While I would love to write fiction every day, thirty-eight years of IT experience makes it difficult not to comment on what I observe in the IT world. The world breathes on social media. It affects what we know, what we think, and what we do. We are seeing before us how social media, with all it’s potential, can show the worst in humanity. Despite its fundamental propensity toward freedom, it can also be used to apply the most penetrating censorship and control. IT has introduced phenomenal innovation, yet with this new technology we face new challenges.
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The Invisible Hand
And so it is today we have the ugly head of monopolistic power being raised and the cry for anti-trust lawsuits to be levied against Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter. Is it really necessary?
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Why Parler?
Elements of the Internet have obviously evolved to the status of “common carrier”. What was done to Parler violates, fundamentally, the principle of free speech. But it also demonstrates the monopolistic power of what is coined as Big Tech: Apple, Google, Amazon and an array of powerful Internet companies that can erase your existence on…
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Transparency
Now we have the Internet – where will it lead? Will we be mature enough, as a society, to handle the ongoing presentation of raw information? Will reactionary mobs be the norm, or can we engineer a system of governance that can more effectively respond to raw information?
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Computer Vision Syndrome: CVS Update
Follow-up article on Computer Vision Syndrome, a debilitating malady that can affect your performance at work.
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Solution to Fake News
A continuation of an earlier discussion on Fake News. How is the best way to identify it and to fight it?
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Passwords – the Gremlins of Cyberspace
Passwords. They may be too weak, whatever that means. They may be too many, each having to conform to a password standard of a particular web site. They are forgotten, confused and yet hacked by somebody out there. What is it with passwords? Can we master these little devils?
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Spam Filtering: Mastering Your E-mail
It is now a fact of life that e-mail traffic is largely spam, unwanted solicitations for your time and money, if not worse. Spam cannot be avoided, but it can be controlled.
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E-mail: A Method to the Madness
I had finished writing this piece when the latest blow-up over the Clinton e-mails grabbed the headlines. I’ll speak on that later because what I wrote below pertains to them as much as to you. Needless to say, whether you are Sarah Palin or Hillary Clinton, how you handle e-mail has significant repercussions.
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…. And Another Certification — Confessions of an old computer professional
I just obtained another certification (officially), which joins the numerous unofficial certificates that I earned through corporate training courses. Whenever I go through this experience I have to wrestle with the justification of the certificate process. Is it really worth it? What does it prove? Originally posted on LinkedIn on February 16, 2016, this article…