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IT Quote of the Week: Douglas Engelbart
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Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse and was an early pioneer of the Information Technology profession. As such he is an excellent pick to be our IT Thought of the Day Quote of the Week Series feature.
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News Commentary: Three Cheers for the Cell Phone
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CNN has a really nice piece commemorating the creator of the cell phone, Mr. Martin Cooper. This story is the IT Thought of the Day News Commentary of the Week.
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IT Thought of the Week: Robert McNamara
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Robert McNamara had some amazingly forward thinking ideas about computers and information technology. As such he gets a second chance to be our IT Thought of the Day Quote of the Week Series feature.
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News Commentary: Lions and Tigers and CyberWar – Oh My!
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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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IT Quote of the Week: Robert McNamara
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More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Let’s see what other gems Carl Sagan, has to offer us He is already this week’s IT Thought of the Day Quote of the Week Series author. Dr. Sagan was a noted proponent of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project. He firmly believed that somewhere in our universe there was other life just waiting More >
IT Quote of the Week: Carl Sagan
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Geeks everywhere grew up watching and listening to Carl Sagan. He was a noted astronomer, physicsist, television host, and author. As such, he becomes the first satirist to join our other worthy additions to our IT Thought of the Day Quote of the Week Series
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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 >
IT Quote of the Week: Doug Larson
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Nobody said that Information Technology can’t be both important and funny. Doug Larson, celebrated columnist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette gave us some very funny thoughts! As such, he becomes the first satirist to join our other worthy additions to our IT Thought of the Day Quote of the Week Series
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News Commentary: Freedom of Search?
Today, I wanted to bring to your attention a very interesting, Information Age and Information Technology story circulating within the media. It has had and will continue to have significant influence on our industry for years to come.
CNN.com – Racist Obama image shines light on Web searching
The reason that I think that this story is such a significant technology meme is that it is fundamentally all about freedom of search as it concerns freedom of speech, capitalism vs, socialism, the expression of a corporate legal entity vs.an individual, and who will control the index of our lives. All of the concerns and considerations of censorship and book burning are also at play, too.
If you, as an Information Technology Professional, have not been following this developing story, I recommend that you consider it. I expect that there will be long-term ramifications no matter how this particular case concludes. There are obviously a number of very slippery ethical and moral slopes in play here and one ignorant or dumb step onto any of them could and would significantly influence the way that the Internet continues to develop.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for December 4, 2009 ©Scott Coughlin
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