An online exchange of information between people about a particular topic. Using the Web or Usenet services on the Internet, users post messages that appear in chronological order or in question-answer order that can later be reviewed by the general public. Chat rooms and instant messaging (IM) provide discussion venues as well, but are typically used for private exchanges in real time. See newsgroup, forum, chat room and threaded discussion.
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- Platform Computing: Herding Clouds
- After the post Platform Computing Announces Infrastructure Sharing Services appeared on ZDnet, I had the opportunity to speak with Songnian Zhou, CEO of Platform Computing. Although the plans were for me to speak with Platform prior to the post going live, scheduling problems made that impossible. So, the focus of...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Interview with HP user group president Nina Buik
- The advent of social media has made a big difference at Connect -- the independent user organization representing 50,000 professionals using Hewlett-Packard technology products and services. "We used to conduct a worldwide survey of our members and have to wait until all the data was compiled and...
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Overcoming the laptop wall
- Yesterday, I asked for input on university IT issues and received several emails, Tweets, and talkbacks. The first email in my inbox was about the laptop wall with which so many lecturers are confronted at universities. Since this brings up a whole host of issues, I'd actually like...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Building a vision for Government 2.0
- Building a vision for Government 2.0need for binding electionsIf Democracy 2.0 is only about more discussion then nothing is really going to change. We need binding elections on issues, that is, we need national ballot initiatives. In 24 states, we have ballot initiatives. Ballot initiatives permit public policy to catch...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- Building a vision for Government 2.0
- Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- The CIO is dead (long live the CIO)
- TechRepublic's Patrick Gray takes on the changing role of the CIO, writing that a C-level position for IT will no longer be warranted unless it evolves beyond the operational, shared-service mentality. You can find more posts like this on TechRepublic's IT Leadership blog. With the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credible
- Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credibleSorry Chris... an effort to do something is better than no effort. ntntNo, but it sure makes the Thetans angry.]:)Scientology - shrugIt's better to keep 'm exposed as warped 'personality-tests' doing whackos.RE: Banning Scientology doesn't make Wikipedia more credibleChris, I agree with...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-29
- BusinessWeek: Apple is most innovative company
- BusinessWeek: Apple is most innovative companyCongrats Apple! Question for the Apple zealots though...Yay Apple! Wow, #1 most innovative company. That's fantastic. A reason for celebration.However, this news isn't entirely good for the Apple zealot who consistently maintains that MS [b]never[/b] innovates and only ever copies from Apple. Yet here we...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- The Ultimate Tablet: On Palm's webOS?
- Palm's soon to be launched Pre on the Sprint mobile network will introduce the first webOS-based device into the consumer market. But should webOS be restricted to just smartphones? What about larger devices such as a tablet in the conceptual rendering above? (NetPilot Tablet Design Concept...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?
- The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-24
- CIOs should take a few punches amid the downturn to save IT
- Guest post: TechRepublic's Patrick Gray believes that IT leaders still looking to find a seat at the C-level table might gain that influential position by taking a share of the responsibility for the failures that led to financial crisis. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Will meaningful use go down CCHIT rabbit hole?
- Will meaningful use go down CCHIT rabbit hole?Whoosh!Zowie, Dana, this post has greater link density than most spam comments. :–) I certainly feel that meaningful use must be defined in a meaningful way! And I mean, like, when a crisis hits YOU, will what we've done today make you...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Report: Craigslist dumps "erotic" ads; adds adult section with new rules
- Report: Craigslist dumps "erotic" ads; adds adult section with new rulesHow convenientI love how something was done about this only after something ended up in the news. Gotta go after those impressionable, stupid voters!Meanwhile, I can still look up a lot of these very same ads in the Yellow Pages,...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarks
- SAP is always a bit of a conundrum to me. They have extraordinarily talented people, an incredibly deep product portfolio that they are always extending, more often than not make good acquisitions that take some time but work out all in all, and seem to be actually dedicated to transforming...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- ObamaCare opponents scramble to build a winning coalition
- ObamaCare opponents scramble to build a winning coalitionObamaCare sneaks a foot in the doorExisting insurance companies and health care providers worry about the government plan because it is the pre-ordained winner on the path to single payer, not because a government plan would be inherently superior.Any Democrat worth their credentials...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Microsoft to defend its IE policies in closed-door antitrust hearing
- Microsoft to defend its IE policies in closed-door antitrust hearingHurting consumers."But I think it?s harder to prove Microsoft?s policies have hurt consumers."No, it's not difficult at all. Microsoft's persistent refusal to adhere to W3C standards has made many web sites utterly or partially unusable for non-IE users. alltel.com,...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-04
- You Were Never 1.0, but get ready for Enterprise 2.0
- Guest editorial by Andrea Baker Let's face it, it's probably true. Your business is deeply married to email. You never read a blog until the past year at least with some regularity. And you probably don't know what a discussion page is on a wiki. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- How will you be upgrading to Windows 7?
- How will you be upgrading to Windows 7?Perhaps MS is showing its age a lot more than some of the users that are still using it are willing to admit.RE: How will you be upgrading to Windows 7?I'm a system administrator for a multi-business corporation, and I will definitely be...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
- Enterprise vendors: in pursuit of reality
- Michael Hickins at BNet cracks open the customer/vendor relationship kimono, using Ray Wang's most recent post as the backdrop. As we enter the conference season, the timing could not be better: Indeed, most customers have a love-hate relationship with their vendors that is heavily weighted towards hate....
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Wanted: Your best/worst customer services stories
- I get a lot of email from readers of this blog (and yes, I do read all of it, even if I never manage to get around to replying) and sometimes I get in a cracking question that's idea for a group discussion. Here's one from Lynne: ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
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