Response to Canadian Copyright Consultation
By Joshua Chalifour, 12 September 2009copyright, canadian copyright consultation, copyright law, culture
Analysis
Category Archive
CASAA Birthing – New Decision and Knowledge Engines
By Joshua Chalifour, 29 May 2009I’ve been talking about computer-assisted shallow atom assembly (CASAA) in my posts thinking about how we acquire knowledge in life with the pervasive Internet. Yesterday I read about Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, which they’re actually calling a “decision engine.” From what I’ve read they’re making a clear effort to push search in the CASAA [...]
The Nervous System’s Emerging Stream
By Joshua Chalifour, 13 May 2009In a recent post, Nova Spivack considers “the stream” as the Internet’s next evolutionary stage. I think he makes a lot of compelling points and I’m clearly partial to stream terminology (like it says above, I’m trying to mind the current). It builds on McLuhan’s notion of the nervous system, which is neat. Spivack’s conceptualization [...]
AOL/Time Warner Missed Opportunity
By Joshua Chalifour, 2 May 2009I think the opportunity of the AOL/Time Warner merger that kicked off in 2000 and seems to now be undoing itself never really developed in the first place. Time Warner is doing the opposite of what I would have expected–they seem to be divesting themselves of their delivery medium.
Unravelling Dion’s Political Strategy
By Joshua Chalifour, 10 September 2008Puzzling over the parties’ bizarre responses to letting/not letting Elizabeth May into the televised debates lead me to consider their histories and theorize that Harper’s Conservatives may stand little chance of forming the next government, while the Liberals could be the most likely to form the next government.
Continuing the Bullying of Analysts Issue
By Joshua Chalifour, 27 May 2008Today I read a SageCircle post about threatening analysts by cancelling business, which seems like a variety of bullying and certainly an abuse. I discussed analyst abuse previously, a situation that involved bullying an analyst. I looked at the situation as one that hampered both the analyst/vendor relationship and quality of communications. SageCircle offers the [...]
Bullying Analysts isn’t the Best Way to Deal
By Joshua Chalifour, 22 April 2008I’ve enjoyed reading Robin Bloor’s series of posts on How to Deal with Analysts. The title of one called attention to analyst abuse, which set some thoughts meandering. Robin made a point under the heading of scruples, and related to briefings. “The fundamental balancing act lies in the interaction between analyst and vendor. The vendors [...]
Some Notes on the Canadian Digital Information Strategy Draft
By Joshua Chalifour, 21 November 2007I’ve been reading the draft consultation version of the Canadian Digital Information Strategy. The strategy proposes strengthening content, ensuring its preservation, and maximizing its access and use. These are important for many reasons the report addresses regarding culture; the report also has some anchors in industry, stating that “nations that nurture their digital information assets [...]
New BI and CRM Evaluations
By Joshua Chalifour, 16 July 2007At TEC, we recently launched several new knowledge bases for comparing and analyzing software vendors and products. I’ve noticed a number of new sites in the recent past that are attempting similar tools to TEC’s evaluation system. I plan to write a little about these shortly. But for now, I thought I’d put the word [...]
An OpenPro Impression – 1 Reason for a Scripted Scenario Demo
By Joshua Chalifour, 9 April 2007First impressions don’t always hold up to in-depth examinations. My impression that it was an open source product went awry because of a few omissions on OpenPro’s web site. I asked whether the software was offered under an open source license. The nature of the answer was part of some past events that reinforce, in [...]
Services and Expanding Borders, Sun, MS, Novell, Red Hat, Oracle, and the Others
By Joshua Chalifour, 8 November 2006A few short comments as I wake up to the morning’s catch. It sounds like Sun is about to make a move, which may effect the field in which the Novell/Microsoft situation took root. But first, a Forbes article frames the Microsoft/Novell agreement as a Novellian surrender. Is it? I think the telling part of [...]
Oracle–Linux Knight that isn’t Quite
By Joshua Chalifour, 26 October 2006After persistent media rumours of an Oracle-based GNU/Linux distribution, Mr. Ellison finally announced it. Sort of. It’s offering Oracle support services around the Red Hat Linux distribution. It makes sense–I think companies need to make the entire life of the software solutions they sell a seamless continuum lacking problems and time-wasting intervention from their customers. [...]
