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The recently wrapped AAAA conference in New Orleans was notable for something that didn't happen. It didn't produce an agreement on who owns performance data from online campaigns, and it is going to turn in to a brawl.
The AAAA had formed a task force with the IAB to study the issue. They were slated to deliver its recommendations at the event. At issue is the role of measurement agencies, content owners, and search engines. No one doubts that the advertiser and the agency own performance data. But there is a school of thought that says they shouldn't own it exclusively. After all, if a campaign runs as pay-per-click, shouldn't the website own the data?
The issue will come down to individual relationships. It is not a sweeping rule that will be handed down and followed blindly. If P&G tells Yahoo, for example, that under no circumstances will it tolerate any usage of what it considers proprietary data, it's hard to argue that. If a startup company wants to share its data in return for a better CPM, that deal will happen. The result here, will be gray, not black and white.
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Turns out WalMart and Amazon aren't the only retailers finding shelter from the economic storm. A small group of invitation-only retail sites are establishing growth with high-end product and shrewd marketing.
The three attracting the most attention are Gilt.com, ideeli.com, and RueLaLa.com. Gilt has a high powered executive team including DoubleClick founder Kevin Ryan and former Martha Stewart Omnimedia CEO Susan Lyne. The three share a basic business model. You get an invitation from a member, you join, you get a preview of a designer boutique event, then you buy. First come, first served. Stores magazine reports that Gilt has added membership each month since its November 2007 launch. RueLaLa claims membership in the "hundreds of thousands." Ideeli also has "hundreds of thousands of members" and doubled its business during the fourth quarter of 2008 over 2007, according to fashion industry trade JC Report.
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By now it's a fair assumption to say that the new Skittles social media drenched website has owned the week in internet marketing. According to the March 5 Google Trends index it spiked more than 100 percent in news reference volume this week, and more than 50 percent in actual searches.
Now that the buzz is fading just a little, we asked Mars PR Manager and spokesperson Ryan Bowling to put the launch in perspective.
by John Gaffney 05 March 2009 21:48pm 1 comment
Maybe consumers really do want to read about toothpaste, paper towels, and soda. A new study from ROI Research and Epsilon claims that 62 percent of customers that receive permission- based emails are influenced by those emails, and 75 percent have read company or brand content as a direct result.
The survey was conducted in mid-October and measured 1,517 people. Not exactly a statistically projectable dynamo, (and it is, after all, sponsored) but even if half the numbers are on the money they are significant. They support the continued effectiveness of permission-based email, and they support the concept that content will attract consumer attention, which will increase engagement and then purchase intent.
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The economy may be pushing prices lower, but when it comes to brand loyalty consumers still aspire to lofty expectations. That's the conclusion of the latest BrandKeys customer loyalty survey and it could portend a strategy change in internet marketing for brands that are trying to hold the high ground.
Brand value, according to BrandKeys CEO Robert Passikoff, means a lot more than brand pricing. The just-released index says that consumer expectations regarding brand value went up 20% this year versus last.
by John Gaffney 04 March 2009 21:27pm 0 comments
He's bright, well-connected, has a lot of money to spend and the political capital do it. Meet the new nominee for FCC chairman Julius Genachowski. While his confirmation is virtually a lock, his stance on "net neutrality" has content providers on edge.
Genachowski comes from a solid Internet background. He worked in several different positions at IAC, co-founded technology investment firm Rock Creek Ventures and was part of the team at LaunchBox Digital.
by John Gaffney 04 March 2009 19:09pm 0 comments
New Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz had her first public appearance at the Morgan Stanley conference yesterday. She took the opportunity to continue her message to Wall Street that the sliding search company is considering a whole menu of options for the future. The operative quote: "Everything is up for evaluation."
The problems with Yahoo begin and end with that attitude. Here are five things Bartz could put in motion tomorrow that will get the company back on track:
by John Gaffney 04 March 2009 15:32pm 2 comments
Reading the blogosphere today it would be reasonable to think that Barack Obama has nominated Satan to lead the Federal Trade Commission. His name is actually Jon Leibowitz and all the talk about a "day of reckoning" for the online ad business will not be at the top of his agenda.
Leibowitz is a known anti-piracy advocate (good) and an aggressive proponent of regulating online advertising (maybe not so good). He made a speech on Feb. 12 while he was deeply into his job as one of the FTC commissioners and investigating behavioral targeting. In that speech he used the phrase "day of reckoning" about online ad regulation and although it certainly has a promise of biblical wrath, he will not smite this business.
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It's shaping up to be a big week for social media. Now Visa is making some social media news, this time on a more conventional platform than other recent entries, like Skittles. The credit card is launching its first global advertising campaign, complete with a microsite, rich media banner ads with live video feeds from international locations, and a multicultural twist on Flickr.
The "More People Go With Visa" campaign's microsite will feature a "Gosaic," which is Visa-speak for a collection of images submitted by people through Flickr along with recommendations from them about experiences that can be enabled through a Visa card. The "Gosaic" will feature more than 200 merchant offers delivered to users depending on their interests, location, and time of day. The whole thing launches with ads on Fox's "American Idol" tomorrow night, March 4.
by John Gaffney 03 March 2009 20:44pm 1 comment
If The New York Times fails, it won't be for lack of effort. The cash-strapped Gray Lady launched an aggressive new content-driven effort today, aimed at more engaged readers and hopefully, new advertisers.
