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Traffic to presidential candidate Web sites in September 2008

Site August 2008 September 2008 MTM Growth BarackObama.com 6,070 7,934 31% JohnMcCain.com 2,686 4,202 56% Source: Nielsen by NB

Tags: Web, Presidential Candidate, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George Bush

Does Joe Biden have more in common with Metallica's Lars Ulrich than Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg? CNET colleague Declan McCullagh has a superb analysis of Dem. vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has an interesting (read: depressing) voting history when it comes to tech issues. ...

Tags: George W. Bush, Declan McCullagh, Digital-rights Management, Presidential Candidate, RIAA, Vice, Encryption, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Federal Government, Professional Development, Peer To Peer (P2P), Security, Government, Career, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Presidential candidates: Take a data integrity and transparency pledge

Presidential candidates: Take a data integrity and transparency pledgeI predict an Egyptian presidentFor eight years---Executive Privilege and National Security.Are just two reasons why such pledges are ridiculous. While you may think you need to know everything that transpires in the Whitehouse it is not an unalienable right.RE: Presidential candidates:...

Tags: E-mail, Vertical industries, transparency, Presidential Candidate, data integrity, government

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

In the context of their campaigns, Presidential candidates will need to come to grips with Web 2.0

In the context of their campaigns, Presidential candidates will need to come to grips with Web 2.0You missed option 4: Consider the SourceThis works better than the badminton flogging of back and forth conventional thinking that passes for insight in many blogs.Consume? Produce? Shaking head - someone's believing...

Tags: Channel management, Web 2.0, Presidential Candidate, Web

Discussion threads 2007-03-21

Additional Resources

Electronic voting: Changing the world faster than a Windows upgrade

no encryption is good enough...Considering the power the US President has to shape US and World Policy, I think EVERYONE will be gunning to crack that nut.Enemies will try to get the worst/weakest candidate. Allies will try to get the guy who most loves them into power. Business...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Windows, e-voting, Windows Upgrade, Changing

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion

Dell says it has agreed to buy the IT services company Perot Systems for about $3.9 billion as it looks to expand beyond the PC business. The Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said Monday that it will offer $30 per share in cash for Perot, which is based...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Perot Systems Corp., It Services, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable?

AppleTV only called a hobby after its dismal failureTo be sure, Apple did [b]not[/b] call AppleTV a "hobby" when they released it. It was only after they released the dismal sales figures for this piece of garbage that they "apologized" by calling it a hobby.You know what Apple should do...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Web, TV, Apple Inc., cable, Apple TV

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Modern threats to American liberty

Cash, currency and coins, is a store of value. In the US, "legal tender for all debts, public and private." Carry too much of it though and you are marked for suspicion (per the Wall Street Journal]: Steven Bierfeldt, treasurer for the Campaign for Liberty, a political...

Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Transportation Security Administration, Government, ATM, Policies And Procedures, Storage, Internet, Networking, Human Resources, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-07-04

GOP to go with McCain plan

GOP to go with McCain planMcCain was defeated, not his health care planWhile it's become commonplace for pundits to treat electoral defeat as the equivalent of personal repudiation and the rejection of everything the candidate stands for, that is not and never has been the case. If it were,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

Dean at critical point in health reform debate

The former Vermont Governor, Presidential candidate and Democratic National Committee chair has gone back to his roots, using his status as a doctor, and his original campaign organization, to push for a "public option" in health reform. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Howard Dean, Health Care, Insurance Industry, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-27

Federal CIO on leave following FBI sting at DC offices

Federal CIO on leave following FBI sting at DC officesI Obama'd the story votes for ya!"Kundra... has not been linked to the raid,"Is that your definition of "busted"?is this 'change'?only days after taking office the apointee was busted.We'll see what the story is in due course......but looks like President Obama...

Tags: Federal government, FBI

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

So how did it go? Debriefing the inauguration

So how did it go? Debriefing the inaugurationI listened on the radioI've always found video to be distracting when I'm trying to work, but I agree that this should have been playing in US government and history classes throughout the US, not because a particular president was being sworn in,...

Tags: CBS Corp., inauguration, ceremony, Webcast

Discussion threads 2009-01-20

News to know: Obama's inauguration streaming; Windows 7; Google; RIM

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Where to watch Obama's presidential inauguration online Jennifer Leggio: Inauguration 2009: Can social networks handle it? ...

Tags: Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Obama, Dan Lyons, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Forget MacWorld and the keynote. Jobs as Obama's CTO? No.

So Mike Contaxis at MacSoda had the "real reason" why Steve Jobs was not going to give the keynote today at MacWorld. This was before Jobs' disclosure of the "hormonal imbalance" that his medical team has determined is leading him to lose weight. Jobs is set to...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, CTO, Macworld, Obama, Internet, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-06

What really happened to the candidates' computers?

What really happened to the candidates' computers?War Games"Shall we play a game?"RE: What really happened to the candidates' computers?Where's Matthew Broderick when we need him? Oh that's right he's driving a classic ferrari down S. Wacker drive in Chicago.-SRE: What really happened to the candidates' computers?the Men in Black.....

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Spear-phishing, computer

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

Obama faces BlackBerry withdrawal

Despite being a class-A CrackBerry addict, Barack Obama will likely be forced to go cold turkey from email when he takes office, The Times' Jeff Zeleney reports. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official...

Tags: President, RIM BlackBerry, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-15

Press "Upload" on that Video: "Point Is Not To Bust People,'' Says NBC

The point is to actually make fair use  -- fair and creative use -- use of someone's professionally produced content, if you're going to post a video online. The executive vice president and general counsel of NBC Universal, Rick Cotton, this afternoon said that 99 percent of...

Tags: Corporate Communications, Marketing, NBC Universal Inc., Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Video, YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2008-11-12

10 candidates who could become Obama's CTO

As a presidential candidate, part of Barack Obama's technology policy platform included hiring the U.S. government's first chief technology officer CTO. If Obama follows through on this, who is likely to get the job? Here are 10 top candidates. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Candidate, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jason Hiner, Chief Technology Officer, Padmasree Warrior Warrior, Vint Cerf Cerf, Leadership, Internet, Management

Blog posts 2008-11-10

If SOA were an issue in this week's presidential election...

Quote of the week: (Great hypothetical of a presidential candidate's stand on REST...)  "So the good folks of America need to know more about this so-called REST architectural style. Who is REST, and why does he want to hurt Joe the Systems Integrator? REST...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Taxes, Free Trade, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-11-07

Who will be the nation's CTO?

John Doerr left and John Heilemann at Web 2.0 At the Web 2.0 conference, Kleiner-Perkins VC John Doerr recommended Sun cofounder Bill Joy or tech gadfly Danny Hillis for the position of the nation's chief technology officer, News.com's Rafe Needlman reports. On...

Tags: Job, Chief Technology Officer, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Web 2.0, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-06