Technology is not all about seriously drooling over the intelligent machine and behave like a nerd always. Here are some simple things which can turn your head around and put you to shame for your ignorance. Do you know which country has the highest internet population? Do you know how many searches...

I have posted previous notes about how newspapers and journalists need to adapt to the blogosphere and to social media (see, for example: Mainstream Media Begin to Adopt Link Journalism). I myself am a relatively recent convert to microblogging and Twitter. A recent article on the web provides advic...

Joe McKendrick's paraphrasing of James Governor's remarks about averting the subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent economic meltdown and his further commentary almost convince me that proper application of architecture and technology approaches could have saved the day and kept us from the...

Even in a downturn, there are things IT can do to create value at companies. Last week my daughter Allison was home on spring break. Eager to leave behind cold, snowy Michigan for warm, sunny Houston, she e-mailed me the day before she came home. One of the things she mentioned was the airline board...

I was having a discussion yesterday with a fellow who’s been in the technology business quite a bit longer than myself.  Though I wasn’t yet an accomplished “I.T. Guy” when he sold his first computer in 1983 (I was finishing the first grade), I do share a knowledge of the am...

Our day-to-day work presents us with problems that are complex and expensive to solve, and even the easy solutions have their unintended consequences. Some of us face outward to the user community and to our customers, and some of us remain behind the scenes working aside peers and colleagues, but w...

President Obama has indicated that health information technology (HIT) is an important component of his administration's health care goals. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have lauded the potential for HIT to reduce costs and improve care. In this post, I'll give some basics about what HIT is...

President Obama has indicated that health information technology (HIT) is an important component of his administration's health care goals. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have lauded the potential for HIT to reduce costs and improve care. In this post, I'll give some basics about what HIT is...

A girl directly in front of me is toggling between two chat windows, a website of song lyrics, email, her Facebook profile, and, every now and then, her lecture notes. It’s hard to concentrate. I feel a pang of sympathy......

A girl directly in front of me is toggling between two chat windows, a website of song lyrics, email, her Facebook profile, and, every now and then, her lecture notes. It’s hard to concentrate. I feel a pang of sympathy for the professor at the front of the hall. His multitasking students are cert...