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Modern maladies: I have the attention span of a gnat

Modern maladies: I have the attention span of a gnatCompelling ??? Really ???Last I checked, it's called "impulse control". To be honest, I can't say there's any significant amount of online content that is sufficiently compelling that I need to deal with it instead of other things due...

Tags: malady, attention span

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Today's Debate: How much power to patients?

Sometimes, watching TV, I feel like I'm back in the late-19th century heyday of patent medicines. (Picture from the McCord Museum in Canada.)Whole cable channels are held aloft by phony treatments for impotence, hair loss, fatty thighs, wrinkles, and some maladies which seem wholly invented. Restless Leg Syndrome?Now, with the...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Dana Blankenhorn, patient, patent medicine, health care, malady

Blog posts 2007-08-22

This is one of several maladies of Internet 2.0 . . .

This is one of several maladies of Internet 2.0 . . .ConfirmedYes Tom - I've seen that happen time and again. I'd hazard the chatter moves on so quickly now there might be another factor - boredom. Get bored, move on. Next new shiny discussion topic turns up? Forget the...

Tags: Internet 2.0, malady, Internet

Discussion threads 2007-08-09

Additional Resources

Does seeing a chiropractor make me bad?

Does seeing a chiropractor make me bad?No...it doesn't make you bad...maybe a little foolish, however.As one who just about has his Orthopedist on retainer, Chiropractors are not a group I care to use. They do not cure/fix a problem, they just alleviate pain. Not a bad thing mind you, but...

Tags: chiropractor

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

UML: Panacea or Malady?

One already knows that the Unified Modeling Language UML is not perfect; but, how far does its imperfection go? This paper tries to answer that question; by extracting the work of different investigators who disclose and study defects in UML, it finds serious imperfections in the whole. In the end,...

Tags: Modeling, UML, Research & Development, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Business Operations

White papers 2008-09-01

The #1 reason IT often fails to deliver value

The #1 reason IT often fails to deliver valueI can't believe you would try to blame...IT failures on anyone other than IT staff. You sound like someone who isn't man enough to suck it up and take the blame for your own short comings. Blaming top executives for your...

Tags: Strategy, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Zune VideoX: Microsoft's iTunes killer?

Zune VideoX: Microsoft's iTunes killer?yawn...yet another itunes/ipod killer, doomed to be more blood on Apple iPod's Click Wheel.This Zune owners patience is wearing thinI'm getting a bit impatient for the Zune offerings in come along. I want television, movies, more artist and a way to put podcast into playlists. If...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Zune, Zune VideoX, Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Is Linux breaking Microsoft's grip?

Is Linux breaking Microsoft's grip?And yet Linux still snores loudly on the sidelineswow.You'd think that with this kind of opportunity ripe, literally falling from the branch in over-ripeness, the Linux community would band together to get some designers to make a really clean and friendly interface.If Apple, a smallish company...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

Virtual doctors still a long way off

Virtual doctors still a long way offWhat is a real timeframeDemand, obviously, to weigh it, though by 2010 a third of the U.S. will take the role as a caregiver according to this report reviewing features/options in tech mentioned:http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/careers/worknews2/071104ccCareersTechmain.2f0975ea0.htmlWhere is the virtual doctor to help real health pros?Why haven't the...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, virtual doctor, health care, flu

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

We live in the conversation age and not the thinking age

Internet 1.0 was about the information age, now with Internet 2.0, we live in the conversation age. Conversation overload is our new malady, in the same way information overload tortured us ten years ago. Now we have both. Our communications technologies and numerous platforms...

Tags: Conversation, Portland, Site, Serendipity, Entrepreneurship, Internet, E-mail, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Don't take your iPhone to a hot yoga class?

Don't take your iPhone to a hot yoga class?Just iphones?Or is this common to all LiIon batteries?RE: Don't take your iPhone to a hot yoga class?All batteries are essentially chemical reactions that create electrons and EMF. Most chemical reactions double for every 10C of temperature and there will be a...

Tags: Engineering, capacity loss, battery, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2007-12-26

Bill to add emails to sex registry

Bill to add emails to sex registryWhat a brilliant thought out law...I can see it now, all the sex offenders registering "ALL" of their email address's on the site, since they are such law abiding citizens already. Oh wait they are convicted criminals who already have broken more serious laws,...

Tags: Sex Offenders, sex registry, e-mail

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

Drowning in an information sea

According to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, fantasy may be in the process of beating reality in the battle of ideas. In a survey of YouTube viewers of videos relating to information about immunization, videos with negative depiction of the practice (and which...

Tags: Food, Meat, Internet, Video, Survey, Reality, Dairy, Corporate Communications, Government, Food & Beverage, Marketing Research, Marketing, Manufacturing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-12-06

Nancy Drew : Curse of Blackmoor Manor 1 (Windows)

All is not well in Blackmoor Manor, a Fourteenth Century English mansion haunted by a tragic past. You, as Nancy Drew, embark on your first international adventure to visit Linda Penvellyn, your neighbor's daughter and newlywed wife of a British diplomat. A mysterious malady keeps Linda hidden behind thick bed...

Tags: Modems, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-02-11

NCR Exits the Data Warehouse Market: See You Later, Teradater?

NCR Exits the Data Warehouse Market: See You Later, Teradater?Study data warehouses more before slamming market leadersThis BLog is a 100% inaccurate prediction with no substantiating facts. Sun has tried unsuccessfully multiple times to get into DW. GreenPlum is one of a long series of start ups that has...

Tags: Business intelligence, Storage, Databases, GreenPlum, NCR Corp., Gartner Inc., data warehouse

Discussion threads 2007-01-18

The mashup metropolis of Mumbai - part III of my travels around India -

[This is an account of my first trip to India,  traveling as a guest of Tibco Software, an SVW sponsor.]We leave for Delhi airport to travel by small chartered jet to Mumbai, also known by its Portuguese name Bombay, India's most populous city with 19m residents. The security at the Delhi...

Tags: Delhi

Blog posts 2006-11-02

Poll: What technology scares you most?

Poll: What technology scares you most?Everything from MSSorry M$ fanboys.I couldn't resist another fork in the dead-before-it-launches M$ Vista cash cow.now lets move on ...What scares me?Technology that can cause "mass destruction". Bio-Virus-weapons, Nuclear bombs, & SUVs/cars.For more info see:"Planet Under Pressure" a six-part BBC News Online series looking...

Tags: Cellular phones, Cell phone owner, cell phone, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-31

Trial software trying PC users' patience

Trial software trying PC users' patienceor just don't install the ...xploit/plague - that way the software won't run. install Linux, i'd say:-).However...You're underestimating the stupidity of the average end-user. Think about it: 80% of the people that get a bundled PC with "the works" don't even know what's on their...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Linux, Business Class, Trial Software, Microsoft Windows, Business class PC

Discussion threads 2006-05-31

Industry wants girls to stick to knitting

Industry wants girls to stick to knittingMaybe....Maybe there are some real reasons other than the supposition that it's gender discrimination:a) It is a known fact that women are more emotional than men. This is not bad, but can inherently make them better at some things than men, and not...

Tags: Eastman Kodak Co., PC industry, women

Discussion threads 2006-03-13

Nakedness, overload and other maladies of the Conversation Age

Last week I was speaking on a couple of panels at the New Communications Forum in Palo Alto, about journalism and about new media business models. This is a fun conference with many familiar faces and it always seems to end too quickly (and we've not even scratched the surface!).This...

Tags: INTERNET, blogging

Blog posts 2006-03-06