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Dinner at Velocity?
I'm at the Velocity Conference in Burlingame, CA today and tomorrow. I was planning on dinner at Kincaids tonight. If you're interested in coming, drop me a note or direct me on Twitter and I'll include you in the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 23, 2008 5:16 AM
At Velocity Next Week: Automating Infrastructure
I'm going to be at O'Reilly Velocity conference next Monday and Tuesday. Scott Lemon and I talked with Jesse Robbins (conference chair) and Adam Jacob (presenter) for a Technometria podcast a few weeks ago and got a lot out... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 18, 2008 3:20 PM
Internet Retailer Conference 2008: Keynote by Mike Boylson
I'm at the Internet Retailer this week at the McCormick Center in Chicago. I haven't been to an industry conference like this since 2000. The opening by Jack Love was, frankly, a throw away. Nothing like a Phil Becker... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 10, 2008 8:19 AM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for May 2008
Here are the top ten IT Conversations shows for May 2008: Michio Kaku - Physics of the Impossible (Rating: 3.89)Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of "Physics of the Impossible" about the improbable, and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 2, 2008 11:24 AM
IIW 2008 Happening May 12-14
The announcement and registration pages for IIW 2008 are now live. Please take minute and do three things: Register so we know you're coming. Having a good count early makes the whole thing go smoother. Help us spread the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 20, 2008 12:01 PM
TripIt Is My New Best Friend!
If you travel and haven't yet heard of TripIt, you're going to be sooo excited! TripIt is a site that keeps track of your travel. But unlike many other sites that promise to help you with your travel, this... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 1, 2008 5:33 PM
Time for Fry's in Utah
Now that CompUSA is closing, there are no decent places in Utah to buy electronics. Not that CompUSA was a dream store by any means, but at least it was something. There's BestBuy and Circuit City, but they're not... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 28, 2008 3:55 PM
Passing on the Macbook Air
A number of people have given various objections to the Macbook Air (MBA): small drive, no firewire, no ethernet port, and so on. I can live with all of those. I'd get one primarily for travel, so I don't... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 17, 2008 11:39 AM
Going to Beijing in April
I'm planning a trip to Beijing in April for WWW2008. I'm looking for other things (conferences, speaking engagements, etc.) I might combine it with in Asia to maximize the trip/time benefit. Any ideas?... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 11, 2008 2:41 PM
Achieving Accountability
Dave Winer's Club140.org gives us a good example of how hard it is to protect data. For those of you not following along at home, Dave created a site, called Club140, that lists any tweets he sees on Twitter... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 8, 2007 2:34 PM
The Optical Disk is Dead
My recent travels had me wishing for a lighter bag--that implies a smaller laptop--or no laptop. I'm not ready for the latter, but I'd be happy to give up the optical drive on my laptop to get it. I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 6, 2007 4:13 PM
CTO Breakfast Report
As we did introductions today, a surprising number of people were remodeling their basement (time of the year, I guess). Consequently we ended up talking about home theaters set ups for the first part of the meeting. Interesting tidbit:... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 29, 2007 10:07 AM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for October 2007
Here are the top ten shows on IT Conversations (by download) for October 2007: Bruce Johnson - Technometria: Google Web Toolkit (Rating: 4.20)Recently, Google released from beta its Google Web Toolkit. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 6, 2007 2:26 PM
At Defrag
I'm in Denver at Defrag. Eric Nolan, Brad Feld, and Phil Becker have organized it to discuss "the internet-based tools that transform loads of information into layers of knowledge, and accelerate the "aha" moment. Defrag is about the space... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 5, 2007 9:49 AM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for September 2007
Update: I've updated this with ratings data. Normally the top 10 report includes the ratings for each show. The way I get access to the ratings data has been inop for some weeks now. I've delayed doing the report... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 15, 2007 1:17 PM
