a blog about information
Clarence Fisher provided the kernel for this particular post, telling me about Bookmooch. And it made me think. About books and the web. [An aside. When Amazon entered the Fortune 500 whom did they replace? AT&T…..) First we had Amazon, a way of discovering and acquiring new books. For a while we also had ZShops … Continue reading “Learning from books”
I’ve wrestled with this issue for a few decades now, through the Strassmann and Carr arguments and a whole slew in between. And sometimes it feels a bit like The Emperor’s New Clothes. It’s just not done (in polite circles) to point out the guy’s not wearing any. When I look back over the years, … Continue reading “IT Project ROIs”
We spent the weekend with my mother-in-law down in Chichester. She lives in a wonderful flint cottage, quintessentially English in every respect. Including its garden. Of late she’s been thinking of moving home, mainly to switch from living on four levels to living on one. She’s a talented artist and sculptor, and is very meticulous … Continue reading “Four Pillars: On snowballs and seeds and digital rights”
The kernel for this snowball was Metric 2.0‘s question in a recent comment on one of my posts. Does IT have strategic value? I shall resist the temptation to quote Paul Strassmann or Nicholas Carr, or even to rebut them. My thoughts on this are simple: First, you can no longer separate information and communication … Continue reading “On the Strategic Value of IT”
Warning: This is a long and rambling post. Somewhere, sometime, some beast birthed from AI will try and summarise it. I wish it well; but I can’t help giggling at the thought of it trying and failing. Only recently, I came across the term ai;dr; it made me smile; I smiled further when I watched … Continue reading “a preponderance of pap”