December 10th, 2007
After yesterday’s discussion of whether enterprise applications are doomed to be dull and “unsexy,” I thought it would be a good opportunity to provide a review of Donald Norman’s new book, The Design of Future Things. Norman doesn’t talk about ERP or enterprise applications, nor does he focus on software “products” per se — though […]
December 5th, 2007
Fair warning: if you’re thoroughly uninterested in photographs, or archiving large collections of photographs of your family life, do yourself a favor and skip this blog posting.
Have you noticed that when victims of floods, fires, hurricanes and other disasters are interviewed about what they managed to take with them when they fled from their houses, […]
December 4th, 2007
It didn’t really come as a surprise when I saw the story that ATT had announced it would withdraw from the pay-phone marketplace within the next year; if anything, it’s a surprise that there are any pay phones any more, at least in urban centers around the world. But the Wikipedia article on pay phones […]
November 25th, 2007
I’ve been accumulating new Web 2.0 materials for the past week or so, and it’s time for an update. As usual, the new version is available to you in several different formats. If you’d like to see it as an (ugly Betty) Google Docs presentation, click here. And if you’d like to make additions, […]
November 23rd, 2007
While I’ve been reporting on my own personal experiences with Kindle during the past few days, several other bloggers, journalists, pundits, and techno-geeks have also been offering their opinions. What follows is almost certainly not an exhaustive collection — and even if it were, it would be obsolete by tomorrow. But it will give you […]
November 22nd, 2007
Bottom line: the Kindle machine may be as unattractive as a Commodore 64 (to paraphrase David Pogue’s review in this morning’s New York Times), but it is a remarkably complex, sophisticated device. Indeed, I found myself muttering, “With a little more work, they could have made this as good as a Mac!” — and I […]
November 21st, 2007
Here are a couple of observations about reading newspapers on the new Kindle e-reader. First: reading is a ritual, which most of us begin practicing at an early age. Second: it’s not easy changing a ritual, especially when it’s been reinforced for a long time, on a daily basis. Third: rituals have nuances and details, […]
November 20th, 2007
I returned home from an out-of-town business trip this evening, and found my Kindle machine (which I had just ordered yesterday, courtesy of Amazon’s one-click shopping mechanism) waiting for me. I’ve now had about two hours to play with it, which in today’s superficial world probably qualifies me as a veteran pundit; in any case, […]
November 16th, 2007
Once again, it’s time for an update to my Web 2.0 presentation. There’s nothing really earthshaking here, but the bits and pieces of new material help round out the overall picture of what’s happening in the Web 2.0 world.
As usual, the new version is available to you in several different formats. If you’d like to […]
November 13th, 2007
I just listened to a fascinating presentation by Paul Strassmann at the IT Metrics & Produtivity Institute “Software Best Practice” conference Ft. Lauderdale. It was a detailed analysis of the IT transformation that began a couple years ago at HP, and is still underway. You can see a one-page summary of the results of that […]
