As I mentioned in my last blog I have been at Oracle Open World the last few days. The highlight of OOW is usually Larry Ellison's keynote and this year did not disappoint, although this was not a typical Larry...

I was on the comments section of Mathew Ingrams blog just now - nerdy or what? - and found what I think is fascinating information for many of us on YouTube and Copyright but it matters not just to YouTube. YouTube’s apparent defence against writs for copyright infringement is the US safe harbour clause that [...]

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Not sure I agree with this kind of stuff - if it were a real citizen journalism project you’d get some sense of disruption but truly the BBC does not need to go into this turf. No doubt it’ll be a success but those pioneers who laboured in the BBC’s desperately underfunded communities department were [...]

This is a great post. bringing up all those hoary how big’s your audience issues.Why I think it matters is: well ZDNet already pays some writers according to their traffic. Business Week Online is just starting to do it. And the future lies in trying to farm a variety of incomes from your writing, [...]

I’m a big fan of Henry Jenkins, the MIT professor who writes about convergence culture but today addresses what happens in a participatory culture with skills like media literacy (picked up here also at Terra Nova).Henry gave me a quote some months back even when he couldn’t be sure was I writing for a paper [...]

Quotes from the Software 2006 CIO Panel courtesy of IT Conversations. Thomas Beck has some thoughts about the CIO panel from Software 2006 that I put up on IT Conversations last week. He pulled out a few key quotes: [On...

Techdirt’s carrying a short piece on newspapers continuing inability to get the Internet right (OK the Guardian looks good but it’s costing them $25 million a year in losses).I’d already been thinking earlier in the day about how I write one way for the blog and another way for papers and mags. Pinning down that [...]

I generally like heretical thinkers so I want to spare a thought for he guy who is risking 24 hours of abuse across the informed blogosphere for saying that the internet sucks and then saying why, in detail.He even quotes Andrew Keen who’s also had to duck the brickbats recently. I don’t agree with them [...]

A self-rated scorecard of my predictions from Oracle OpenWorld.

I conducted a phone interview last week with Andrew Nelson, founder and CEO of TomorrowNow, a third-party maintenance support provider for Oracle's PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, and Siebel products. I've