May 2006 - Posts
Tim O'Reilly comes back from vacation and responds to the Web 2.0 servicemark mess.
He may or may not be on solid legal ground, but I don't know that demanding an apology from the IT@Cork organizer and saying the controversy "has shaken my faith in
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27B Stroke 6: "A California appeals court has smacked down Apple's legal assault on bloggers and their sources, finding that the company's efforts to subpoena e-mail received by the publishers of Apple Insider and PowerPage.org runs contrary to federal
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A lot of people hate the term "Web 2.0." Credit tech publisher O'Reilly for doing its part to make sure nobody uses the name again.
O'Reilly's partner, CMP, is registering the name Web 2.0 as a service mark applied to "arranging and
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Nick Carr lays it on a little thick in proclaiming "The death of Wikipedia," but his post is worth reading.
Then read Dave Winer's take, which adds context about the zeal of some Wikipedians and reasonable expectations for the flawed
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As of tomorrow, Dana Deasy is the new CIO of GM North America. He will report to chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner, and to GM CIO Ralph Szygenda.
Deasy previously served as CIO of Tyco, where he was part of a post-scandal management team that knit together
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The New York Times has an article -- in the Styles section, oddly enough -- about companies dealing with employees who blog.
It's pegged to the seasonal influx of interns, given that these young folks see the public posting all manner of info as a given,
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Our man Allan Alter reports from today's Gartner security briefing in Boston: "In a survey of Gartner clients, 32% of Chief Information Security Officers do not report to the CIO. In other words, information security is not part of the IT department.
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Richard MacManus: "You know when Gartner and IBM pontificate on Web 2.0, that we've reached a point where the term has become generally acceptable - mainstream even."
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The Wall Street Journal hosts an email debate on net neutrality between Mike McCurry and Craig Newmark. You should read the whole thing, but I've pulled some key points.
Best line: Newmark to McCurry, ""I realize you're cleverly using Colbertian 'truthiness,'
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Scoble: "We're blowing a huge opportunity here by not listening to women and not hiring more of them to develop more of our products and services."
More from the MSFT blogger: "When I was in Paris I talked with Anina, the fashion model who blogs. She
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It's sounds like a philosophical query: Is there a single version of the truth?
At Panasonic, it's a practical question. CIO Insight: "Many multinational companies are waking up to find they have numerous, duplicative, and incomplete records stored in
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John Parkinson in CIO Insight: "85% of innovation is valuable but not very innovative; many good ideas aren't good business (especially for your business)...try to avoid being too successful until you're sure your sponsors really want you to succeed."
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Infor Global Solutions' planned $1.4 billion acquisition of SSA Global Technologies would create a major player in the ERP market.
Said Infor chairman and CEO Jim Schaper, "We will be providing everybody in the market a credible, long-standing,
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Dave Winer had a bum experience with the Hotwire travel service.
He blogged about it.
Now his story is one of the top search results for "Hotwire" on Google...which he discovered after getting a broadcast email from the company advertising
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Tom Friedman begins today's column (behind the NYT paywall) with an anecdote that wouldn't surprise my 72-year-old mom, this one about his Budapest cab-driver having -- get ready for this -- his own website.
But then the piece gets interesting.
Friedman
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RSS is "incorruptibly opt-in," writes Phil Gomes in his primer for marketing types.
It's also measurable and a time-saver, he says.
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Scoble sees Mini-Microsoft as the irritating grain of sand that produces a pearl.
OK, he doesn't use the cheesy metaphor, but Microsoft's most famous blogger does credit the company's clandestine blog critic with forcing positive change in Redmond.
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Nick Carr: "IT has become an albatross for CIOs."
Actually, as an English major, I would dispute Carr's allusion to Coleridge.
IT isn't a symbol of something CIOs have done wrong, as the dead sea-bird was for the Ancient Mariner, or an obstacle
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Rubel on ad rates at social networking sites: "There's definitely a power shift underway. Sites that are 'made out of people' - what I call galaxies in this social media universe - are starting to command big traffic. However on some sites the CPMs are
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If Tech Companies Made Sodoku, by Kathy Sierra (via JPR.)
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Scoble on five things that make a blog a blog.
Bonus points for using a criticism of his own company as a starting point.
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Hardware vendors chime in one the side of the telcos...as does the Wall Street Journal, which casts network neutrality as a political issue.
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Headed for the airport...meanwhile, here are more posts about enterprise 2.0 (more here)...
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I've worked with a quite a few editors in my career, including some of the biggest names in the magazine business. Ellen Pearlman has been one of the best editors I've known.
She's a visionary leader, but also someone who inspires people to
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Andrew McAfee wrote an article about "Enterprise 2.0" in the Sloan Management Review. He posts about it here at the Harvard Business School faculty blog.
Also check out Nick Carr's take on McAfee's work.