It's called "The Local." Before you say, "Right, newspapers are local," understand this is actually hyperlocal. It's an attempt by The Times to re-position itself from the center of the globe to the center of town.
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Stuck for a gift for your husband/wife this Christmas? Instead of giving them Jamie Oliver's 'Cooking for geezers' wrapped in years of burning resentment, buy them divorce vouchers.
Happy Christmas darling...Is this an early April's Fool?
No, Anonymous really is suggesting the vouchers instead of the Jamie Oliver book, I think.
Ha! Finally it outs...Divorce lawyers have long tried to con the public that they are some maligned species of angel, helping unhappy couples to a mutually-agreeable solution...whereas, as practically anyone who has been through a 'normal' divorce (ie one not involving squillions, where a bill the size of a planet is disguised in a 'win' of millions) knows only too well, divorce lawyers delight in squeezing every last penny out of both parties, stoking personal anguish to achieve greater billable hours. They have no incentive but to make divorce as bitter, lengthy and arduous as possible.
Lloyd Platt's witless publicity stunt has indeed bought her publicity, but let's hope the next time she 'graces' the couch on BBC Breakfast blathering about mediation, some clever spark will remind her of this odious scheme.This stinks. It's not even funny, just a desperately sad and sordid publicity stunt.
Check the website - enough said.
Cheap stunt. A quick look at the website confirms this. Big on trashy self-publicity. Very short on class.
Christmas is probably the right time to hand them out , just when the stress factor is at 99 on Christmas Day but the vouchers should come with72 cooling off period, also are refunds available just in case , you know the marraige for unforessen reasons is patched up .. ? seriously How tacky can you get ? I'd sooner pick potatoes . I don't think solictors know anything about marketing, frankly
A stunt - yes. But a quick squizz at the site reveals some quite horrible statistics in terms of fee earner to support staff ratios. More work (or fewer support) appear to be essential.
I wonder if Loud Pratt will regret "some have commented that this is a 'blinder' of a present and very different from the normal electronic gadgets they were envisaging",
Apart from being so desperately try-hard to use 'blinder', even in a quote, Loud Pratt might consider that Wilde's view that 'not being talked about is the only thing worse than being talked about' is not necessarily true, luv.
Own goal? I think so.Just because some clients, or friends of clients, say it is a good idea does not mean it should be taken up; has the firm not heard of risk assessments and reputational damage?
There is nothing wrong in trying to find new novel ways of attracting clients but this is going too far!
This has done nothing for the firm's reputation or that of the profession as a whole!what a nice christmas thought. in most divorces there are children involved, maybe she would like to see their faces light up when the parent receives such an unpleasant gift! Vanessa must be a delightful person....not
Self-publicity of this sort is despicable. It trivialises what is a very serious issue in modern society. As a divorce practitioner I am ashamed to be a member of the same profession as a lawyer who dscribes this as "a blinder". I rather think that her firm has probabl too little work - and who can wonder why?
You have to admire the way that this GMTV attention-seeker has become the most famous divorce lawyer in the country, but as with Jordan, Simon Cowell et al; I wish the media would just ignore these sycophants.
What next? A 25% loyalty discount off the next divorce fee??I am a family lawyer and I use that term rather than divorce lawyer; Christmas and New Year are extremely difficult times for people going through the painful decision of whether or not to separate coupled with the resultant impact on any children, these periods remains the source of greatest turmoil, the suggestion of vouchers may for some clients appear to trivialise these situations. I am sure that most family lawyers would agree that whilst we can not in most cases aid the repair of relationships, we would not wish to belittle those very real difficult situations by suggesting that the service we provide is tantamount to a pleasurable activity that is normally associated with the purchase and gift of vouchers. That said, I guess it is entirely the perogative of a client whether or not to use that facility.
This gives those of us who work in family law a bad name. Some of us just want to help people through one of the most difficult times in their lives with the least amount of stress and expense. Anyone with half a brain will tell you it is actually about removing the emotion from the situation and striving for an objective viewpoint. How very foolish to trivialise the nature of Divorce, I certainly hope this backfires on the offending firm horribly.
I think this is sailing very close to issues arising from Code of Conduct. Does this risk bringing the profession into disrepute?
And who is the client? The voucher purchaser who then gives it to their spouse (and what a vile and violent gesture that is on Christmas morning) or a friend who is perhaps bored of hearing about the difficulties that the donee is having? Or is the client the voucher user?
If someone comes in with a voucher, are they under a degree of duress?
I'm glad to see other commentators here feel the same about this. It is like Brookman all over again.I can bet my last dime Vanessa Lloyd Platt is not married; if she is then she definitely is not happy in her marriage. Otherwise I do not see how a womanly woman (never mind a manly one) would advocate divorce is such a blase manner.
Vanessa Lloyd Platt , watch what you are sowing for yourself there!A poor attempt to get publicity I feel. I think it appears to say a lot about the Firm that they thought this a 'good idea'. Compare this to B&Q's approach to 'gift vouchers' - very different industries I know, but trying to be 'Dramatically and Demonstrably Different' is a powerful way to 'stand out'. You can stand out 'positively' or 'negatively' - these guys seem to have chosen the latter way of doing it. I feel It undermines their 'professionalism'. Still, it gave me something to blog about!
www.andyhansleman.comVanessa has once again brought some festive cheer to the Lawyer and its readers.
