What’s an IT analyst, anyway?

I’m conscious of a couple of things as I set out to write this, what I hope will be short, entry. First – there is an ongoing debate about the nature of the analyst business, and the credibility of the analysts themselves. Second - many of the people who come to this site have no clue [...]

Mobility = Ubiquity

Here’s a concept that came up in conversation with Cisco a year or so ago, and which popped back into my consciousness due to the closing remarks of this week’s, always-a-winner Round-Up: “And finally – a challenge for you. Dashing about in central London, trying to find somewhere from which to file this newsletter, the [...]

Ego Sum

Great little post on the MWD blog, about egosystem vs ecosystem I’m still getting the hang of what should go here and what should go there – basically if it has a personal spin it goes here, and a corporate stuff goes there. I would imagine James, Stephen and Cote would argue that blogs should be [...]

Getting engaged

Everyone, as Tom Cruise once said about his now ex-wife Nicole Kidman, “is absolutely right.” Apparently, saying these words is the best way to prevent an argument, or at least resolve one. And while it doesn’t seem to have worked for our Tom (though perhaps it worked better for Nicole, whose own thought was, “finally [...]

More on briefing analysts

Following James’s tips on briefing IT industry analysts, here’s some of my own from the archives – a bit rusty, but applicable.

Doing no evil

Following my post about duping Google’s search records , I noticed that Google currently has no intention to give up such data to the US government apart from when required to by law. This sounds like a dubious distinction given that the government’s asked a judge to rule on the matter, but at least Google [...]

Got me foxed

To open with a caveat: it might have been something I did. However, to my knowledege the only recent change to my Internet Explorer settings was when I downloaded the recent series of security patches. It still works – after a fashion – but tends to lock up when too many windows are open. It [...]

If this post appears…

…. it means I can post from anywhere, by email. No more excuses, just queue ‘em up and let ‘em go. Meanwhile, I’m building a list of open questions that I’d like answered. I’d like to suggest one possible future – Douglas Adams was right.

What does Hormel think about spam?

In one of those Monday morning moments, I got to wondering what the company that originally registered the term “SPAM” (the meat-like substance) thought about the term “spam” (the email scourge). A few minutes on Google and I found the following page on one of Hormel’s web sites. It boils down to the following: “Let’s [...]

The people’s front of WOMM

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about relationships. That’s business relationships, not personal ones � though admittedly the line does blur, as it probably would in any community. Community – we’ll come back to that, but there are a number of strands of thinking I want to bring together. Bear with me, and [...]