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Everything Old is New Again

Published on 17 Jul 2006 at 9:08 pm. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Technopolitical, Pure Geek, Information Technology, Economics and the Economy.

….Or, Rumors of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

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Won’t Get Fooled Again

Published on 9 Jun 2006 at 1:37 am. No Comments.
Filed under The Engine Room, Technopolitical, Information Technology, Economics and the Economy.

Or, the art of predicting seven of the next two revolutions……

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EU to Admit Linux

Published on 20 Mar 2006 at 9:37 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Uncategorized, The Cargo Cults of Business, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Pure Geek, Information Technology, Open Source Software, Legal, Law, and Courts, Government: Federal, State and Local, Economics and the Economy, Public Relations and Marketing.

EU Votes to Admit Linux; Surprises Pundits

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A Hacker’s Eye View of Disruptive Computing Technologies

Published on 8 Mar 2006 at 10:00 am. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Thanks for Playing, Winners and Losers, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Networking Technology, Information Technology, Open Source Software, Economics and the Economy.

An excursion into where the computer industry has been and where it’s headed in terms of disruptive technologies, with some new perspectives on product trifectas and the primal driver of computing architecture

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False Precision, or… High Caliber Journalism

Published on 1 Sep 2005 at 12:22 am. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Thanks for Playing, Brain Trust, Technopolitical, Design, Interface, and Usability, Main Stream Media.

Call this one cargo cult journalism.

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The Cargo Cult of Disease Control

Published on 15 Aug 2005 at 12:00 pm. No Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Manifest Masquerade, Brain Trust, In Corporations We Trust, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Health and Safety, Government: Federal, State and Local.

The amazing refusal of the Mainstream Media, as well as millions of Americans, to wake up to the cargo cult science being promulgated by the Institute of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control in the matter of long-term neural damage from mercury-laced vaccinations

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Listen to this…

Published on 11 Aug 2005 at 12:18 am. No Comments.
Filed under Winners and Losers, Technopolitical, Blogosphere, Business and Corporation Related, Open Source Software, Trademark, Copyright, and Patents.

I’m sure many artists would be loathe to give up the control, or the perception of control. I hope many of them can find the courage to follow Mr. Reznor’s example…

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Getting fired for Blogging

Published on 5 Aug 2005 at 12:21 am. No Comments.
Filed under And Stock Options For All, Technopolitical, Blogosphere, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology.

Am I missing something here?

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Cargo Cult of Retirement

Published on 4 Aug 2005 at 12:27 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Thanks for Playing, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Government: Federal, State and Local, Economics and the Economy.

It doesn’t matter, you pay on the FICA line, or you pay on the regular income tax line, but you still pay.

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IBM Speaks With Forked Tongue

Published on 3 Aug 2005 at 1:24 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under The Cargo Cults of Business, Manifest Masquerade, Service With A Smirk, Brain Trust, Technopolitical, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology, Open Source Software.

Brief commentary on IBM’s bait-and-switch with their CGIDEV2 tool

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