Posts with keyword: barnett

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Geopolitics and Cloud Computing

Fri Nov 21 14:54:00 2008

When I first read "Pentagon's New Map" and heard Tom Barnett talk about how he analyzed geopolitics, I realized that here was an theory a geek could love. Tom uses concepts like and system administration to talk about how the world does and ought to work. I got to interview Tom about his second book, Blueprint for Action and I'm anxious to get my hands on the new book, Great Powers. So, I wasn't surprised when a post from Tom called A nice primer on cloud computing and its relationship to SOA showed up in Snackr.
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Barnett Interview Up

Wed Nov 30 06:37:00 2005

My interview with Thomas Barnett is live on IT Conversations. In the interview we talked about the concepts in his new book, his use of technology-base analogies to explain his ideas, blogging, and outsourcing. Doing the interview was a lot of fun--I hope it's as interesting to listen to. Tom has great appeal to the IT Conversations crowd (65,000 downloads of his last interview). Part of the reason is that he uses technology-based analogies to describe world events. But more than that, he also sheds lights on non-technical issues that techies care about. A sampling of two recent entries
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Podcasting Barnett

Sat Nov 19 07:54:00 2005

Tom Barnett mentioned my interviewing him on his blog. He said: Then 1-2pm EST I taped an hour with Phil Windley of IT Conversations. He and Doug Kaye said my recorded presentation at Pop!Tech last year was downloaded about 65,000 times from their site, so both were excited to have me back at their plate. Windley's questions were great: simple, direct, and with good steering. It was the kind of skillful interview that lets you walk away feeling better about your work. From Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog: Two interviews bankedReferenced Sat Nov 19 2005 07:54:47 GMT-0700 (MST) 65,000
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