Those of you who have chosen to decry this unique and valuable contribution to the legal funding debate should perhaps seek solace in one of her recipes, all of which are available on the Llpyd Platt website http://bit.ly/5hbSfx. I would suggest 'chocolate mousse with love". As Vanessa says "After the meal he will not be able to resist your chocolate mousse. It certainly has worked for a number of clients!" I hope that her divorce vouchers work just as well.True, their website look very cheap indeed. No class. This is shameless publicity
This is hilarious. What planet is she on?!
The website is paritcularly shoddy. And she's sending very mixed messages - divorce vouchers on one hand, recipes to keep your marriage together on the other.
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Brilliant.There seem to be no depths Ms Lloyd-Platt won't plumb, and she's tried quite a few in her time.
But thankfully most sensible clients will continue to seek out more sensitive family law advisers whose practices are not in such difficulties that they must descend to such flakey tactics.


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Nonlinear codification of information using computers
Computer seem to be mostly sequential / linear in how information is presented and processed. I find it very un-intuitive. Take TED for example, many of there presentations after a short time seem to drop off the edge of the world. Or we fail to see interrelatedness between presentations.
Information tends to be organic in nature . It changes and grows. Computers tend to be very ridged. They seem to fight how we function . They are not very intuitive.
The only example I have found that seems to function in a non linear way is the program VISUAL THESAURUS . It clusters words in a mind map way and shows how information is interrelated automatically. Think the same thing can be done with presentations.
Feb 23 2011: Thanks Pratik & Matt,
Matt, video is a more powerful medium, so I will go with videos..... Third party links, yes, good idea Matt.....
In addition to this, I wonder if there could be a sort of thesaurus function where in the thesis listed and can call up other thesis which are related in and outside Ted. Ted could uses it to ask others to come in and add to the theme. -
Feb 21 2011: I like this idea, Konrad, it would be pretty neat to have an interactive system that displays the connections between TED Talks. Would you want it as images or as headlines that link to the videos? Or something different? Perhaps then within the organic structure each headline/ image would have a series of third party links that relate to the Talk?


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Linux Programming Hints
For several good reasons, the Linux standard libary implements standard I/O (stdio) in a somewhat strange way. Unfortunately, many programs make unwarranted assumptions about how stdio is implemented that cause the programs not to compile properly under Linux. I have alluded to this problem before in this column; this month I will explain how to fix such source code to compile under any operating system, including Linux.
by Michael K. Johnson
Linux stdio is not exactly non-standard; that would imply that there is a real standard for how standard I/O is supposed to be implemented. Theoretically, all I/O operations that use the stdio library should only use the "published" FILE mechanisms, which are abstract, and should not pay any attention to details. Unfortunately, many stdio implementations are rather slow, and do not provide functionality that programs need.
Instead of writing a working replacement for stdio, many programmers chose to abuse the stdio interface by directly accessing "private" members of the FILE structure that are not guaranteed to be the same from system to system. In practice, this worked very well from system to system, because almost all the systems came from the same source and a prototype using the same variable names was widely available.
Programmers learned, for instance, that the _cnt member of the FILE structure contained the number of bytes which had been read by the library but not yet read by the application, and that the _ptr member contained a pointer to the buffer in which the characters that had been pre-fetched by the library were stored. It was general knowlege that behind the scenes, the _filbuf() (sometimes called _ _filbuf() ) macro was called to cause the stdio library to read more characters.
This worked as long as everyone used similar stdio implementations. Many well-respected applications used these methods to get around stdio; GNU emacs and the Rand MH mail handler are among them.
Linux is different.
The Linux stdio is based on the GNU libg++ iostream I/O. The FILE structure looks, in part, like this (from libio.h):
int _flags; /* High-order word is _IO_MAGIC; rest is flags. */ #define _IO_file_flags _flags char* _IO_read_ptr; /* Current read pointer */ char* _IO_read_end; /* End of get area. */ char* _IO_read_base; /* Start of putback+get area. */ char* _IO_write_base; /* Start of put area. */ char* _IO_write_ptr; /* Current put pointer. */ char* _IO_write_end; /* End of put area. */ char* _IO_buf_base; /* Start of reserve area. */ char* _IO_buf_end; /* End of reserve area. */
This isn't at all the same. It is better optimized: instead of having one _ptr element, it has one pointer for reading, and one for writing, and a buffer for each as well. Instead of keeping track of the number of characters in the buffer, a pointer to the end of each buffer is kept, as well as the curernt pointer. It makes it easier to use all sorts of things as files, including shared memory, SYSV IPC, and anything else that fits the paradigm; it is dynamically extensible. It is also shared between C++ and C, and makes the C++ iostream implementation more robust because of the extra testing it gets as a standard io package.
If you have worked with the Linux or GNU C libraries in the past, you will notice that the names have changed. They used to be shorter names like _pbase and _pptr that looked like they were related to the old stdio names. In November 1993, the names were changed to what you see above. It is not anticipated that these will change again in the foreseeable future. See the sidebar "Old Names to New" for a listing of how the names changed.
