Tag: Technology

The Story of Linux: Commemorating 20 Years

From a Finnish student's hobby project to the backbone of the digital world—how Linux transformed computing and sparked a movement The Linux penguin mascot, Tux, has become an iconic symbol of the open source movement Twenty years ago, a Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds made a seemingly modest announcement on an internet newsgroup: he was working on a free operating system as a hobby project. Little did he know that his creation would...

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Good, Fast, Or Cheap Communications

Reconsidering an Old Adage Through Alice in Wonderland I'm a CMMA member and was recently asked to provide a written response to the question below. Because I share practically everything, below is my response. Hope you enjoy it. My Answer As long as I can remember I haven't liked playing by other people's rules, so if I may, I would answer this question by only choosing one which is doing communication projects well (good). I...

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Humans Are The Routers

Humans as Routers The Future of Free Communication Two very important quotes in this article which may have forever changed the way I think about the Internet and communications. To give you context in case you don't know, routers control Internet traffic throughout the world (which is why Cisco became a dot com darling). Because we are still dependent on routers, dictators can kill communication in their country by telling ISPs to shut down. Give...

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Computer History Museum

Last weekend it was a cold and wet outside so Christina and I went to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. It probably wouldn't have been Christina's first choice of things to do on a Saturday, but I really had a good time. Truth be told, I think I brought out the inner geek in her, and she had a good time too. The museum itself is great, it starts with the abacus...

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Otis Person

My parents let me know last night they had to put Otis down which surprisingly came as quite a shock.  Otis has been a part of the Person family since I was in high school in Maryland.  Otis was always my mom's dog as Maggie was my dad's.  I will always remember the day my parents brought Otis home, he had never felt grass before so when they put him in the grass he didn't...

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Qwiki In The Enterprise

LinkedIn Discussion The Future of Interactive Content in Corporate Communication I commented on a LinkedIn discussion board comment/question today and wanted to share it. A: The Future of Interactive Technology The other interesting thing I like about Qwiki is they are using it as a platform. I was fascinated by what they are looking at as a future alarm clock (see video link below). I'd imagine it won't be too many more years before our...

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