Rebranding via Blogging
It's trendy to speak of politics in terms of branding, with the Republican and conservative brands widely believed to be in need of a tune-up. Hence The Next Right, a blog aimed at helping conservatives re....
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Monday, July 21, 2008 06:07 AM
Friday, July 18, 2008 10:07 AM
The Tail That Wags the Dog
Om Malik says, "even Silicon Valley can't ignore what's been going on in the overall economy." It's an important post. The consumer-spending analysis is not pretty, and it resonates far beyond the tech in....
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 14:07 PM
No Sun in This Cloud
Salesforce.com, long the poster child for Sun Microsystem's software-as-a-service business, is ditching Sun's hardware and Solaris software for machines from Dell running the Linux operating system. The R....
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 09:07 AM
Title IX and IT Diversity
One of the root causes of the gender imbalance in IT -- a major workplace diversity issue -- is understood to be the relatively low interest in certain sciences by female students. Now the federal governme....
Monday, July 14, 2008 16:07 PM
In Which I Fail to Avoid Writing About the iPhone
I was trying to make it through the day without mentioning the iPhone, but a few items jumped out at me through the swirling ticker-tape -- things that are relevant to corporate IT. As Clint Boulton says,....
Monday, July 14, 2008 14:07 PM
Social Nets in the Enterprise
If this snippet of conversation about social nets for the enterprise leaves you wanting more...you can get more from this article.
Monday, July 14, 2008 14:07 PM
Constraints on IT Growth
Forrester looks at limits to growth for small, medium, and large IT organizations. Below, a chart from the report:
Monday, July 14, 2008 11:07 AM
Evolutionary Dead-ends: Le Minitel
So it's Bastille Day, and that got me thinking about the Minitel -- the French teletext system that seemed so cool back in the pre-web era. When my wife and I moved to Paris in 1989, the Minitel was in fu....
Monday, July 14, 2008 10:07 AM
IT Gets 2.0 Clue
Forrester says IT departments were slow to the Web 2.0 party, but they're catching up: "Budgetary controls, the need for integration and technical skills, and the growing importance of Web 2.0 tools are al....
Friday, July 11, 2008 10:07 AM
National Tech Policy
As mentioned in this column, the US lacks a serious technology policy and continues to face a digital divide in terms of broadband access. Looks like we could learn something from the Aussies: Australia'....
Friday, July 11, 2008 08:07 AM
Boys Club
"The number of women chief executives at Silicon Valley's biggest technology companies dropped to zero this week, with the abrupt departure of VMware's Diane Greene from the company she co-founded 10 years....
Thursday, July 10, 2008 17:07 PM
Technotopian No More
My report from the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum: "The mood, while hopeful, reflected some realities too often overlooked in the first blush of love between policy wonks and geeks."
Thursday, July 10, 2008 15:07 PM
WWGD?
What Would Google Do? That's what Jeff Jarvis wonders as he looks at a variety of businesses and industries, and it's the title of a book he's writing. Some of his thoughts along the way can be found at ....
Thursday, July 10, 2008 14:07 PM
Tails Have It
Another commentary on the Long Tail (Or Not) question. I hesitate to argue with anyone who so insouciantly tosses around concepts like McPhee's theory of exposure, but I did feel that the critique overthi....
Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:07 AM
Photoshopaganda
Back in the old days of the Soviet Union, people who fell out of favor with the Party bosses were airbrushed out of official photographs. Tools and technologies change, but the urge to edit pictures is tim....