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Suddenly, it's personal 1 Nov 2012Posted by Tony Law in Social issues, Social media.
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Information that comes through the social network isn't always welcome. At my desk last evening, I received a call (in the UK!) from a New York Times reporter working on a Hurricane Sandy story. And so I learned that a former colleague, with whom I was still spasmodically in touch, had died alongside her husband in the storm in New Jersey when a tree fell on their truck. Their two younger sons were with them in the car, but are safe.
The reporter had been searching for her contacts through, among other places, LinkedIn and called me. Watching coverage of President Obama's visit to NJ, an hour later, he was talking about people I knew better than he did. Suddenly, it's personal.
I joined SmithKline Beecham, as it then was, in 1993 to do emerging technology monitoring. A reorganisation a few years later gave me a brief which was global, across the whole international company. Then, much more than now, there was a gulf between the pharmaceutical R&D arm of the company and the rest of us (R&D lumped us all together as "Corporate"). But Beth Everett had been carrying a similar brief to mine, in R&D IT, for longer than I had. She and her boss had knowledge, experience, contacts and processes and with her boss's active encouragement she and I worked together for several years.
R&D had different business perspectives. Short term, experimental and tactical IT solutions were often embraced. Six months taken off the lead time for a new drug was well worth while. "Corporate" wanted a vendor with an established market record. But R&D would adopt, adapt and leverage experimental technologies from vendors, startups, and academic research. So my previous collaborative work with academic researchers in the UK paid off in credibility with Beth's network. Our different contacts and perspectives combined to great benefit. And some of the awareness, risk appetite and external collaborations began to transfer to the wider corporation. Many years later, after the merger which formed GlaxoSmithKline, I was still benefitting from this with the willingness of senior IT managers to know about things going on in leading edge IT, and to see potential in at least some of the technologies we monitored.
Beth encouraged me to attend, alongside the R&D people, meetings of the Object Management Group (OMG): SB R&D held membership, and were leaders of its work in the late 1990s in the healthcare domain. (Incidentally, that enabled me to reconnect with Andrew Watson, OMG Technical Director, who previously I'd known in a European distributed systems architecture project. His colleague Andrew Herbert later became head of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England.) Beth and I shared attendance at OMG meetings: one in Manchester, England, was remarkable for a presentation by Tom Kilburn of his work on the "Baby" computer and the first ever stored computer program. We participated in projects. And I learned about how consensual standards-making works. All these things are my mix of personal and professional memories of Beth.
It was at an OMG meeting in Philadelphia, hosted by SB, that I first met Beth's family: her husband Rich, and their (then three, now four) children. They welcomed me into their home on a visit too. At a devastating time for them all, thoughts and prayers are with them.
• Couple From Randolph, N.J., Are Killed in Storm, New York Times online, 31 Oct 2012 (by Alison Cowan; find the timestamp 7.54 p.m.) [This post no longer appears online]
• Hurricane Sandy: Police ID couple killed in Mendham Township crash …, NJ.com, 30 Oct 2012/update 31 Oct 2012
• Object Management Group (go to Search and look for Corbamed or find the Healthcare Domain Task Force)
• ANSA (Advanced Networked Systems Architecture): The official record of the ANSA project, 1985-1998
• Microsoft Research Cambridge
• Blue Crest Riding Center, Rich and Beth's business, also on Facebook
• Tom Kilburn, 1921-2001, obituary, Computer50
Business Continuity, Olympic style 12 Apr 2012Posted by Tony Law in Impact of IT, IT is business, ITasITis, Social issues, Technorati.
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People are beginning to talk about "keeping business running in London during the Olympics" or words to that effect. I'll try and track some of the most helpful commentary.
The Olympic planners themselves highlight the key issues. Of course the effect will be at its greatest close to the venues, but these are quite widely scattered across London and beyond. Nor is the impact limited to those areas:
- travel: there will be perhaps millions of additional people in, and travelling to and around, London. Event start times may mean additional travellers in the rush hours. Transport networks will be re-organised to service the games, meaning disruption to normal travel patterns
- logistics: deliveries into or from, or transport through, London will see challenges
- communications: there will be significant additional load on communications networks which might lead to overload and failures in other areas
- accommodation: will be scarce and probably more expensive than usual
- staff: people may be on leave (escaping, or, because they want to attend events or are volunteering), or, on shorter timescales, giving attention to reports of high profile events as they happen
- and don't forget that however good the preparation there is always the possibility of a high profile security incident which would cause disruption very widely
Suggestions, and commentary, are beginning to emerge. What's striking me is that we've been here before: not in relation to the Olympics, clearly, but with other situations where travel and normal business patterns might be disrupted. Ash clouds. Bird flu. And so on.
So, what are the recommendations being re-invented? For the people issues, some clear short-term ones such as don't arrange meetings during the Olympics which involve lots of people travelling to, and needing accommodation in, the London area. See if working patterns can be changed to stagger travel. And do check out the events at the out-of-London venues too. Expect that, for those who do need to visit, accommodation expenses will increase. Book travel as far ahead as possible.
But (this is an IT blog) once again the discussion focusses on alternatives. Use online technology to support distributed meetings: much more a way of business-as-usual than it was, for example, ten years ago at "9/11″. In fact, where I worked, it was 9/11 that kick-started the use of distributed meetings: not just from the security angle, but because the number of people out of place that single week highlighted just how much the company was spending on travel.
Encourage and support staff working from home, to circumvent commuting disruption: we had that one with the bird flu scare, and one of the key questions was whether the company's inbound connectivity was adequate. Another, not immediately obvious, is whether the public infrastructure (which in residential areas won't have been upgraded to support the event) is up to the increased load being placed on it. We're a lot further on than even a couple of years ago in understanding different ways of enabling business activities to use personal technology, but staff likely to work from home may still need to be provided with additional services or facilities too.
Here are a number of references and events.
First, check out the Olympic organisers' own business continuity information, planners and tools. London 2012 online has an extensive Business Network section highlighting both opportunities for businesses to get involved and the continuity challenges. Track through to Preparing your Business, or download (PDF) Preparing your Business for the Games.
The CMA (part of the BCS these days) is hosting an eventon the afternoon of 16th April focussing on the comms issues: Managing Your Business During the Olympics will include fixed line, mobile network and data centre providers and an ISP.
I'll seek more, but the major (global) analysts not surprisingly don't have much. In the meantime I'm off cycling in France along the Avenue Verte Dieppe-Forges (posting in French – sorry!), so I'll extend this post next week.
Tech trends for 2012: who thinks what? 6 Jan 2012Posted by Tony Law in Cloud, Consumerization, Impact of IT, Insight services, IT is business, IT marketplace, ITasITis, Managing IT, Social issues, Social media, Tech Watch, Technorati.
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It's the time when insight services are awash with predictions for the coming year. I've been having a look or, where possible, a listen to a few.
Did you see a recent Forrester announcement? In line with their own recommendations, they've replaced the CIO post with a Chief Business Technology Officer. With hindsight I'm surprised it's taken this long; "Not IT but BT" has been a Forrester theme for several years now.
Another place where I've seen the Business Technology tag used is in McKinsey's quarterly newsletter. Their Business Technology office has just reported their sixth annual technology survey. According to the newsletter, "executives say their companies are boosting IT spending and adopting new technology platforms to support innovation". McKinsey see a significant challenge to IT: "Aspirations—and current expectations—for IT have never been higher".
