by Tom | Sep 19, 2004 | Reading
The File Sharing Report asks whether file sharing (p2p) is a silent complaint about the business model of the software, movie and music industries. There’s some sense in that thought. It fits pretty well with my use of the technology (to save me ripping whole...
by Tom | Aug 31, 2004 | Reading
Headshift looks approvingly at the growing world of social taxonomy generation. It’s definitely an interesting idea to help with the taxonomy vs chaos approach to creating information structures. However, without a good general search engine, surely the benefit...
by Tom | Aug 26, 2004 | IT
Stiki Wiki is proper in-page Wiki editing. Very nice indeed. When do we get to use it?
by Tom | Aug 25, 2004 | Reading
Letter in the Independent from R S Clymo of East Sussex, in full:Sir:now that the coxless fours has ended satisfactorily, may we hope thatyou will arrange for a photograph of
by Tom | Aug 25, 2004 | Personal
Whahay! Chris got nominated for the Perrier!
by Tom | Aug 25, 2004 | Personal
Headshift pick up the growing meme that suggests that e-gov is a bad thing.Some memes we need to battle:£7.4bn – this number comes up all of the time, and contains a huge pile of assumptions, double counting and other errors. I don’t think there’s a...
by Tom | Aug 25, 2004 | Personal
Making Knowledge Management Work on your Intranet looks at growing communities of practice. This is an interesting approach to the KM requirements in consulting. I should look at adding this to BuyIT BPG and probably to consulting as well.
by Tom | Aug 23, 2004 | IT
Jason Kitcat (great name) nails the main reasons for Newham’s decision to stick with MS over OSS. It was purely used as a negotiating tool. And nice one Newham. I hear that they got a 10-fold reduction in prices in some cases. Thanks to the GCat system in...
by Tom | Aug 23, 2004 | Reading
More proof that the “copyright” industries are systematically misleading the press on the true impact of downloading movies and music.
by Tom | Aug 23, 2004 | Reading
Fold Till You Drop showcases some simply astonishing origami.