And now McAfee's response to Carr.
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Jeff Clavier blogs from the CIO panel at the Microsoft VC Summit. Interesting tidbits, and make sure to click on the link to the previous entry, too.
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"Most schools don't provide a deep understanding of technology and how to use it." -- Mark Lutchen, a longtime partner (and former CIO) at PricewaterhouseCoopers, in "The Modern-Day MBA."
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Dave Winer on the Web 2.0 bubble: "[T]he two-wayness of the web will continue after the VCs leave us, again, after missing the point, again. The purpose of this place is not to make them money, no matter how much they believe it. The first time around
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Jeff Jarvis on the way we advertise now.
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Why should you care about a blogging City Councilwoman in Greensboro, North Carolina?
It's not the local politics, it's the way Sandy Carmany is communicating with her constituents.
Here's how I put it in my newspaper column today: "[H]er work deserves
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Congratulations! Your new budget has just been approved and you can finally hire that newly minted MBA you've been clamoring for. So what, exactly, can your company expect in the way of technology management skills from this expensively pedigreed tyro?
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Scott Rosenberg nails it.
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CIO Insight's Allan Alter attended a conference and dinner honoring leadership guru (and former CIO Insight columnist) Warren Bennis on his 80th birthday. Some thoughts on the state of leadership and leadership development from the event:
There was
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Dan Gillmor likes to say his readers know more than he does. That's one of the tenets of blogging and comments and wikis and such, that information is distributed and these tools help us find the smart stuff and share it in useful ways.
Which is to say,
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"Web 2.0 is not a snail."Web 2.0 is the people pointing and shouting 'The snail! The snail!'"
It's also people shouting about whales, and land-whales, and holding parades and selling tickets, according to Phil Edwards.
(found via Nick Carr)
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Dan Briody: "Looking to Dell for insight on the future of technology is like looking to Old Navy for the future of haute couture."
Much more on the great commodifier here.
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Los Angeles Police Department Chief William Bratton: "Welcome to the LAPD Blog."
Bratton is known for his media skills.
Apparently those skills extend to new media, too.
Although for some reason the Chief thinks "blog" is a proper noun and needs a
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Robert Scoble is a blogging celebrity, a pioneer at Microsoft and in the corporate world.
Today that is not so important, except that it connects him to a lot of people around the world.
Scoble's mom is very ill. Dying. He's writing about it, feeling
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On Steve Rubel's list of things he learned on Google Trends:
4) David Hasselhoff's popularity in Germany is declining.
5) Jerry Lewis's popularity in France is rising.
Yes, it's a valuable tool for business, too.
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Fox News corporate communications honcho Brian Lewis tells me that comment spam at blogs is not part of a publicity campaign by the network, and that he was unaware that it was happening...
...but the question of who is
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Chief information officers are not welcoming Web 2.0 -- the apps or the user-driven mindset -- into the enterprise, according to this survey by CIO Insight.
Here's how our research guru, Allan Alter, puts it: "CIOs believe that IT has a critical role
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Who is behind the Fox News comment spam?
Either Fox News is using a somewhat unsavory method of promoting its web pages, or Fox News is having its identity (in the form of IP addresses) hijacked by spammers who for whatever reason want to promote Fox
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NYT reports that Warner Brothers will sell TV shows and movies using BitTorrent, "which is widely used to download movies and other copyrighted material illegally."
The agreement between Warner Brothers and BitTorrent is an unusual deal between
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NetCompetition is a blog that argues against net neutrality.
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What was the secret to putting such a complex script together in such a short period of time? Open source. At Backcountry .com, nearly every system runs on it, from ERP to e-mail to e-commerce.
From Deb D'Agostino's CIO Insight case study on Backcountry.com,
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Dave Winer says the new Share Your OPML site is off to a fast start.
Steve Rubel says that the idea will be important for businesses once big aggregators get on board: "Share Your OPML will become an essential tool for marketers. We will use it
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Chris Anderson is charting the differences in demand for music and movies at online and physical sites.
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If your company sees blogs as another avenue for happy-talk PR, your company isn't getting the point of letting real people talk like real people.
Watch Scoble. Here he is posting some harsh words about Microsoft: "This stuff hurts, but if we don't
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Jonathan Schwartz says "value in information technology is coming down to how efficiently you can get something done. Whether it's building a 30 teraflop grid or a web services infrastructure; powering a Java handset or an entire datacenter. From what
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NYT's Leslie Wayne writes a good business article on Boeing's bet-the-future 787 project, which calls for large portions of the composite-skinned plane to be not just manufactured but designed by Boeing's partners around the world.
But how do you
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Blogger Bill Hobbs has a post-mortem on the Warren Kremer Paino v Lance Dutson story. Lots o' links, including one to an interesting Ad Age article by Willow Duttge.