Replacing direct access to the members of the FILE structure with abstract macros can make it possible to compile offending source on any system. Since the Linux stdio makes a distinction between reading and writing, the first thing to determine is whether each code fragment is reading or writing. Then you replace the direct use of the members of the FILE structure with macros; ones that are specific to reading an writing. Finally, you write the macros; one set for Linux, and one set for "standard" stdio. Here are some of mine:
Under Linux or other similar stdio implementation:
#ifdef _STDIO_USES_IOSTREAM /* defined in libio.h */ #define FWptr(f) ((f)->_IO_write_ptr) #define FRptr(f) ((f)->_IO_read_ptr) #define Fptr(f) (((f)->_IO_file_flags && \ _IO_CURRENTLY_PUTTING) ? \ FWptr(f) : \ FRptr(f)) #define FWcnt(f) (((f)->_IO_write_end - \ (f)->_IO-write_ptr) > 0 ? 0 : \ (f)->_IO_write_end - (f)-> \ _IO_write_ctr) #define FRcnt(f) (((f)->_IO_read_end - \ (f)->_IO_read_ptr) > 0 ? 0 : \ (f)->_IO_read_end - (f)-> \ _IO_read_ctr) #define Fcnt(f) (((f)->_IO_file_flags && \ _IO_CURRENTLY_PUTTING) ? \ FWcnt(f) : \ FRcnt(f)) #define Ffill(f) __underflow(f) #define Fflsh(f) __overflow(f)
Under "standard" stdio:
#else /* standard stdio */ #define Fptr(f) ((f)->_ptr) #define FWptr(f) Fptr(f) #define FRptr(f) Fptr(f) #define Fcnt(f) ((f)->_cnt) #define FWcnt(f) Fcnt(f) #define FRcnt(f) Fcnt(f) #define Ffill(f) _filbuf(f) #define Fflsh(f) _flsbuf(f) #endif
Note that some code may use f->_cnt as an lvalue (a variable to which something is assigned). In these cases, f->_ptr will always also be assigned to; both need to be updated at the same time in the standard stdio library. Since the "count" values in these abstraction macros are calculations for iostream-based stdio, they cannot be lvalues. However, since they depend on the "pointer" values and the "end" values, and the "pointer" values are updated, and the end" values don't change, they do not need to have the updated values assigned to them. Therefore,
f->_ptr++; f->_cnt; ;
becomes (assuming that the code is reading using this pointer):
FRptr(f)++; #ifndef _STDIO_USES_IOSTREAM FRcnt(f); ; #endif
or simply
Fptr(f)++; #ifndef _STDIO_USES_IOSTREAM Fcnt(f); ; #endif
if you are not sure whether the code is reading or writing.
I will warn you: trying to apply these instructions and macros to code you are porting without understanding the code you are working on is likely to be disastrous. Your application may compile, but quietly lose data if you put the wrong macros in. It is most important not to use the FR*() macros when the library is writing, and not to use the FW*() macros when the library is reading. If you can't tell which is being done, you are far better off using the generic versions, Fptr() and Fcnt(), than you are guessing.
There are other mistakes waiting to be made, and I can't cover them all, because I don't know what they all are. The source code to the Linux C libary is available via ftp from tsx-11.mit.edu and sunsite.unc.edu, and is distributed with many Linux distributions. Reading the libc source code (usually found in /usr/src/libc-linux/libio/), and understanding what it is doing, is the safest route to knowing what to do when porting code that makes assump-tions about stdio. This article alone can only help you along your way; you will still have to understand the program you are porting and the Linux stdio to achieve success.
Michael K. Johnson may be reached by e-mail at: (firstname.lastname@example.com)
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The slide continues for the Peninsula women's basketball team.
The Pirates (1-6 in division, 4-12 overall) were thumped by the Everett Trojans, 83-50, on Jan. 22.
The Trojans (4-2 in division, 8-7 overall) jumped out to a 25-point halftime lead and never let the Pirates get rolling. Peninsula shot 28 percent from the field after the break, including three-of-13 from beyond the three-point line.
"We started out the game slow and not ready to play," said Peninsula coach Alison Crumb. "They beat us 48-23 in the first half and I would say 90 percent of those were layups."
As if six consecutive division losses were not enough to address, the Pirates had an old habit creep back into their game on Saturday night. They committed 26 turnovers, which Everett used to net 27 points.
Peninsula averaged 27 turnovers over its first nine games but had since curbed that tendency, averaging only 18.7 turnovers per game in the six preceding Everett.
Jasmine Jackson scored 16 points to lead Peninsula. Port Angeles High School alum Danika Goodwin poured in 13 buckets and grabbed six rebounds.
The Trojans had four players in double-figures, including Stephanie Schumacher, who shot for 16 points and collected five rebounds.
Mary Ochiltree powered Everett with 14 points, seven rebounds and five steals.
The Pirates will look to get on track when they host the Shoreline Dolphins (1-5 in division, 5-9 overall) at 5 p.m. today, Jan. 26.
"At some point, we need to find a way to play as a team and come out with some intensity," said Crumb.
The glimpses of optimism are there, but the wins are still elusive.
The Peninsula women's basketball team was trounced by the Edmonds Tritons, 73-47, on Jan. 19.
Callie Monfrey netted a two-point bucket with 12:03 to play in the second half, helping Peninsula stay within striking distance, 45-34.
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Baseline Magazine, February 2006 (481kb pdf)
Workbook: How to Judge Your IT Spending
Baseline Magazine, February 2006 (73kb pdf)
Google: Model for the Systems Architecture of the Future
Lecture, George Mason University, December 5, 2005 (video)
Google: A Model for the Systems Architecture of the Future
Lecture, George Mason University (slides), December 5, 2005 (10.7Mb pdf)
IT Management in 2006
by David Foote, January 10, 2006
Real Numbers: How Much Is An Employee Worth?
