Monthly Archive for April, 2008

I don’t know what to say

Published
by
Mark
on Friday 4th April 2008
in Music and TV
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Jason just tweeted about this, and I just…

I don’t know. See for yourself:

Things I learned at the ITRoadmap Conference

Published
by
Mark
on Thursday 3rd April 2008
in Work
. 1 Comment

Yesterday I attended the Network World ITRoadmap Conference & Expo in Rosemont. At the expo, I sat in on the Web 2.0 in the Enterprise session, where Irwin Lazar of Nemertes Research and Alex Petrov of Whirlpool Canada talked about Web 2.0. I’m going to be blunt here: Lazar’s presentation was almost worthless if you had already been following Web 2.0 in any way over the past year. All he talked about for 90 minutes was Web 2.0 itself, only dipping his toe into Web 2.0’s actual use in the enterprise. There is more content in the first sentence of each section of the Wikipedia entry for Web 2.0 than in Lazar’s entire presentation! No joke.

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The family jewels

Published
by
Mark
on Tuesday 1st April 2008
in TV
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In Chris’s absence tonight, I was planning on catching up on some more network television. That didn’t happen, because I discovered Gene Simmons Family Jewels on A&E (no joke). I know the show has been on for a while (this is the third season, in fact), but this is the first time I bothered to watch it. I was able to catch the three latest episodes, and I really enjoyed them.

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