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Three Interesting Technologies from TR10 list

June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

One of my favourite magazines is MIT Technology Review. “Each year, Technology Review selects what it believes are the 10 most important emerging technologies. The winners are chosen based on the editors’ coverage of key fields. The question that we ask is simple: is the technology likely to change the world?” This year’s list contains [...]

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eGovernment

May 26th, 2009 · No Comments

The Atlantic magazine carried an excellent article recently on electronic government. This article highlights some of the possible applications of technology to streamlining government services.

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Rethinking the publishing business

July 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

One of my favourite magazines, The Futurist Magazine (July-August 2008), has an interesting article (“The 21st-Century Writer“) as the cover story. I was fascinated by this examination of knowledge media and its impact on the publishing industry. The article was reporting on a conference in  February — in midtown Manhattan — publishing magnate and tech [...]

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Another SLAW column – Social Networks

January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

You can find my piece on “Social Networks – Why Should You Care” on SLAW. In this column I try to keep the language and terms distinct – social networks, social (knowledge) media, social networking.  This is also one of my areas of research as I try to understand the role of social networks in [...]

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Blocking social networking sites

December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

I continue to be curious about companies who block social networking sites. The common argument is that these sites reduce productivity as employees lolly-gag on company time checking their personal pages. I found this post recently on Business Week that referred me to a survey done by Barracuda Networks (who sells tools for email and [...]

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