telecom, technology and the occasional floobergeist
I’ve got an abundance of bits and pieces of canadian telecom and internet experience, and I am thrilled to be in a place in time when all is changing, technology is developing, and the status quo is being disrupted.
Floobergeist is a word that is beginning to defy definition. The more I roll that smooth pebble around, the more it becomes to mean. Floobergeist started out as the magic dust that turns dreams into ideas. And then it began to encompass the zing that happens when you have conversations about those ideas. And now, it’s the whole evolution from dream to conversation, with each step improving the later and the former along the way.
Everyone aspires to good conversations. They can lead you to adventures you’ve never imagined, and to people you can twig with.
Let’s have a good conversation…
welcome.
This is likely a worthwhile page to tag.
Net Neutrality: This is serious | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
Net neutrality is this: If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level.
Technorati Tags: net neutrality, tim berners lee, breadcrumbs
Now this is an interesting bit of wildness....
When would you want to re-activate the tag?
Information Architecture > Service Oriented Architectures > New Ontario RFID guidelines emphasize "consumer consent"
Consumer consent must be obtained before personal information linked to a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is collected, used and disclosed, according a new set of guidelines issued by Ontario's Information and Privacy Commission (IPC).The guidelines also recommend automatic deactivation of the tags at the point of sale. Consumers should be able to choose to re-activate the tags at a later date, repurpose them, or otherwise have control over the manner in which tags interact with RFID readers.
So - i've got almost 2 months under my belt at the new gig - and i'm ready to look around and see what sorts of fun i can stir up…. sure, it's one thing to encourage web cams and IM, another thing to figure out how to increase collaboration amongst a team who is extraordinarily geographically diverse. Did I mention the team is also fiercely independent? It makes for a great team, but it also makes for a VERY BIG VACUUM.
I need a tool that allows folks to keep each other up to speed on what we are working up, and also to share information, documents and diagrams. I am waiting for Foldera, because nothing else seems right. I'm worried that Foldera may be TOO much, and have too many whistles, and scare the ream away with arguements of cumbersome-ness and distractions… we shall see.
Folks have been linking the 2 conversations - IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) and Net Neutrality for a few months now....
IP Democracy
IMS: Designing the Non-Neutral Smart Network
Courtesy of David Isenberg, author of "Rise of the Stupid Network," I stumbled upon some interesting comments on IMS (which might be described as "Quest for the Smart Network") by John Waclawsky. Waclawsky is a member of the Mobile Wireless Group at Cisco Systems involved with standards activities, product requirements and architectures.
Technorati Tags: IMS, Net Neutrality
The Wizard and I regularly debate the value of blogs. He's of the mind that blogs are at the epoch of the their popularity, and that there will be a vast majority of the population who will never engage in the activity. Moreover, he is convinced that blogs will ultimately die a slow death, and are simply a flash in the pan. He may be right. Sort of.
There is a generation who will never find the on-line bug. The bug that encourages you to try out new technologies, to invest in on-line applications, to immerse yourself in the greater atmosphere of the internet. Folks who won't use Skype, or IM or wireless. Folks who simply are grounded in web 1.0
That being said, there is the next generation, the newbies who are podcasting, and IM'ing with their phones, and setting up MySpace sites. The people who ARE sharing music, who are making maps of the best pubs in chicago. People who are attending conferences and live chats. My gut says that these are the people who are going to run the world some day.
A lynchpin in discussions between the Wiz and I is the debate of using your blog as your resume. Or, at very least, having your URL on your resume. He is adament that the day will never come. His peers are likeminded. Me, well, now that my indentity has evolved, and my online presence is gelling, I have a feeling that my next resume will indeed have my url. It's all about audience. And it's all about identity.
Finally people are starting to realize, with the internet, as with everything in life, you have to accurately portray yourself, or face the consequences.
What do you think - would you put your blog URL in your resume?
For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé - New York Times
For Some, Online Persona Undermines a RésuméBy ALAN FINDERWhen a small consulting company in Chicago was looking to hire a summer intern this month, the company's president went online to check on a promising candidate who had just graduated from the University of Illinois.At Facebook, a popular social networking site, the executive found the candidate's Web page with this description of his interests: "smokin' blunts" (cigars hollowed out and stuffed with marijuana), shooting people and obsessive sex, all described in vivid slang.It did not matter that the student was clearly posturing. He was done."A lot of it makes me think, what kind of judgment does this person have?" said the company's president, Brad Karsh. "Why are you allowing this to be viewed publicly, effectively, or semipublicly?"
