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.

I like Information Age quotations.  I find some of them very inspirational and like to carry a new one around about every week.  I thought that i could share mine with you from time to time. This week it will be a funny quote.  You can read more about the author at Wikipedia.

“The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”
Douglas Engelbart

What did you think of the quote?  Did you like it? Do you know of any other similar ones?  Please share.

That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for July 21, 2010.

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On Mondays I 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 other stories.

Today’s comments were generated after I read the fore mentioned CNN story.  Great article that I recommend to you.  Give them a read below.

CNN.com – Inventor of cell phone: We knew someday everybody would have one

By Tas Anjarwalla

“Cooper and his team at Motorola, the communications company, created maybe the only thing that runs the lives of business professionals and teenagers alike — the cell phone.

It was the size of a brick and wasn’t commercially sold for another decade. But as Cooper demonstrated on a New York sidewalk, it worked.”

What I loved about this article was that it represented the exact best that an outfit like CNN can deliver.  It showed journalistic ethics, special access granted by being a big name, and rigorous fact checking and research without opinion or slant. To me, it shows exactly what big media can and should  deliver that bloggers never can, will, or should.  I wish that CNN and the rest of mainstream media would stick to this type of story and get out of the business of trying to beat bloggers to scoops, or drive a political agenda, even involving tech reporting, by spinning news to create positions.  Bravo to CNN and  Tas Anjarwalla for showing us how it can and should be done.  Great story.

OK, that is what I think of this topic. What do you think about this topic?  Do you agree or disagree with me? Do you have a recommended news story for next week? Please share your ideas below.

That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for July 12, 2010  by Scott Coughlin.

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I usually feature comedy on Saturdays.  In the past, I have featured jokes, comics, cartoons, and news on the weekends.  Sometimes I include comics, stories, games, and photos.  By far, though, humor and especially videos with Information Technology (IT) themes have been the most popular.  So I have gone back to this endless well of laughs!  I simply cannot get enough of comedy videos!

For this week, I have picked this video to share with you as follow-up.  It is called “iPhone Love”… It is by invisibleSHIELD and it just plain funny!

The most humorous part of all of this is that it is all so true.  Some of the jokes hit a bit close to home! 

I hope that I gave you a chuckle to make your weekend a little brighter.  I will be back Monday with more serious topics!

What did you think of the video?  Funny? Do you know of any other similar movies or clips?  Please share.

That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for June 19, 2010.

Video Credit: invisibleSHIELD

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It is available in print and kindle editions from major book sources, including Amazon.com. I appreciated it so much that I also added it to The Information Technology Thought of the Day Webstore, permanently.

I will try to get a full review up in the next couple of weeks, as I finish it.  I can already tell though that it will be a modern day classic for the niche that it is targeted at as well as statisticians and current event geeks.

The opening chapter alone is worth the price of admission and really demonstrates well how much the world of warfare has changed in the past 20 years due to the Internet and Information Technology.  I especially appreciated how the author makes the case that Cyber War is real whether you think that it is or not.    I also valued the parallels that were drawn between the dawn of cyber war and the coming of naval aviation and nuclear weapons.  Considering that the author is a leading expert on Nuclear War policy, I figure that he probably knows what he is talking about.

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On Mondays I 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 other stories.

Today’s comments were generated after I read a CNN story.  It is about the same message that they issue once per year.  I recommend it to you.  Give it a read below.

CNN.com – Are you ready for the big internet crunch?

“(CNN) — The internet as we know it is reaching its limits.

Within 18 months it is estimated that the number of new devices able to connect to the world wide web will plummet as we run out of "IP addresses" — the unique codes that provide access to the internet for everything from PCs to smart phones.

"The internet as we know it will no longer be able to grow," Daniel Karrenberg, chief scientist at RIPE NCC, the organization that issues IP addresses in Europe, told CNN.”

The basic problem is that when the Internet went mainstream in the mid-nineties, no one envisioned that every person on the planet would have multiple computers, let alone a smart phone, toaster, and Wii that needed an address.  The problem got very acute around the millennial, but was warded off by a new addressing scheme for downstream computers, called NAT, that allowed every computer on a local network to share a single point-of-presence connection to the Internet.  This is why, you are said to be sharing an internet connection on your local street, at the coffee shop, and at work.

The solution is to upgrade the address scheme to a newer version, called IP version 6 or IPv6.  You can read all about it at Wikipedia.  Don’t worry about version 5… it is caput.  IPv6 brings a host of new features in addition to its dramatically increased address space including quality of service, security, and expandability.  The good news is that every piece of networking hardware built in the past five years came out-of-the-box compatible.  The bad news is that people have continued to write online software code that only works on IPv4 even though they new it’s life expectancy was short. And thus lies the problem, the actual impact of shifting will be a crap shoot until we pull the trigger.  That, and no one wants to be the first penguin off the iceberg, and risk mission kill.

The best news is that this story has not changed on lick in the past eight years!  We will all gnash our teeth, complain a bit, and decide to put off the inevitable for another year.  Stay tuned in June 2011 for another CNN news story on this ery same issue….

What do you think about this topic?  Do you agree or disagree with me? Do you have a recommended news story for next week? Please share your ideas below.

That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for May 31, 2010  by Scott Coughlin.

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