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A notable morning. First thing I checked messages on my mobile, and then realised that I checked new tweets before new emails. Mid-morning I had a call with a guy who made contact through Twitter (he runs a small Cloud consulting firm and was interested in chatting about our experiences). Tomorrow I've a meeting with … Continue reading Tweet first

Adobe's announcement of Project Rome is an interesting (yet inevitable) move for the creative industry giant. Aimed at SMEs, it claims to allow anyone to author interactive digital content. Whilst the anyone claim might be a little far fetched, it definitely looks like a concerted move to start to put end users of a number … Continue reading Deskilling creative

The news that Sony are to discontinue production of cassette Walkmen has provoked a few thoughts. The first, like for many others, was "you mean Sony have still been producing cassette Walkmen?". I guess this is what Chris Anderson would describe as the long tail of the product lifecycle. However, the thing that I found … Continue reading The age of digital obsolescence

Project achievements included: - Google Docs roll out planning - Acoustic issues with London networks solved - Integration of our Midlands offices planning - Printing project RFI issued Additionally: - An interesting evening at a Vodafone/IDC event - Research into Epson interactive projectors Next week in one word: webinar (is that a word)

If you are interested in hearing a bit more about Imagination's experiences thus far of moving into the Cloud, there are a couple of events coming up where I'm going to be speaking. On the 27th October I'm going to be speaking in a Webinar hosted by Google. Details and registration are available here: http://searchcio-midmarket.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1287501389_249.html&asrc=CL_PRM_wcsciom_Google … Continue reading Forthcoming events

An interesting evening last night at a Vodafone-sponsored dinner event around the subject of communication at work. Other than once again confirming for me that there are too many CIOs who are so devoid of communication skills that their comment on the matter is laughable, it set me thinking about the quandary that the mobile … Continue reading The future's not so bright

A fascinating edition of Horizon last night, BBC 2's serious science programme. It looked at work that various mostly psychology groups are doing to understand what illusions (optical and auditory tricks, conjuring and so on) can tell us about the way in which our brains make sense of the world around us. A couple of … Continue reading Just an illusion

I wrote the following for a newsletter that a friend of mine is publishing out to her company's clients and contacts. It's a distillation of much that I've been thinking about recently: Cloud computing is reaching the apex of its hype curve at the moment as established IT service companies jostle for position in the … Continue reading Evolving in the Cloud

Project achievements included: - Google Apps six-month evaluation survey launched - Continued works around phase 2 governance and roll-out plan - Resolution of issues with network cabinet acoustics - ITIL Process implementation planning - Scoping for Archiving, content management and Digital asset management continues... Additionally: - Interesting discussions about the role of learning and development … Continue reading Weeknote 23 – in which I spent an entire week in the office

There are two skills we seem to be losing in this always-on, always-connected world we now live in (there are probably many more, and as many we are gaining, but bear with me...) The first is our ability to remember telephone numbers. I can still remember not only the number for my parent's first house … Continue reading Instant Gratification