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Entries from August 2006

Day1 TechEd a view from Outside

August 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Hmm - I seem to be in some kinda time warp.  Since my entire view of TechEd is through my RSS aggregator I thought yesterday (Wednesday) was the first day of the event.  I did spot some good stuff yesterday, and most importantly Frank and his team are listening!! (onya).
Hilights:
First sighting of useful content HERE.  [...]

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UncleNick names the Microsoft Disease - Forest and Trees

August 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off

While reading THIS POST from esteemed Munge Brother Uncle Nick, I was reminded of THIS POST by Robert Scoble.
Why?
Because in his discourse on seeing a tree in a forest Nick Points out:
“Microsoft is on the cusp of shipping a whole forest of new products. Vista, .Net 3.0, Office 2007 and *.live.com stuff than you can [...]

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Day0 TechEd a view from Outside

August 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments

Its Microsoft TechEd Australia season again folks!  As an ex MSFT employee and one who sees great potential for the Read/Write Web to bring us benefits of Read/Write culture I will be watching with interest and sharing some of my views:
Over the last weeks it has been great watching Frank lead and nurture his team [...]

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Ye Olde Munge OSI 7layers (with toilet and fan)

August 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment

Does anyone out there remember this from 1991?  It is a re-creation of a diagram I used to produce while working for Random Access Consulting (with the Munge Brothers) to show that the real value from IT was at the user level.
If any of you can verify the authenticity of my claim, pls drop a [...]

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TWO profound podcasts - must listen

August 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment

It’s been a while since I have done one of these ‘Must listen to this podcast’ posts, but last week I listened to two rippers that I wanna bring to your attention:
1. George Siemens and Stephen Downes talk about connective knowledge

2. Larry Lessig Lectures at LinuxWorld Keynote part 1(and Parts 2, 3)

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