- General Info
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 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 [...]
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).
One Ring to Rule them all
May 4th
10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps, 10 Gbps, _______
So what is the next number in this series? If my 12 year old son was asked to complete this series in his math class, I’m pretty sure that he would be able to put in 100Gbps, without even knowing what bps means.
For those of us in the IT industry [...]
Will Palm Slap HP?
May 4th
Kudos to Elevation Partners, the private equity firm who dodged a bullet when they unloaded their 40% share of Palm in HP’s $1.2 billion buyout. This investment was widely expected to go south, so a 5% return over 2 years, a dud by any other standard, is considered quite the save. But will HP be [...]
United Breaks Guitars – Understanding Social Customer Service
May 3rd
United Breaks Guitars – Understanding Social Customer Service
I have been on this quest to understand Social Marketing and Business and how the two meet.
I had a slight epiphany tonight while re watching the Dave Carroll video, “United Breaks Guitars”.
While we know that Dave was approached after the fact by United [...]
A New iPad Has Arrived
May 1st
Ok. Not really new. I got multiple emails the other day to announce that the iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G is now available. Only in Canada, you say? No, not likely! Maybe we’ll get both models at the same time!
This brings up the question: which one should I buy, if and when we are able buy any [...]
A quick observation in education
Apr 30th
What my kids teach me is the use of a product or service can go beyond what I conceive it to be, therefore I must always keep an open mind.
