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Best Information Technology Websites: CIO.com
Feb 9th
Today, I continue our series on my favorite websites for Information Technology Professionals. I either read these daily or subscribe to them via my RSS reader. I recommend them all to you.
Today, I wish to feature CIO.com. CIO.com is an enterprise Information Technology focused site that is targeted at well… Chief Information Officers (CIOs). It is presented in a magazine blog style and features daily, weekly, and monthly columns, along with news and special features. It tends to stay aimed at items that would interest mid to large size organizations and has a very nice mix of human resources type stories – hiring, certifications, management, etc. – and technology implementation and utilization articles. I especially like it because they do an excellent job of linking to unfamiliar terms and writing at an appropriately mature, but not academic level. They also feature continuing series on topics of interest such as smart phones, Blackberries, virtualization, and management practices.
CIO.com is free. It has a very clean interface that while featuring ads, does so in a standard vice flashy manner. It looks good in all the major browsers, including ones featured by large enterprises, but outmoded in general use, such as IE 6. I find it very usable and direct.
What is CIO.com? I cannot describe it better than they do… From their own about page:
“Serving chief information officers and other IT leaders, CIO.com, CIO magazine, CIO Executive Programs, CIO Custom Solutions Group and the CIO Executive Council are produced by CXO Media, an award-winning business unit of International Data Group. CXO Media also produces sister publications CSO magazine and CSOonline.com, for chief security officers and other security executives.”
This site is one that all Information Technology Professionals should be following. If not on the web, then at least on Twitter where they have a very good news casting service. Please check this great site out.
What do you think about this topic? Do you agree or disagree with me? Do you have a recommended website for next week? Please share your ideas below.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for February 9, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.
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Special thanks to the team at CIO.com I really appreciate your work at putting out such a terrific resource for the Information Technology Professional community.
Poll: Where Should You Spend Your Next Information Technology Dollar?
Jan 19th
Today, our Information Thought of the Day (ITTOD) is a poll subject.
There is never enough money to do everything that we want to do. Since information technology (IT) is often one of the last areas that resources get assigned, it makes the prioritization of those small resources even more important. I would like you to share your thoughts on the question of where to spend the next $1 that you are allotted.
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Do you like polls as a daily topic? Do you have a recommended one for another week? Please let me know.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for January 19,2010 ©Scott Coughlin .
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News Commentary: Administering the Spectrum White Space
Jan 10th
Posted by Scott Coughlin in Business of IT
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On Sundays 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 stories during the week.
This week’s story is from PC World and concerns one of the most pressing challenges of our Information Age. As more and more people expect more and more bandwidth from more and more mobile, wireless devices, those smart devices will need more and more spectrum allocation to function. Since there is a finite amount of usable spectrum and it is nearly all already spoken for, there will be winners and there will have to be losers in the coming spectrum wars. My money is on the flush with cash mobile phone telcos to “steal” spectrum from all those others who cannot afford to legally defend their stakes in cyberspace.
The only possible compromise that is currently technologically feasible is the creation of spectrum bands with short range, but smartly allocated frequency use. This is similar to the idea of digital cell phones, but with far greater spread spectrums and thus higher throughput and bandwidth. The growing idea is to have large swaths of so called multiple use, unlicensed spectrum that gets carved out of the currently under or non-used areas of “white space”. The challenge is that someone will need to map that space and serve to deconflict legitimate uses and arbitrate harmful interference situations. And this is where our news story picks up:
PC World – Google Offers to Help Run a ‘white Spaces’ Database
At the core of this issue is an inherently governmental function – management of natural resources for the benefit of its citizens. In this case, the resource is spectrum. As such, as attractive as Google’s offer may be, I believe that the federal government needs to find a way to do this internally even if that means growing resources. There would simply be too much temptation and potential conflict of interest involved in putting the company that profits most from Internet usage in charge of managing spectrum to assist other companies in delivering ever more bandwidth, No one, including Google needs that temptation.
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 January 10, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.
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