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		<title><![CDATA[Fatal Attractions: technology, judgement, and the big four]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=920]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Arthur Andersen's destruction in the aftermath of the Enron debacle, people have been wondering when the remaining big four accounting firms will become the big two or three, and why.Since 1980 six of the then top ten firms worldwide have disappeared - four of them through mergers, one...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:15:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/it+retardants.html"><![CDATA[IT Retardants]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sharpening that personal productivity axe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=919]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you will remember we had an extensive discussion here last week about my belief that externally imposed work processes ultimately lead to standardised ways of thinking about those work processes. Kind of a Nixonian thing: grab them by their work processes, and pretty soon their hearts and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:15:08 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Captain Cyborg and the Problem of Evil]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=908]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[(This is a re-run, from Dec 16/05.)While looking at a problem related to archiving thousands of project proposals and reports for a large IT consulting firm I was struck by the ease with which these could be classified into two strongly differentiated groups: those based on clerical or other worker...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:15:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Things we need to learn more about]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=865]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Things we need to learn more aboutIf you were asked to list the top five things you think are important for IT but which you don't understand and for which there's no obvious research base you can tap into, what would they be? Here's my list: 1 - the impact...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 21:10:42 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/general.html"><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Failing to cross the great divide]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=863]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  Last weeks series on the tendency of political and technological  groups to barricade themselves among their friends drew  this  example - by "defconvegas" in reply to  "Mactels carbon footprint"   I wonder who came up with ACP and ACPI    ACP...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 05:30:27 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/general.html"><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/media+bias%252fincompetence.html"><![CDATA[Media bias/incompetence]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[MacTel's carbon footprint]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=859]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  Heres the "Future" paragraph from an open letter,  signed by Steve Jobs    and posted on Apples site on May 2nd,  discussing steps Apple has taken, or is taking,  to develop and hold a green advantage over competitors including  HP and Dell....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 00:15:51 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/unanswered+questions.html"><![CDATA[Unanswered questions]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Linux is not Windows Lite]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=858]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the title of the article I cited yesterday:   Ubuntu  Linux Vs. Windows Vista: The Battle For Your Desktop? Theres a pair  of assumptions embedded in there that tell us a lot about whats holding Linux back.    The surface assumption is that ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 00:15:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/linux.html"><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[The great divide]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=857]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  A few weeks ago,   Serdar Yegulalp wrote a long article for  Information week  under the title   Ubuntu  Linux Vs. Windows Vista: The Battle For Your Desktop.    Heres the teaser:     Is Linux finally ready to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 00:15:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fear and loathing in the Internet echo chamber]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=856]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  Ever since Leon Festinger first formulated his theory of cognitive  dissonance people have, usually reluctantly, accepted the reality  that we seek out information confirming our beliefs while  actively avoiding contrary information.    The obvious lesson for people who are aware of this is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 00:15:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Failing to cross the great divide]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=862]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  Last weeks series on the tendency of political and technological  groups to barricade themselves among their friends drew  this  example - by "defconvegas" in reply to  "Mactels carbon footprint"     I wonder who came up with ACP and ACPI  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/general.html"><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[On re-inventing the internet]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=843]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  Last week a story by Anick Jesdanun made the rounds of, according to google, 211 nominally  separate news sources under the general title Reinventing the Internet.  The opening paragraphs;  quoted here from the  Kansas City Star:     Although it has taken...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:15:44 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/general.html"><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[A stray thought about the missing Ux86]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=841]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In a conversation last week, ZDnets senior editor, David Berlind, asked me  what would constitute an exciting development for x86 - and I didnt have   a thought to offer.    But that was then, and now? consider that  nobody makes and sells an x86...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:15:51 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/unanswered+questions.html"><![CDATA[Unanswered questions]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Raising a doubt]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=839]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  The whole Wintel industry has a security problem you never hear about - in fact, one reason  neither Microsoft nor Intel has ever seriously attacked the PC security problem may be that  the continuing public uproar over their visible failures both sells product and obscures ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:15:10 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/unanswered+questions.html"><![CDATA[Unanswered questions]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Intel's 80 core CPU that isn't]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=801]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Heres a bit from the EETimes report:   Intels researchers have produced an 80-core chip that uses less energy than a quad-core processor and has teraflop performance capabilities.  Researchers have built the prototype to study how best to make that many cores communicate with each other. Theyre...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:15:28 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/general.html"><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=737]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ I need your help in doing a simple experiment - and yes, Ill report the results here.  The purpose of the thing is to see whether there are grounds for believing that a more controlled experiment would reveal systemic differences in information comprehension and retention depending on whether...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:15:09 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/general.html"><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[The PDA of my desiring]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=733]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ive been looking for a car phone to replace the antique I have because the phone companies claim that it wont work properly with their networks. As it happens that isnt true; what theyre really concerned about is bringing all of their installed base to the same technology as a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:15:04 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/general.html"><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Computers in Education]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=732]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ive been trying to understand what role computers could play in education - and Ive come up with a couple of answers Id like to try out on you.  There seem to be two main functions that are applicable across almost all educational levels - the exceptions being pre-kindergarten...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:17:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Unanswered questions: Bill Gates, programmer?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11202-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=23204&messageID=439658&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Unanswered questions: Bill Gates, programmer?Unanswered questions.....With the way you are trying to justify your comments it sems there is a little bit of Gates envy around!! Isn't opportunism the essence of capitalism? and arent those people who make the opportunities considered to be great businessmen?Winners write historyI have no first...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:01:00 -0700</pubDate>
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