Cabinet Level Blogging
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt (my former boss), has a blog. He's writing it himself and, so far, doing a good job of keeping it up with interesting posts. Recently he's been blogging his travel... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 30, 2007 8:42 AM
Double Your ID Pleasure with TSA
Via Jim Harper, a report on the TSA's ruling that requires some passengers to present two forms of ID. What's ironic is these are the passengers who signed up for the Registered Traveler program, designed to let frequent fliers... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 31, 2007 3:12 PM
CTO Breakfast Report
The first item of discussion at today's CTO Breakfast was iPhone features and unfeatures. A few of us had one. I passed mine around for people to play with. We also discussed some other devices, like the Blackberry Curve.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 20, 2007 10:04 AM
In Denver With a Free Evening
I'm going to be in Denver Tuesday evening (June 26). Anyone interested in dinner? If so, contact me.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 25, 2007 2:56 PM
New Features on Utah.gov
Dave Fletcher, Utah's Deputy CIO, points out some new features for Utah.gov, Utah's eGovernment portal including many expanded search options, a multimedia portal, and sub-portals for travel and state parks. The state parks site contains a very useful mashup... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 31, 2007 2:08 PM
CTO Breakfast Reminder
Just a reminder that we'll hold the May CTO breakfast this coming Thursday at 8am. We're in the usual place--the Novell cafeteria. Some of you are still holding out because it seems so far away, but give it a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 21, 2007 9:43 PM
WWW2007 Wrap-Up
Today I'm on my way home from Banff. The conference goes until Saturday, but with IIW starting Monday of next week and Sunday being Mother's Day, I didn't feel like I could hold out until the end. My feelings... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 11, 2007 11:33 AM
Off to Banff for WWW2007
I'm headed to Banff next week for WWW2007. If you're going to be there too, I arrive Monday afternoon and I'm looking for a group to go dinner with on Monday night. Let me know. I'm doing a tutorial... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 5, 2007 7:33 PM
Imus and Speech
Today on NPR, Juan Williams was dissecting the Don Imus imbroglio, including his firing, and the discussion turned to why Black rappers can get away with saying things Imus can't. Lots of pop-psychology, history, race relations, and the like... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 13, 2007 11:50 AM
OpenID Economics Centers on Relying Parties
Tim Bray has written a post saying that OpenID seems pretty useless and then points out some problems and possible solutions. The ironic thing is I can't argue with many of his points, but come to a very different... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 26, 2007 4:46 PM
Leaving Arkansas
I'm about to board my flight to Salt Lake City, leaving Arkansas after my first visit ever. Besides being able to put another notch in my belt, the trip was a good one for other reasons as well. I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 23, 2007 12:34 PM
Arkansas and Identity
I'm in Arkansas at the Identity Solutions Symposium and Workshop in Jonesboro. I speak Thursday on the social and economic aspects of digital identity. I'm looking forward to it. I've never been to Arkansas before. I flew into Little... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 20, 2007 9:59 PM
Blogging for Friends
I found this piece by David Carr about 24-hour news people in the Times from a post on Thomas Barnett's blog about why he wouldn't dream of giving up his blog. The gist of both articles is that blogs... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 18, 2007 8:45 AM
Detailed Windows Vista Review
Update: See my cheatsheet on Windows Vista Buying Advice for the easy answer of what you need to buy. Have you been wondering just exactly what Window's Vista is and when to upgrade? The most detailed review I've found... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 9, 2007 10:16 AM
FCW Government CIO Conference
Hotel Del Coronado(click to enlarge) I've been at the Federal Computer Week Government CIO conference today in San Diego. I was asked to speak on Digital Identity and they were even good enough to give away some copies of my... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 7, 2006 9:39 PM
Which Mobile Device Should I Buy?
