Dave Webb is a journalist of 20 years experience in newspapers and magazines. He has followed technology exclusively since 1998 and was the winner of the Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Business Journalism in the eEconomy category in 2000. (The category was eliminated in 2001, leaving Webb as the only winner ever.)
Sorry if anyone had unmoderated posts that haven’t seen the light of day, but we’ve been swamped with a deluge of spammed comments. The ever-able Eric Schmidt is looking into the problem. I’ll slog through and try to find the … Continue reading
Not to blow our own horn excessively, but we at IT World Canada have kind of made it a habit to take home some awards from the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. Blogging Idol has, in the past, taken home some … Continue reading
It’s time for the Blogging Idol crew to get together, have a beer, eat some wings, and hand out some hardware. We’re scheduling a do for Thursday, Aug. 16, at our usual haunt, Paupers on Bloor near Clinton, at 6:30 … Continue reading
News broke on Monday afternoon that Google executive Marissa Mayer had been wooed to arch-competitor Yahoo, prompting exclamation points from around the Internet. AT the risk of causing controversy over who broke the story, it appears to have broken first … Continue reading
Thanks to everybody who’s posted this year. The pressure of evaluating the performance this year is so intense, I’m taking next week off to devote solely to that and tanning and possibly the odd glass of wine. We’ll collaboratively arrange … Continue reading
That was a whirlwind six weeks of Blogging Idol. Lots of great insight, lots of entertainment and lots of great discussion. But Blogging Idol, the contest, is just the prologue. While we’re taking out our score sheets and naming winners, … Continue reading
Wow, that was fast. We’re coming into Week 6 of Blogging Idol, that last week of the contest. This week is for a stroll down memory lane. What old-school; technology affected how you work and live? I remember a life-changing … Continue reading
The Internet, or at least its denizens in the know, celebrated the move to a new Internet protocol on Wednesday. And just in the nick of time, too. With IPv4 on the verge of running out of addresses, IPv6 rides … Continue reading
I was remiss in posting this week’s topic over the weekend. A shame, too, since it’s a favourite of mine from past years: Why IT? What does your career in IT mean to you? What gets you through the daily … Continue reading
A short week, but plenty of back-and-forth over what’s arguably been the most challenging topic so far in Blogging Idol 2012: Customer-centricity. Don Sheppard took the approach of defining customer-centricity in terms of customer satisfaction. But … “For the IT … Continue reading
More great insights from our bloggers this week. In a way, we went through a whole technology adoption process: Don Sheppard stressed our need to define it; Bruce Stewart questioned whether we actually need it; Chris Lau made a case … Continue reading
I knew when we chose the topics for this year’s Blogging Idol competition that the burgeoning BYOD movement would be a hot-button issue. What I didn’t expect was the philosophical approach our bloggers took, and that viewed through the right … Continue reading
It’s one week till the official launch of IT World Canada’s fifth annual Blogging Idol competition, so it’s time to shakeout your skills on the new CMS, sharpen the analytical side of your brain and wrap your head around Topic … Continue reading
In a previous post, I wrote “it couldn’t be easier” to add images to posts. Then Kevin Pashuk came along and proved me wrong. You’ll note in Kevin’s post the photo is bumped down below the sidebar, leaving a huge … Continue reading
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