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Owen Edward Coffey

Though I’ve spent my entire professional career, and adult life, in the computer field, there are days when it’s obvious that other things are far more important. Today was such a day: my daughter Jennifer gave birth to a healthy, beautiful baby boy at 4 PM this afternoon.
Owen Edward Coffey weighed in at 7 pounds, […]

Future of Web 2.0

I’m giving a short presentation on the “future of Web 2.0″ at a CIO roundtable session in Chicago on May 12th. You can download the 14.2MB PDF version of the presentation:

Tweetwheel

If you’re a Twitter user, you must visit Tweetwheel to have it create a visual representation of your Twitter network — just type “www.tweetwheel.com/yourTwitterID” into your browser, and then sit back and watch it. Here’s mine (which may be impossible to read on the blog display, but is awesome on my 24-inch Apple display:

More on blogging vs. micro-blogging

Almost exactly a month ago, I blogged about “blogging vs. micro-blogging“. I now have a couple more pieces of data, which I think confirm the points I made in that first blog.
During the past month, I’ve written approximately 450 short “micro-blog” messages on Twitter; that works out to approximately 15 “tweets” a day. During the […]

Russia photographs

I’ve uploaded about 150 photographs from my recent trip to St. Petersburg and Moscow. If you’re interested, you can see them here on Flickr.

Visiting Russia

I returned yesterday from my first visit to Russia — which consisted of a week in St. Petersburg and Moscow — and am struggling to provide some observations and impressions that won’t seem superficial to friends and colleagues in both countries. One reason I’m sensitive about this is that I often meet people in other […]

Agile presentation in Moscow

I’m giving a presentation on “User reactions to XP/Agile development” to the Agile Development group in Moscow this evening. You’ve got to actually be there (wherever “there” is; hopefully I’ll find out in time!) to hear the additional commentary, comments, jokes, and explanations. But if you’d like to download the 2.7-megabyte PDF file for the […]

Detroit presentation: “The Politics of Metrics”

I’ll be in Detroit on Tuesday, April 15th, giving a presentation on “The Politics of Metrics” at the “Software Best Practices” conference. If you’re not there in person, you’ll miss all of the clever jokes, subtle explanations, question-answer dialogue, etc.; but you can download the 1.5-megabyte PDF version of the presentation by clicking on the […]

We Think

Here’s an intriguing and provocative view of what “Web 2.0″ is all about…

MacBook Air

A couple months ago, I posted a long blog about the many reasons I had decided to forego the temptation to order Apple’s new MacBook Air. Too slow, too limited, missing ports and PC card slots, blah blah blah …
… and yet … and yet … I couldn’t help being tempted every time I saw […]

Blogging versus Micro-blogging

Here are a couple of interesting statistics: the current version of this blog was launched on April12, 2006 — which means it’s almost exactly two years old. During that time, I’ve posted 404 blog entries, not counting this one.
Meanwhile, I began using the Twitter “micro-blogging” site sometime in October, 2007 — which means I’ve been […]