Technorati Tags: blogs, resumes, blog future
Technorati Tags: blogs, resumes, blog future
… you know what i mean, when they suddenly go quiet. Like: All is Quiet on the Blogging front? Like: when you find a blog that you love, and then suddenly, one day, the music stops? And still you wait, wonder if the blog master will return, not wanting to have to unsubscribe to the rss feed, hoping upon hope that you are being too hasty…
Meh, i hate it when bloggers burn out. Especially when they are a joy to read. Pfft. Now that's 2 i've lost. Like losing a good friend, I say.
I think the little baby jesus is giggling right now.... as a lonely IT chick, it's flattering and such a good sign that this sort of conversation is finally happening....
Information Architecture > Messaging and Collaboration > Speaking Venusion - strategies for marketing technology to women
Is there such a thing as a gender-based approach to marketing technology products? Many marketing strategists believe this is indeed the case. When it comes to tech marketing approaches, they say, "what's sauce for the goose may not be sauce for the gander." That was a recurring motif at a recent conference on "Marketing to Women" held in April in Toronto. One of the high-profile speakers at the conference was Tony Rossi, director of sales and marketing at Epson Canada Ltd. Today, in this "Voices" exclusive, Rossi shares some of his insights on this topic with IT World Canada's Web editor Joaquim P. Menezes. He discusses why "marketing to women" is such a hot topic today - and one that tech companies can only ignore at their peril.
Ahh - googled the meaning of the page rank....
Google Technology
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.
Technorati Tags: google, page rank, wow.jules.ca
Sheesh - I've been reading the kerfuffle over the legal ownership of the term web 2.0,a nd how it can be used (or not) in conferences. Tim O'Reilly and CMP have certainly stirred the blogo-pot on this one…. or, perhaps it's something else…
There once was a time when you could make a business decision, and not have the rest of the world reading over your shoulder. The developments of web 2.0 and the kazillion of bloggers throughout the world have put a magnifying glass on everything that remotely smells like it could have an impact on them. And what's worse, people have NO PROBLEM spouting off on anything vaguely controvercial, regardless of what it is. What may be the kicker tho, is the louder people spout, the less they really know about the content, the situation or the background. Funny, that.
Maybe we don't need more collaboration. Maybe we need more education. More critical thinking, not personal criticism.
Reading what some of the posters had to say about Tim made me embarassed to be a blogger.
wow... mark goldberg hits the nail on the head... and i have to admit, i'm quite guilty of the Iridium Syndrome.... (yes, I have a logitech digital pen)
Telecom Trends
the Iridium syndrome: doing stuff because you can, regardless of the merits of the business case.
Technorati Tags: Iridium Syndrome, logitech, digital pen
Just because i was a bit frustrated with switching between browsers to do nifty blog posting, i stumbled upon Performancing... and it actually works. sheesh!
Performancing for Firefox | Performancing.com
Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox * Works with all major blog software * Easy WYSIWYG Editing * Trackback, Technorati and Del.icio.us support
Technorati Tags: performancing blogging
... ok - so i'm working on a project that would see one appliance that can do IPTV, voice and internet. This appliance would go into a multi dweller building - like a condo or a hotel and provide all services to the suites.
Is there such a beast? Oh yah, it's also got to be able to handle the accounting and billing as well - and it's got to make use of existing wiring in the building ;-)
I poked at nortel, and i'm sure cisco has something.... but finding details on the cisco site is a pain in the ass.
... wow.
So, I've migrated from using the web interface at squarespace to using the blog interface of Flock, and since flock does the fancy technorati tags options, and i've actually used the tags options, the amount of traffic to this site has increased by 20% in the past week! Holy!
Who knew?!?! It's stunning. Brilliant. Mind you, the flexibility is better with swuarespace, but the tagging in flock still makes me choose flock for the posting and such... i can clean up the accessories with the squarespace web interface...
Hmmm... if i didn't know better, i would think that flock might replace my firefox... i know, crazy talk, but look at me - 2 browsers open for 2 different applications.
