Even the Cloud won't solve Government IT issues

Chris Chant is to be applauded for setting out some of the issues in Government IT and for seeking improvements through better systems integration skills.

However there is a whole herd of elephants sitting in the middle of the room, including: the political policy/ service fulfilment lag; fanatically policed organisational boundaries; privacy/ security/ legacy data issues; national and supra-national procurement Continue reading article »

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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It’s a very Continue reading article »

Twitter clear-out makes a mess

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Twitter recently made a mess for some subscribers, when it attempted to purge spammers and scammers from followlists.

The initative was well-motivated but had unexpected and desirable consequences as some Tweeters suddenly found themselves with massively curtailed, or completely obliterated, followerlists.

My take on the situation is that it illustrates a serious challenge for users of Continue reading article »