Here are a few other pointers.
IDC Insights believe the CIO's 2012 agenda will be shaped around the "Four Forces" (Cloud, Mobile, Social, and Big Data). I'm registered on their webcast (10th Jan: free) to hear more. Yankee Group also offer a focus on mobility. Their focus is on the market for devices, but their research speaks also to the corporate buyer strategist when they see an even smartphone market between Android, iPhone and BlackBerry. Oddly, though, they refer to the Bring-Your-Own market but don't have a focus on tablets. They do, though, see both personal Cloud services and HTML5 becoming important in the coming year.
Gartner, of course, have created their swathe of Predicts 2012 content. Of course, most of it is client-only access. But the front page of Predicts 2012 includes a 15-minute podcast from Darryl Plummer. He highlights the same four areas as IDC (except he says "Information" instead of "Big Data"). It's worth listening to Darryl; he's quite listenable-to.
Significantly, Gartner's highlighted report for the IT community is titled "Gartner's Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2012 and Beyond: Control Slips Away". You almost don't need to read the report; but there's a useful summary by Peter Galen at Infosec Update. Corporate control of users' IT assets has been useful, but is now increasingly a myth. Seems like Gartner are saying that this year is the year it will reach tipping point. But, listening to Darryl speaking in this area, I did rather wonder "What took you so long?"
IBM, in their "5 in 5″ (five trends in five years) take the argument a step further and look beyond the WENA (western Europe/North America) corporate market. Thanks to Basex for the alert to this, but I'm not entirely clear that Basex is looking at the same report. Their focus on mobile devices is on the super-smart, not on the abolition of the digital divide. Worth a look, to lift your eyes beyond the immediate page.
Finally, Ray Wang (now at his own Constellation Research) highlights "10 Mega Business Trends To Watch For In 2012″.
Perhaps the key one, for IT, is "Keep consumerisation of IT enterprise class": in other words, ensure the right balance between enablement and discipline. Here's a world class statement of the issue: If IT is too strict, business fails. If business fails to have a level of discipline in technology adoption, IT can not keep up with the lack of standards and scale. Ray sets this in the context (and there's a timechart) of the change from transaction to engagement as the basis for business. There are comments for innovators, and for those who are scared to innovate.
Happy New Year!
• Forrester Research Names First Chief Business Technology Officer, Forrester Press Release, 5 Oct 2011
• A rising role for IT: McKinsey Global Survey results, McKinsey Quarterly, Dec 2011
• IDC Insights 2012 Predictions: The CIO Agenda, IDC Insights, 4 Jan 2012, in IT Governance and Executive Strategies. For the webcast (10 Jan), the registration link is at the foot of the page.
• Register and download 2012 Mobility Predictions: A Year of Living Dangerously, Yankee Group , Dec 2011
• Predicts 2012: Gartner; summary at Infosec Island, Peter Galen, 3 Jan 2012
• IBM the next 5 in 5, see also Basex Tech Watch
• 10 Mega Business Trends To Watch For In 2012, Ray Wang, constellation
Is power shifting to the OS vendors? 2 Dec 2011Posted by Tony Law in Impact of IT, IT marketplace, ITasITis, Managing IT, Social issues, Tech Watch, Technorati.
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Frank Zimper, via one of my Circles on Google Plus, drew my attention to a thoughtful article in MIT's Technology Review (TR). I used to read TR regularly, in a paper copy, but time allocation defeated me. I ought to get back to it because it ranges not just across a whole range of the novel techology spectrum but to comment about what's going on.
So here's an article by Jonathan Zittrain, professor of law and computer science at Harvard (no, TR doesn't restrict itself to MIT authors!) discussing the development of the platform vendors' stranglehold on applications and, therefore, on content delivery. The piece is called The Personal Computer is Dead but that's not actually what it's about.
Zittrain takes for granted the shift from the desktop-like devices of the past thirty-odd years to mobile, highly personal smartphones and tablets. What he's concerned to point out is that the enterprises who define the functionality of these devices, via the OS – Apple, Google, now Amazon, and still Microsoft – also lock down, with varying strictness, the means by which software can be loaded.
And with software goes content, which these days is often in the cloud and can only be accessed through the authorised App. Change platform and you may lose your content (not just your software). Zittrain suggests that this restrictive practice puts Microsoft's tactics with IE (remember the anti-trust case?) in the shade. Yet it's crept in under the radar, perhaps because we see these devices as "appliances". They've become ubiquitous computing and content devices, as it were, by stealth.
As well as these socio-legal issues, the article does capture quite neatly the changing models for development and delivery of both software and content; for its more or less draconian review and authorisation by the platform vendors (and the reasons for this); and for payment, including the impost imposed by the app stores which have become, in some cases, the only route to market.
Well worth a read. Thankyou, Frank!
• The Personal Computer is Dead, Jonathan Zittrain, MIT Technology Review, 30 Nov 2011
• Frank Zimper via Google Plus
Green 3: Andy Lawrence of 451 1 Nov 2011Posted by Tony Law in Impact of IT, Insight services, IT marketplace, ITasITis, Managing IT, Social issues, Tech Watch, Technorati.
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Continuing my assessment of analysts I haven't heard before: here at the Green IT Expo is Andy Lawrence of 451 Group, talking "Green Datacentres to Green Clouds". Andy looks after data centre disruptive technologies, and eco-efficient IT, for 451. It's the first time, again, that I've heard 451 directly.
He promises an overview including a European Union Framework project called Optimis. I've been involved in EU research in the past, didn't know about this one: that'll be interesting.
Here's a sort-of hierarchy of energy efficiency for the data centre. At the base, five years' work on reducing the power use of datacentre infrastructure: PUE, best practices, EU Code of Conduct. One tier up: work on lower power chips, efficient drives, virtualisation, power management etc. Above that again, the ability to look holistically at an application or service: for example, what's the eco-impact of choosing 1 second response rather than 1.5 seconds?
So: Cloud. Cloud should be more eco-efficient and it's often asserted to be so. But is it? 451 believes the assumptions are largely unproven. [Private] cloud and virtualisation, as a matter of observation, seems – so Lawrence says – to show under-utilisation so some of the eco gains are not realised..
We're about to see another measurement framework. Here, there are four axes: economic, compliance, CSR (corporate social responsibility), operational effectiveness. Again, take a holistic look: e.g. what's the energy cost of insisting backups are permanently online rather than powered-down (on tape, for example).
How do you measure resource efficiency? There are some proxy metrics; there are direct measures (i.e. actual measurements, not estimates: how much carbon now); and metrics (e.g. PUE). They are "good; but be careful: unreliable for business decisions". We're promised a tour of some cross-industry initiatives, and also a few highlights from individual companies.
The EU's Optimis project provides a list for assessment: trust, risk, eco-efficiency, cost (TREC). The aim is to create an architectural framework that looks at all of these, and a development toolkit. Lawrence asserts the need for multiple metrics: "a lone metric never works". The hard stuff is the effort to associate carbon with a cloud service, especially where the actual data are locked up in the provider's data centre and they may well have no interest in providing the detailed data to feed into the models. It is, at the least, a hard problem.
Lawrence outlines an alternative proxy approach. It still relies on cloud providers doing the sums; but they may well already be gathering the data, and may well be more willing to deliver a category-based per-hour or per-VM footprint (kWh and carbon per VM hour, perhaps). Its accuracy needs to be similar to that of billing, neither much more nor much less.
