Part of an annual compliance training I saw posted on the internet of some random company: “I got a call from a reporter at a local newspaper. She wants to know what I think about a recent event about your employer. Should I talk to her?” Answer: *NO* What? As a journalist by training I … Read More “Don't talk to Reporters?” »
Favourite quote of the day, “If your program needs goto (especially in C++) the design is screwed.” –Erunno Thanks Faceboo for lowering my respect for your platform. I’ll be the first to admit I am a bad programmer, so bad I had to become a enterprise architect to avoid programming. Seriosly though, even I know … Read More “GOTO Facebook” »
I don’t really know much about it. It looks like FaceBook to me. It gives you the option to upload a photo. Oddly it ask you not to upload a picture of a pet. Now that is weird…
A colleauge of mine was interested in utilizing social networking as an adjunct to a project she is running. The idea was to use a Web 2.0 technology that would enable people to connect with people with similar interest. “Easy!”, I said. FaceBook just released their platform as open source. Of course I had only … Read More “FaceBook OpenPlatform? More like SadFace BrokenPlatform” »
We recently purchased the Roomba 530 iRobot from Amazon.com. Why Amazon? Well a year ago I was browsing for some books on Amazon and they were offering the Amazon Visa credit card with a $30.00 credit. Plus they were offering Amazon points for every $1 spent. Since my Sony Visa Card points had been recently … Read More “Roomba 530 donimates Chennault living room” »
Working in a large health care environment it is easy to think that the hospital, clinic, what have you is the center of care. Indeed in my own thinking I often think that while care starts at the home it inevitably ends up at some medical center whether that be real or virtual (i.e call … Read More “It is the patient stupid” »
One of the better quotes I’ve read regarding the steps a corporation should take when luanching into social media was made by Valdis Krebs, “…focusing first on the sociology of building networks and then supporting those social networks with technology — the correct sequence of attention…”
Some people never ask me why I use WordPress vs. the myriad of other solutions available. Well since you didn’t ask I’ll give you an example. I tried to post a comment on a Typepad hosted blog today. I was greeted with:
Today’s contender is eHealthOpinion. First the site is a sight for people with good eye site. Really, they’ve managed to cram 386 words into the first page. Now I’m not sure what the standard word count should be on a page but if you compare it to Google’s Health of just under 100 words one … Read More “Health 2.0 One Minute Review eHealthOpinion” »
I have an XBOX360 and Vista Media Center. I’m always looking for a way to watch movies on my XBOX360 extender without the bother of plopping a DVD into the notoriously noisy XBOX360. So when a pal told me (Tom Eppenberger) about Amazon Unbox I was a bit interested. I’m not a big fan of … Read More “Don't Unbox Amazon” »