I haven't used an organizer like a Palm since 2002. Once I no longer had someone else keeping my schedule, it was more convenient for me to keep the schedule in iCal on my laptop. The gadget freak in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 26, 2006 1:54 PM
My Summer Vacation
Sidewalk artist in Koln(click to enlarge) I'm just getting back from 10 days in Europe on vacation with my wife and two oldest kids. We had a great time. Meanwhile, I'm trying to re-enter. I turned my email off while... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 7, 2006 1:39 PM
My Audio Setup
Some people have asked me what I use to record various audio for IT Conversations. The set-up I'm using right now is the result of a lot of experimentation and a lot of help from people like Doug Kaye... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 24, 2006 11:48 AM
Collaboration Technologies and Timezones
I've switched venues to the Collaborative Technologies Conference, also in Boston this week. I'll be giving a talk in Identity 2.0 tomorrow morning at 8:45. The conference is at the Seaport, a very nice hotel near the Boston World... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 21, 2006 1:38 PM
Spectrum Talks Up UTOPIA
An IEEE Spectrum article discusses Utah's muni-broadband project, UTOPIA. There's a map of UTOPIA cities, but the legend seems to be missing. There's also a page of photos. The piece also contrasts the UTOPIA architecture with Verizon's FiOS service.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 2, 2006 1:00 PM
WWW2006
I'm just getting ready to leave to WWW2006 in Edinburgh Scotland. I'll be blogging interesting talks and events after I get there (sometime tomorrow). You can follow my coverage by looking at my www2006 tag or even subscribing to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 22, 2006 9:21 AM
Audio 101
One of my new duties as Executive Producer is recording what we call the show IDs and the intros and "outros" for the IT Conversations series. The show ID is the very first portion program that introduces what's coming... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 7, 2006 6:57 PM
Michael Goldhaber on the Real Nature of the Attention Economy (ETech 2006)
Michael Goldhaber is speaking on the real nature of the attention economy. Michael's been working on a book about attention on this subject since the 1990's. He thinks that this conference has its feet in two paradigms: the attention... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 1:20 PM
TPM and Positive ID
There's an article at MSNBC about how Trusted Computing Platform (TCP) chips, already installed in many computers, could be used to provide "positive ID" on the Internet and end anonymity. I find articles dealing with Internet identity in the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 15, 2005 9:45 AM
SSH Tricks
Linux Journal has a nice article on Eleven SSH Tricks. These, of course, work on OS X as well. If you're an OS X user, you may not be all that interested in the first one, X11 forwarding, but... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 12, 2005 9:57 AM
Grad Student Uptick
If you travel abroad, you find that many of the government and business leaders you meet, particularly in developing countries, were educated in the US. Moreover, many of the best executives in our most innovative companies are foreign born.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 9, 2005 8:28 AM
IT's Role in Improving Elections
I posted an article at ZDNet's Government and Technology blog about the Carter-Baker report on voting: Former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker released the final version of a bipartisan election reform report today. The... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 20, 2005 12:17 PM
The Katrina Response
I wrote a little on the government response to Katrina over at ZDNet's Government Technology blog. Local governments usually get gold stars here. The feds have a harder time with it. Their strong suit is dropping in with boatloads... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 7, 2005 5:29 AM
More Microformats: hCalendar
I've long had a travel calendar on the right-hand side of this blog to show people what conferences I'm attending. I've had lots of great experiences with folks seeing I'm coming to something near them and linking up with... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 12, 2005 7:05 PM
Does the IT Department Matter?
