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San Francisco, The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.
Image credit: SF Weekly Normally I would tweet this but this feature in SF Weekly is so extensive and conclusive that it deserves attention. It’s time to face facts: San Francisco is spectacularly...
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Conference Spending Matters: Chicago Gets Dumped as a Convention City of Choice
Image via Wikipedia If I were to practice what I preach here on Spend Matters, I should have probably packed up my bags and left Chicago — not to mention Illinois — a long time ago. After all, this is...
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Tim Bray’s Enterprise 2.0 conundrum
Yesterday, I reprinted an excellent and thought-provoking blog post by Tim Bray, one of the inventors of XML. Tim’s post represents a reality check for traditional enterprise software, suggesting we...
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Google and China
Larry wrote this today and I think it pretty much sums up the situation for Google in China. Reading all of this laid out in a blog post can be summed up in one word: Wow. Now let’s look at how Google...
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‘Pain chains’ and the IT Devil’s Triangle
Image from iStockPhoto The IT Devil’s Triangle binds together enterprise customers, technology vendors, and system integrators in an unholy trinity that leads directly to failed projects. These...
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UK tax department: Bizarre IT spending incentives
Phil Pavitt, CIO for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the UK tax department, recently spoke out against huge IT projects. Some of his comments are extraordinary. Pavitt had choice words to...
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Digital economy meets dinosaur politics
If you thought the esteem of the UK parliament couldn’t fall any lower after last year’s devastating expenses scandal, then the passing of the Digital Economy Bill in a parliamentary process known as...
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Microsoft Should Donate PowerPoint to the Taliban
I don’t pretend to be a military strategist, but I’ve figured out how to win the war in Afghanistan. OK, not on my own – The New York Times helped, with an article titled: We Have Met the Enemy and...
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Journolist, Confidentiality, and Pageviews
Last week there was a minor scandal involving the Washington Post and a blogger on their payroll who was covering conservative political issues for the Post. The short short version of the story is...
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Egypt’s crisis: where social media threatens global outsourcing
Egypt's crisis: The sticky topic of political risk with outsourcing is firmly back on the table Like everyone else, I’ve been glued to the news the past few days trying to comprehend the enormity of...
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The Terror of the Internet in the Middle East
As we watch the most incredible of events unfold in the Middle East, we certainly don’t know how they will conclude and it may take longer to understand them. Social Media, nay, the Internet, didn’t...
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Protect the Internet Bill
Instead of constantly playing defense against congress, we should pass a Protect the Internet Bill. SOPA and PIPA are very dangerous symptoms of an underlying problem. Powerful embedded interests from...
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Give Infosys a break
The recent issue regarding Infosys landing in hot water over alleged misuse of B-1 visas is being completely overblown. Many of you may have read this week’s article in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO...
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Annual cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion
The total annual cost of worldwide IT failures is $6.2 trillion dollars, according to calculations performed by Roger Sessions, über-expert enterprise architect and CTO of ObjectWatch. Roger presents...
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Reporting from the Echo Chamber
I read this short Reuters piece on President Obama’s Fox interview last night and simply thought “who are these people?” Here’s my edited version of the full piece: BEIJING, Nov 18 (Reuters) –...
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CIO interview: Casey Coleman of the General Services Administration
The US General Services Administration (GSA) employs almost 12,000 people and has a budget of $25 billion. Fellow ZDNet blogger, Dion Hinchcliffe, and I spoke with CIO Casey Coleman about issues...
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Politicizing IT failure in Australia
Government IT tends to be large, expensive, and fraught with risk. The scale of waste that arises from failure makes these projects a healthy target for politicians seeking to gain political advantage...
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Twitter, Politics, and Sentiment Analysis
I had an interesting conversation with a journalist recently that made me think a bit more on the use of social data for decision support, the accuracy of socially generated big data and the ability to...
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A Business Lifeboat Strategy
In 1790, at about the inception of the US Constitution, the American lumber industry was centered in Maine, then part of Massachusetts. Overharvesting timber to meet the demands of a growing domestic...
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