Imagine using the internet as knowledge

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2012-11-17 21:56

What a dumb idea; directing user search to internet videos to solve IT technical problems.

How interpretation of statistics can distort any picture

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2012-11-15 01:10

Marketing people are masters at giving distorted - sometimes downright misleading - interpretations of statistics. And often the numbers themselves are crap in the first place.

Evolution not revolution

Submitted by skeptic on Sun, 2012-11-11 11:53

What is this IT obsession with revolution? Revolution is destructive, counterproductive, the source of much pain. Revolution is to be avoided at all costs. The intelligent and civilised way to move forward is evolution: building on the work of others, retaining value and knowledge, growing, changing incrementally.

Note to devops; smaller changes do not equate to less risk

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2012-11-03 00:39

To say smaller frequent changes are less risky is a dangerous fallacy. Tweet this

2012 #3 Don't confuse your personal digital experience with business

Your personal experience of the worlds of technology toys, tech bling, and personal computing do not tell us about how the world of business will change in response to technology. Tweet this

British Government Cabinet Office is selling ITIL and Prince2

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2012-11-01 19:25

Well its official, they are selling ITIL (and Prince2 and MSP and all the "Swirl" suite). Tweet this. The rumours had been coming thick and fast but now the Cabinet Office has let a tender. A restricted tender: chances are if you are reading this you can't bid.

2012 #2 - The Value of Intellectual Property

Lat week I sent the first of the newly-revived IT Skeptic's newsletter The Skeptical Informer in a new format: a (roughly) weekly letter on one topic, either topical or mined from the IT skeptic's archives.

This week, I want to talk about the perceived value of intellectual property on the internet, or rather the lack of any perceived value.

The anti-email crowd is shooting the messenger. Email is lovely

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2012-10-26 23:01

If I see one more rant about "email is dead" or "let's replace email" I'm gonna throw up. Email is great. There's a reason it is so wildly successful and widely adopted.

2012 #1 - Sharing On The Internet

After a hiatus of about a year, the IT Skeptic's newsletter The Skeptical Informer is back again in a new format: a (roughly) weekly letter on one topic, either topical or mined from the IT skeptic's archives.

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