This presentation has given me an incentive to revisit what I know of 451 Group: perhaps the most encouraging aspect was Andy Lawrence's willingness to identify, and review, academic/industrial research projects which are easily overlooked by an insight market which tends to look only at vendors' own development pipelines. It admits that development of real, workable methodologies is some time away: Optimis, like all EU Framework projects, is pre-competitive research. But while the project itself may not deliver the ultimate solution, the ideas it generates will certainly inform future metrics and tools.
• The 451 Group and The Uptime Institute
• Optimis EU project: Optimized Infrastructure Services
• EU GAMES: Green Active Management of Energy in IT Service centres (similar, for high performance computing)
• (These projects are within the EU's 7th Framework Project; the CORDIS database holds information on these and all projects)
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• Green IT; encountering Connection Research
Green IT; encountering Connection Research 1 Nov 2011Posted by Tony Law in Impact of IT, Insight services, IT is business, IT marketplace, ITasITis, Managing IT, Social issues, Tech Watch, Technorati.
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Connection Research is an Australian insight service focussing on sustainability issues. I know of them – they're in the InformationSpan database – but this encounter at the Green IT event is the first chance I've had to hear from a key person; in this case, William Ehmcke the CEO. It's another META Group spin-off company; William, it appears, led META in Asia-Pacific until it was acquired by Gartner in 2004.
This is an as-it-goes blog, plus a bit of later tidying up.
Connection reckons to work from real data, determining metrics and developing benchmarks. Their areas are: communities; green IT; the built environment; and carbon/compliance (Australia is about to introduce carbon pricing, around A$23/ton).
Connection also recognises "green fatigue" and "greenwash"; but broader issues are gaining prominence for PR; from regulation; or for financial reasons (direct, or indirect because of brand and reputation issues). There's a perfect storm of issues, because the rise of "big data" is increasing demand; transparency is being demanded; energy security is a rising issue (in Australia as in the USA, though not so much in the UK); and simple cost.
Connection has helped to develop an ICT Sustainability framework and index, with academic partners, across: equipment lifecycle; end user computing; enterprise & data centre; and IT as a low-C enabler. Essentially, in this, is the same distinction as in Simon Mingay's presentation: doing IT green, and enabling green business by IT. He recognises Bring Your Own plus mobility as a sustainability strategy – it creates fundamental savings and helps reduce the need for permanent facilities on the current scale..
The Fujitsu Global ICT Sustainability report, published Sept 2011, surveyed 80 different areas. It appears that results on the IT Sustainability Index (ITSx; see Connection's website for more information) have generally regressed recently, and this isn't a drag effect from emerging economies in China and India. Within the detail, it's interesting that Government is ahead of the across-sector average index. Surprisingly, brand reputation is driving some "dirty" industry (e.g. mining) up the stack. Nationally, Canada is the leader and the UK second; regulation has been driving this market; and few markets excel in all the sectors.
Ehmcke highlights the major slip in the ITSx for Professional Services; odd, because these industries have only buildings, people and intellectual property. They ought to be easily able to excel; but they don't, and have slipped relative to 2010 as has, more understandably, manufacturing.
In response to a question: an interesting national measure is GDP value per unit of carbon emission, where Japan leads the way (though not included in the Connection stats; the survey wasn't done because of the tsunami). Ask how much carbon your enterprise uses per $million of revenue … the use and development of effective metrics is falling back and, without data, action is impossible. Over half the CIOs surveyed have no idea about their IT power consumption, for example.
In response to another question: a point was made that sustainability, in many corporations, is handed to Risk Management (even where there's a Sustainability Officer), because it's seen as being about compliance and a holistic view isn't taken.
A couple more questions, and then a quick outline of the Foundation for IT Sustainability, and the new Green IT Fundamentals course based on licensed training material from Connection, linked to CompTIA, and supported by the Global e.Sustainability Initiative. A useful presentation; the emergence of training, metrics, and certifications is important and the topic was expanded in a presentation from the BCS which I haven't blogged.
• Connection Research
• ICT Sustainability: Global Benchmark Report Reveals a Lack of Visibility of the ICT Energy Bill Has Delayed Success, Fujitsu Press Release, 21 Sept 2011: headline summary, with link to obtain a copy of the full report
• Foundation for IT Sustainability (FFITS)
• Global e.Sustainability Initiative (GESI)
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• A Gartner perspective on Green IT
• Green 3: Andy Lawrence of 451
A Gartner perspective on Green IT 1 Nov 2011Posted by Tony Law in Impact of IT, IT is business, ITasITis, Social issues, Tech Watch, Technorati.
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I'm at Central Hall, Westminster – home territory for a Methodist! I'm here for an event and expo on Green IT; waiting for the keynote from Simon Mingay of Gartner. There's connectivity, so this blog will get periodically updated. Links, as always, will get added later; probably tomorrow.
"What happened to the Green in Green IT"? Both aspects: "Greening of IT" and "Greening with IT". Mingay's perspective: Green isn't the primary agenda; it's always been about cost, and about saving resources (particularly energy); but the aims coincide. ICT brings together the business information to achieve the targets.
1 – IT organisations have to engage, don't wait for "the business" to come to you.
2 – IT must innovate, as part of the enterprise's wider innovation agenda
3 – investment in IT systems must connect to the business's value generating aspects, not just the "corporate and social responsibility" (CSR) agenda; although CSR is good for profit, this issue goes further.
Some organisations are slipping backwards, believing they've ticked the box – this ties up with a later data-driven observation from William Ehmcke of Connection Research. Energy management is a new core competency; demand and prices are both increasing and the resulting pressure on costs is unsustainable. Mingay quotes Andrew Witty, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline: "if we don't do something about it, we'll be out of the game". Tactical improvement is not enough!
Mingay highlights various aspects of the enterprise world: corporate initiatives (e.g. Unilever Sustainable Living); vendor acquisitions and partnerships; enhanced regulations (mentioned Scope 3 and see ISO 50000; see Links, below). The focus is moving beyond compliance to a "resource perspective on the organisation", designed in, continuous (not a once-a-year report), and including the whole supply chain: which isn't easy!
Gartner offer a Strategic Planning Assumption – one of the tenets which shape their research: "By 2015, sustainability will be an economy-wide, top-five priority for major Western European and North American CEOs." Though as a colleague at the event commented, this doesn't identify which current top-five issue will give way to it!
Gartner offer three frameworks to assess:
- sustainability maturity: the more mature the performance, the higher the demand for information enablement
- sustainability value, in five domains varying from Enabling to Contributing (e.g. new business models, new products/services), linked to the run/grow/transform model, with separate scales for private and public sectors;
- solution domans for sustainable business systems: from compliance (low strategic priority) to growth, and from hindsight to foresight, segmented into (a) compliance, risk and governance; (b) enterprise efficiency; and (c) brand/reputation.
Building management is an obvious area where ICT can correlate and analyse the data from environmental monitoring and control, and deliver cost and eco benefit. Mingay isn't the first to highlighted the opportunities for FM and ICT to work together; we know about this one from a Leading Edge Forum Study Tour in, I think, 2007.
And guess what, there's a Sustainability Hype Cycle … the key point is the very large number of technologies mapped on it. Energy-efficient IT is mainstream ("mostly"), he says. But sustainable IT is still stuck in a niche, considering aspects such as toxics and e-waste and pigeon-holed with these issues. Supply chain issues, and systemic energy efficiency (middleware, network, application) are at present still stuck in "academia", he says – what this means is that the fundamental research on how to identify, measure and model these issues is still being done.
