CIO Symmetry
Recent Posts
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Joe Biden: RIAA stooge
26 Aug 2008 -
Seinfeld vs. Justin Long? Please, let's get someone with some funny.
21 Aug 2008 -
Google Reader has my vote
- TechTarget 21 Aug 2008
Joe Biden, huh? Talk about strike three. 2000: Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Lieberman “loses” election. Flash forward to 2008 and this stuffy jerk – who spent part of his career going ...
Can we all agree that Jerry Seinfeld was never the funny one? For all his quirks and humorous relationships, Jerry was always the straight man to his consistently hilarious compatriots. Good at ...
You may have noticed the new feature on the Google homepage. It reads: “New! Read what Barack Obama and John McCain are reading with Google Reader.” Yes, now you too can see what Senator John ...
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Press releases as prose
12 Aug 2008 -
Save the data! How safe is our personal information?
- TechTarget 08 Aug 2008 -
Forrester: No room for cowboy culture in IT
04 Aug 2008 -
Weekly wrapup
24 Jul 2008 -
Fighting for a Vista rebate. Because somebody has to.
21 Jul 2008 -
Big green HP scheme
- TechTarget 21 Jul 2008 -
San Francisco IT hack story looks a bit too much like Chinatown
16 Jul 2008
I don’t doubt that writing a press release that catches the eye is a tough job. But this is just dumb: “Dear Zach, “Will Shakespeare sure didn’t have to wrestle with the issues IT managers’ face ...
The search for the missing Registered Traveler laptop is finally over. The laptop, belonging to Verified Identity Pass Inc.(VIP), was reported missing from a locked office in the San Francisco ...
Just like Toby Keith, I should have been a cowboy. Alas, I went into journalism and never did get the hang of a lasso. If you’re in IT, a new Forrester report says, you should let those cattle ...
I think the “things that tick us off” theme of this blog is rubbing off on one of our contributors. Just yesterday, The Real Niel gave us a killer column about how bad your business will look if ...
Some people suffer the insufferable for piece of mind and for the good of all of us who want to live safe, comfortable lives. The mysterious uncle_benji is one of those people. Ben, as I’ll call ...
With polar bears balancing on ice cubes in the Arctic Circle and gas prices skyrocketing, we are all looking to be a bit more ‘green’ in our everyday lifestyle choices. Right? Well, we’re trying. ...
What the hell is going on in San Francisco? It’s like a freaking detective novel out there all of a sudden. One of the city’s top IT guys has been accused of locking other administrators out of the ...
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Calling FedEx out
12 Jun 2008 -
Sarah Lacy says Facebook doesn't need my best friend. He doesn't seem to care.
23 May 2008 -
Will a Chief Blogging Officer get a Golden Parachute?
- Barker Implement 07 May 2008 -
Justifying IT expenditures: Outsourcing isn’t always the answer
- Barker Implement 22 Apr 2008 -
Taking Linux on a fishing trip
16 Apr 2008
Sometimes you hear something and think: “Hey, that can’t be true.” Take this statement from FedEx Corp. CIO Rob Carter at his Enterprise 2.0 Conference keynote this week. “There's also a cool new ...
Sarah Lacy, author of Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0, has blogged about me blogging about her book. So I feel compelled to respond. ...
Excellent little news blurb on HealthLeaders Media this morning: “Chief Blogging Officer title catching on with corporations.” Chief Blogging Officer. Ok, one more time: Chief Blogging Officer. ...
Accountability, budget constraints and cost of provisioning services – these are all issues that CIOs hear about when presenting IT budget numbers. “Why does this cost what it costs?” and “Can’t we ...
Remember Big Mouth Billy Bass?It was a wall-mounted singing fish that somebody made a fortune off of in the span of about six months. This thing would sing “Take Me To The River” and “Don’t Worry, ...