Web and the reshaping of IT
Kate Carruthers I always like to keep up with what Dion Hinchcliffe’s thinking and recently he’s been talking about How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business, and particularly…
social computing & social media
Who will be the makers if computing becomes a utility?
Spoke at the Bunbury ACS Chapter the other night (g’day to @Moist & @nezzle) – about the future of computing and the impact of social computing. We had a really…
Are blogs really dead?
Some have argued that blogs have had their day, for example: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004. A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type…
don’t fall in love with your social networking platform
I remember that two years ago the we were all fussing about MySpace. Then last year we were all abuzz about Facebook. And this year the big thing is Twitter.…
From society of the book to a networked society
Neerav Bhatt did an interesting post about Encyclopedia Britannica, saying: Organisations in the information industry such as Book Publishers and Libraries would do well to learn from Encyclopedia Britannica’s precipitous…
Power of the personal
We are rapidly moving away from the old impersonal world of broadcast media. This has important implications for getting our messages out to people. It means that we need to…
Social computing & IT Governance
The democratization of software that has occurred with the development of social computing raises some important issues about IT governance. When we are dealing with consumer to consumer applications like…
Social computing & IT Governance
The democratization of software that has occurred with the development of social computing raises some important issues about IT governance. When we are dealing with consumer to consumer applications like…
Democratization of Technology
This is a term I’ve used for a while now and never really defined. It is probably worth discussing as it has come to form an important part of my…
Blogtalk Downunder part 2
Was reviewing the pictures on the Blogtalk Downunder Flickr and it occurred to me just now that I have not seen so many Mac notebooks in one place ever before.…