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Securing a Cloud Infrastructure

You cannot know if the infrastructure meets your requirements. You can’t comply with critical regulatory requirements So...demand transparency. That ought to be a critical part of deciding what cloud infrastructure to use. Control isn’t the real issue: ...

From PHIL WINDLEY, AgoraVox,  14 May 2009

Delay Digital TV Transition? NOT!

John Podesta, the Obama transition team co-chairman, has sent a letter to lawmakers urging Congress to postpone the Feb. 17 switch from analog to digital television (DTV) broadcasting. Really. “Millions of consumers could now be forced to spend their ...

From PHIL WINDLEY, AgoraVox,  9 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Consumer Reports,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Senate

The Conservative View on Guantanamo

Think for a minute about what this means: five human beings were held in prison for seven years without much recourse. Think about what that means to them and their families. I hate that that happened and feel very bad about it. The real shame is ...

From PHIL WINDLEY, AgoraVox,  24 Nov 2008

Has Anything Gone Right for the GOP the Last Few Years?

Utah’s Republican governor, Jon M. Huntsman Jr., predicted a “broad discussion of the future of the party” with virtually every big issue on the table. “Was there anything that went right for us over the last several years?” he asked, saying that the ...

From PHIL WINDLEY, AgoraVox,  7 Nov 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

I'm Voting for the Conservative Candidate—If I Can Find Him

I’ve watched the Presidential Election of 2008 unfold with anxiety. As a life-long Republican, I’ve never had any question about who I wanted to be the next President. Indeed, I’ve usually been completely committed to the Republican candidate before ...

From PHIL WINDLEY, AgoraVox,  29 Oct 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  John McCain,  Ronald Reagan

Buckley Voting for Obama

This is old news by now, but it’s new to me. Christopher Buckley, son of William F., has declared his intention to vote for Obama over McCain. Says he concerning McCain: John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1 ...

From PHIL WINDLEY, AgoraVox,  16 Oct 2008
Related Topics: John McCain,  Barack Obama,  Christopher Buckley,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

Taking Search to New Frontiers: Dr. Harry Shum (Microsoft)

The Web can be divided into three components: content (pages, images, videos, blogs, feeds), people (readers, writers, creators, commenters), and actions (queries, clicks, pageviews). Current search engines have taken advantages of “keywords” to link ...

From PHIL WINDLEY, AgoraVox,  24 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

Why Electronic Employment Verification Is a Bad Idea

When Americans (led by Lou Dobbs) scream “do something about illegal immigration” at the top of their lungs, you know we’re going to get saddled with a bunch of awful ideas. One of those is Electronic Employment Verification, or EEV. EEV is a plan to ...

From PHIL WINDLEY, AgoraVox,  19 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Lou Dobbs

DIY Drones: Building Cheap UAVs

One of the reasons I love ETech is talks like this one from Chris Anderson (of Wired) on building homebrew drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). He has a Web site that shows how to build the various kinds of drones he talked about. He’s used ...

From PHIL WINDLEY, AgoraVox,  5 Mar 2008

Kathy Sierra: Storyboarding for Non-Fiction

How do you create riveting technical presentations and user manuals? Tell a story. Kathy Sierra is teaching the tutorial and using her own experience creating the ’Head First’ books on Java and Design Patterns as examples. Define your ’post-click’ ...

From PHIL WINDLEY, AgoraVox,  4 Mar 2008

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