Three stages: optimisation (current); innovation (starting – lots of "adopted innovation" which isn't really new, and not yet seeing attitude changes especially towards compromise on performance and availability); paradigm change (rare, as yet, but the shift to Cloud has the potential to be one). Examples: data centre infrastructure management (DCIM), treating the whole data centre as a system, with PUE modelling, active power management and so on. Gartner are bringing this topic into their Data Centre and Infrastructure/Operations events. He offered some perspectives on emerging DC design trends, in a modular "build small, build often" approach. There is a list of "ten things to think of next" – starting with measurement! The two key optimisation parameters are space, and compute power per kWh, and sustainability governance is essential for progress (with IT fully engaged).
If you think you're done on Green IT, you haven't understood the issues!
• Sustainable Living Plan, from Unilever, aims to" develop new ways of doing business which will increase the social benefits from Unilever's activities while at the same time reducing our environmental impacts"
• There's information on the ISO 50000 family of standards on the ISO Helpline (and in many other places!)
• Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Value Chain Accounting and Reporting Standard, also known as Scope 3, from the World Resources Institute
• Hype Cycle for Sustainability and Green IT, 2011, Gartner, 28 Jul 2011 (available to subscribers only; if this link doesn't work, search for document G00214739)
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Brian Arthur on the Second Economy 6 Oct 2011Posted by Tony Law in Impact of IT, ITasITis, Social issues, Technorati.
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In my inbox today was a pointer to an article in McKinsey Quarterly by Brian Arthur, economist and technology thinker. In brief, he explores the idea that a "second economy" is developing apace "underneath" the visible one. He shows how IT has not only taken over doing individual mundane tasks: it is now handling the many connections through which information is created from data, and making new connections as needed.
Well, as IT people, we know that's happening. But the use cases are worth reading through because of the inferences being drawn. This connectivity, says Arthur, is already to a large extent self-configuring, autonomous (that is, "human beings may design it but are not directly involved in running it") and self-repairing. If the Industrial Revolution represents the economy as growing muscular power, the IT revolution represents it as growing neural capability. He carefully doesn't call it "intelligence", but it has the capability to react as, say, a bacterium can sense and swim towards a source of nutrition.
Two quotes caught my particular attention, for those of us concerned with enterprise IT.
"In any deep transformation, industries do not so much adopt the new body of technology as encounter it". Think about what's happening with consumerisation, with cloud, with the iPad (as I wrote earlier today in tribute to Steve Jobs).
Economic growth in the past has always worked through the creation of jobs (though it has rendered old ones redundant and created new ones). This may not hold in future; the jobs that most of us professionals prize are disappearing too. So "the main challenge of the economy is shifting from producing prosperity to distributing prosperity". I'd guess the Spirit Level researchers would have something to say about that, since it's clear that more equal societies are better not just for those at the bottom of the heap but for those at the top too. And that, too, implies redistribution.
Not a tech posting, this; but professionals, in any field, need to be stimulated to think about the consequences of what we do for those among whom we exist. Read it; it's worth it.
• The Second Economy, W. Brian Arthur, McKinsey Quarterly, Oct 2011 [sign-up may be required]
• W Brian Arthur: External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, and Visiting Researcher, Intelligent Systems Lab, PARC
• You might want to look for a paper or digital copy of Arthur's The Nature of Technology (ISBN: 9781416544050)
• The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
Gartner webinar: Cloud Strategies for Portals, Content, & Collaboration Projects 14 Sep 2011Posted by Tony Law in Cloud, Impact of IT, Insight services, ITasITis, Managing IT, Social issues, Social media, Tech Watch, Technorati.
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My second webinar report today features a free Gartner seminar from Jeffrey Mann, who I knew well in his META Group days as a great application analyst. The topic isn't "what's available" but "how do you make decisions": potentially much more useful.
First, he's talking about Cloud for absorbing capacity demand peaks: the right definition. But, as he points out: the high-end integration requirements of a portal don't necessarily suit well to Cloud infrastructure. Security and confidentiality play as issues too.
Compared to my post last week, Gartner's definition of Cloud matches in most elements but I included easy sign up without long term commitments. This matches the use case for absorbing capacity peaks, but for longer-term critical business functions (running your sales on salesforce.com, for example) most consumers will want some longer term assurance.
Gartner also add to the established model of System (or Infrastructure), Platform and Application as a Service: two further levels. Information (e.g. a Reuter's feed), and Business Services. The shift in provision focus is from "capacity" to "capability", and evaluation is outcomes based. I like that.
Jeff "gets nervous" if cost saving is the only reason clients are moving to cloud services; cost reduction may be part of the outcome, but there are hidden costs (e.g. increased network capacity) and many disappointments. "Disconnect price from cost … reconnect price to value."
And, perhaps closer to the meat of the theme: "Portals … will follow … The greater portal opportunity [for Cloud] lies largely with B2B" – strikingly close to Mark Benioff's Cloudforce message I was listening to earlier. More on that later.
Early Cloud deployment: look for something that will work with the vanilla service ("out of the box" requirement). And it's easier to start greenfield than migrating from on-premises services. Complexity (e.g. customisations) mitigate against migration.
Jeff showed a self-assessment chart for issues such as data, compliance, policies and failure remediation – how complex is getting going again after a stop? Even with due diligence, it comes down to trust – usually lower for a pure-cloud solution. Users often prefer to be in control even of functions and processes they are not so good at.
What about best practices? Half a dozen use cases, for example capacity on demand (such as hiring lots of extra staff for a short time, I guess like Christmas postal deliveries) – Jeff calls this "Cloudbursting". I've heard a presentation of this being done around a massive weekly sales promotion that, on its first outing, unexpectedly and grossly overloaded the company's normal web servers. Cloud to the rescue!
Other use cases include: providing lower-end capabilities to segments of the staff population, such as floor staff in a store; secure extranets in an isolated environment (e.g. in M&A or restructuring when information needs to be kept confidential to a subset of staff but in more than one enterprise); or "splitting the stack". Jeff proposes a small handful of hard-headed questions to help evaluate whether cost will really be saved (bearing in mind that he asserts that cost saving shouldn't be the only target for a Cloud move). You must be able to identify where cost savings will come from, they're not automatic!
And do, first, hold a mirror to your entire company and ask if – culturally – the enterprise is ready to make this kind of change (it's trust, again, but legal issues such as e-discovery may be highly relevant here). Then be sure you understand why: examples might include flexibility, cost, being more easily current to latest software versions, reduced internal resource requirements, and so on. And you must have defined measures for a pilot to judge whether to move on.
In this, recognise the many constituencies in the business with different needs and expectations: not a new idea, but a useful categorisation of business interests on the chart. Think how to get them involved.
Gartner does expect that in the next few years all organisations will have some level of Cloud service: complete (few), or mixed (most).
In the brief Q&A, the issue of recent high profile outages (e.g. on Office 365 for some customers) was raised. Jeff's view is to keep it in perspective: compare with internal capability, not with the ideal of zero outage.
I raised a question based on listening to Mark Benioff earlier. That presentation was put out via Facebook, and Benioff was strongly promoting "social technology" as the communication and collaboration platform of the future. As an analyst, Jeff sees very few innovations which totally replace what came before, and believes this will be a case in point. So social technologies are, indeed, very important; but the older platforms won't go away.
