Web/Tech
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How much ? NHS spends money like water on ICT
According to the Guardian “BT Group will next month become the third major contractor in as many years to take a multimillion pound writedown on its work with the government’s crisis-stricken GDP12.7bn overhaul of the NHS computer system.” This is the most astonishing amount of money. The NHS is pretty much the biggest employer in…
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Save the Internet
Important (and informative) movie. Click through and watch… See also: Save the Internet
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Even more Unreasonable
Are you reading this website on its “home” page at www.UnreasonableMan.net or are you getting some sort of a feed into your own information channel? Did you get here by chance or did you try typing the word “unreasonable” into Google? Are you reading the comments on the right hand side of the page (“del.icio.us…
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The Future of ICT
It’s becoming ever more obvious that the future of ICT lies with Web Based Applications. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Flickr, Twitter, etc If you want to keep an eye on the future then you could do a lot worse than to have a look at this list of the best web-based apps of 2008. It is…
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Hey. You talking to Me?
Microcontent Musings follow up the “10 things to Watch” from Marc Canter. Personally I suspect that the real play is in 1. Identity (“Who are you”) and 2. Attention (“Hey there, Ian”). Pretty much everything else seems to fall out from those two. Particularly once you accept that objects/things will need a validated Identity just…
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Hey. You talking to Me?
Microcontent Musings follow up the “10 things to Watch” from Marc Canter. Personally I suspect that the real play is in 1. Identity (“Who are you”) and 2. Attention (“Hey there, Ian”). Pretty much everything else seems to fall out from those two. Particularly once you accept that objects/things will need a validated Identity just…
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Google and the Semantic Web
Wa-ay back in 2002, Paul Ford wrote an article gazing into the future. He speculated that Google would beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web. He suggested that: in late 2004, with little fanfare, Google introduced three services, Google Marketplace Search, Google Personal Agent, and Google Verification Manager, and a software product, Google Marketplace…
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Google and the Semantic Web
Wa-ay back in 2002, Paul Ford wrote an article gazing into the future. He speculated that Google would beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web. He suggested that: in late 2004, with little fanfare, Google introduced three services, Google Marketplace Search, Google Personal Agent, and Google Verification Manager, and a software product, Google Marketplace…
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Breaking the Web Wide Open!
Marc Canter points us towards the future of the Web… For decades, “walled gardens” of proprietary standards and content have been the strategy of dominant players in mainframe computer software, wireless telecommunications services, and the World Wide Web; it was their successful lock-in strategy of keeping their customers theirs. But like it or not, those…
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.Reboot7: Doc Searls.
.Reboot7: Doc Searls. Language frames our lives. Adverbs and Adjectives are important – they influence our interpretation of nouns and verbs. BUT… It is nouns and verbs that really matter. The real Matrix is the set of metaphors we use to make sense of the world. eg Time is Money. Life is Travel. War metaphors…