Sean Smith, a US Foreign Service IT manager, gave his life in service of his country and the world. His life and death are a humbling example for all of us who work in IT.
Just goes to show that every coin has another side, in this case one with Mitch's profile and on the obverse mine. For the past several days there have been many eulogies for these men, which they richly deserve I'm sure. Yet more deaths in this endless conflict.
Keep in mind that not a day passes without scores/hundreds of other deaths from this conflict ( and yes I now inject some dirty international politics, deaths from weaponry proudly proclaiming that this bullet/drone was " Made in the USA" ) Countless deaths of innocent humans who do not offer us a warm and fuzzy "personal connection" who are most certainly not "kindred spirits", who have no idea what a Half Life is except for experiencing it in a most literal way.
Maybe UBM can put up another discussion board where we humanize the day's death toll, get their names out there, try our best at pronunciation etc. see what video games they liked. Pong?
It certainly does seem tough to gauge what's happening in any area of the Middle East. It's a complex region with many factions. As in America, the voices that cry the loudest aren't necessarily representative of on-the-ground views and reality.
I think it's really hard to know what's happening right now. Certainly, American support for removing Gadafi seemed welcome, but there may well be large factions who don't care about it, or even opposed it.
This video was recorded Friday. I'm hoping that my statement that the American presence in Libya was supported by a large portion of the population does not look foolish in light of later events.
New tools like laptops, tablets, smartphone, and wireless connectivity let us work from San Diego to Katmandu, and anywhere in between. But time management remains a problem.
A recent release of the popular TweetDeck app for Twitter power-users gives new life to software that had previously taken a wrong turn. Here's a quick walk-through of the new TweetDeck, to show you why it should be at the top of your Twitter toolkit.
Michael Brutsch, a.k.a. Reddit's Violentacrez, is a creep who posted borderline kiddie porn to the Internet anonymously, and got fired when outed by a media outlet. It's a cautionary tale even for people who aren't jerks and predators.
When whole departments do BYOD and consumerization, it's a threat to IT and the whole organization. It's also an emerging business technology cliché you'll be sick of soon enough.
On the occasion of Internet Evolution's 5th anniversary, Editor in Chief Mitch Wagner and Editor in Chief Emeritus Nicole Ferraro reminisce about how business on the Internet has changed over five years. Also, Mitch tries to remember what "Enterprise 2.0" means.
US counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke, who came to prominence with his prescient warnings before the 9/11 attacks, tells Smithsonian Magazine the US was responsible for the Stuxnet supersmart worm that attacked parts of nuclear reactors in Iran – and in the process, has given away one of the world's most sophisticated cyberweapons.
50 billion household devices will be on the Internet by 2020, according to Cisco. And we're hearing foreign governments are hacking our infrastructure. Surely our refrigerators are next!
ITRC found that more than 600 security breaches took place in 2012. Flaws were found in some of the nation's most respected companies: Apple, Citibank, and Wells Fargo. So, it seems the bad guys are doing better than the men in the white hats.
Many enterprises view high-speed broadband connections as ubiquitous. Yet in about 20 percent of the country, businesses and their employees do not have access to even DSL connections. This shortcoming diminishes enterprises' ability to support their employees.
Evidence shows that you can tweet too much. Sites and services like Twitter and Facebook are a good place to reach your audience, but think quality over quantity.
Saunders predicts the decline and fall of America’s Internet empire, and explains how the Internet of the future will be multi-lingual as well as multi-national.
Saunders explains how Internet users in North America are already vastly outnumbered by those in the rest of the world – a situation which is only set to accelerate.
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