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Whispers will not kill fair use

Whispers will not kill fair useDon't discount the power of briberyThe amount of money and influence poured into Congressional coffers by the media cartel is huge. Add to that the fact that both elected officials and bureaucrats suffer from "star worship" as the general populace. Just look at the Hilary...

Tags: Government, GWB, fair use, international law, epitome, indifference

Discussion threads 2008-04-10

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Inappropriate Performance Review Phrases (We'd All Like to Use)

The toughest performance reviews are the ones for the most troubling of employees. How do you capture their ineptitude, indifference or incompetence in a pithy, to-the-point phrase? Read on... by Brian Sommer

Tags: Performance, Performance Review, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-11-17

Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon

Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....

Tags: Google Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

For your safety and convenience

Somewhere deep in Shaw's vault there's a tape of me screaming at a customer "support" representative that I didn't (and still don't) give a star blank star about his script, booting and cabling have nothing to do with the issue because I don't have wintel, and to get his supervisor...

Tags: Tape, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-09-05

Condemning what the market does worse

Agree, but unfair comparisonI do agree with most of what you are saying, but feel compelled to take issue with the following:You said "Few deny the Obama Administration has mangled the health care debate. On my personal blog I have compared this to how the Bush Administration handled Hurricane Katrina."The...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, government, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Microhoo lessons for open source

Microhoo lessons for open sourceThe truth is UGLY!... and it hurts!Sob, sniffle, wimper, wimper ....LOL....I think you summed it all up when you mentioned..."corporate open source backers"IMO thats NOT open source. Those are the companies striving to make money from the concept. Now you'll have all the NBM'er Microbrains running...

Tags: F/OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Signs of iPhone growing pains at Apple's WWDC?

Signs of iPhone growing pains at Apple's WWDC?RE: Signs of iPhone growing pains at Apple's WWDC?I understand the angst and I was at WWDC. But as someone who used to attend the Apple WWDC every year back in the 1990's before the Taligent, Pink, strategy of the year events that...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., WWDC, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors

Ed Whitacre, who built SBC, one of the babies Bell, back into "The New AT&T" has been tapped by the Obama Administration's auto task force to be chairman of the "reinvented General Motors." Seriously. Think about that. AT&T is the template for...

Tags: Board, AT&T Corp., General Motors Corp., Whitacre, Whiteacre, Corporate Governance, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-09

The Cisco surrender to open source

The Cisco surrender to open sourcei4i is open source - says who?I don't think the i4i case has anything to do with open source.Microsoft violated an i4i patent around a standard XML format. It wasn't even an 'open' format.Microsoft and i4i.Embrace, extend,... OUCH!RE: The Cisco surrender to open sourceIt all...

Tags: i4i, open source, Cisco Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-22

It's all downhill for Twitter, politics from here

This week, "tax protesters" gathered across America to dump bagged tea into symbolic bodies of non-potable water and Ashton Kutcher challenged CNN to a Twitter follower showdown. I admire anyone who takes to the streets for their ideas and recognize the power of media, even when it is lowered to...

Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Twitter, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-04-17

Conficker tracking - all's quiet, so far

Conficker tracking - all's quiet, so farInteresting...... since the amount of spam I've received today is much greater than it has been in the past. Somebody has ramped up the effort on the bad guys' side.RE: Conficker tracking - all's quiet, so farHrmmm well no duh! Did you...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Linux, E-mail, Viruses and worms, Conficker, quiet, computer

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Hooray, 2009 starts with a SaaS backlash

After years of indifference to SaaS, the conventional software world has suddenly woken up to the threat and started attacking it in the hope it will all go away. As 2009 begins, the anti-SaaS chorus scales to ever more frenetic notes. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-01-12

Key Economic Indicator: Homeless in San Francisco Feeling the Strain This Holiday Season

Key Economic Indicator: Homeless in San Francisco Feeling the Strain This Holiday SeasonThanks for the attentionAlong with a growing community of others, I appreciate any attention the world has with the scope of homelessness. I'm trying to get out of its crazy-making mess, with few opportunities to escape (having done...

Tags: Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, San Francisco Feeling

Discussion threads 2008-12-23

MacBooks: World's greenest family of notebooks

MacBooks: World's greenest family of notebooksIncredible MarketingIt's always interesting to see Apple take something common and then take ownership of it. Other companies have been adjusting their manufacturing process and have quietly been rated "greener" than Apple. But Apple puts it in their slideshow and commercials and then suddenly all...

Tags: Notebooks, notebook, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

SAP's forced march may be good news

SAP's forced march may be good newscreative dialogue neededNice post, Dennis. I have written on the SAP maintenance flap before and I feel like I may be a broken record on this issue. Dennis, you have a done a good job in your posts of highlighting what SAP can do...

Tags: Straight Talk, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2008-10-15

Perens new crusade is patent law

Perens new crusade is patent lawBull, there is no lack of innovation.True, open source is not free to take others ideas but that is how it should be. Face it, open source is nothing but knock off copies of propriatary. Sorry but thats just how it is.As to...

Tags: Leadership, OPEN SOURCE, Software intellectual property, New software product, new crusade, Perens, crusade, patent law, patent, innovation

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to veto

Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to vetoGee...What a surprise that a bunch of compromised congresscritters pass another attack on the People with the backing of the "Copyright Alliance". (read, BSA, MPAA, RIAA, MS, Time Warner, Disney...)It's good that Bush will veto it. Even though he's only doing it...

Tags: Blogging, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Bush, Pro-IP, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

IT Analysis - iPhone, YouTube, We Manage

Information technology now plays such a large part in people's lives that its emotional impact in the workplace has drifted through a feeling of imposition and indifference and arrived at one of desire. Recently thousands queued to be the first to receive a new Apple iPhone, with Apple claiming over...

Tags: Quocirca, Apple iPhone, Information Technology, YouTube Inc., Video Download, Corporate Communications, Marketing

White papers 2008-08-01

NY gov signs game bill into law

NY gov signs game bill into law"A bill that will have made it illegal"????Wow.RE: NY gov signs game bill into lawThe panel needs to include parents - real parents who have to deal with these games, the consoles, how the game developers create games that force a child to keep...

Tags: Games, gaming industry, game

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...

Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23