
New post format: a weekly rollup of links, comments on those links, activity updates and attempts at humor. The intention is quicker hits in addition to the less frequent big posts and more timely hammering on my favorite themes. This is my primary hangout until the contours of the post-Twitter world become clear. Be sure…

The threading of these @charlesfitz Tweets was all messed up. I blame Elon. Now that the New York Times has cancelled the world’s worst technology column, our tech media quality control efforts have shifted to the Acceleration Economy.com (aka the “yay Oracle” blog). Reprising here: 1 Special Oracle PR Operation (aka the “yay Oracle” blog)…

“Clown-1-1” (CC BY-SA 2.0) by americanbulldogbully007 Tl;dr: IBM is the Generalissimo Francisco Franco of cloud: still dead. Like the beleaguered consumer in these inflationary times, Oracle is spending more while falling ever further behind. A Trump Cloud? The opposite of a cloud is a clown. We know this because CAPEX doesn’t lie. Let’s pay another…