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News Commentary: Lions and Tigers and CyberWar – Oh My!
about 2 months ago - No comments
You know that a topic has become du jour when The Economist puts out multiple stories about it in rapid succession. I greatly respect this venerable news magazine and appreciate that it is one of the last fronts on the attack on quality journalism. That being said, they can never pass up the opportunity to More >
News Commentary: The Lunacy of Follower Counting
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SPOILER ALERT! I am going to ruin the surprise! When it is all said and done, President Obama is going to have had a more substantial effect on our world than Lady Gaga. OK, now that being said, we can discuss our IT Thought of the Day News Commentary of the Week.
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Book Recommendation – Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do about It by Richard A. Clarke
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I have a book recommendation for all Information Professionals, military buffs, and historians. It is ‘Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do about It’ by Richard A Clarke and Robert K. Knake. The book is about exactly what the title says. It is written at exactly the right technical More >
News Commentary: The Bit.ly Challenge
about 3 months ago - No comments
As an active twitterer, I can certainly appreciate the value of a URL shortener – that is a service that takes a thousand character web link and shrinks it down to 10 or so for Twitter. However, I also am concerned that it violates one of the fundamental value propositions of the world wide web More >
IT Quote of the Week: Louis Gerstner
about 3 months ago - No comments
We are continuing our IBM theme this week. The obviously have had a number of smart people work there!
International Business Machines (IBM) was one of the first information technology companies in the world and definitely the first one to become a Fortune 100 company. Its CEOs, such as Louis Gerstner, therefore make for worthy additions More >
News Commentary – We are running out of Internet Addresses… Again!
about 3 months ago - No comments
So, it seems to me that about every year at this time, we have a frenzy concerning how we are running out of Internet addresses. As background, every device that connects to the Internet must have a unique identification code, called an IP address. The current addressing scheme is nearly 15 years old and called, More >
IT Vocabulary Builder: Scareware
about 3 months ago - No comments
OK, I found a new information technology term on the news wires this morning: Scareware! I always love our human need to find a tag for new ideas and concepts.
The Information Technology (IT) Vocabulary Builder series aims to deliver a very concise summary of a currently relevant topic to Information Professionals. It is done mostly More >
News Commentary – Three Cheers for Pac-Man
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This week marks a huge anniversary in the Information Technology time continuum. What could make you feel older than PAC-Man turning 30! The reality is that I know for a fact that many of you would not be Information Technology Professionals if it were not for arcade games just like this one.
On Mondays I More >
News Commentary – The Dangers of Cell Phone Registration Laws
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As land lines begin to fade into the past and more and more people are opting to have their only phone numbers be mobile and/or VOIP lines, the call to create an official registration of those numbers – a mobile white pages – grows. So far this year, we have a cautionary tale on this More >
The End of Manned Space Flight Makes Me Want to Cry
about 3 months ago - 1 comment
Yesterday was the last flight of the US Space Shuttle Atlantis. It marks the beginning of the end for the US Manned Space Flight Program. It makes me want to cry to think that we are walking away from our manifest destiny in this manner. I can’t believe that after all that we have gained More >
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Privacy Is Dead, Google Is Not Taking Over Twitter, And Your Right To Control Your Image Is Being Challenged.
On Sundays I plan to offer comments on some of the most interesting information technology stories that I have found on the web that week. Please feel free to join in the discussion or suggest stories during the week.
PC Pro Magazine: Angry villagers run Google Street View out of town
This is a very real and very interesting divide shaping up in our modern world. On one side there are those who believe that "you cannot stop the signal", individual privacy is dead, and it is your IT duty to Twitter every single thought that you have. On the other are those who simply don’t buy it. This story is an example of what happens when those two camps clash. One never likes to see violence erupt…especially when it is just some minimum wage car driver who takes the blame for a multi-billion dollar companies decisions…
WSJ.com’s All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher: Sorry to Get You All A-Twitter, but Google Is Not in “Late-Stage Talks” to Acquire the Hot Microblogging Service
Well, one cannot be an Information Professional without thinking that Twitter is the next big thing. It is on everyone’s lips because it is a disruptive, transformational, game-changing new digital communication method that is evolving through many generations right before your eyes, one internet time. Google is of course the ten thousand pound gorilla in the revolution in technology camp. This seems like a match made in heaven. I would not be surprised at all to see this come to pass…
guardian.co.uk: The end of privacy?
This story also refers to Google, but as a villain. This story discusses all of the latest upgrades to Google Maps that revolve around location based services and social networking enhancements. If you are not familiar with these new features, I highly recommend that you give them a whirl. Together with Google Earth, I think this application speaks volumes about Web 3.0, Google’s long term ambitions, and our future as a society. As I mentioned about, "you cannot stop the signal", privacy looks to be dying, and if you are not telling the world what you think on Twitter, you had better be doing it on Google’s new features!
So I shared my opinions on these thought provoking stories… what do you think about them?
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for April 5, 2009 ©Scott Coughlin .
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