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    A Perfect Match

    A Perfect Match

    I have been asked for perspectives on the EU investigating IBM for mainframe malfeasance.  Other than saying how nice it is to see these two fine organizations keeping each other busy, I really don’t have much new to say beyond our last installment on this topic 18 months ago.  The glacial pace is probably fine…

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    Must Have Software: Google Analytics Opt-Out

    Google Analytics can track individual Internet users across millions and millions of web sites.  Google has quietly rolled out a browser add-on for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari that prevents information about an individual web site visit from being sent to Google.  Presumably this was done in response to regulatory scrutiny somewhere in the…

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    Book Review: Cognitive Surplus – Clay Shirky

    Subtitled “Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age”, this is social media theorist Clay Shirky’s second book after Here Comes Everybody, which concerned itself with the dynamics of using social tools to “organize without organizations”. Cognitive Surplus starts with a potent historical parallel and an astonishing data point.  Early 18th century England had a “Gin…

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