My PhotoGallery

I started my first PhotoGallery in 1995, shortly after I built ibm.com/patrick. The nice folks at Kodak loaned me one of their new (at the time) DC-210 digital cameras and I began to take pictures all over the world. It is quite commonplace today but back in the mid-nineties it was a bit unique. I […]

Experimenting with Radio Userland

I have been experimenting with Radio weblog software from Userland for a week or so now and I really like it. My current plan — as soon as I master (learn some things would be a better way to say it) the features and details, is to consolidate my three main web sites…. ibm.com/patrick johnpatrick.com netattitude.org –> […]

The Book Tour – Canada to Connecticut and the airwaves

We arrived in Calgary on Sunday and rented a car to drive to Banff which is about 80 miles west. It is a beautiful ride through the Canadian Rocky Mountains. We stayed overnight at the Banff Springs Hotel and on Monday took a ride further west to Lake Louise. It is absolutely beautiful country. A […]

Dueling emails

The following “dueling emails” appeared on Borders Online during the latter part of 2001. Christopher Locke and John Patrick The Internet, unlike Internet stocks at the moment, is not dead. Christopher Locke, one of the coauthors of the popular The Cluetrain Manifesto, and John Patrick, Vice President of Internet Technology for IBM, have been thinking […]

Book Party and Beyond

My thanks to Fitzgerald Communications and Truste for hosting a book party in San Francisco on Monday night October 22. I have never been to a book party before, let alone be the one whose book was the subject of the party! I was quite honored. The origin of the party idea goes back to […]