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Google turns the lights out for Earth Hour

Google turns the lights out for Earth HourHow much energy would be savedIf Google were really to lights out for an hour. My guess is that they can't shut down the datacenter or start it back up in that time frame, but it would certainly make a statement. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Turns, Earth Hour

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Earth Hour is this Saturday

Earth Hour is this SaturdayWrong answerYou can't burn candles or make a fire. That's pollution. Did you plant a tree for every one burned in the fireplace? This is just another feel-good activity for people who will never actually do anything to reduce their energy use.Not the intention...And I hope...

Tags: Earth Hour

Discussion threads 2008-03-25

Earth Hour is this Saturday

In a column that spends a lot of time talking about how to engage kids using technology, I'd like to take a minute and talk about turning off the technology. Don't worry, it's only for an hour. My fingers are going to be itching to break out my...

Tags: Hour, Sydney, Earth Hour, E-mail, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-03-24

Additional Resources

The elephant in the room: SOA and the economy

We've all been distracted by events in the economy over the past few weeks, and let's face it, it makes for a very large elephant in the room when we talk about SOA. All debates about REST, SOAP, Java, .NET, JSON, ESBs, WOA won't mean a thing...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Google extends AdSense into video games

Google has injected some legitimacy into the Web-based video game market, announcing a beta launch of AdSense for games. Techmeme In-game advertising isn't new. Many of the more popular games for the big console players have had ads embedded in them for a while. And the feedback...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Video Game, Video, Google AdSense, Games, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

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

Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?

Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?WORTHLESSyou article is worthless. you spew a LIE and others believe you, so you make your livelyhood on a LIE, get a real job, earn honest money,Get a clueThr Russian capitalists want more gov't control, not possible. Remember the oil...

Tags: global warming, government

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack

Student indicted for Palin e-mail hackno luck for youseems your daddy wont be able bail you out of this one. Just remember to bring plenty of vaseline with you in prisonoh boy, is this kid in the crapperThis little jerky-boy is headed for a really miserable experience. Having a...

Tags: Palin, Palin e-mail, e-mail

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

Asteroids+Plus (zip)

Asteroids+Plus is what Asteroids always wanted to be when it grew up. Utilize an arsenal of weapons and missiles against the alien armies that are bent on annihilating Earth. Pick up bonuses and take out asteroids and aliens to increase your score. When you're ready, face the ultimate alien boss...

Tags: Cubex Digital Entertainment, Asteroids+Plus

Software downloads 2008-10-08

I'm well aware what I pay for Google's services

I'm well aware what I pay for Google's servicesI agreeOther than search, I don't use a lot of Google's offerings. But I do use Google Earth. 33 years ago a buddy & I travelled from Montreal to Prince George, BC. where we ended up working in an isolated sawmill for...

Tags: Google Inc., Prince George, mill

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

The HP-MySpace deal: Who needs this most? Not MySpace users.

HP and MySpace are partnering to "unlock the content of MySpace" by giving users the tools to print their pictures. You know, like to a printer. Hopefully, wink wink an HP printer. On the surface, this sounds like a good plan. There are billions of images that...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Photograph, Image, MySpace, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Chicken, egg and mobile open source

Chicken, egg and mobile open sourceExtrapolating from a pointDana, you're looking at this from a very parochial point of view. The carriers only have a say in one country on Earth: the United States, and the US is very very far from leading the mobile space. As in,...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile, mobile open source, carrier, open source

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.Telecommute JobsI see these articles appear every few months. They always talk about how great this concept is, and how it is a great deal for both companies and employees. However, my husband has been contacted by headhunters several hundred times...

Tags: telecommuting

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Blogger ethics, public relations... and you

Two different conversations that are connected at the core by the way the news media continues to grow and change. Bloggers have a significant responsibility in wielding their keystrokes, whether they have 10 readers or 10,000. Public relations professionals are still grappling with how to best work with this new...

Tags: Ethics, Blogger, Public Relations Professional, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...

Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Google is your friend

I know there are those among us who lack my love for all things Google. Sure, it shows our kids ads, keeps track of the searches coming out of our buildings, displays naughty thumbnails that only the best of content filters can block, most kids don't look beyond the...

Tags: Google Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Whisky, Whiskey, and the Semantic Web ?

Whisky, Whiskey, and the Semantic Web ?Shakespeare had it right ...From MacBeth ..."... but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."Such is the substance of...

Tags: Strategy, Semantic Web

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

ZDNet blogger: working from home

More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...

Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?

According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...

Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-04