I’m tired of RSS. Not of reading and keeping up with my favorite feeds, but of presenting the wonders and benefits to the business teams at the company. My team is responsible for keeping the masses up-to-date on the latest and greatest trends that can affect our business — and I believe we serve this role well. The problem is getting the masses to listen and really care about what we’re saying; to take five minutes out of their day and try out something new. Not that RSS is a new concept — the current RSS 2.0 spec was copyrighted in 2003. More

In large and small scale businesses there is a divide — one that separates the business from the more technical folk. In today’s marketplace, it is critical that these two forces meet somewhere in the middle, sharing an understanding of commonplace technical terms, techniques and trends. It’s scary when a business lead is driving an initative, yet doesn’t truly grasp the high-level technical concepts of the work; or when the business side sees something “cool” and says, “why can’t we have that on our site?” Sound familiar? More

It’s been a while since I’ve updated this, you may have seen some earlier posts (earlier meaning 6 months ago) which appeared on the same subdomain, but a different box. The old Slackware box blew up leaving me no choice but to build another, this time I wimped out with an Ubuntu installation. How fun is that? I’ve also chosen a new design — still the same minimalist style, but with a new logo! No one would mistake me for a designer…