Library of Congress in Fifteen Minutes
CNet posted a story by Michael Kanellos called "Blazing a New Data Speed Record" (11/30/2004). The net of it (no pun intended) is that a team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology, CERN, Fermilab, England’s University of Manchester, and elsewhere won this year’s Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge by successfully achieving a sustained data transfer […]
Waking Up IBM
Waking Up IBM: How a Gang of Unlikely Rebels Transformed Big Blue was written by Gary Hamel and published in the Harvard Business Review (July-August 2000: Reprint No. R00406). I had met gary at a “Revolutionaries” conference back during the height of the “boom” where we talked about change agents in big companies. Later Gary […]
The Semantic Web
The IT Conference in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil which I attended on October 20, 2004 was produced by IT Midia. One of their publications is INFORMATIONWEEK Brasil. Rachel Rubin is a reporter for the magazine and she interviewed me (by email) for a special issue which was distributed to the 300 attendees of the conference. The […]
Spyware
A story in the New York Times this morning described how the Federal Trade Commission is going after a former fax spammer who is now allegedly using "spyware" to track our activities on the web, push us to various marketing programs, barrage us with advertisements, and otherwise make our Internet experience less than positive. I […]
Long Distance – No. 9: Epilogue
When I said yesterday that there may be some further financial challenges ahead for the "traditional" telecommunications companies, I did not realize that on that same day AT&T Corp., the nation’s largest long-distance carrier, announced a plan to eliminate 7,000 jobs and write off $11.4 billion in assets. The Wall Street Journal reported that the […]
