Archive forOctober, 2008

Image: Rube Goldberg While  IT departments struggle to reinvent themselves with the onset of cloud computing  by virtualizing their IT infrastructures, according to the Economist the specter of cloud computing is predicted to have a significant impact on next generation business models. You know this may just happen… For this thought exercise put the foggy [...]

Looks Like we Made It – to the paperless office

October 20, 2008 | Comments Off

Wow, it was bound to happen. After all these years of me spouting off about the benefits of technology and the paperless office, the Economist now reports that paper use is falling.  No longer are printers spewing endless reams of paper to provide information. Well, not really, they are just spewing a bit less… Take [...]

How to earn at least $10,000 per day

October 15, 2008 | Comments Off

Earlier I spoke of the benefits of plain old hard work and old fashioned subscription models as the way to make money on the web. Well forget all that because, while I was sleeping, the web  moved to smart phones like the iPhone and the new gold rush are the riches to be made from [...]

Email Monsters…

October 9, 2008 | 52 Comments

Managing the email monster is lots of work for universities. It is seen as such a big job that some schools are getting google to handle their messaging services. Indeed, spam and viruses put a real strain on our IT infrastructure. For example, this September we handled 10,391,120 inbound messages destined to faculty and staff [...]