I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Cloudera’s VP of Product Charles Zedlewski in person. Charles has a gift for understanding enterprise technology and conveying his understanding in clear, easy to remember ways. Charles will be providing a presentation on Cloudera’s Distribution of Hadoop (CDH3) on 21 April 2011 via a webinar you can attend (linkRead… Read more »
The Australian Government has released a Draft 2011 ICT Strategic Vision for comment. The document is available in PDF, DOC and RTF formats. Unfortunately AGIMO showed a lack of vision by no0t supplying the document in an efficient and easy top read web format. Assuming the vision follows this approach, government IT will be threeRead… Read more »
I have to wonder what good cutting 100 billion in spending on people and programs will do when government keeps digging the hole deeper with 30 year treasury auctions? In March gov. auctioned off over 12 billion dollars in 30 year treasury bonds. It is interest that we will owe someone else for 30 years.Read… Read more »
I will be speaking on “Designing for Democratic Dialogue: More then Mating iPads” at Meta 2011, Australian National University, 25 to 27 May, 2011 .Name: Tom WorthingtonTitle: Adjunct Senior LecturerOrganisation: Research School of Computer Science, The Australian National UniversityStream: Overcoming obstacles in the Execution process – challenges and solutionsYour session title: Original post
The Austrlaian Computer Society is running an ACS Business Skills On-Line Pilot Program. I was selected as one of the initial students. The pilot is from mid April to the end of July 2011 and I have to do at least 3 courses (there are 80 to choose from). These are short one to fourRead… Read more »
T3 Motion’s R3 prototype electric car/motorcycle is reported to have a Galaxy Tab Android tablet computer docked in the dashboard for navigation and entertainment. The R3 has four wheels and two side by side bucket seats like a car, but T3 Motion claim that the rear wheels are so close together that it handles likeRead… Read more »
Human Resource Specialists are not specialists in Information Technology. Yet, today HR has a difficult time recruiting, engaging with employees, providing benefits, conducting training or capturing performance feedback without the intervention of technology. In fact, without technology, I can emphatically say that these functions are impossible. Why? Because heightened expectations for anywhere, anytime access toRead… Read more »
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law that requires the state to use 33% renewable energy by the end of 2020. Calling for a substantial shift away from coal and natural gas, the Governor supports creating jobs through the use of new technology and renewable energy sources. Prior to this bill, the stateRead… Read more »
One of the two implications of the paradigm shift I wrote about was the movement from an information economy in which providers pushed out their content to one in which consumers pulled it into their feed. This movement started with the advent of RSS feeds and has hit a high point in link shortening andRead… Read more »
State Tech Magazine published an article I wrote about our last information security assessment in this months edition. http://www.statetechmag.com/mag-home/mag-home/magazine-home.html