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Warren Kremer Paino drops suit against blogger Lance Dutson.
From the Media Bloggers Association site: "[T]he story of 'Warren Kremer Paino and the Maine Blogger' is now a cautionary tale...future potential plaintiffs would do well to consider WKP's
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Nick Carr on Dan Briody's interview with Google's Dave Girouard: "What Microsoft is trying to do with its new Duet partnership with SAP - provide a user-friendly way to tap into data from a complex enterprise system - Google is trying to do on a
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Things do not seem to be going well for blogger-suing ad agency Warren Kremer Paino.
A Maine legislator, Stephen Bowen, has written to the state tourism office to request the suspension of Warren Kremer Paino Advertising's contract with the state.
The
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Google's Dave Girouard: "We expect that search will become the preferred way to access these systems. If I want to access my CRM system, if I want to quickly grab a piece of information out of my business intelligence system, I don't have to be an expert
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Almost a year ago in CIOI, I wrote: Eastman Kodak Co. has a really big problem. The photographic film business that sustained one of the world's great brands for more than a century is headed the way of the daguerreotype. Digital cameras and images are
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Nick Carr has an interesting post about the future of Google in the enterprise. Make sure you read the comments at the bottom, too.
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A blogger does something kind of dumb online while he's at work.
People overreact.
Haven't we seen this movie before?
(link via Instapundit).
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Skype launches large-scale conference calling. Jessie Seyfer in the Mercury-News: "[P]eople who have installed the free Skype software can host audio conversations, known as Skypecasts, with up to 100 people at a time."
More: "Experts say the Skypecast
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Dave Winer: "You have to be rich to love Apple. PCs, even if the OS and apps are butt-ugly, and the viruses are just awful, are computers lots of people can afford, people who couldn't afford Macs. And dollar for dollar, Windows machines perform
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More on that UNC law school conference about blogs in the workplace, this time from someone who actually knows something about the law.
Lots of tasty nuggets from Eric Goldman, including these predictions:
1. 10 years from now, it will seem bizarre
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An entertaining look back at failed dotcom ideas that "still stand out for pure silliness," by Katherine Meyer in today's Wall Street Journal, which I think you can read for free as part of the site's anniversary promotion.
Ah, the memories.
One entry
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Forrester on the relatively slow adoption rate of newish tools like blogs, RSS, and social networking by marketers.
Rubel: "The way I see it, the 50% that are dabbling will have a considerable competitive advantage over those that don't. Don't blink.
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Tim Berners-Lee: "Let us protect the neutrality of the net."
The original webmaster says net neutrality is an international issue.
From his blog: When, seventeen years ago, I designed the Web, I did not have to ask anyone’s permission....The
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Dave Winer has a plan to jumpstart the distribution of Rocketboom via BitTorrent.
He says, "Let Rocketboom be a model for your creativity, a great Pied Piper that gives you ideas."
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When Shakespeare wrote "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," he meant that it would be a bad thing to kill all the lawyers.
At Intel, there's a call to ice the bloggers (found via Scoble).
That would be a bad thing, too.
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Steve Rubel has some advice on dealing with hostile bloggers. He also spoke with Ad Age's Willow Duttge about managing blog criticism.
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A new search engine for blogs launches. It's called Sphere. Michael Arrington is all over it. Steve Rubel says "it's a contender." Much discussion linked at Memeorandum.
This is a space that needs competition. Technorati blazed the trail but still
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JP Rangaswami on what happened when "The opensource community started pushing everyone up the stack."
Excerpt: "Traditional systems integrators and midsized consultants hurriedly rebadged themselves as package vendors, putting loads of lipstick on generic
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I'm guessing former Clinton mouthpiece Mike McCurry meant to sound tough and bloggy with this post about Net neutrality.
It really didn't work. He sounds like an angry insider who can't believe a bunch of nobodies dared to challenge him.
Yeah, it's
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Two interesting posts from Chris Anderson -- one on the long tail and the market for books (with a link to this conference) and the other about search engines as time machines.
Choice quote: "Google and the other search engines are time-agnostic.
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Summer interns at JP Morgan already have a blog up and running.
And they are already learning to be a little more discreet, reports DealBreaker, which has posted the text of the interns' original potty-mouthed braggadocio.
What are your
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David Sifry posts some stats on who's doing what with blogs. Lot's of pretty graphics. Makes me wish I spoke Japanese.
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Sun's new CEO, Jonathan Schwartz: "So to answer the obvious, for those that have asked the question, 'as CEO, will you continue blogging?'
"Absolutely yes - count on it. (We'll now be the only Fortune 500 company with a CEO that blogs - the first of
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JP Rangaswami recounts a scene from the movie Local Hero, a follow-up to this essay about identity, confidentiality, and trust.
It's good reading, from the ornery Scots pub-owner to the idea of an accountant demanding of a worker,
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