Archive for December, 2008

Use the source Barack use the source

Monday, December 8th, 2008The open source force behind the Obama campaignA great post on Barack's campaign for the presidency which compliments some posts I have writtenSince the dawn of mass media, the most obvious activity of political campaigns — especially presidential ones — ...

The glittering allure of the mobile society

Thursday, December 4th, 2008[caption id="attachment_2644" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image: Scott Beale @ laughingsquid.com"][/caption]In February of this year I found myself on a cold and rainy day in Evian, at the behest of Microsoft at an international summit for CIO’s to give the final keynote ...

Are the sluice gates open for newspaper ad revenues?

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Newspaper ad revenue fell almost $2 billion in the third quarter for a record 18.1% decline, according to new statistics from the Newspaper Association of America. What's worse, newspapers' online ad revenue fell for the second quarter in a row. ...

Is that distributed cloud computing on the horizon?

Monday, December 1st, 2008A hundred years ago, companies stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dynamos and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities didn’t just change how businesses operate. It set off ...

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