For those about to blog, we salute you. In my InfoWorld column this week (“Blogging behind the firewall“), I write about a small but really amazing outpouring of information-sharing in InfoWorld's IT department since we started a group weblog a few months ago. After I filed my column, I came across a Jon Udell column [...]

Project Logging. Blogging Behind the Firewall “Our internal use of Weblogs has greatly accelerated, and we’re beginning to see more tangible benefits as we’ve begun to reach a critical mass of internal contributors…. Since then, my team has been using the blog-driven IT roadmap in weekly staff meetings as a platform to discuss the initiatives [...]

Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator. TV News in a Postmodern World: The Busine$$ of RSS “Want a glimpse of tomorrow? Innovators Bill French and Harry Hayes are SmartStream Alliance™ and have a product that's so compelling that news executives of every sort will be scrambling to be first in their market with it…. RSxStream is [...]

Useit.Com: Thirty Years With Computers. For the field in general, it's worth remembering the downsides to centralized computing. We must take steps to keep users in control as we grow the power of the network. It's essential that we keep a strong front end to balance out improved back-end features. [Tomalak's Realm]

Zinni is instigating a shareholder/customer revolt:  “There has been poor strategic thinking in this,” says Zinni. “There has been poor operational planning and execution on the ground. And to think that we are going to ‘stay the course,’ the course is headed over Niagara Falls. I think it's time to change course a little bit, or [...]

An important indicator of how we are moving from a nation-state to a market-state:  our defense department is now run like a corporation.  The all volunteer army was the first step.  Outsourcing of tasks to private corporations was the second.  Estimates are that upwards of 30% of all sanctioned defense activities in Iraq are outsourced — [...]

Comcast Is Spam King. C/Net reports that Comcast's high-speed Internet subscribers are the biggest spammer on the Internet. In a politically incorrect moment of truth-telling, Comcast network engineer, Sean Lutner reportedly told an antispam working group in Washington, D.C., last week, that Comcast users send out about 800 million messages a day, but a mere [...]

Transcript of last night's CBS interview with General Anthony Zinni. [Scripting News]

Blogging your software company. As our developer continues to push forward with the back-end coding, I continue to refine the launch plan of the new startup. The primary issue that we're facing is that our service, while it adds a lot of value to an online advertising campaign, is going to require a fair amount [...]

Updated C# V2.0 Specifications now available. After a lot of work on Anders' part, we now have an updated version of the C# 2.0 Language Specification on the website. Not only does it have updated information on the “big 4” – Generics, iterators, anonymous methods, and partial classes, but it also has new information on [...]