Archive for March, 2010

Thoughts on Enterprise Social Media : Part II

In the first post of this tiny series, I basically just oriented myself to the topic and declared my stance on social media to begin with! In this post I look at how social media at work can attempt to make itself relevant, and hopefully quantifiably so.
As I have always said, social media needs to [...]

Thoughts on Enterprise Social Media : Part I

In a short series of 3 nibble-sized posts, I’m going write about some of the things I’m learning about a rapidly expanding field: Enterprise intranets – specifically the inclusion of social media platforms with the attendant folksonomies and enterprise search functionality.
First off, I should declare my stance: I am a social media luddite. I am [...]

data, information, and the necessary delusions of purpose

In the same way that we kid ourselves that we are artists and writers, poets, lovers, mothers, Olympic sprinters, whatever… so too do corporate entities become mired in their own necessary delusions of purpose.
But of course… I persist in my unholy (hollow?) belief that the one true original purpose is the simple, banal processing of [...]

virulent clouds: crimeware-as-a-service

Another telling example of how the battle continues to rage between regular apps and… well, not-so-regular apps. The one-upmanship continues into the stratospheric realms of computing:
http://malwareint.blogspot.com/2010/01/crimeware-as-service-and-antivirus.html
And it makes sense, doesn’t it? Line up the current vanguard of antivir sniffer dogs in the cloud, toss up evil binaries to see which sniffers pick up the scent. [...]