a blog about information
I’ve been consistently intrigued by the reasons people give for not using opensource, and by the vehemence and passion generated by all concerned. [Don’t you find it amazing that from the very start, the word “opensource” has conjured up images of long-haired pinko lefty tree-huggers in tie/dye t-shirts with the compulsory cigarette-floating-in-coffee-cup? What a feat … Continue reading “Learning about why people don’t adopt opensource”
This is one of my more provisional posts; in it I bare my thoughts somewhat more vulnerably than I am normally wont to do, because it is about an important subject. I’ve been thinking about it for some time now, which means it is a long post. It’s rambling and woolly because it is provisional. … Continue reading “Just freewheeling about buying and selling”
Following on from comments on my last post, and at least in some part influenced by what I’d had bouncing around my head when I wrote this in 2006 (to do with Gresham’s Law and information), I’d like to spend a little time thinking about news as a commons, its damage and its repair. If … Continue reading “More musing about news: wikinews”
Gapingvoid tweeted this earlier this morning. Coming from Hugh, that’s saying something. Even if he has “retired” to Alpine. So I went and took a look at the story: The Techcrunch Web Tablet project. Which seems to look like this: Now neither Michael Arrington nor Hugh Macleod needs any link love from me. So why … Continue reading “You’re a blog”
I’ve been reading quite a bit of Umair Haque this past year. He makes me think. Take his latest post, Saving Strategy from the Strategists. You don’t have to agree with everything he says, but the following excerpt shows where his head’s at: Perhaps the meaning of competitive advantage, when all the games have been … Continue reading “A sideways look at IT and IS strategy and VRM”