This year at HPE Discover, I decided to put my Kodak PixPro SP360 to some major use. The task was to record the Blogger Coffee talks at the event. Each one is filled with lots of great content and I wanted to not only capture the speakers, but also the people asking the questions. Architect […]
If you have ever attended a conference you know the mass emails can get really annoying. Everyone wants you to check out their product. Launch.IT tries to curb those mass emails with their Event news and social engagement platform. Launch.IT created a rich news guide from press kits, company overviews, flash drive information and more. […]
I’ve expressed my skepticism of cloudy hype several times. I can summarize it as, “Use the cloud if it serves a purpose better than anything else can for you, but don’t use it just because you can.” (The primary legitimate purposes I can see include collaboration across time, space, and platforms, and off-site back-ups.) Cory […]
I have often expressed my skepticism of cloud computing as the answer to life, the universe, and everything. (See Note.) Nevertheless, Google’s cloud saved my bacon today. I felt that it was only fair to tell the story. My Android G1 is broken. Specifically, the touch screen no longer works. I was able to use […]
The Guardian documents a case of creeping jargon: The UK is going to create its own “cloud“: Buried in the story, though, is some news I find exciting: they are encouraging a move to open source. From the same story:
I have several times indicated my skeptical take on “cloud computing.” It boils down to this: Last week, Charles Ledbetter, writing in the Guardian, considered another concern: that the untidy anarchic free nature of the internet is increasingly under attack. Ledbetter sums up the dangers he sees in this way:
I have not concealed my skepticism about “cloud computing.” I see only two reason for sticking my data out there somewhere in the care of who knows who, except for off-site backups and collaborative projects. (For anyone who has invested deeply in time or money or both, in websites, software, and data, offsite backups are […]
I have two topics in this post because I find both interesting, but don’t think I have enough to say about either to warrant two posts. In the Guardian, Cory Doctorow expresses his skepticism about cloud computing. I’m not going to try to excerpt it, just recommend it as food for thought. This other one, […]
Over at Scientific Blogging, Barry Leiba comments on cloud computing. The story is here. He says, in part, Rant follows.