Not dead yet
Fri, Jan 20th 2012 3:43p Karen Hobert Yesterday's Register article, "SOPA is dead. Are you happy now?" is a sobering - and in my opinion accurate - summary on the need for intelligent Internet piracy discussion between the Tech industry and our government: Former Mozilla CEO John Lilly captured this best, arguing, "What’s extremely discouraging to me right now is that I don’t really see how we [the tech world and the US Congress] can have a nuanced, technically-informed, respectful discussion/debate/conversation/working rel [read] Keywords: administration
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The Economist's lean-back vs. Lean-froward journalism experience
Wed, Nov 30th 2011 12:23p Karen Hobert Great interview with Andrew Rashbass, CEO at the Economist group, on the key to successful branding of journalism. What I like is the bit about learning the difference between print and on-line, interactive journalism: ...they came to realise that there was a distinction between what he calls the "lean-back, immersive, ritual pleasure" of reading the Economist in print compared to the "lean-forward, interactive" way people used the site. All I know is that I enjoy both the print and on-line [read] Keywords: blogger
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More or Less
Wed, Nov 23rd 2011 11:42a Karen Hobert For another tangent that I've always had interest in...designing user experiences. This is a great post on the dangers of complexity in your application designs. The thing to beware of, don't mistake simple design with brain dead design. I see this happening more and more, especially with internet apps and the crutch of "we can release it ad-hoc as new features are completed." Consider the moaning that gets posted in Facebook status messages when they make seemingly random UX changes. Even [read] Keywords: application
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Digital peeping
Thu, Oct 13th 2011 12:22p Karen Hobert A timely article from the Atlantic Wire on government and corporate surveillance of social media. The later half of the article addresses how the Government and our outdated Electronic Communications Privacy Act, circa 1986, opens doors to government entities who want to look at e-mail content, and how service providers comply most of the time: In the second half of 2010 alone, the government sent 4,601 such requests to Google, who complied 94 percent of the time. Your Social Media Will be Mo [read] Keywords: atlantic
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Ethics people!
Fri, Sep 2nd 2011 1:05p Karen Hobert Apple employees may have trouble keeping corporate secrets in their pockets, but the folks who find obviously confidential stuff seem to face a moral dilemma figuring out what to do with the things they find. A recent Gizmodo post, "Man Get Hard Drive Full of Secret Apple Documents", details how one Apple Store inadvertently gave a customer the store's back-up hard drive rather than a broken hard disk that the store replaced for the customer. Ok, ok, simple or complicated mix-up that can be b [read] Keywords: apple
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Social Business #Fail?
Thu, Aug 25th 2011 1:02p Karen Hobert Some very sober points on how Social Business could possibly avoid the fate of Knowledge Management. The thing that struck me while reading this post is the fact that we seem to be backing into developing tools that really meet the requirements of their users. As my colleague Ann tweeted regarding this article: "natural collab experience" = support my work-dont just push "social" Although culture and change management in the enterprise play a factor in the success of collaboration within [read] Keywords: collaboration
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