I before E is weird

The ‘rules’ of English spelling declare: “I before E, except after C” which is weird. But stranger still, over the past ten years, I really has led the way in the world of consumer technology.

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Back at the turn of the century, though, E was predominant as the prefix for what was supposed to

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Google/ YouTube

Three Strikes and YouTube out

Here are some important lessons for those of us who use services like YouTube to deliver business content. A friend recently had his YouTube account suspended and can no longer access his “archive” of 900+ clips, many of which are unique business-related videos, created over the past couple of years.

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give your mind some thinking space

Deceptive appearances

Enjoying a good stiff cappuccino in a coffee-shop the other day, when a young woman came in wearing a paint-smattered smock.

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So was she a playgroup assistant, or a renowned artist? I will never know.

But it made me think how quickly we can jump to conclusions from first appearances – and how

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whereness

Nowadays, thanks to the web, we can be in more than one place at one time – sustaining multiple dialogues/ presence simultaneously.

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Picture credit: JohnLeGear

I watched an intense conversation on Twitter the other day, between two people who had quite different concepts of whereness.

“Jack” believed that his whereness depended exclusively on his current physical location/ geography, whereas “Jill” believed that her whereness at any moment was simply a function of her current connectivity/ point(s) of engagement.

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More than one cloud in the sky

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Much is spoken and written about “Cloud computing” – all with grave authority, as if the term can yet be clearly defined.

As with meteorological clouds, logical clouds will take a variety of different shapes and properties.

So, until we develop a suitable taxonomy, ‘Cloud computing’ must remain nebulous

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