Congratulations for Jeff for going beyond the technology of Cloud, and the (perhaps hyped) potential. This was a good counterbalance to Mark Benioff's evangelistic case, and confirms that Jeff has lost none of his edge since last time I had the chance to interact with him!
• Cloud Strategies for Portals, Content, & Collaboration Projects, Gartner webinar, 14 Sep 2011, replay (link to be added when available) – in the meantime see Gartner Webinars
• Mark Benioff at Cloudforce London, ITasITis, 14 Sep 2011
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I've joined the online Cloudforce webcast to view Mark Benioff's keynote. I'm not able to stay online for the whole two hours, but this is notes as far as I can go.
Benioff has pitched that a new revolution has happened: the role that social technology plays and the depth of its integration into society as a whole has changed in the last year. Interestingly, the broadcast is via Facebook, not one of the established Web Meeting platforms. No registration. Just "Like" the page to join the broadcast. And Twitter feeds for the speakers linked on the page at the time they're on stage (not when they're off). We'll come back to that point.
In the preliminaries at the point I joined, a key point from the JP Ramaswami: businesses need to value relationships not just customers. And now there is an enormous quantity of real data, cheap to collect, to back up research into online interactions. The emphasis being on learning and understanding what makes relationships really work.
A black screen while the broadcast switches to "Cloudforce London". And a marketing video, pushing Salesforce Chatter but showcasing (at a headline level) how Salesforce is supporting a host of responsive apps to provide customers of banks, cars, coffee shops and more with immediate useful information. Where's my nearest ATM? What's my car's engine temperature? And so on.
Here's Benioff. A paean of praise to Thomas Watson, Ken Olson and Michael Dell – guess which one is billed as a speaker? – also Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. But the theme is a new area of innovation, and the mix and impact of social technology into society is (he believes) new.
He cited the Arab Spring, which is certainly the current high profile example: not "hard power" or "soft power" but "social power". And he asks: is there going to be a "Corporate Spring" with the end of in-enterprise dictatorships in a similar paradigm?
People have to respond. There are now more social network users than email, and very nearly Facebook (and Twiter) *is* the Web. And people use mobile apps (smartphones, iPad) more than web browsers; the laptop is out of date for on-the-move information access. The current Forbes cover headlines: Social Power and the coming Corporate Revolution.
Moving into the message for business, he asks for (1) next generation social profiling for customers: they are, after all, on Facebook, Twitter, and wherever else. Then (2) create an employee social network and enable staff to use this information. Returning to this, Benioff talks about creating (a few years back) an internal Facebook-alike which, crucially, is integrated with their main platform. Salesforce Chatter is now available to customers, and is going through a major upgrade, sue in a couple of weeks: presence added to IM, connection to other networks, filters, workflow (approvals). Customer groups (sounds a bit like Google Plus circles) extend the concept to external customers, including file sharing and all sorts of other things; it sounds like some major education will be needed to establish who can share what, and who can commit the company to what.
(3) I intially missed as I had to step out of the room: develop the next generation sales cloud. Benioff highlighted Groupon as a fast growing company; I'm not yet clear whether this means Salesforce is integrating Groupon. And then data.com helping keep up to date as people change their facebook profiles, Twitter handles and so on.
I'd comment, though, that on my first business flight to California – twenty years ago – they were clearly already thinking that way although the information available was less. On my return flight there were some of the same crew as I'd had outbound. I'd swear I was remembered. And although the practical guess is that they'd "just" checked the database, the point is that they had done so. It's not "just".
I hade to drop off the broadcast. On return, the webcast is towards the end of an extended case study of Toyota's new Toyota Friend network which provides easy information about a car's status, problems, service schedule, and so on – with the dealer able to schedule an appointment and communicate through the network. Not that any of this information hasn't been available before; what's added is the integration into a social framework (and, of course, driven by Salesforce).
I'll see if I can catch up later, and tidy up some of this information – with a link to the recording if possible, but otherwise have a look at the US Dreamforce keynote. Perhaps the key point, if you take Benioff's point about the rapid and revolutionary integration of social technologies, is that Salesforce is not only preaching the "social enterprise"; it's becoming one, and the use of Facebook and Twitter explicitly to support this event is part of it.
• Salesforce Chatter
• Keynote from Dreamforce in the US
• Groupon
• data.com
• Toyota Friend: Salesforce.com and Toyota Form Strategic Alliance to Build 'Toyota Friend' …, Toyota US Press Release, 23 May 2011; and Twitter feed (protected for approved members only)


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Well, I did radio and wrote in college (mainly sports), went on to do it after that, then came back to D.C. and continued doing it. Most recently, I was an editor at Express, The Washington Post's free daily for 6 years.
Well, I did radio and wrote in college (mainly sports), went on to do it after that, then came back to D.C. and continued doing it. Most recently, I was an editor at Express, The Washington Post's free daily for 6 years.
To be honest, this wasn't really my bag. Fine song and all, but Frozen is not on my radar as something I care about. Not saying it's a bad movie, I just haven't seen it.
As for Travolta's hair, I mean, that's kind of a cheap shot to me. The guy's trying. But that name botch was unforgivable. It's one thing for Tyson Beckford to call Julia Roberts "Jessica" on a red-carpet pre-show, but it's quite another to screw-up reading a teleprompter.
I've heard reports that he's apparently dyslexic, in which case I wonder why he didn't simply memorize her name beforehand. All that aside, a mistake is a mistake, but if you're going to make a mistake, there's no need to use a weird accent while you do it.
I enjoyed Pharrell's song the most (particularly dancing with Lupita), but I thought Pink's was in fact, the best.
I literally just pressed play on it to listen to for the first time in full while I do this chat. So, I'll let you know by the end, deal?
Ha, well, this is quite the question. Presumably this will lead this chat eventually down the road of being an all-around advice column, but that's a different story. And first of all, none of this has anything to do with being a "gentleman" which is a bogus old-world concept based on foolishness anyways.
1. I'm 32, and people's underwear showing is not something that inherently offends me. That's why they make them in different colors. Also, tying your own tie? As opposed to what? A clip-on? That's for little boys.
2. This is a false construct that creates a weird dichotomy. Anyone who's ever played sports at even the lowest levels knows that these are not the only two options.
3. I have no idea what any of that really means. You probably shouldn't ever say anything you don't mean, if the person you're speaking to can't tell the difference.
4. Nail files, the last I check were for filing your nails, not cleaning them. That said, I clean/file/groom/whatever my fingernails the same way I have since I was 10. With my mouth.
5. I only wear suits to weddings and funerals. So unless someone's getting married or buried at the ballpark, I can't imagine this situation becoming a problem.
Yeah, I mean, and not to discredit Dan Silverman, who writes that blog, but I think generic is generally what he goes for.
What's becoming more present to me is that when you grow up in a city, it's hard to really answer a question like that because the reasons I like D.C. are always going to be so personal that it's tough for that to really translate to a random person.
For example, I like it because I see a lot of people I've known since I was a kid suddenly doing relatively well and happy. Of course, I'm lucky for that. But the familiarity bred within me about so many different parts of the city is what I love most.
But the number 1 item on that list is probably correct. And writing about those people is exactly what I try to do. Which is something I enjoy.
Actually, I have important snowball fight breaking news, per my colleague Fritz Hahn. The Dupont Circle event has been moved to the National Mall. Details on other openings/closing can be found here.
