It’s Time For A Tech Industry Intervention To Address Misogyny
News junkie that I am, I see a lot of headlines. And four came in over the last 30 hours.
News junkie that I am, I see a lot of headlines. And four came in over the last 30 hours.
If you believe that your current job is your last job — the one that you will retire from — raise.
Okay, I know that it’s a problem worthy of psychoanalysis that I’m so fascinated with the Request for Proposal (RFP).
After eight years, I’ve decided to shutter the nptech.info website, which will also disable the @nptechinfo twitter feed that was.
Image: Vince Lamb At least, if everything you know about it is everything that I knew about it before last.
Google unveiled a bold new product last week; one of critical and compelling import to anyone who believes that their online reputation is important. I'm not talking about Google Buzz. I'm talking about Google Profiles. This isn't a new service -- Google introduced the profile pages a few years ago. But the release of Google Buzz has illuminated how important they are in Google's plans, and how important they can be for us. And if this profile is now a key pin in my personal branding strategy, I demand better tools to manage it than Google has provided.
An award-winning friend of mine at NTEN referred me to this article, by Jeremy Reimer, suggesting that Word, the ubiquitous Microsoft text manipulation application, has gone the way of the dinosaur. The "boil it down" quote:
"Word was designed in a different era, for a very specific purpose. We don't work that way anymore."
This article was originally published at Idealware in March of 2009. The Internet gives you access to a virtual smorgasbord.
Say you sign up for some great Web 2.0 service that allows you to bookmark web sites, annotate them, categorize them and share them. And, over a period of two or three years, you amass about 1500 links on the site with great details, cross-referencing -- about a thesis paper's worth of work. Then, one day, you log on to find the web site unavailable. News trickles out that they had a server crash. Finally, a painfully honest blog post by the site's founder makes clear that the server crashed, the data was lost, and there were no backups. So much for your thesis, huh? Is the lesson, then, that the cloud is no place to store your work?
This post was originally published on the Idealware Blog in November of 2008. After my highfalutin post on mobile operating.
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