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The October edition of the Harvard Business Journal has a contributed article by Intuit co-founder Scott Cooke on how to build your business using communities. I thought it interesting that he used many of the standard “crowd-sourcing” ex

As I mentioned before I really like Trent Reznor not only his music but his philosophy on making music. He’s cut out the record labels makes his music available for free. He does make money by selling tickets to shows and albums he produces him

I thought this was an interesting description of what analysts do and how they like to be treated from Red Monk’s Michael Coté. | View | Upload your own Technorati Tags: analysts, AR

This week my wife explicitly told me to go get a new gadget. It doesn’t happen often, actually I think in fact this was a first. We are getting ready to go on vacation and we are going to be driving around Northern California so she told me I s

Tomorrow is the fourth annual Software Freedom Day. A world wide celebration of of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). This is the second year I have been involved and am proud to say that Zenoss is a global sponsor along with Sun, Google, and my

This week I was happy to see this white paper by Jane Curry a certified Tivoli Consultant and Instructor. Her Open Source Management Options paper compared OpenNMS, Nagios and my favorite network monitoring software, Zenoss Core. Part of the reason I

I finally listened to Randy Pausch’s last lecture linked from Stephen Walli’s blog. It was so good I clapped at the end of the lecture alone in my office. Randy passed away last week from pancreatic cancer and this is his last speech. Ran

I am not a big podcast listener but one of the ones I listen to regularly is the IT Management podcast with Redmonk’s Coté and John M. Willis. Today Zenoss’ Matt Ray and Tarus Balog from OpenNMS were guests and I thought it was a particu

I am not a big podcast listener but one of the ones I listen to regularly is the IT Management podcast with Redmonk’s Coté and John M. Willis. Today Zenoss’ Matt Ray and Tarus Balog from OpenNMS were guests and I thought it was a particu

tecosystems » Earth Class Mail: Still Open for Business? - Stephen’s review of Earth Class Mail a snail mail handling service. Looks intriguing. Amazon.com: Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code: Van Lindb