As for snowball fights, I'm honestly stunned these things don't get WAY more out of hand more often. No matter who you are, when you got popped in the face with a snowball, your feelings are a little hurt. When it's someone you don't know, that can get dicey, haha.
A couple years ago I was walking with a friend on 14th street when some teenage kids started randomly throwing snowballs at me. I caught one, returned that fire and then hit them with like 3 more before heading off. They apologized.
But, the wildest incident of all time at one of these things has to be when that police officer got out and started waving his gun around after his car got hit at 14th and U. That was flat out scary.
If you don't remember that, check out the story here. Seriously, it's worth a read and there's video, which is bananas.
I don't watch it. Not yet. I'm kind of torn about binge watching, honestly.
I did it with Orange is the New Black, but found the experience to be slightly odd. After you watch them, who can you really talk to about it, besides maybe the person you watched it with?
The chronology of the shared experience is all screwed up because you have to ask people how much they've watched, etc., and it's hard to follow the ups and downs collectively as well.
I feel like if I was going to do a Netflix series, I'd put the season premier and finale on TV. Tell people those dates. Then make them all available (save those two) in-between those days.
That way, everyone can start together, catch up as needed on their own, then when it's time to finish up, you can all come back together on it.
I do plan to start watching soon.
I actually will have a column about this coming out later this week. But, to that point, I think we've gotten beyond the timeframe where dropping out makes sense. We're less than a month away from the Democratic primary, and jumping ship now just seems like an overall waste of money.
And again, with the mayor being in the position he's in as the incumbent, you literally never know what story could come up and shift everything. To quote a Donald Rumsfeld, we're now in the territory in which a candidate stays in because of potential "unknown unknowns."
When I was in Miami last week, I almost bought his new album on wax. Rolling Stone called it 'dad rock.' Then I saw his performance on SNL and immediately regretted not making that purchase.
Check that out if you get the chance, and check out Sweat Records in Little Haiti in Miami if you're ever down there.
To answer your question, though, no. It's not even Beck's best album of the 90s. That would be Midnite Vultures. And the best song on that is Debra.
Give it a listen.
This question I presume relates to the fact that the Mayor signed a bill today saying that the city would pursue this option to prevent more power outages during things like derechos. I believe the pricetag is somewhere around $1B.
There are obvious pros and cons with this, but this is a situation where all things being equal (meaning, efficient construction and presumably reasonable cost), I don't think 'hassle' qualifies as a reasonable con.
If it can legit prevent people, even if in 5 years from dealing with freak outages it's a good thing. Some things take a long time to build and some are worth it. If this can happen without any outside hiccups, I'd say yes, it's worth it.
I don't have any inside information, but I can imagine it'd have gone something like this. (It was supposed to be held at Kelly Miller school, btw - a darling facility in education circles.)
- A lot of talk about construction and cranes.
- Discussion of the city's surplus.
- Progress on making D.C. a world-class place and bringing jobs via places like Wal-Mart.
Anything though, would be better than last year's speech, held at Sixth And I Historic Synagogue. That one featured more sports references than anybody needed. I wrote about it at the time.
Some days I'm in the newsroom, some days I'm not. It just depends. Here in D.C., there's enough snow to make me want to wear a hat and boots. But 6-8 inches there is not. Stay warm!
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Justin Moore — "Bait a Hook"
Songwriters: Rhett Akins, Justin Moore, Jeremy Stover
Admit it, guys: there are times when we men are racked with indecision, hesitation and doubt. We may even stay up at night, pondering the ultimate question: Are we manly enough? Are we masculine enough to, say, be a character in a Justin Moore song? Fear not, because Moore, a man among men, has provided a list of things that men do and do not do. Follow along with "Bait a Hook" to learn how we're supposed to act.
A real man does not:
- Drink umbrella drinks, unless you put an umbrella in a beer bottle
- Drive a Prius, because screw the environment
- Eat sushi or any other kind of world cuisine that can't be grilled or deep-fried
- Drive his Prius on the highway instead of taking dirt roads, because only sissies care about gas mileage
Real men, on the other hand:
- Drink Jack Daniels
- Hunt
- Fish
- Drive pickup trucks
- Love country music
Basically, if you're one of them fancy-pants city boys, you won't be able to keep a woman satisfied once she's gotten a taste of loving a good ol' country boy, so drive your little foreign environmentally friendly car up the highway to where you came from.
Yes, this innovative little number is the next evolution of the country music song. It's not enough to say "I'm country" anymore, and even "I'm country and I'm proud" is played out. We've now come to "I'm country, and you suck if you're not as country as I am." If there's one thing the genre was just crying out for, it was class warfare.
It's a sign of how played out the whole "country pride" segment of country music is when being green is a cause for ridicule. And if you have to know how to field dress a deer to be considered a "real man," the population of men in this country has dropped exponentially. The only upside is that these types of songs will eventually stop being written, because nobody will be able to meet the increasingly lofty standards of being "country" anymore. Not even Justin Moore.
It's easy to dismiss one or two songs like this by saying "What's wrong with a little dopey fun?" But when it seems like every song out there is fighting for the title of "Dumbest of the Year," there's a problem. Right now, "Bait a Hook" is the current title-holder. Your move, BOMSHEL.
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Your move, BOMSHEL.
Excuse me, I just fell out of my chair laughing.
On a more serious note, I love how you ward off the whole "It's just a little dopey fun" retort by making the point that just about all we can expect to hear on country radio these days is "a little dopey fun." It's a point I've attempted to make in my own reviews a time or two. Anyway, loved the review. As for the song… "If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away" was decent, but Mister Countrier-Than-Thou has definitely lost me again.
Following these checkpoints, I am 2 for 2 on the do's and don't's of being a real man. Does that make me Gary LeVox or Wynonna?
Real men don't make lists.
Real men don't make lists.
Unless they start with little baby ducks. Or are of heartaches.
Maybe the problem is less with the form than with the content.
In his defense, Priuses are unmanly.
Where does drinking Dickel fall on this scale? I really, really need to know.
I had a g thingy after that list comment, but those don't appear here. Apparently.
Another Peach Picker classic.
What about fishermen that care about the litter in and around the waters they fish? Isn't that environmentally conscious?
I meant to go back and add that I know that Barry knows this already…
And BTW, NM, drinking Dickel isn't unmanly, but it is also ladylike – in other words, it's for everybody. All the time.
In his defense, Priuses are unmanly.
They should have changed the lyric from "Prius" to "Smart Car." If there's one car that everyone from all walks of life can point and laugh at, it's a Smart Car.
So, anyway, I need to get this straight, even though I live in the South and love country music. There are, i need to understand better, no men outside of the South; there are no real families who love each other, outside of the South, no real religion or God, outside of the South, no cars, no food or beverages. .. Just checkin'.. KInd of limiting for national or international touring.
One question I can't decide about this one though: How aware is the narrator here that the central situation in the set-up is simple, and provides the answer–built-in– to all his carrying on: But she WANTS that other guy you're putting down, ya jerk.
Jon, you relieve my mind no end. Or you would, if I cared about my manliness that much.
Smart car = awesome. Or at least smart. You see them all over Europe, including in that manliest of European countries, Germany, where they're so manly, the only vegetables they eat are either potatoes or pickled. If I didn't have to haul a string bass around regularly, I'd be all about the Smart Car.
(real men don't) Drink umbrella drinks, unless you put an umbrella in a beer bottle
Is Justin Moore that insecure about his sexuality?
