digitaleconomy.gc.ca
May 12th
Canada’s Digital Economy Strategy is now open for public consultation, go to digitaleconomy.gc.ca . If you have strong opinions on IT and the future of Canada, now is the time to speak. There are 5 areas of discussion:
Innovation using Digital Technologies
Digital Infrastructure
Growing the ICT Industry
Canada’s Digital Content
Building Digital Skills
Why read blogs?
May 8th
Just finished reading and excellent bog on “Why Blog” and it’s a shame that ITW’s Blog Idol 2010 is coming to an end, nonetheless I thought I’d toss in my 2 cents on why I think people should read blogs. Personally I think there are 3 primary reasons, these are:
1. To learn. If you are [...]
Why blog?
May 7th
I’ve been thinking about what motivates people leave comments on blog posts or Internet articles. Chris Lau commented on one of his own posts that comments only correspond to about 0.5% of page views. In my comments I mentioned that a panelist in the referenced video noted that people who comment are non-representative of the [...]
Book review: True names and eternal questions: Vernor Vinge and the cyberspace frontier
May 6th
This book contains “True names”, a novella by Vernor Vinge, and nine essays on deep political and technological issues underlying the novella. As it often happens with true artists, Vinge, who published his story in 1981, predicted a lot of problems that we face today. He was the first to describe cyberspace (although the actual [...]
Blogging Idle – Year 3 Fades to Black
May 6th
Ok. There’s still tomorrow before the Blog Idol contest officially closes, but I’m not sure I’ll be at my desk much tomorrow, so I’m waving and saying “au revoir” tonight while I have the energy.
This year the contest has taught me how hard blogging can be when the ideas aren’t flowing, the time is scarce [...]
Resources for technology-related startups in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
May 6th
This article contains some useful information that I inevitably accumulated over the past few years, as a SR&ED consultant and as someone who has recently started a business. It might save you some time that took me to figure out all this. Good luck with your startup!
Various camps, startup drinks, green drinks
Startup entrepreneurs and [...]
Lessons for Bloggers vis-a-vis Financial Journalism
May 6th
Bloggers in the field of IT and IT marketing can learn from the lessons of financial journalists in how to develop a successful blog.
Apple in the News – 1 Million Sold
May 5th
I think its pretty impressive that Apple has sold 1 million iPads already and they aren’t even on sale in Canada yet!
Makes me think about the logistics of planning, building, distributing and supporting so many devices all of a sudden. Its really quite something to think about how to organize all of this! congratulations to [...]
Time Travel
May 5th
Couldn’t resist pointing out this news item…….
Stephen Hawking has apparently suggested that time travel will someday happen, but we’ll only go in a forward direction.
Perhaps someday all our discussions about clouds, mobility, iPhones and iPads will seem pretty tame in comarison to the really big paradigm shift this will cause. Everything is relative!
ISO JTC1/SC38 – Standards head for the Clouds
May 5th
In my April 4th post on Open Services Infrastructure I noted that there standards work was beginning in ISO on Clouds. So, before the Blog Idol site shuts down for another year, I thought I had better provide an update.
There is indeed a new standards effort starting up. Its called ISO JTC1/SC38 – Distributed Application [...]
War of the Worlds or Perfect Storm
May 5th
I’d like to refer to a couple of articles that help to illustrate that the smart phone wave is more than just a cool new gadget, but the collision of powerful empires.
War of the Worlds: RIM invented the smart phone market, and we’re proud as Canadians that a Canadian company is an innovative leader [...]
Staying Relevant for all Things Enterprise IT
May 5th
What was the key ingredient in successfully managing enterprise IT projects? It is more than Project Management. It involves Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM).
CloudCamp 2. Cloud Computing: Return on Investment
May 5th
This is another session from Cloudcamp that was held in Toronto on April 6, 2010. (Find the article about the first session, with links to the CloudCamp sound files and some presentations, here.) The session was facilitated by Dave Nielsen and discussed the ROI of cloud computing. The following questions were raised:
What is cloud computing [...]
