Blogging not on the radar for most CIOs

John Patrick (former IBM chief dreamer) reports that the CIOs he’s met “… think they need blogging like they need a hole in the head”.

During the past week, I had the pleasure of meeting with quite a few senior executives — mostly CIO’s — of major corporations. They were all familiar to varying degrees with WiFi but not one had even heard of blogging. One said, “blobbing?”.

Once I explain what blogging is all about, the typical response from people is that they are already in “information overload” to how could they possibly take on reading or writing a blog?

via Due Diligence

[/technology] posted at 22:47 #

US current account deficit

This piece about the current account deficit has been all over the blogosphere recently. It’s position reminded me of one of the things this guy/crank has been saying for years.

The idea that imperialism has a tendency to financially overstretch is comforting, and has historic precedence, but I don’t have the economic understanding to know whether it is correct as presented.

The Economist has this which gives a slightly more credible correction scenario.

[/economics] posted at 09:49 #

A TiVo for daily life

Here’s something I will be loving once it is a more mature (and discrete!) technology. The equivalent of a TiVo for your daily life. Glimpses and glances will become solid referenced memories.

Once you get enough capacity to store the whole day and some kind of AI that can intelligently process the data, things start to get very interesting.

If that sounds far fetched, bear in mind that it’s a subset of DARPA’s LifeLog. The whole project also includes recording audio and positioning data.

[/technology] posted at 09:22 #

Monthly update

Well, it’s been a month since I started doing this in real-time. It’s been fun and educational, and I still find writing well incredibly difficult.

I regret that soon after I started blogging, I lost the time I needed to study a wide of variety of subjects. Work on my dissertation is engaging and the framework already functions as a basic RSS aggregator. But I don’t want to post about BEGIN block behaviour under mod_perl or RSS 1.0 using the obscure “W3CDTF” date format - and that is what I have to spend my time thinking about at the moment.

Maybe this is a useful feedback mechanism. If I don’t want to write about it, how interested do I really find it?

Basically, that is my excuse for topic drift. Normal service can now resume…

[/meta] posted at 09:18 #