“I wrote the code and put it out there” – Tim Berners-Lee If you want to take a look into what the future of information technology holds for us you could take your pointer from Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia or hear what Tim Berners-Lee has to say on the subject. To help with this [read more...]

After managing Information technology systems for the last 20+ years, in a number of different size companies, I have learned there isn’t always scope, budget, or resource available for implementing formal service management frameworks. If you do have resources available there are many very useful frameworks available (see Technology Management Frameworks) which could help formalise [read more...]

We all know about Google Maps and its constantly expanding and evolving services, including navigation, business finding, and its more recent street view – but what about other providers of business listing information?

Have you checked your Google Dashboard yet? This is not the iGoogle dashboard with widgets but the Google Dashboard which tells you what information Google has about each of your Google related accounts. It is early days for the project and whilst the information is far from exhaustive it looks like a step in the [read more...]

Searching through pages of textual information trying to find connections and relationships between information items is time consuming and not very intuitive. Being able to visualise information and explore links can speed up the process and often lead to interesting concepts being brought to light – it’s also way more interesting than lists. It was [read more...]

  When managing the information technology infrastructure there are a number of security and legal factors which require consideration and planning. Balancing the needs of the individual against the security and legal responsibility of the computer system, network and business requires careful planning as well as support from the business owners. Included in this article [read more...]

Whilst working through the event logs on our Exchange Server 2007 I discovered Information Event 2080 which appears with more than a little regularity, stating: “Process MAD.EXE (PID=5544). Exchange Active Directory Provider has discovered the following servers with the following characteristics: “ I don’t mind informational events however if they have nothing major to report [read more...]

The internet is a big place and we spend ages sorting through heaps of information trying to find real information about subjects that matter to us, whether it is searching for a friend or work colleague to trying to find out more information about the population of Yemen. This article will aim to identify information [read more...]