by Derek Morrison, 21 April 2011 Some time ago I posted Open Opportunities, Open Threats? (Auricle, 30 April 2009) in which I opined that, far from breaking out in a fearful sweat or reinforcing the status quo barricades, the transition to an open source MLE/VLE solution could provide an invaluable organisation-wide opportunity to refresh and […]
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They’re coming to take your content away!
August 21st, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 21 August 2009 It’s hard to think of a more ironic example of the new world order that media companies would like to inflict on us than that recently demonstrated by Amazon’s recent auto-deletion of George Orwell’s 1984 “purchased” by owners of Amazon’s Kindle ebook platform. The story was all over the […]
Chrome plating Windows?
July 9th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 9 July 2009 Normally I wouldn’t want to contribute to the already excessive publicity regarding the Google Chrome OS; this is after all currently only vapourware, but since Auricle is a place for recording reflections this is probably the most appropriate time to do so. Google headquarter’s staff must be ecstatic that […]
Storm Clouds – addendum
June 23rd, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 23 June 2009 Here’s a slight addition to my orginal Storm Clouds online essay (Auricle, 9 September 2008) in which I reflected on the risks of the cloud computing paradigm. A recent Guardian edition had an interesting piece on the risks to our data when it’s stored in the ‘cloud’ (Freedom to […]
Storm Clouds?
September 9th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 9 September 2008 (addendum added 26 September 2008) The recent release of Google’s Chrome is not intended to offer just another web browser to a marketplace already largely segmented by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, or the eponymous Opera (plus a few other more minor players). No, Chrome is meant to advance […]