Does the IT Department matter anymore? What with outsourcing, offshoring, and ASPs like Salesforce.com will it be too long before the IT department consists of nothing but the CIO and some purchasing agents? In theory, you could get rid... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 23, 2005 8:44 PM
Drinking the Kool-Aid
I just listened to an interview of Scott Cook by Larry Magid at IT Conversations. Scott is the founder, chairman, and former CEO of Intuit. The most apparent thing to me in the interview was how good Scott is... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 23, 2005 1:55 PM
Tiger Update
I upgraded to Tiger yesterday. I knew I was going to be traveling and its always more thrilling to update right before a big trip. I did the smae thing with Panther. Go figure. I used Synchronize Pro to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 4, 2005 6:53 PM
My New Audio Toy: MOTU Traveler
MOTU Traveler I got a new toy this week, a MOTU Traveler. The traveler is a small, but very capable, digital mixer that links to your computer via firewire. I have been using a cheap Beringer mixer that I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 4, 2005 6:22 PM
Visa and MasterCard Cracking Down on Small Merchants
Visa and MasterCard are cracking down on the security of small merchants who take credit cards online. The card associations have required security assessments from larger merchants for some time, but this is the first time they've required smaller... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 28, 2005 9:20 AM
Comcast Outages
This Comcast outage is what I was talking about a week ago. The problems I was having before the two big blowouts were DNS because I could ping the Comcast gateway, but was getting about 50% packet loss to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 14, 2005 2:44 PM
Keyhole Data at Google Maps
When I was CIO for Utah, I played with a tool call Earthviewer that was based on Keyhole satellite data and let you zoom in on satellite images anywhere in the world. I blogged it and still get some... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 8, 2005 6:30 PM
Sustainability is a Mirage
I was listening to Moira Gunn interview Mary O'Hara-Devereaux about her book Navigating the Badlands : Thriving in the Decade of Radical Transformation. The "badlands" are, in O'Hara-Devereaux's analogy, the rough times of transition in the world's history. She... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 18, 2005 9:34 PM
What Became of Excite@Home's Orem Data Center
After Excite@Home bought iMall.com (the ecommerce company I founded and was the CTO of) in 1999, we moved into a new building. We'd been looking to move for a while because we were bursting at the seams. We got... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 14, 2005 6:01 AM
Technical Reviews
For the last week or so, I've been working on incorporating the technical reviews of my digital identity book into the draft. I'm also trying to finalize it for O'Reilly. I found the best way to catch small typos... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 26, 2005 2:02 PM
Java vs. C++
Java is preferable to C++ in exactly the same way that driving a 1994 Chevy Impala is preferable to driving a 1978 Ford LTD. Update: Here's some pictures to help you with the visualization. 1978 Ford LTD 1994 Chevy... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 3, 2005 7:46 PM
Web Services and International Travel
Writing in CIO Magazine, Merritt Maxim makes a useful analogy between Web services and international travel. Immigration and Customs are about authentication, authorization, and content control. These problems only show themselves at scale. Web Services: Who Goes There? -... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 15, 2004 11:18 AM
Scaling Programming Projects
Patrick Logan comments on my post about the lack of modern compiled languages for optimized performance by pointing to an excellent article by Dan Friedman and asks "Why not take the road less travelled?" The Friedman article contains a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 2, 2004 9:52 AM
Portable Wi-Fi
Apple's AirPort Express (click for larger image) Apple has announced a portable Wi-Fi hub called the AirPort Express that looks like the little square power adaptors that come with the PowerBook. The unit has a mini-stereo jack, a USB... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 8, 2004 8:33 AM
CTO Breakfast Report
I just got back from another CTO Breakfast. We continue to attract new people and today there were 6 or 7 people there who'd never been there before. I enjoy these events a lot because there's always some interesting... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 23, 2004 11:00 AM
The Need for Identity Management
Information Week has a good article on identity management. The article talks about the benefits and barriers to achieving those benefits. Identity management promises to "improve security, boost worker productivity, cut costs, and reduce the integration friction usually connected with... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 23, 2004 8:46 AM
Commerce One Conductor Takes on Integration
Business processes typically cut across system boundaries and require the interoperability and choreography of multiple systems. Yet, most enterprise-level support systems focus instead on one task without thinking about working with other systems. Web services promise to solve the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 16, 2004 11:26 AM
US Senate Rolling Out RSS
Ray Matthews is reporting on the RSS in Government Site that the US Senate is rolling out RSS: Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.) is the first senator with a RSS news feed for press releases on his official site. Feeds... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 16, 2004 10:31 AM
