civil servants
So, what would be the sensible government approach to repeated revelations that IT projects have gone wrong? An internal investigation? Some changes of management? How about bringing in outside experts to manage the mess? No. They order civil servants to shred documents. [http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2007/
Blogging
The technical guys behind My Telegraph have provided some more details on how the site’s been built and what it’s going to be. My Telegraph: Cat Exits Bag
attention
The Washington Post has published an interesting article by a law professor about students attending classes with laptops open [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/06/AR2007040601544.html?hpid=opinionsbox1] . It calls into question the idea that the younger generation are as able to multi-task and process
Blogging
[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/446134268/ "photo sharing")Blogging4business [http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/446134268/], originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth [http://www.flickr.com/people/adders/]. Unlike Blogher Business [http:
Blogging
If you’re running a blogging or social-media related conference, offer free WiFi and power at the desks. Otherwise, you’re crippling the ability of people to blog about your conference – and thus do your publicity for you. Yes, I’m at Blogging4Business [http://www.retailevents.co.uk/b4b2007/site/
blogher
digital natives
I’ve not been having a good technology day. We’ve had a couple of issues with both our internal and external blog servers that have sent my blood pressure in what could be described as “a non-positive direction”. The “split bill” service for my corporate mobile phone (no, I
france
Things I’ve noticed on my journey: 1. For some reason, French trees look distinctly French. They’re the same species on the whole, so I suspect it’s just planting patterns. 2. I was busy plugging my laptop into the covenient power outlet next to my seat, when it
childhood
Lorna, my wife, has a theory that we’re in a very tight window of opportunity where computer and web familiarity is an advantage to you in the workplace. From there we’ll rapidly move to a situation where lack of it is a crippling disadvantage (if we’re not
apple
I’m sitting in the office, after hours, watching the details of the Steve Jobs keynote over at MacWorld in the US appear on my screen. At the moment, he’s talking about iPhoto, the image management app you get free with your Macs. They’re adding RSS support to
microsoft
Re-Introducing the Real Windows Vista [http://tauquil.com/archives/2006/01/06/re-introducing-the-real-windows-vista/]: [Link Dead] > As I watched Bill demonstrate the features of Vista a sense of deja vu washed over me. It was like I’ve seen it all somewhere before… Nice idea, well executed and amusing, too.
cameras
[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/67093857/ "photo sharing")Newport at Sunset [http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/67093857/], originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth [http://www.flickr.com/people/adders/]. A picture to compare and
