Six great myths of IT

Six great myths of IT. Well worth a read: don’t buy upgradeable servers, do have tech-savvy people at the top and you will succeed with IT, eventually.

Groupthink

Headshift gives us a nice roundup of thinking about groups who can provide better decision-making than “experts”. As Lee say: the meat will come out of applying this to business and/or government?

P2P is legal

Glad to see some sense in the US legal system. Apparently file sharing networks should not be held liable for the potentially illegal actions of their member.

More on e-gov is bad

Even in the silly season, people are picking up on the e-gov is bad story from the Observer. My next (and new) job? To help provide the evidence that says that e-gov is good.

Some e-gov things

Firstly a European repository of best practice and a report that the UK is fifth for e-government.