That’s that done, then

I’ve reorganised my blogs. Here you will find background reference to all things tech and the skinny on things analytic. For day-job analysis I shall be posting on Freeform Comment. Over at joncollins.net will be my non-technical alter-ego. Hope that makes sense!

Psst… date issues – not

I’m moving a number of early posts (2003) at the moment from joncollins.net to here. As I’ll be keeping the timestamp, they will look a bit funny if you’re on RSS – which I’m hoping nobody is just yet!

Social existentialism, and the Yourdon-Fry effect

“I’m no stranger to celebrity myself,” said the man. And in a way it was true – he had spent many years working closely with such types. Who was he? It doesn’t really matter – he could have been a journalist, a PR guy, a lawyer, a waiter, a taxi driver or indeed, even a [...]

Virtualisation, green, SOA, security

If I had the time I’d rank the buzzwords that didn’t make it. Could be quite a laugh.

links for 2008-02-16

I, Cringely: What if Microsoft doesn’t really hope to buy Yahoo at all? Indeed – and I heard a similar wqhat-if about Facebook. Obfuscation tactics? (tags: microsoft yahoo)

Declarative living and disclosure

There’s been a lot of chat on the AR back-channels about IT analyst independence. One thing I have wondered however, is how difficult it is to keep up appearances when using such microblogging facilities as twitter. A bit like, sure, you can fudge your musical preferences with last.fm, but is it really worth it? Similarly, [...]

Robin’s must-read AR series

Just read ‘em. You know it makes sense. Despite little of the analyst “industry” having much of that. How To Deal With Analysts: #1 The Pre-Briefing How To Deal With Analysts: #2 AR or PR? How To Deal With Analysts: #3 Know The Analysts How To Deal With Analysts: #4 What Do Analysts Do? How [...]

How was your week?

For information, mine was pretty good. Had some great conversations – particularly with David Rossiter, Ian Murphy and Michael Hyatt, done some good business and generally got on top of things.  I’ve been thinking a lot about security, power over ethernet and IT-business alignment, as well as IT analyst independence and the general state of [...]

You came all the way down here, just to do this?

An interesting remark made by one of the attendees at Tuesday night’s BCS meeting in Plymouth, where I was presenting on security topics. Yes indeed, I went all the way down there, just for that – but it was well worth it. While we would prefer not to live in a vacuum, sometimes it can [...]

Why another blog?

Just in case anyone actually reads this and thinks – “but isn’t he already posting here, and here?” – this blog is an experiment. In finding a voice that flows more naturally than article-oriented blogs; in self indulgence; and in the fact that I liked the URL and wanted to register it. I wanted to [...]