Commentator ‘depressed’ that cloud sounds just like SOA
Stacey Higginbotham, a commentator for GigaOm, recently remarked that a recent HP tutorial on cloud computing was “depressingly similar to…
Real-world batch versus real-world real-time
Geek & Poke’s Oliver Widder saw my recent post on batch processing, and provides this real-world example of batch versus…
SOA will accelerate cloud computing — here’s why
Quote of the week: “SOA is not required to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing, but well-designed architectures…
Information Wants to be Expensive
Former Wall Street Journal publisher and executive vice-president of Dow Jones L. Gordon Crovitz writes: When author Stewart Brand coined…
Aspirational Marketing
I’m always amazed at the loyalty of sports fans – the guys that will brave the cold with letters painted…
Jeremy Blogged in Class Today!
OK, for those of you who don’t recognize the Pearl Jam allusion, here are the lyrics and video. But most…
Quasi-Property Rights: Associated Press and the “Hot News” Doctrine
Like many bloggers, I learn which topics are “hot” from aggregators like Techmeme–which in turn automatically aggregate news sources from…
Reflecting on Times Open
Like everyone else who managed to get into the standing room only event (or at least everyone I had a…
SOA 2009: Do we need architects or firefighters?
ZDNet blogging colleague Ian Findley just posted an interesting question that reflects ever-shifting priorities in today’s rough-and-tumble economy: “When the…
Communities and Networks — A brilliant synthesis
Pretend, for a moment, that it is February 17th and I was blogging as I was supposed to. I would…