Baseline Magazine, January 2006 (128kb pdf)
Workbook: Putting a Price on A Head
Baseline Magazine, January 2006 (90kb pdf)
Real Numbers: How Much Is Know-How Worth?
Baseline Magazine, November 2005 (507kb pdf)
Workbook: Putting a Price on Brainpower
Baseline Magazine, November 2005 (86kb pdf)
The Next IT Tsunami
IP4IT 2005 (podcast), November 2005
The Next IT Tsunami
IP4IT 2005 (slides), November 2005 (1816kb Powerpoint)
The Baseline 500: The 500 Best Information Managers
Baseline Magazine, October 2005 (17.6Mb pdf)
For Great IT, Focus on the Information, Not the Technology
Baseline Magazine, October 2005
State of the Practice Interview, with Paul Strassmann
Computer Aid, Inc., October 2005 (209kb pdf)
New Responsibilities of the Department of Defense CIO
Lecture, George Mason University, October 27, 2005 (video)
Bezlan: Events & Lessons Learned
CERT, May 18, 2005 (8.8Mb pdf)
Private briefing, September 16, 2005 (7.0Mb Powerpoint)
Is Google Cable's Next Nightmare?
Multichannel Magazine, October 10, 2005 (170kb pdf)
The DoD CIO Charter: A Template for IT Governance?
Lecture, George Mason University, October 3, 2005 (2Mb pdf)
Real Numbers: Find True Indicators of Tech Superiority
Baseline Magazine, September 2005 (87kb pdf)
Workbook: Measuring your IT Superiority
Baseline Magazine, September 2005 (427kb pdf)
Information Management and Organizational Entropy
Lecture, George Mason University, April 23, 2005 (video)
Real Numbers: Check How to Verify If You Are Important
Baseline Magazine, July 2005 (571kb pdf)
Does Your CIO Have Clout?
Baseline Magazine, July 2005 (416kb pdf)
Real Numbers: Taking a Bite Out of Overhead
Baseline Magazine, May 2005 (33kb pdf)
Measuring Value: Does Your Tech Budget Have Teeth?
Baseline Magazine, May 2005 (28kb pdf)
Calculator: Figuring Your Tooth-to-Tail Ratio
Baseline Magazine, May 2005
The Squandered Computer
Search entire book online, April 15, 2005
Information Productivity
Search entire book online, April 15, 2005
The Politics of Information Management
Search entire book online, April 15, 2005
Information Payoff
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Business Value of Computers
Search entire book online, April 15, 2005
Managing Outsourcing: The CIO Challenge for the Next Decade
CIO Conference 2005, Milan, May 9, 2005
Real Numbers: Does Outsourcing Deliver the Goods?
Baseline Magazine, March 2005 (574kb pdf)
Calculator: Calculating an Outsourcing Ratio
Baseline Magazine, March 2005
Why JP Morgan Chase Really Dropped IBM
Baseline Magazine, January 2005
The 500 Companies That Manage Information Best
Baseline Magazine, October 2004
Who Led the Baseline 500 and Why
Baseline Magazine, October 2004
To jest wojna!
Portal Onet.pl - Businessman Magazine, November 2003 [in Polish]
Foundations of Information Economics, Part III
Information Economics Journal, September 2004 (86kb pdf)
Six Rules for Finding IT Value
Cutter IT Journal, August 2004 (144kb pdf)
The economics of outsourcing
Information Economics Journal, June 2004 (89kb pdf)
Foundations of Information Economics, Part II: The impact of transaction economics
Information Economics Journal, June 2004 (74kb pdf)
Unlocking the Secrets of Information Economics
Keynote: Information Economics Summit, June 7, 2004
Internet ha bisogno di tempo per affermarsi
by Luca De Biase, Il Sole 24 Ore, May 2004 [in Italian]
Foundations of Information Economics, Part I
Information Economics Journal, March 2004 (88kb pdf)
Les processus de restructuration et de licenciement ne sont pas achevés
01 Informatique, January 30, 2004 [in French] (102kb pdf)
Każdy po swojemu
Computerworld Polska, October 2003 [in Polish]
Paul A. Strassmann w Polsce
Interia, October 5, 2003 [in Polish]
Vernietiging van kennis
Dutch CIO Magazine, October 2003 [in Dutch] (400kb pdf)
Budgeting for IT in Hard Times
Microsoft Executive Circle, Fall 2003
Getting better value from information management
Information Economics Journal, October 2003
Aligning IT Projects for Value
Keynote speech, European IT Forum, September 29, 2003
The #1 CIO Issue: How to Explain and Justify the I.T. Budget
Keynote speech, Gartner AD Summit, September 22, 2003
Strassmann on the future of IT
SAIC Employee Update Magazine, June 2003 (72kb pdf)
Does IT Matter? An HBR Debate
Harvard Business Review, June 2003 (503kb pdf)
A Retrospective Forecast of the Future
by Paul A. Strassmann, June 2003
IT Spending Assessment
Online Tool, May 2003
First-Class Upgrade
by Gary Anthes, May 12, 2003
The Future of Federal Network Services
Executive panel, April 1, 2003
Power Politics of the CIO
AFCEA talk, March 19, 2003
IT Value Chain Methodology
Alinean, December 2002
The Evolution of the IT Leader
Kathleen Melymulka, Computerworld, September 30, 2002
Interview met Paul Strassmann
by René Rippen, Computable.nl, September 28, 2001 [in Dutch]
Gurus Vie in Productivity Debate
IT Week, April 2002
Return on Investment Eludes UK Users
IT Week, October 2001
La paradoja de la innovación
Computerworld España, December 2002 [in Spanish]
Where are they now: Paul Strassmann
Government Computer News, October 2002
NASA's 'One NASA' Chief Evangelist
Spaceref.com, October 2002
Why ROI ratios are now crucial to IT investment
Butler Group Review, September 2002 (40kb pdf)
Top NASA managers are developing plans
Aviation Week & Space Technology, August 12, 2002
NASA tech chief defines new mission
Chief Information Officers Council, August 5, 2002
A comprehensive ROI, budgeting and benchmarking tool
Thomas Hoffman, Computerworld, July 29, 2002
Technology Leadership: What's It Worth?