;-)
technorati tags: flock, squarespace, technorati, browser wars, blog
… so - all the cool kids are at the mesh conference…… but as this is only my 6th day of work (in a row) at the new gig, i couldn't very well bail so early for 2 days :-(
jon arnold writes some interesting commentary about what what, and who said who - and he got to see om malik [in real life!!]
one worthy nugget [among many] from jon's review about om was:
Finally, another nugget from Om was that the real value of the blog is not the content - it's the comments - the real dialog that blogs create a platform for. His job is really just to provide context for the important news items, and that sets the stage for intelligent engagement with a community that cares about that topic. Along those lines, as a journalist, blogging is his way of keeping a story going, which I'm sure all journalists would agree with.
i loved that part - it's all about the comments, and less about the content…. makes me think more about comments :-) and the fact that i don't write enough of them!! I can nod and grin or acrue wrinkles, but i rarely comment. For Shame. I will attempt to improve.
After spending 2 and a half hours trying to get my new wireless router to work with my rogers internet and my primus VoIP phone, i had to give up and revert to my old setup….. we had bought a new wireless router to take advantage of some of the new bells and whistles, and to also have some better (read: some) security on the wireless access… it's all fun and games to knock people freeloaders off the service, but they keep coming back ;-)
So, my primus modem wants to be right behind my cable modem… and my old wireless router (linsys) didn't care that it was connected behind the primus box…. but for some reason, the new d-link was more finicky, and when i pluged it after the cable modem, the primus phone service didn't work. I never could get any connectivity through the new d-link wireless box…
And so, 2 and a half hours later, everything is back the way it was… and the new d-link is back in it's box, ready for someplace other than here. It's luck it didn't end up in the lake.
Grr.
… it's early, very early, and i'm up, wandering around and waiting for the water to boil for coffee… and decided to poke into Scobleizer and see what that wee microsift due was up to… eep - i should have just read the newspapers, would have been safer…
He'd documented an interesting virtual game/MUD/MOO called Second Life. I'd never heard of it, and so I gave it a google. Yikes, like i just want to drop over the sleeping dog.
You see, in 3rd year university, i was quite deep into mutiuser games, and multiuser games that let you make things and do interesting things in VR. I was hooked, classes were ignored, boyfriends too. Really, not entirely my fault, it was all greg's fault . It was an interesting time, before windows took over the internet… a simple time ;-)
Regardless, i sit here now, wondering if I really want to delve back into that world, to see what is new, what it's like, what has changed. Now isn't a good time, ;-) I don't have countless hours to dedicated.
My fingers are itchy, maybe i'll just poke at it till the rest of the world wakes up.
Imagine my surprise, sitting down to last week's Eweek.com magazine, and flipping backwards to forwards [how else does one read a tech magazine], I stumbled across Peter Coffee's article on Super services=superhighways.
Sure, it starts off as a grand plug for distributed content provider, Akami , but what he's really getting to is the fact that we don't and can't want a flat, undifferentiated network for the internet.
The internet requires its own internal segmentation to deliver services based on ability and inclination to pay for them. - Peter Coffee
Ahem.
Mark Golderberg is also saying similar things about Net Neutrality, and that differentiated services are a logical progression in the evolution of the Internet
Technorati : Mark Goldberg, Net Neutrality, Peter Coffee, eweek.com
… i struggle with this question daily… and am thrilled that other folk's are thinking about the same things…. horse|pig|cow is having the same interesting thoughts… as is this dude, Guy Kawasaki.
Both very different angles, both have interesting ideas, both have different places where they've been, and where they want to go.
:-)
Technorati : Guy Kawasaki, Tara Hunt, blogging
… it's curious how people are drawn to blogs, and even more curious who decides to subscribe, and who simply bookmarks… and I wonder if bookmarks are a thing of the past, what with all the fancy blog reader tools that are now available…
I've struggled with many of them, and then settled on the good old google personalized page. Seems too simple, and sometimes i wish it did more in the way of convergence, but it's easy, damned easy. I've read the rumours that google isn't going to turn out a portal offering, but i so wish they would reconsider, considering all the tiny apps that they have, that i happen to use… and i'd love to be able to include additional things in their personalized page… like pandora ;-)
So - back to my original train of thought, my blog stats have quadroupled in the past 3 months… partly to my announcing my departure from the company who cannot be named, and i aptly included my URL in my g'bye letter…. thus forcing myself above the radar ;-) And perhaps partly because of…. who knows? Maybe i'm writing things that are getting picked up by the zillions of blog pulse engines….
on ne sais jamais.
one never knows.
Technorati : Blogging, Google, Traffic Stats