Category Archives: random

Back to my consulting roots

After being a CTO since 2002 with NeoNova and Digitel the time has come to return to my consulting roots. I’ve had a great run as a technology leader with great people, great companies, and I’ve seen the beauty of rural America.
Having spent almost two years in Atlanta, GA I’ve re-relocated back to Research Triangle [...]

Balkanize, Rinse, Repeat ad infinitum

After listening to a podcast rant on the topic of the blog / web / Internet with terms like signal, noise, and other histrionics typically reserved for the stage I felt that familiar urge to capture some quick thoughts.
Those on the podcast are not terribly youthful and could easily classify as sages, elders, or at [...]

Embrace or be displaced

As all major web destinations evolve to take advantage of social networking features (Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect) this concern will be blurry at best. CSO’s and those tasked with corporate governance in areas related to risk may well have to bury their heads in the sand as the next wave of qualified candidates [...]

Someone knock me down

Pat Phelan ask if the experts of social media, well… matter.  Do they matter for a given business?  Do they matter in general?

One of the named experts is Jeremiah Owyang and I only know of Jeremiah Owyang because of the world shaking and deeply altering historical signifiance of the Exxon Twitter Crisis of August [...]

Too Much Text

Too Much Text: When I Was Your Age, We Sent Email
Tuesday, March 17th at 3:30pm in Room 5A
The youngest generation of Internet users have relegated email to the domain of their parents and other “old people”. What are the current technical challenges faced by email that threaten it surviving for another decade of use and [...]

Under the guise of simplicity

Everything after the Etch A Sketch has been an exercise in escalating support demands. Consider that simply shaking it like a Polaroid picture puts you right back to a pristine operating state.

Loss of productivity from email is symptomatic.
Rethinking how email is used would mean there might be a problem… whether or not email is creating [...]