This year Davos will focus on ‘Leadership’ as an important issue, worthy of attention from the great and the good who will be meeting at this annual event of global significance. Presumably this theme was chosen for the no-doubt important role it...
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What does externalisation really mean?
There’s a famous Douglas Adams quote along the lines of ‘Technology's a word that describes something that doesn't quite work yet’. For me, it’s been one of those quotes that was nice and gentle on the mind at first and then has proceeded to...
Read moreTwitter the new ‘black swan’, or is it what it tells us about how we work?
There has been a lot of comment about Twitter over the last few months with, as ever, opinions sharply split. On the negative side it has been described as a passing fad, something for school kinds, etc, whilst on the positive side there has been...
Read moreWe have Ataris and we are not afraid to use them
What happens when graduates come into their first jobs and find that the IT facilities at the office are an anachronism? What do you get when business users know exactly what innovative technologies can deliver and still get a ‘no’ from the IT...
Read more.tel – the new Web domain that changes the rules
Back in August 2008 I posted a blog post about IPv6 entitled of ‘the fallacy of separating Web development from IPv6’ pointing out that we needed the capabilities of IPv6 in other ways than just because we were apparently running out of IPv4...
Read moreYou've Got Mail. Almost.
I have been arguing before why I think now is exactly the right time for a more careful, considerate approach to information technology. There are many arguments, many pros and cons, lots of blog-items to write. But every now and then, you bump into...
Read moreCES and MacWorld are unexciting, or is that the real point?
Bit of a strange piece, based on disappointment rather than reflective realisation of maybe this is a turning point. Two big shows in the same week; the Consumer Electronics Show, CES, in Las Vegas and MacWorld in San Francisco should have brought...
Read moreInnovation is dead; long live cost cutting!
A stupid headline, if for no other reason than innovation also applies to cost cutting, but unfortunately it is the kind of statement that is around currently as we once again face a recession. I say again because the current conditions are...
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