Leader to Leader Magazine, Peter Drucker Foundation, Winter 2002
'Squandered Computer' predicted the dot com bust
Hiroshi T. McCarvaugh, Patent Insight, May 2002
NASA Administrator Names Senior IT Advisor
NASA Press Release, April 29, 2002
Problems with authentication
SearchSecurity.com, April 2002
Não esbanje em tecnologia
by Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues, Janela na Web, April 2001 [in Portuguese]
Collaboration economics
Infoconomy Report, February 2002 (86kb pdf)
Collaborative commerce
by Krishna Roy, Infoconomy, February 2002
IT Economist: Paul Strassmann
Interview, Information Age, December 2001
The Changed World: What is Cyberterrorism?
Interview by Bill Clark, BusinessOnline Asia, November 2001
Interview: Financial Times
by Rod Newing, Financial Times, December 5, 2001
Why CIOs should want to go to jail
by Grant Heinrich, MIS Asia, September 2001
McKinsey's Mistakes
TechTV, October 18, 2001
Putting a Price on Knowledge
review by William Sheridan, September 2001
Govt. should blaze global information warfare trails
SearchSecurity.com, August 2001
The guru of profitless computing
Financial Times, June 28, 2001
R&D and Knowledge
Knowledge Management Magazine, June 2001
Personal Capitalists
Knowledge Management Magazine, May 2001
KM, IT and Organizational Capital
Knowledge Management Magazine, April 2001
Individual rights vs. corporate controls for PCs
SearchSecurity.com, April 2001
Prophecies Don't Serve Knowledge Capital
Knowledge Management Magazine, March 2001
The Pernicious Characteristics of Monocultures
WGBH/Frontline (on PBS), February 2001
How to Value Information Security Risks
Knowledge Management Magazine, February 2001
Art of Budgeting (part 3)
SearchSecurity.com, January 2001
Bending the Numbers
Knowledge Management Magazine, January 2001
The Art of Budgeting: How to Ask for Money for Information Security
SearchSecurity.com, December 2000
The Perverse Economics of Information
iMP Information Impacts Magazine, September 2000
How E-Business Affects Knowledge Capital
Knowledge Management Magazine, November 2000
How to Explain Spending on Information Security
SearchSecurity.com, October 2000
Intelligence in Question
Knowledge Management Magazine, October 2000
Expecting Too Much of Knowledge
Knowledge Management Magazine, August 2000
The Economics of Information Security
InfowarCon 2000, September 2000
Assessment of Productivity, Technology and Knowledge Capital
by Paul Strassmann, July 2000
Governance of Information Management: Principles and Concepts
by Paul Strassmann, July 2000
Revenues and Profits of Global Information Technology Suppliers
by Paul Strassmann, June 2000
Global Knowledge Power
Knowledge Management Magazine, June 2000
The Agenda Setters
Video interview, from Silicon.com, May 25, 2000
Information Productivity Indicators of U.S. Corporations
by Paul Strassmann, May 2000
Knowledge Power in the Cyber-Economy
Knowledge Management Magazine, May 2000
Seminar: London
Butler Group, May 16, 2000
The Knowledge-Devouring Web
Knowledge Management Magazine, April 2000
The Importance of Knowledge Capital
Knowledge Management Magazine, March 2000
Technology-based Confrontations Blur the Line Between Competition and Conflict
Signal, February 2000
Accumulating Knowledge Efficiency
Knowledge Management Magazine, February 2000
IP - A New Metric for the Information Age
Silicon.com, January 2000
The Coming of Knowledge Services Markets
Knowledge Executive Report, January 2000
When Spending Is Investing
Knowledge Management Magazine, January 2000
McNeil-Lehrer News Hour
PBS live broadcast, January 5, 2000
What's the Worth of an Employee?
Knowledge Management Magazine, December 1999
Ticker-Tape Charade
Knowledge Management Magazine, November 1999
Measurement Recommended
Canberra Times, November 10, 1999
Calculating Knowledge Capital
Knowledge Management Magazine, October 1999
Butler Group to retain Paul Strassmann
Press Release, September 1999
Does Knowledge Capital Explain Market/Book Valuations?
by Paul Strassmann, September 1999
The Partisan
by Peter Golden, Electronic Business, August 1999
Alignment of IT and Business: Key to Realizing Business Value
by Paul Strassmann and Danek Bienkowski, ABT Corp. White Paper, August 1999
An Examination of Strassmann's Information Productivity Index
MS Thesis, by Andrea Everard, July 1999
Interview - In the Firing Line
MIS Web, June 1999
Measuring and Managing Knowledge Capital
Knowledge Executive Report, June 1999
SmartSourcing for Innovation
SMARTsourcing Conference, June 28, 1999
Software: Expense or Asset?
