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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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,....
If this snippet of conversation about social nets for the enterprise leaves you wanting more...you can get more from this article.
Forrester looks at limits to growth for small, medium, and large IT organizations. Below, a chart from the report:
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....
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....
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'....
"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....
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."
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 ....
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....
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....