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- Science, research and the politics of grantmanship
- Seems that science is like every other human endeavor. It's highly political. A study done among scientists asking for money from the National Institute of Health shows blunt political caluclation can alter both the language of the grant application...and the actual subject of the study being...
- Tags: Scientist, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration
- There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an executive vice president and director of research at nGenera Corporation, while Earl and Cash are...
- Tags: Innovation, Enterprise Integration, Morison, Distributed Innovation Group, Leadership, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- New carbon monitoring resources available via the Web
- If one of your near-year-end resolutions is to build out the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions reporting for your company, there are a couple of new resources that have been released in the past week. First off, Sun Microsystems has updated the tools that are available on...
- Tags: Web, Monitoring, Greenhouse Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Preparing for a Flickr Apocalypse (Updated, with Yahoo response)
- What would happen to my food blog and precious memories if suddenly all 12,000 of my photos were suddenly to disappear off Flickr? Tuesday's posts by ZDNet's Janice Chen and SAAS Blogger Phil Wainewright scared the living crap out of...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Blog, Flickr, Photograph, Flickredit, Blogging, Internet, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Free Software Foundation does the right thing for free culture
- The Free Software Foundation's latest version of the GNU Free Documentation License GFDL surprised me a little -- but in a very good way. The FSF has ceded some control and allowed for GFDL content to be re-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. This is a major win...
- Tags: Free Software Foundation, Wikipedia, GNU Free Documentation License, BY-SA, Wiki, Online Communications, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?
- A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?Neato technology, but...I was a nuclear engineer in a former life, so I can make a pretty good guess as to what the technology in these mini-nukes is. Its all very clever, as one could imagine from a product coming out of LANL.However,...
- Tags: reactor, micro nuclear reactor, nuclear reactor, garden, nuclear energy
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- End the open source obsession with Microsoft
- End the open source obsession with MicrosoftM$ must GPL its codeand that will open communication with OSS.So Microsoft doesn't engage in this?[i]That scene did not happen. More likely some mid-level bureaucrat dealing with this particular show decided to show off his or her power.[/i]Most likely it did happen at the...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source obsession, open source, Dana
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?
- The Dynabook. Source: A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages, Alan Kay, XEROX PARC 1968. November 5th, 2008 was the 40th anniversary since computer scientist Alan Kay devised the "Dynabook", a theoretical computing device which was aimed toward higher education and...
- Tags: Device, Student, Alan Kay, Dynabook, E-books, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-09
- Speculation among speculators: what's green under Obama?
- I mean what'll be profitable, that kind of green. The Wall Streeters and those with money to invest are already gaming what sectors of the American economy look to benefit from the shift in the political winds. One piece in an MSM pub says green tech could do...
- Tags: Solar Panel, Government, Transportation, Manufacturing, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-09
- Al Gore's 'Unified Smart Grid' vision for repowering the USA - will it happen?
- This week's Web 2.0 Summit was characterized by some very big picture ideas culminating in final keynote speaker former US vice president Al Gore laying out his vision for a 'Unified National Smart Grid': a new, state of the art integrated electrical infrastructure for the...
- Tags: Web, Vision, Al Gore, Grid, Web 2.0 Summit, Michael Wesch, Web 2.0, Transportation, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- GM, Chrysler, and one specific IT Job
- GM, Chrysler, and one specific IT JobNot just CAFEI think it's more than CAFE, it's also the myriad of safety/crash regulations and other government requirements that the auto makers have to meet that makes it harder. How do you think the WWII jeep would do in a side impact test?...
- Tags: information technology, General Motors Corp., Chrysler LLC, car
- Discussion threads 2008-11-08
- Google-Yahoo deal: Washington doesn't understand us
- Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang made an interesting comment during his appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit this week. When asked what caused the pending ad deal with Google to go south, Yang said - among other things - that Washington doesn't understand our industry. Amen, brother! ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Advertisement, Search Engine, Washington, Yahoo! Inc., Industry, Search, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Obama-mania gives cybercriminal an opening
- Obama-mania gives cybercriminal an openingJust dessertsWe've pulled all our savings out of the stock market in anticipation of the Messiah's tax hikes. This guy is a gifted speaker and a disaster waiting to happen. People lapping up every word are zombies who need to be shocked into reality;...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Investment, Messiah, tax, dessert, stock market
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Google: it's time to get Real
- In my previous post, I alluded to some of the issues that might prevent an average consumer -- "Joe Sixpack", John Q. Public, or Jane Doe from migrating to Linux on the desktop. One of them, without any doubt, is the lack of a way to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Linux, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Google calls it quits on the Yahoo ad deal; Will Microsoft enter the picture?
- Updated: In a move that's not terribly surprising, Google said Wednesday that it is scrapping its search advertising deal with Yahoo. Google's decision puts Yahoo's search business back in play and may bring Microsoft back into the picture. In a blog post, Google announced it was ending...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Palamida offers just the facts on new opportunity
- Palamida offers just the facts on new opportunityFalse Advertising in ZDNet AlertsFrom ZDNet Alerts' "come-on" for this article: "You can then fold licenses for that software into the bundle, finally providing revenue to consumer open source projects."Nothing in your article indicates that Palamida is giving back to open source projects...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, F/OSS, Palamida
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- The candidates on tech
- The candidates on techOBAMA FTW!ntRE: The candidates on techI hate it when the popular press reports on a candidate's voting history. Quite often, the vote went the way it went because there was more to the proposed bill than the simple soundbite that is being thrashed around. Did...
- Tags: Hate Speech
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- The real health care change we need
- The real health care change we needThe HIPAA police are watchingIndeed medicine lacks quite a bit in the adoption of new tech. However, your doctor is quite correct in citing HIPAA as a big part of the problem. Unfortunately HIPAA was designed by, let's say, less technically literate folks and...
- Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, HEALTHCARE, HIPAA, patient, patient information, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Google readying SearchWiki?
- Google readying SearchWiki?I'd use it...I would re-rank search results or add notes if I felt that at some point in the future I may need to perform the same or similar search and want to reference the result that helped me the most.For example, if I expect a search for...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., SearchWiki, Wiki, search result
- Discussion threads 2008-10-26
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