And I think there are legitimate reasons to eschew the likes of the Prius. Songs like this only obscure them.
The simple fact that you see smart cars all over Europe is one GIANT reason never to drive one. LOL
…when the "prius" enters a country song, sung by one of the most prolific backroads-backwoods-bonfires-troubadours of today's country, the end must be nigher than i thought. i quite enjoy this silly tune, at least, for the little time that remains.
hard luck for justin moore, given the almost endless period of time that it takes for a song to climb the charts these days – he may be out of time before reaching the top ten.
Apparently "real men" only feel good enough about themselves when a guy writes a song about them. Who knew they were so fragile?
Don't see any reason he should;t mention that car any more or less than one more Ford or Chevy or one more John Deere tractor.. People drive 'em–now. Apparently, he and his songs writers don't much like it, but it's of the moment. You want maybe he mentions the new Desoto?
Awhile back I was in West L.A. behind a Prius with a sticker in the rear window that read "Another Prius Driving, Starbucks Drinking, NPR Listener Liberal for Obama". That sticker succinctly summed up everything I dislike about both the Prius and especially the majority of people who drive them! (lol) On the other hand aggressive guys driving lifted pick-ups with big tires are an even bigger annoyance on the congested roads of Socal.
Oh how I wish these types of songs would just go away…
Haven't heard the song yet but lovin' this review. . .
@Jon: Smart car = horribly impractical when you're 6'3″ like me.
Also, I'm curious how many people here know how to properly skin a buck. I don't, so I guess I'm not a man.
Cool review.
I have no problem with Prius's. I just think they are terribly ugly; as ugly as this song is stupid.
It's hard enough knowing how to properly MAKE a buck..
@Jon: Smart car = horribly impractical when you're 6'3″ like me.
Experience or supposition?
Supposition. I'm not sure I could get out of one if I tried to get in.
Oh how I wish these types of songs would just go away…
Write it down, folks. Rick and I agree about something.
You might be surprised, then.
I've never attempted to squeeze myself into a SmartCar, but I do happen to know that the Prius does not like me. (Knees hit dashboard in front – head hits ceiling in back)
Ben, they're coming out with a more wagon-like Prius soon, It's supposed to be for taller folks who want more utilitarian stuff. In fact, Prius is going to be a sub-brand from Toyota like Scion.
You'd think they know that sushi is, you know, fish that has been murdered for the gastronomical enjoyment of mankind…
I can't hunt because I can't see for beans and I'm such a klutz I shouldn't even be allowed to handle a squirt gun. I'm only 5'6″ and I consider myself too big for a Smart Car.
But I was also the only person on the planet who liked "Backwoods", so to heck with my opinion.
One major problem, they guy's name is Justin, how sisy is that? Everybody knows real country men have real country names like Clint, Bocephus, Billy Bob and Rodney. Justin is a name for a girly man.
This is the worst song on an average album. I can't believe it's a single. I like Moore's voice and the music for most of the songs, but the lyrics are just stupid for the most part.
I agree that it isn't very manly to drive a Prius; however, my redneck friend that drives a jacked up pickup truck believes my Ridgeline is not very manly either (he did concede that it's an upgrade from my Accord).
I know this is blasphemy, and isn't really consistent with my tastes… but I like Justin Moore. There, I said it!
Don't get me wrong – I can't STAND these types of songs when they come from Brantley Gilbert, Josh Thompson, Aldean, etc., but Moore is just entertaining to me, in general. He actually comes off as very funny and almost self-denigrating in a twangy, deadpan way when interviewed, so songs like this from him seem more goofy and flippant than chest-pounding to me, I guess (whereas Brantley Gilbert singing something similar would make me want to punch my radio).
Basically, I don't mind Moore's dumb songs… it's just the 37 similar ones getting burn at any given time that I'd do away with if I could.
Okay, Sam, here's a question….
I have drunk Jack Daniels
I've skinned a deer.
I Fish.
I Love country music
Does that make me more manly than you? I hope not!
(For those who don't know, he married me!)
Just to clarify: I almost gagged while listening to this song….all of the requirements are just compensating for something a "real man" should already have!
Christy, we're tied on the drinking, the fishing and the country music. But I'll try the funky, exotic sushi that you won't eat, so that may at least partly cancel out the deer skinning thing.
If it's any consolation, I think you're manlier than Justin Moore.
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Have you noticed the recent wave of fashion come-backs? Since the economic crisis started, there has been a mass reincarnation of fashion trends from the past.
Rediscovering a past we never lived is perhaps a reaction to an uncomfortable present, much like mentally hopping on a time machine to live in another era. This reincarnation is painfully obvious because it has radically modified the course of fashion, which from the 2000s strived to create new looks.
Now retro styles are mixed in with contemporary styles, creating a generation that is neither dressing in the present nor in the past. Here are some of the trends that have returned to the market…
Short hairstyles for women
Reminiscing the 60s, short pixie cuts are roaring these days. From the most classical "vintage" bob haircuts to the quirkiest cuts, you can definitely see more women sporting a short haircut in the last few years than ever before.
Banana hairstyle for men
If you see many James Dean or Elvis Presley wannabes around, fear not… you are not having a dream set in the 50s. The "banana" hairstyle has come back in style. The contemporary version is cut short at the sides, but has the same "macho" quiff that the original has.
Wayfarer sunglasses
Loved by the crowds and sported by the famous, classic Wayfarer sunglasses are all the rage these days. Born in the 1950s, this square-framed design became popular in the 80s and secured the fortune of RayBan, acknowledged as the original producer of the design.
Due to its success it was reproduced by other brands in the most diverse colors and lenses, and nowadays almost anyone can sport his/her own pair of original or fake Wayfarers. What matters is the stylish flair that these shades can give you.
Checkered shirts
Checked shirts are also a 80s legacy from punk subculture. Punks borrowed this style from the working class, and the style eventually became the symbol of the revolutionary generation of that time.
This symbolism is no longer associated with the checkered short today, as the trend is so widespread. The shirt can be worn to state a variety of looks, from the rock'n'roll look to a preppy style.
Brought to the fashion limelight by the likes of Madonna in the 80s, leggings are back and solving most of our outfit dilemmas. They can be found in different colors, fabrics and patterns. This is just one of the most versatile items back in style.
High waisted pants, shorts and skirts
Fashion bloggers Delmy Rivers, Mónica Cerino, and Nancie Mwai sporting high-waisted pants
I remember thinking to myself during the 90s and 2000s, that I could not stand the sight of high-waisted pants. But the style is very much back in on the fashion catwalks!
High waisted trousers, short and skirts are the perfect item of clothing to lengthen the legs and accentuating your waist, what more could you ask for?!
Men and women, alike, have rediscovered the pleasure of wearing loafers. Those comfortable and smart shoes are appropriate both for work and leisure, and can be found in different styles.
From the vintage Penny loafer to the modern day version covered in studs, you can see them popping out on people's feet.
Platform shoes
Platforms are back, although less glittery and thick than they were seen in the 90s. This past summer, platforms with rope heels were all the rage, and other versions are to be spotted during this seasons Autumn/Winter collection.
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UTC football player Joel Bradford receives a pass during a recent practice at Scrappy Moore Field.Photo by Dan Henry /Chattanooga Times Free Press.
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga wide receiver Joel Bradford and middle linebacker Wes Dothard earned Southern Conference player of the week honors, the league announced today, for their play in the No. 25 Mocs' 38-17 win over No. 10 Jacksonville State on Saturday.