The Art of ROI, JavaOne Symposium, June 14, 1999
Computer productivity: Paul Strassmann's facts or Bob Lewis' fiction?
Infoworld, May 31, 1999
Is There a Computer Paradox?
Private Briefing to the Federal Reserve Board, April 15, 1999
What's the Key to Implementing Knowledge Management?
Interview, Knowledge Management Magazine, April 1999
Numbers indicate that companies overspend on information management
Infoworld, March 22, 1999
Beat The Clock
GCN, September 21, 1998
What is Alignment?
Cutter IT Journal, August 1998
Of Men and Machines: Productivity Declines
Forbes, June 11, 1998
Experts Debate Y2K Costs
Computerworld, June 8, 1998
Outsourcing IT: Miracle Cure or Emetic?
by Paul Strassmann, May 1998
Comments about Y2000 Test Certification
by Paul Strassmann, April 1998
The Value of Knowledge Capital
American Programmer, March 1998
Book Review
Computing Reviews, December 1997
Preface to "The Year 2000 Software Problem"
Addison-Wesley, December 1997
Les ordinateurs ne créent pas de richesse
Interview, La Tribune, December 3, 1997 [in French]
40 Years of IT History
by Paul Strassmann, Datamation, 40th Anniversary Special Issue, October 1997
Facts and Fantasies about Information Productivity
by Paul Strassmann, book excerpt, September 1997
CIO Hall of Fame
CIO Magazine, September 1997
Strassmann on Politics and Guidelines
Review by Michael Schrage, Harvard Business Review, September 1997
Align for the Bottom Line
Review by Megan Santosus, CIO Magazine, August 1997
Taking Computers To Task
Scientific American, July 1997
Delete Yourself
by Helio Gurovitz, Exame, June 4, 1997 [in both English and Portuguese]
Do U.S. Firms Spend Too Much on Information Technology?
Interview with Norm Alster, Investor's Business Daily, April 3, 1997
Will Big Spending on Computers Guarantee Profitability?
by Paul Strassmann, Datamation, February 1997
Has Business Squandered The IT Payoff?
by Paul Strassmann, Computer Finance, January 1997
The Thickness of Concrete on the Maginot Line
by Paul Strassmann, InfoWar.Com, January 1997
Is Your Information Productive?
Exec! Magazine, December 1996
Book review: The Politics of Information Management
by Paul Gray, Information Systems Management Journal, Winter 1996
Leading Lights: Knowledge Strategist Paul Strassmann
Interview with Britton Manasco, Knowledge Executive Report, October 1996
Le pouvoir aux fournisseurs de services
by Paul Strassmann, 01 Informatique, June 1996, June 1996 [in French]
The Economics and Politics of Information Management
by Paul A. Strassmann, KPMG executive seminar, London, June 1996
Licht en donker met Paul Strassmann
Interview with Joop Kuijs, Steven Luitjens, & Leo Smits, Informatie, April 1996 [in Dutch]
Change Management Through Open Systems
by Paul A. Strassmann for X/Open, Ltd., January 1996
Strategic Planning and the Three Little Pigs
by Paul A. Strassmann, American Programmer, March 1996
The Value of Computers, Information, and Knowledge
by Paul A. Strassmann, January 1996
Risk-Free Access Into The Global Information Infrastructure Via Anonymous Re-Mailers
by Paul A. Strassmann and William Marlow, January 1996
Paul Strassmann, L'information prend le pouvoir
B. d'Armagnac, Informatiques Magazine, September 1, 1995 [in French]
The Internet: A Way Of Outsourcing Infomercenaries?
by Paul A. Strassmann, American Programmer, August 1995
S.946: Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995
US Senate Hearings, testimony by Paul A. Strassmann, July 1995
Paul Strassmann on Cybernetics, History, and Business
Interview, Computer Literacy Bookshops, Spring 1995
Book review: The Politics of Information Management
by Neal M. Goldsmith, Business Technology, February 1995
The Roots of Business Process Reengineering
by Paul A. Strassmann, American Programmer, June 1995
excerpted from "The Politics of Information Management", October 1995
Book review: The Politics of Information Management
by Paul Gillin, Computerworld, October 1994
The Meaning of Value Gets a Fresh Definition
by Elizabeth Baatz, CIO Magazine, October 15, 1994
The CIO's Machiavelli
by Bruce Caldwell, Information Week, September 19, 1994
CIOs Should Get Back To Basics
by Paul A. Strassmann, Datamation, September 1994
The Hocus-Pocus of Reengineering
by Paul A. Strassmann, Across the Board, June 1994
Ground Zero
by Theodore Iacobuzio, Bank Systems + Technology, November 1993
Interview de Paul Strassmann
L'informatique Professionnelle, No. 104, May 1992 [in French]
Turning our upside down world right side up
Diane Hamblen, Chips Magazine, October 1992
Runaway Computer Projects
by Paul A. Strassmann, Across the Board, April 1991
Testimony before the House Armed Services Committee
by Paul Strassmann, April 23, 1991
Statement Before the House Appropriations Committee, Defense Subcommittee
by Paul Strassmann, April 24, 1991 (636kb pdf)
Statement Before House Armed Services Committee, Readiness Subcommittee
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VFX Forth version 4.6
There are new library interfaces to libcurl, libiconv, SQLite3 and zlib. Additional notations have been added to the shared library interface to ease porting of code from other Forth systems.
