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Backblog April 2008
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Do yourself a favour: buy some music online April 30, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General Web 2.0 There have been two rather odd announcements lately in the world of Canadian music retailing. The first came from Sony BMG. The company has started selling a product it calls the Platinum MusicPass. In Sony BMG's plan, when you want to buy an album you drive to a store, buy a Platinum MusicPass card... Don't get botnetted April 25, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: Security "Botnet" is not a verb, but it should be. As a noun, it refers to a group of computers (called zombies) that have been compromised by worms, Trojan horses or some other type of backdoor software and are secretly being used by a controller, called a bot herder or a botmaster. An article by Danny... Event Driven Management and Opportunistic Computing April 23, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General A while back I wrote a blog entry on Opportunistic Computing, what an organization can do with cloud computing that they wouldn't have done before. I just read an entry on the Smart Enough Systems blog that looks at some similar issues but from the perspective of proactive use of IT to increase the... This year will see collaborative work take off. And then go too far April 22, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: Web 2.0 A camel is a horse designed by a committee. It's an old joke and, as such, speaks to a deep-seated suspicion of group work, as does the old saw about too many cooks spoiling the broth. The theory is that groups of people cannot produce a good product, because everyone's opinion has weight and has to... Dirty little secret April 17, 2008 By Ian Harvey Categories: Green Tech ICT Hardware and Infrastructure Psst…want to know the dirt on ink jet printers? Click here… I thought it was pretty amazing. Who knew? Ian Harvey pitbullmedia.ca Gartner list of 10 most disruptive technologies for IT April 16, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General I always look for articles like this to see what I've missed. This article about Gartner's list echoes many of the posts that have taken place on this blog recently. I was a bit disappointed, since I was hoping for some new areas to discuss. ;-) They were: 10. Semantic Technologies 9. Augmented... Harnessing the Power of a Brainstorm April 11, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General A frequent occurrence in many workplaces is for a group of employees to gather in a room and free-flow ideas on a specific topic. Developed by Osborn in 1953, brainstorming flourishes in workplaces, despite research that found individuals working alone are more effective. Alternatively, collective... Accounting firms are not marketing with blogs April 8, 2008 By Neil McIntyre Categories: General Web 2.0 Law firms continue to outpace accounting firms when it comes to harnessing the power of blogs to market their services to current and potential clients. A recent post by Michelle Golden asks the question “Isn’t Your Firm Blogging Yet?” and the answer apparently is no. The post quotes this one from... Sensors the Foot Soldier of a Revolution April 7, 2008 By Charlie Bess Categories: General I was looking at the Dallas Morning News this morning a saw a story "Sensors may Revolutionize Everyday Life". I've mentioned before about how sensors will start to be in just about everything. I just found it interesting to be in a main stream media paper on a Sunday morning. I was talking with... How Small Is Too Small When Purchasing ERP Software? April 3, 2008 By Rebecca Gill Categories: General Software Companies A friend recently came to me and asked for assistance in selecting an ERP software package. Since I do work for an ERP software company, this in itself is not strange. What you may find strange is the fact that my friend is the owner of a small company that employees a total of three people. Now let... Net stupidity April 2, 2008 By Ian Harvey Categories: General VoIP Michael Giest is rightly angered by the news Rogers is going to throttle back their Internet users. In his blog he tears into both Bell and Rogers over packet shaping and particularly Roger’s announcement they will cap users at 60 Gb and charge a penatly for those who go over it. Ostensibly it’s to... Please select a category:
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