Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:36 PM/EST
I know a woman of a certain age who is a straight-up bigot -- Archie Bunker with an expensive haircut and a charming Southern accent. She's an avowed homophobe and freely admits that she'd never vote for Obama because...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:18 AM/EST
While you're coming to terms with the fact that your blog stinks, you might want to consider that your social networking effort is lame, too. Thirty-five percent of the online communities studied have less than 100 members; less than...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:08 AM/EST
Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age is an anthology of essays put together by the folks at Personal Democracy Forum. The central theme is using technology to improve government and politics. The writers are...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:43 AM/EST
HP gets into the mobile data center business. I'm not a particularly PC guy -- I'm one of the half-dozen or so people who admits to liking the New Yorker's Obama cover, and I still call mobile homes "mobile...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:40 PM/EST
My hometown of Greensboro, NC, is not one of the smoking craters of the mortage meltdown, nor is it immune to the problems facing the larger economy. It's so much in the mainstream, in fact, that the New York...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:33 AM/EST
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 government is getting involved,...
Monday, July 14, 2008 4:01 PM/EST
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, "the variety...
Monday, July 14, 2008 2:13 PM/EST
Forrester looks at limits to growth for small, medium, and large IT organizations. Below, a chart from the report:...
Monday, July 14, 2008 11:39 AM/EST
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...
Friday, July 11, 2008 10:54 AM/EST
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's government has launched an ambitious...