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 … Continue reading
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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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Bloggers in the field of IT and IT marketing can learn from the lessons of financial journalists in how to develop a successful blog. Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
What was the key ingredient in successfully managing enterprise IT projects? It is more than Project Management. It involves Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM). Continue reading
