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- Web Usability experts not appreciating in value
- Jakob Nielsen, usable information technology analyst, has taken a look at “Salary Trends for Usability Professionals" over the past seven years. Here are his findings:Entry-level staffers were paid unrealistically high salaries during the bubble, when dot-com companies were desperate to hire any warm body that walked in the doorExperienced staffers...
- Tags: Web, salary, staffer
- Blog posts 2006-06-09
- Open Internet advocates poised between elation and despair
- There is a strange bipolar aspect to the Freedom2Connect conference. Everyone seems poised between elation and despair. DeWayne Hendricks was among those who offered the elation. Like folks such as Dave Hughes 20 years ago he doesn't complain about what can't be done, he just goes out and does it....
- Tags: FCC, staffer, Dewayne Hendricks, elation, despair
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- Blocking IP addresses
- This is truly hard to believe unless you are a fan of Dave Barry. Congressional staffers have discovered the Internet! They must have read about the abuses possible at Wikipedia and investigated. They quickly found that they could anonymously alter entries on their congress people. They immediately began to...
- Tags: Wiki, staffer, Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-01-31
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- 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'
- 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'Dang. He and Al Gore must have the same speech writer...:D :D :D :D :DI don't think so....RIM is a Canadian company, and all Canadians know that it was, in fact, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who coincidently was also Conservative who helped invent the...
- Tags: Handhelds, John McCain, RIM BlackBerry, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'
- A fabulous little story posted to Comcast explains how one misguided adviser (exactly who is he advising?) for Republican presidential nominee John McCain claims that the dear senator helped create RIM's popular tap-tapping device, you know, in like, a really indirect way: At...
- Tags: John McCain, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Investment, Hardware, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Sen. to carriers: Why do text messages cost $1,300 per meg?
- Did you see CrunchGear on AT&T's text charges? I found it via Ars It seems at 20 cents per message, AT&T is charging $1,310.72 per megabyte at those rates. The rising rates for texting prompted Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) to write a letter...
- Tags: Text Messaging, Carrier, Ars, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Second guessing at 3AM
- Second guessing at 3AMIt's 3 AM...A crisis is happening somewhere in the world. It's 3 AM, and a phone is ringing at the White House. Who do you want answering that phone?...Couldn't resist. :)hey murph here a conceptDeep down inside what your guts telling you.This morning when you...
- Tags: Roman
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Fixing McCain's techno-ignorance
- Fixing McCain's techno-ignorancere: Fixing McCain’s techno-ignoranceHere's how most busy CEO's/Congressmen use the internet:1) On cell phone or desk phone hit speed dial for secretary or staffer.2) Hey I need details on this along with a summary on this, please have it on my desk in the morning.CEO/Congressman...
- Tags: INTERNET, techno-ignorance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-03
- Helpdesks and productivity
- Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...
- Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Do Congressmen's charges of Chinese hacking hold water?
- InfoWorld notes that the congressmen who claimed China hacked their computers probably have scant evidence of the charges. "It's so very hard to conclude that something came from someplace if all you're going from is an IP address," said Marcus Sachs, director of the SANS Internet Storm...
- Tags: Hacking, Evidence, Charge, Computer, Productivity, Internet, Keyboards, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- A look at Obama's IT strategy: The Facebook connection and the scale challenge
- Barack Obama has sealed the Democratic party nomination with the help of social networking, a Facebook staffer and an off-the-shelf IT strategy. Those are some of the takeaways from a case study by David Carr at CIOZone, a site started by a bunch of my former Baseline...
- Tags: Strategy, Facebook, Phone, Information Technology, Volunteer, Barack Obama, David Carr, Hughes, Productivity, Social Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- IT politics killed White House email project
- Data archiving in the White House is a serious business mandated by the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which was passed following the Watergate scandal. The Act requires the White House to maintain an historical archive of its activities, policies, and decisions. Despite...
- Tags: Information Technology, White House, Act, E-mail, Online Communications, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Questioning IT
- Questioning IT This is the 14th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. This section is concerned with things you should talk to your CIO about - informally, but with attention. Topic one: disaster avoidance Basically...
- Tags: CIO, Data Center, Information Technology, Credit Card, Clustering, Membership Database, Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- No Government rules on packet throttling, blocking, colleague says on Capitol Hill
- Colleague George Ou, who is not a proponent of most net neutrality regulations, stated his opinions before a Congressional staffer-panel on Network Management sponsored by iGrowthGlobal. That outfit, whose board is full of board members who have served in a similar capacity on...
- Tags: Network, Wireless Network, Network Management, Networking, Government, Network Administration, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- War of words over alleged Firefox vulnerability
- Researcher Ronald van den Heetkamp claimed that he had found a Firefox flaw just a few hours after Mozilla released its 2.0.0.12 update that patched a series of vulnerabilities. Mike Shaver, a Mozilla security staffer, begged to differ and said van den Heetkamp is dead wrong. On...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Vulnerability, Mozilla Corp., Van Den, Heetkamp, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- California court bars unmasking of Web critic
- California court bars unmasking of Web criticWell, as long as no financial or personal harm can come froman anonymous posters claims and words (that an anonymous post isn't given any weight by those who read or hear of it because of the anonymous nature of the information given), I can...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Channel management, SECURITY, Libel, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Specialist Recruiter and Staffer Simplifies IT With Virtual Solution and Reduces Administration by 30 Per Cent
- Expectra Group, a leading recruitment and staffing agency in Belgium, needed to ensure increased availability for its employees. This would help ensure that its clients and candidates received the best possible services. The IT team searched for a new server and storage environment that would simplify server administration and create...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Administration, Server, Team Management, Workforce Management, Strategy, Management, Human Resources
- Case studies 2008-02-06
- Picking the right IT: Are some risks worth taking?
- Challenge: pick the right information architecture for a 10 to 15 FTE research foundation. The operating budget runs around two million per year, the mandate is to hand out about one hundred million per year in health care related research grants, the scope is nominally worldwide with preference given to...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Director, Office, George, Paul, Development Officer, Government, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- More on the MacBook Air battery
- One of the highlights of Macworld Expo 2008 for me is the MacBook Air. It's the machine that I've been asking for for about 10 years. After taking a look at it on the show floor, one thing that stands out is the fixed (i.e. non removable) battery. Could anything...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Battery, Apple MacBook, Engineering, MBA, Apple Inc., Woe
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'
- When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...
- Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
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