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Subscribe to Backblog  My Submission to CRTC on Net Neutrality February 27, 2009 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General I am very concerned about ISPs' Internet traffic shaping actions. While I am not completely opposed to traffic shaping, for example as we engage in more e-Health practices, it is acceptable if this type of Net usage is allowed to proceed at a quicker fashion. However, I strongly object to ISPs... US - EMR Funding - Physicians Advised not to Delay Planning February 25, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth Just as is taking place in Canada, US physicians are being advised to begin their early planning for EMR adoption and use. In an article, published in Health Data Management, US physicians are advised to begin planning for their incentive program funding by the 3rd quarter of 2009. "Health Data... Keeping Emulation Environments Portable February 24, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General One of the problems with the march of technology is that many of the hardware and software platforms once deemed useful are left behind. We can no longer access the information they contained. The EU has the KEEP project to keep software running in emulation. There is a focus on games, but includes... Bridgewater Systems (BWC-TSX) May Be The Real Deal February 23, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: General Investment Bridgewater Systems has been an active issuer of press releases this month, demonstrating progress in customer wins and service development. It also seems to have retained some good IR support. Based on current screening models, BWC would be considered a Top 30 tech stock on the TSX. BWC was... Learning As a Way of Being … in Business and in Life February 20, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Social Networking Web 2.0 Learning as a Way of Being - Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent Whitewater is an excellent book by Peter Vaill, to which I have returned regularly over the past decade when I want to think deeply about learning. Here’s another take on the same issue by the inimitable Jay Cross of the... Social Media Marketing Conference February 19, 2009 By Glen Farrelly Categories: General Social Networking Tech and Business Events Today was the first day of the Social Media Marketing conference in Toronto, at the Old Mill, where amidst the old world eclectic setting, we tried to make sense of the new media chaos that is social media. As if symbolizing the lingering role of old technology disrupting the promise of the digital... Listening To and Talking With Your Current and Potential Customers - SNCF February 18, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Web 2.0 During a recent business trip to France, I met with a range of business people interested in and involved with early Web 2.0 initiatives in the corporate arena. There’s a lot of interest in the area (as there is in North America) and it seems to be growing rapidly. Publicis (the advertising giant)... Age of Data Abundance and the cloud February 17, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General I've been in a number of discussions lately where the folks were looking at cloud computing as just a continuation of the current computing paradigm. I firmly believe that is not the case. In the February issue of IEEE Spectrum, there is an article titled "Cellphones for Science", which discusses... Mobile Apps Market Already Bigger than Online Advertising? February 13, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: Web 2.0 A Reuters article this morning suggests that Nokia is joining the rush towards mobile software sales. This is old news. More interesting is that, in the article, Strategy Analytics forecasts the value of the mobile content market -- including downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, video, mobile... My Latitude moment February 12, 2009 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General I had a Google Latitude moment this morning. It was early, very dark out and raining heavily. My wife was waiting for a colleague to pick her up. The woman had never been to our house and, as we discovered when our phone rang, she had taken a wrong turn. I heard one end of the conversation. “So... Typology of Online User Participation February 10, 2009 By Glen Farrelly Categories: Web 2.0 One of my main research interests and certainly a topic much discussed due to the flowering of social media and Web 2.0, is user participation. But I've been thinking what exactly are all the forms of online user participation? How does participation differ from interaction? I would define user... Moving to the 3D web and telepresence February 6, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Intel is inviting the public to come to ScienceSim (a virtual world) and discover its possibilities for building collaborative visualization tools... "Within ScienceSim's world you'll find some starting buildings, templates for forums and conference centers and the like." But then it is up to the... Quick Savings AND Minimal Operations Risk? Try Facilities Management Outsourcing February 5, 2009 By consider the source Categories: Outsourcing Looking under rocks to find near-term cost savings in 2009? Most companies today are thoroughly examining new areas of cost structure improvement in various areas. Although the spending is often widely distributed and not easily visible to the CFO, facilities management spend in most companies is... Stretch … Breathe … Listen … Concentrate … Repeat Again and Again February 4, 2009 By Jon Husband Categories: General Via Hylton Jolliffe of Beeline Labs, a link to this May 2008 gabfest. Actually, I remember writing something about it at the time … perhaps The Wisdom of the Organization Crowd ? It seems clear to me that most of these "25 Stretch Goals For Management" can arguably be informed by the emergent... Please select a category:
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