open interoperability protects its stack
- Microsoft's real game: Open interoperability protects its stackInteroperability works both ways.If you want to rip out that Linux server, the fact that it works with Microsoft products as Microsoft intends helps assure that you won't (what?) miss a beat by eliminating the foreign element.You have many Microsoft products already and...
- Tags: game, Microsoft Corp., real game, interoperability
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Countering the Microsoft cynics
- Countering the Microsoft cynicsBenefit of the doubt[i]That’s why I am willing to give Ballmer more benefit of the doubt than Foley.[/i]It's much easier to trust the guy with the gun when you're standing next to him instead of in his sights.Can take years to build trustI certainly hope you're right,...
- Tags: open-source developer, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, open source, snake
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Audits and self-promotion
- Audits and self-promotionGo Flake!Maybe we'll get an intelligible response for once.Remember, on the Internet, no one knows you are a dog!My Policy is MeAn talented person with that policy will make a near perfect professional employee if the employer establishing strong link between the benefit the employee provides the company...
- Tags: Benefits, Malamute, benefit, incentive, audit
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"
- As it stands, the Google-led OpenSocial has very little, if anything, to do with data portability. That's the view of Marc Canter, a long time advocate of open standards and data portability, and one in which I'm inclined to agree. It seems that almost everybody got a little carried away...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Google OpenSocial, Marc Canter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Hey, I love you too, guy
- Here's a comment from not so frequent contributor "SO.CAL Guy": murph_z you should be the last person calling someone a zealot. your the biggest zealot on zdnet. your blog is near the bottom of the list for a reason. ...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., T1, Intel Xeon, Performance Management, Processors, Servers, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Anthony Lilley doesn't seem keen on Web 3.0
- With Ian Davis and I packing to join the UK contingent hopping across the Atlantic to this week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, it was interesting to see Anthony Lilley's piece on Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 in today's Guardian. He's clearly not a fan...
- Tags: Web, Web 3.0, Data, Semantic Web, VC, Nova, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Fred Trotter's HealthVault expose
- Fred Trotter, a blogger at the intersection of medicine and open source, is in the midst of producing a series of articles about Microsoft HealthVault. They don't paint a pretty picture. Trotter alleges that Microsoft fails the "seven generations test," that it has a...
- Tags: Dr., Microsoft Corp., Trotter, Productivity, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Are faux-Zuckerbergs a threat to corporate harmony?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk wonders whether Generation Y is Cartesian with a twist: I think, therefore I am great. I had dinner with someone significant in the tech world the other day. Desdemona (guess what, not her real name) had a problem she wanted to share with...
- Tags: Dinner, Advertisement, Harmony, Chris, Entrepreneurship, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Are your consultants worth it?
- Are your consultants worth it?Not a bad ideaOne might imagine some kind of contract where the consultant is paid as a proportion of the additional revenue his or her work brings to the customer. Of course you would have to have some agreed way of assessing this at the start...
- Tags: Strategy, In-House
- Discussion threads 2007-10-18
- Today's Debate: How do we reach interoperability?
- Today's Debate: How do we reach interoperability?That's easyMicrosoft needs to open up a bit more and stop being so anti-competitive. IBM and Apple need to as well. Linux and the *BSD's are already open and well documented. Until the above identified start playing nice and working with the system instead...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, interoperability, hospital
- Discussion threads 2007-09-28
- Bring on naked PCs, says think tank
- Bring on naked PCs, says think tankIs he implying that taking the obviously rightapproach of not having to purchase a single vendor's OS along with the PC h/w will benefit consumers? I thought that common sense was frowned upon :)[i]Singleton suggested most people are unable to easily purchase a computer...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Linux, operating system, Microsoft Corp., naked PC, Apple Inc., PC
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
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