July 2006 - Posts
Paul Tallon, a professor of information systems at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, tells Allan Alter that you should trust but verify when it comes to assessing the business value of IT.
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The list of real blogs written by big-time CEOs pretty much starts with Sun's Jonathan Schwartz and ends with Mark Cuban.
Randall Stross, writing in the New York Times, says there should be more. He's right, but the barriers to entry are many, including
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Evan Bayh wants you to be his Facebook friend!
No, the Indiana Senator is not pulling a Rodney Dangerfield and going back to college.
He's using the popular online community as a way of reaching out to young voters, organizers, and activists as he ponders
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Video blogger Ze Frank explains copyright issues around the YouTube video service and beyond, and then defends his explanation.
Ze Frank swears sometimes and thus the audio may not be safe for work, or for people who get all offended when someone drops
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Chris Anderson responds to Lee Gomes' critique of The Long Tail.
Lee Gomes responds to Chris Anderson.
People are talking "backlash" and "extremely serious
misrepresentation." This is important stuff that you should be
following for your business,
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Lee Gomes in the WSJ questions some of the arguments behind Chris Anderson's Long Tail logic.
"But I've looked at some of the same data, and some more of my own, and I don't think things are changing as much as he does."
Read the whole thing here.
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More on video games with serious purposes, from the New York Times.
"The proposition may strike some as dubious, but the “serious games”
movement has some serious brain power behind it. It is a partnership
between advocates and nonprofit groups that
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Jeff Jarvis unpacks the latest Pew Internet & American Life Project study of bloggers.
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Last week I wrote that it's time to stop the facile comparisons between collective work on the web and the forced collectivism of communism.
Here's the erudite reply of the PR blogger(s) at Strumpette, aka "Amanda Chapel", who I criticized for publishing
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If you (a) speak French (b) have "le plugin Flash" and (c) are a bit of a wonk, you might want to play the online game launched by French budget minister Jean-François Copé.
In any case, you might want to read about it, and why it matters, here.
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Dave Winer on John Edwards' use of BitTorrent: "From a legal standpoint, the more non-infringing applications there are, the weaker the case of Hollywood as it goes after BitTorrent, as they have attacked other P2P technologies. Having a major national
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Godwin's Law is a well-known Internet meme that says the longer an online conversation continues, the more likely it is that someone will invoke Hitler or Nazis, with the understanding that the first person to do so loses the debate (unless
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The John Edwards website is using BitTorrent to distribute large files, reports Dave Winer.
Edwards was slow to embrace the web when he ran for the Democratic nomination in 2004. He isn't repeating that mistake as he considers a run in 2008. Instead,
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Target Stores Inc. is using RSS feeds to push ads for its flagship brand to customers.
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Baseline's David Carr takes a look at the inner workings of Google.
"Google often doesn't deploy standard business applications on standard hardware. Instead, it may use the same text parsing technology that drives its search engine to extract application
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Are you getting value for your IT dollar?
Do you even ask the question at your company?
According to the latest CIOI research, only 60% of companies even bother to measure the business value of IT.
More from Allan Alter's research: "[E]ven at companies
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Steve Rubel has some advice for Dell as it ramps up its new corporate blog.
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Dell starts a blog.
Much of the blogging world is unimpressed.
Jeff Jarvis: "It’s a blog in content management system name only."
But Nick Carr is unimpressed by such responses: "For a company, a blog is a tool, not an ideology."
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At a time when environmental concerns loom large in popular culture, politics and business, many CIOs have yet to make being green a strategic priority. It's not that these issues aren't relevant to information technology executives; in fact, trends such
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The Economist: "Thanks to the power of the internet, advertising is becoming less wasteful and its value more measurable."
More: "The kids in 'Generation Y', 'echo-boomers' and 'millennials'—young people who tend to be adept at using media, constantly
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