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Telecommuting, anyone?
April may be the cruelest month, but not for news in Washington. That distinction is reserved for August. Congress recessed today (I’m writing this August 1) for a 5 week vacation. Bo-ring. No news, right? Well, maybe. A group of 50 House Republicans took the floor after the House recessed and continued debate. But it…
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3 Things You Can Do to Green your Data Center
Data Centers pose a problem when it comes to being energy efficient. Servers are on all day, every day and are expected to perform with a speed and reliability that we rarely expect from any other service. As a result, they generate tremendous amounts of heat and consume tremendous amounts of power. However, there are…
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I Need to Get Out in Front of this PR Nightmare…
I do not want to post this. But in the spirit of good PR, I have to get out in front of it. :-) This was a home video taken on July 29, 1988 – twenty years ago almost to the day. The story was… it was in Africa, where I lived for a bit…
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Feed Subscriptions Are So Important
When I left b5media, I had established a base of over 1300 feed subscribers on this blog. I was proud of that because, let’s face it, if you aren’t a news site breaking news all the time, people are not as inclined to subscribe to a feed. The feed at that time was hosted via…
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Eco-friendly Conference Attendance
There’s probably several dozen major tech conferences, or pseudo tech-conferences, that happen every year. Social media hounds and bloggers head off to conferences like SXSW, Gnomedex or even SES. What are some of the things that people can do to be a little more environmentally conscience while attending these things. Walk Instead of taking a…
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Why the "Techo Chamber"?
Q: How many candidates for political office do you see promising to “____________ to the Washington insiders and ___________”? A: Lots. People like reformers. They make voters feel good. Things will be different. Etc. Q: How many people complain about the same “talking heads” day after day, week after week, pontificating on the same shows,…
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Trolls and Adversity
This evening I spent a large chunk of time surfing through a variety of websites, perusing my feed reader and Googling stories for Green week this week. My perusing led me down a rabbit trail that, honestly, I’ve wanted to talk about but events of recent days now compell me to talk about. Internet fame…
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Thoughts on MobileMe and Apple
As I’ve spent the past 24 hours wiping my Macbook Pro and trying to get back up to speed, I thought I’d give a few thoughts on MobileMe, Apple Mail and Push/Cloud technology. This is relatively raw as I am much more focused on getting back to work than I am “getting things right” as…
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The Best Pro-Obama McCain Ad EVAR
It should be said that maybe the McCain campaign needs to go back to marketing school. This is the strangest opposition video I’ve ever seen in a campaign.