Bradford was named the offensive player of the week for the third time in the past two seasons after tying his career high with 15 receptions, for 162 yards and a touchdown.
Dothard earned his first defensive player of the week nod for making five stops and returning a win-sealing interception 30 yards for a touchdown. He also had a forced fumble, a pass break-up and a quarterback hurry.
The SoCon freshman of the week was Western Carolina's Shaun Warren, who ran for 203 yards and four touchdowns against Mars Hill. The special teams player of the week was Furman's Chas Short, who made three field goals in the Paladins' 16-6 win over The Citadel.
For more Mocs coverage, see tomorrow's Times Free Press. You can also follow beat writer John Frierson on Twitter at twitter.com/mocsbeatCTFP.
John Frierson is in his seventh year at the Times Free Press and seventh year covering University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletics. The bulk of his time is spent covering Mocs football, but he also writes about women's basketball and the big-picture issues and news involving the athletic department. A native of Athens, Ga., John grew up a few hundred yards from the University of Georgia campus. Instead of becoming a Bulldog he attended Ole ...


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MONROE – The streaks are over.
Friday's ScoresThe Associated PressPREP FOOTBALLDivision IICin. La Salle 38, Cin. Mt. Healthy 6
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Following his first practice in nearly a month because of a concussion, Browns tight end Jordan Cameron turned and tapped his hand lovingly on the photo taped inside his locker.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Last season, Connecticut was mostly unproven and unnoticed until the Huskies peaked late and won the NCAA title.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The defensive players for No. 7 Ohio State are setting a goal which goes far beyond just winning a game.The Buckeyes also want to prove a point.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Top Bengals draft pick Darqueze Dennard is enjoying his rare chances to contribute as a cornerback.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A week after successfully kicking off its dual meet schedule with three wins in 36 hours, the fourth-ranked Ohio State wrestling team will take its show on the road this weekend against a pair of top-10 foes – No. 10...
Lady Lion First Team, All-SCOL volleyball players were honored at the SCOL's fall sports banquet on Nov. 13. (l-r); Emma Anderson, Carleigh Chaffins and Bailey Jenkins also received the team's league championship trophy, a record 11th...
COLUMBUS — Ohio State playing Indiana in football is the spectator sports equivalent of watching How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
Washington High School graduate Travis Shaw was placed on the Boston Red Sox 40-man roster Thursday.The following was taken from the Boston Red Sox website:
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CINCINNATI (AP) — One of AJ McCarron's early throws in practice was so far off the mark that it deflected off the wall of the University of Cincinnati's bubble-covered field.Didn't dent his mood at all.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Senior setter Taylor Sherwin navigated the Buckeye offensive attack to the tune of a .312 attacking efficiency Wednesday night versus Iowa, powering #20 Ohio State to a 3-0 sweep (25-20, 28-26, 25-19) over the Hawkeyes (13-15,...
COLUMBUS, Ohio – No. 24 Georgia closed the game on a 22-9 run over the final eight minutes to notch a 67-59 comeback victory over Ohio State Wednesday night at Value City Arena.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Out of timeouts, LeBron James had no choice but to hurry up the floor. With the clock ticking down, James tried to dribble behind his back and had the ball — and game — bounce away.
The South Central Ohio League honored the top girls golfers for 2014 at the fall sports banquet on Nov. 13. (l-r); Molly Scroggy, Clinton-Massie; Amanda Kassinos, Wilmington; Taylor Kirkpatrick, Miami Trace; Hannah Rumpke and Emily Loudin, Hillsboro.
There are several similarities between previous meetings and the one Friday night between Clinton-Massie and Archbishop Alter.Clinton-Massie ousted Alter from the 2013 playoffs with a 21-14 win.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Joey Bosa, Ohio State's powerful and dominant defensive end who is challenging school single season record for tackles-for-loss and quarterback sacks, is a finalist for the 2014 Rotary Lombardi Award. The Rotary Club of...
College Football Playoff RankingsBy the APRecord1. Alabama 9-12. Oregon 9-13. Florida St. 10-04. Mississippi St. 9-15. TCU 9-1
Members of the Washington Lady Blue Lion tennis team were on hand at the South Central Ohio League's fall sports banquet on Nov. 13 to receive First Team, All-SCOL accolades and their team trophy as co-champions (with Wilmington) for 2014.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Jeremy Hill didn't expect to get much of a chance as a rookie because the Cincinnati Bengals had Giovani Bernard entrenched as the starter. With six games left, he's leading all NFL rookies in rushing.
Wednesday's Sports TransactionsThe Associated PressBASEBALLAmerican League
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Josh Gordon can't do anything to change his past. He knows there are doubters who believe it's just a matter of time before he slips up again.Gordon is looking forward. Straight ahead.
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You love the idea of a nighttime group cycling event, but you were far too chicken to disrobe for the recent World Naked Bike Ride. What to do? Why, just head downtown for the Moonlight Ramble! This ride kicks off from North 14th and Chestnut streets at 12:01 a.m. tonight, and the cost to participate is $10 to $25. You'll be in good company: Around 10,000 riders participate each year! This fundraiser for the Gateway Council of Hostelling International USA offers up an eighteen-mile ride and an easy nine-mile route, both of which are kept secret, and an after-party sweetens the deal. To register or learn more information, call 314-644-4660 or visit www.moonlightramble.com; helmets are required for all bikers.
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Six new annoyances introduced in Windows 7
Summary: As a flip-side to Ed Bott's "Six Vista annoyances fixed in Windows 7" I thought I'd play Devil's Advocate and offer up what I think are a selection of potentially new annoyances that Windows 7 introduces.
#4 - For some users, Windows 7 will mean more time spent setting up
Gone are applications such as Windows Mail, Windows Messenger, Movie Maker and so on. Anyone wanting apps of this sort will need to download then via Windows Live Essentials. Problem is, one person's trash is another person's treasure and if you use these apps Windows 7 means having to download and set up the apps that you need.
#5 - Search is odd
Why is it that when I search for say "Note" from the Start Menu I get Sticky Notes above Notepad? I've noticed countless such examples of strange behavior from the search system. Either it's not been fully refined yet, or there's some strange logic at work there.
#6 - Jump Lists are messy
Jump Lists is a new feature that Microsoft claims will give the user access to tasks related to specific applications. Depending on the applications, you get a different set of options in the Jump List, and that's a problem because there little consistency to what you can expect from a Jump List to make them useful.
The best thing about Jump Lists is that they are buried behind a right-click which means that most users will never see them!
Bonus Annoyance: System Explorer gone from Windows Defender
Why? This was the simplest, safest method users had to prevent applications running at boot time.
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The Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center (LESHRC) and The New School provide free, confidential HIV testing. No appointment is necessary; testing is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. The supply of HIV testing kits may be limited. Bring a friend; this service is open to anyone, not just the New School community. Note: No testing is offered when the university is closed.
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Receive a 30-minute, five-point ear acupuncture protocol that can release stress and promote body detoxification. Come once, come twice, come every week; no commitment is required.
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In fact, it never even began.
His intention was to get married last weekend, then sail away on a 10-day honeymoon cruise around Italy and Greece. Federal prosecutors, however, had less blissful plans.
Just three days before the wedding, authorities swooped in and arrested the South Florida man on federal charges that he operated at least three pill mills in the Atlanta area.