internet

The hot internet topic of IT jobs

skeptic — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:22:43 -0600

Apparently the IT job market is a great generator of traffic. So much so that any story will do. Up one day, down the next.

Advertising to the itSMF keyword

skeptic — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:32:56 -0600

Google AdWords/AdSense is a fascinating thing. Internet advertising may be the most revolutionary thing ever to happen to small business marketing (or big business for that matter). The sensitivity and feedback are extraordinary for testing and refining marketing messages. (So why do vendors still do so badly?).

The point of this ramble is that right now someone is paying over five bucks a click for the "itSMF" keyword.

Google rots your brains

skeptic — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:07:12 -0600

I found a fascinating article from the ever-interesting Nicholas Carr (remember "IT Doesn't Matter"?) on how Google is making us stupid.

OGC need to get broadband up at Castle ITIL to understand the 21st Century.

skeptic — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:15:49 -0600

This may not come as a surprise to you, but it does to me. I - along with The ITIL Imp - was under the misapprehension that the ITIL Live Portal was going to be free. Nope.

The community must police digital theft on the internet

skeptic — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:30:57 -0600

It occured to me today that defending your digital IP is like having a puppy [warning: yet another puppy analogy].

Privacy is dead - get over it.

skeptic — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:16:52 -0700

People demand online privacy as if it were some god-given right. Privacy is an abberation of recent history, a transitory phenomenon that is evaporating quickly in the hot light of technology. Privacy is dead - get over it.

VOIP and the anti-competitive behaviours that would logically induce in a telco

skeptic — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:16:46 -0600

These are ugly times for telcos, a topic I look forward to exploring a little more on this blog. Today's topic is VOIP and the anti-competitive behaviours that would logically induce in a telco. Let me share with you a recent email from my broadband ISP. First some background. My ISP is a telco, the big dominant telco. They also provide me phone lines. Actually they try to pretend they don’t, by branding the ISP arm as an excitingly named subsidiary, but it is a pointless sham really when it all comes on one convenient monthly bill.