IBM Happenings: May 2009
The month of May was another busy one at IBM with a flurry of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. The complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. A major focus area in addition to a "smarter planet" is an effort using IBM’s World Community Grid “virtual supercomputer” […]
Special Libraries
I am really looking forward to visiting with the Special Libraries Association at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. on June 17. The SLA 2009 Annual Conference will be attended by 2,500 – 3,000 Information Professionals from 75 countries. “IP’s” are library and information science experts — people that are vital to libraries, information […]
IBM Happenings: April 2009
The month of April was another busy one at IBM with a flurry of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. The complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. The major focus area continues to be a "smarter planet". (See Sam Palmisano’s letter to investors for the full story […]
Comcasted
There have been a number of stories here about service problems with Comcast. The company claims that it is "easy for you to connect with someone if you have a question about your Comcast service, 24/7". Wishful thinking. It is very difficult to have a relationship with Comcast. They have comcast.com for some things and […]
Brain Tweet
It seems everybody is talking about twitter. Does twitter matter? What is a tweet? The way I think about it, twitter is just another channel of communication. In the beginning the only channel was face to face. Then over time we had smoke signals, cave drawings, parchment, the Pony Express, teletype, ham radio, telephones, cell […]