The 100 Megabit Les Paul
Gibson is set to release a digital guitar. The pick-ups will go right into a D/A convertor and from there travel over ethernet. Kind of interesting that no one's done it yet. A Wired Magazine article has the usual... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 30, 2003 9:43 AM
Upgrade to Panther
This was the weekend of moves and upgrades. In addition to moving my weblog to its new server, I also got Panther, the newest version of Apple's OS X, in the mail on Friday. I waited a little while... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 27, 2003 8:08 AM
Travel to Digital ID World
I'm at Digital ID World in Denver tonight. This was a great conference last year and promises to be even better this year. I flew my plane to Denver rather than going commercial. I was able to leave my... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 14, 2003 10:44 PM
Enterprise Architecture as Extreme Sport
Ray Lane has a post at Always-On called Are Web Services Really the Answer? He compares the current state of Web services with finding your way to Oakland: The enterprise is very lost. It's as if you came to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 30, 2003 8:34 AM
IM in the Enterprise
I'm a fan of instant messaging (IM) in my personal and my corporate life. I've used IM as a tool for getting my work done for years and love the face-to-face style conversation with people who aren't right next... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 24, 2003 3:53 PM
LavaRnd: Truly Random Numbers
Truly random numbers are crucial to good encryption. Most people have heard of Silicon Graphic's use of Lava Lamps to generate random numbers. There were some problems: it required special SGI hardware and software along with six lava lamps.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 13, 2003 5:29 PM
Where Am I Going? Blog Events from iCal
Thursday while I was listening to Ben Hammersly's talk on the semantic something or other, I noticed that he had a box on his weblog that showed events he was planning to attend in the near future. I thought... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 26, 2003 6:34 PM
Semantic Mapping
Jo Walsh is talking about a semantic mapping model for geospatial information called spacewebspace. spacewebspace is a MUD world done using RDF in Jabber (I think). She's talking softly and quickly and its pretty far out there. This Friend... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 23, 2003 5:58 PM
Eric Bonabeau on Biological Computing
Eric Bonabeau is Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer at Icosystem. He apparently used to work for Microsoft Research. He's talking about social insects and what studying them can teach computer science. The chief question is "how do we shape... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 23, 2003 12:55 PM
Office as a Web Service Platform
Charles Maxon from Office Zealot is speaking on using Office 2003, the XMLized version formerly known as Office 11, with Amazon Web services (AWS). Charles claims that Office 2003 solves a number of issues that have kept developers from... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 22, 2003 3:52 PM
Tips for Protecting Your Identity
Much is made of the potential for identity theft in online transactions, but the truth is that the vast majority occursdue to meat-space activities that are much simpler to pull off. I ran across a set of ideas on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 9, 2003 3:48 PM
Bill Smith: Digital Identity in a Networked World
Bill Smith, who is the Director of Liberty Alliance Technology at Sun and the Secretary of the Liberty Alliance organization, is speaking on "Digital Identity in a Networked World." Bill starts off by posing a scenario where your car... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 25, 2003 5:05 PM
eGovernment Maturity
Alan Mather writes frequently about eGovernment in general and particularly in the UK. Today he points to an article on eGovernment in the online section of the Guardian. The article also mentions Alan's blog. Alan has a pretty chart... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 13, 2003 7:05 AM
Office 11, Forms, and Unstructured Data
I've been trying to get a hold of a beta version of Office 11, the new version of Office from Microsoft. As I wrote before, I believe it is the first version of Office worth upgrading for since Office 97. ... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 14, 2002 11:57 AM
Tablet PCs: A Frist Look
This afternoon I got to spend about 15 minutes playing with a tablet PC from Acer (TravelMate 100) and one from Compaq (TC1000C). I hefted them wrote on them, and played with some of the apps. My first impressions: I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 11, 2002 4:18 PM
One of the Things I'll Miss
One of the great things about being a CIO is that you can get technology questions answered quite quickly most of the time. Yesterday I was having lunch with a friend of mine at the David Chase Cafe (great place,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 10, 2002 2:24 PM
Communications Hub
Apple has been making a lot of noise about the Mac being a "digital hub," that is, the central device that links your camera, PDA, MP3 player, etc. and provides the processing necessary to make them valuable tools. For some... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 22, 2002 1:47 PM
Code as Your First Impression
Jon Udell makes and interesting statement on his weblog: Here's the best take-away from the talk. Now that we have largely replaced human touchpoints (sales clerks, travel agents, etc.) with software, it is the behavior of software, not human employees,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 13, 2002 9:31 PM