December 23rd, 2006
Every once in a while — usually as a New Year approaches — it occurs to me that I’m getting a little too comfortable with the tools, technologies, gadgets, habits, and practices in my day-to-day life, and that I should find something that drags me outside my “comfort zone” in order to grow, expand my […]
December 21st, 2006
A few people (mostly lawyer-bloggers, for reasons I don’t understand) noticed a recent blog-note that I wrote about corporate blogging policies; see, for example, here and here for examples of the commentaries from these nice folks. And a reader responded to one of those commentaries by alerting us to a list of corporate blogging policies […]
December 19th, 2006
For those who still believe that structured analysis is the greatest invention since peanut butter (which accounted for 50 percent of the U.S. peanut production in 2001 — bet you didn’t know that!), I’ve written a four-page retrospective summary of the topic in a just-published issue of ObjectView magazine. You can download it, free, as […]
December 17th, 2006
I was talking on the phone this morning to my mother — a well-read woman in her eighties, who is remarkably up to date on current events in the world — and I was amused when she asked me, “Did you see what Time magazine chose as the Person of the Year?”
“Yes,” I replied. “It’s […]
December 15th, 2006
The response to my recent postings about corporate blogging has been astounding: thousands upon thousands of people have emailed me, with questions and comments and expressions of gratitude and disgust. Warring factions throughout the Middle East have declared an indefinite truce, so they can talk about the issues. Congress has declared a series of national […]
December 15th, 2006
Having blogged several times in recent days about the benefits and virtues of encouraging corporate employees to write “open” blogs aimed at people in the external marketplace, I have to acknowledge a recent survey that illustrates the potential Dark Side of blogging. Ian Delaney alerted me, in a recent posting on his twopointouch blog (which […]
December 13th, 2006
The Internet has been buzzing today about a vintage-2004 email that Microsoft’s Jim Allchin sent to co-founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer about the likelihood of his buying a Macintosh if he had not been a Microsoft employee. From what I can tell (see Computerworld’s December 11, 2006 article, “Windows development chief: ‘I would […]
December 11th, 2006
A few days ago, I posted some comments on employee interpretations of a company’s blogging policy, and I was pleasantly surprised to see a number of acknowledgments and responses; see, for example, Stowe Boyd’s blog postings here, and some others there, and anywhere, and nowhere. I thought I’d add a few additional comments, but realized […]
December 9th, 2006
Reading through the report of the Iraq Study Group during the past couple days, I stumbled upon an interesting suggestion in their Recommendation 63:
“To combat corruption, the U.S. government should urge the Iraqi government to post all oil contracts, volumes, and prices on the Web so that Iraqis and outside observers can track exports and […]
December 6th, 2006
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past several months, you know that the Iraq Study Group (aka “the Baker Committee”) published its report today. Heck, Osama Bin Laden is probably still living in a cave, and I’ll bet he knows that the report has been published. You can download the 1.5-megabyte PDF […]