The major feature of the v4.5 release was the cross-platform GUI interface to GTK+ and Glade. GUI and graphics code for VFX Forth is now portable across Windows, Mac OS X and Linux with no changes. See any version of VFX Forth for more details. There has also been an improvement in compilation speed.
See our benchmarks.
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VFX Forth for Windows
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Customer comments
"VfxForth is the most fully featured FORTH I've ever worked
with. This will be a fun project with lots of tools to work with."
"I know a lot of compilers are free but speaking freely, this is one of the best darn things I've spent money on."
"GUIgen is the best and most useful bit of code I've seen in a very long time." More about GUIgen
"I just wanted to write and congratulate you on your VFX Forth. What a wonderful system you folks have developed! I recently downloaded the evaluation version of VFX and rewrote a Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation that I had originally written for xxxxx. What a difference! Under xxxxx, a single run of the simulation takes over an hour on my computer. Under VFX, the same simulation completes in less than 4 minutes."
"I am actually VERY impressed with VFX Forth for Windows's code generation ... you have a fantastic product."
VFX Forth for Mac OS X
VFX Forth for Mac OS X is built from the same code base as VFX Forth for Linux, and includes the same VFX code generator and other tools. There is direct support for Mach-O executable file generation and there is access to all functions in shared libraries such as libSystem or frameworks such as Carbon and Cocoa. See the release notes.
Beta test versions are now available.
A customer said:
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DocGen documentation system. The easy C interfacing and Genio
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VFX Forth for Linux
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VFX Forth for Linux is built from the same code base as VFX Forth for Windows, and includes the same VFX code generator and other tools. There is direct support for ELF executable file generation and access to all functions in shared libraries such as libc is available. See the release notes.
Customer comments
"I am in awe of how fast VFX Linux Forth is. My experience
is in the distant past with ... and more recently G... so I am not
used to the optimized code produced by VFX. Very nice!"
" ... impressed by the features of the Vfx, and the fact that you have a *REAL* manual."
Free downloads of the evaluation version are available from the Southampton server. Login as "public" with a blank password. The 32 bit VFX Forth for Linux version is available in rpm and deb packages for 32 bit and 64 bit Linux variants, and a tarball. VFX Forth for Linux is suitable for all x86 32 and 64 bit Linux distributions.
The paid-for versions (Standard, Developer and Mission editions) include kernels for the 386/486 class CPUs used by many embedded x86 systems. VFX Forth for Linux runs very well on lightweight systems such as the Ebox2300 or 3300 family with 300MHz or 1GHz CPUs.
VFX Forth for DOS
VFX Forth for DOS is built from the same source tree as VFX Forth for Windows, and includes the same VFX code generator, graphics and other tools. VFX Forth for DOS is mainly used for embedded applications. The PowerNet TCP/IP stack is available. For more details see our PowerNet page.
The version 4 releases are available with the same pricing as VFX Forth for Windows. Contact us for further details.
See the release notes.
Customer comment:
"I continue to be astonished at the quantum leap the VFX software
suite has taken from ProForth. It's been difficult to make the right
choices during the conversion, without over-indulging, like a kid in
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Embedded systems tools
Forth 7 Cross Compiler for ARM7/9.., Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M3.
Available now with Cortex-M0/M1/M3/M4 code generation and targets.
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux versions are available.
Forth 7 cross compiler and targets
Version 7 of the MPE Forth cross compiler compiles five to ten times faster than its v6 predecessors, now producing about 500 kb of binary code per second. There are many detail improvements to the compilers and the target code.
The first major item for users of 32 bit targets is the USB client interface. Your embedded system can be a memory stick or a virtual COM port or both (composite device). The code has been structured so that the hardware drivers are independent of the USB core layer and the class layer. Version 2 supports DMA operation for increased speed and reduced interrupt overhead.
The Mass Storage Class (memory stick) and Communications Device Class (virtual serial port) drivers require no installation of additional operating system drivers. Sample INF files are provided for Windows. The code has been tested with Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.
The second major item for users of 32 bit targets is the FAT filing system supporting removable media such as SD/MMC cards through SPI, CompactFlash and USB memory sticks. FAT 12, 16, and 32 are supported, auto-detecting at initialisation.
When ordering, please specify whether you want the Windows or the Linux version.
The ARM compilers produce faster code (15% average over v6.3) and ARM9 targets get a further improvement. More target configurations are available for Atmel ARM7 and ARM9 CPUs, the STR9 family is supported, and new drivers are available including SPI for the FAT filing system. The MSP430 compiler and target code have been overhauled, and the 68HC12 has improved paging support.
The Windows, Linux and Mac OS X hosted Forth 7 Cross Compilers provide a complete interactive development system for embedded targets. MPE's VFX optimising code generators are part of most version 7 compilers, producing excellent code quality and density. Customer comments include "Wow!" and "How do you do that?". As always, floating point, multi-tasking, full target source code, manuals and technical support are included as part of the package. Most compilers can be supplied with evaluation boards and prepackaged software configurations. For a complete list of targets, please visit our Forth 7 page.
A customer says:"
"My co-workers kept asking, "how can you do that?". I tell them
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PowerNet v4 TCP/IP stack
The PowerNet v4 stack for the v7.x Cross Compilers is available with remote firmware update capability. New DHCP and SNTP clients allow more automatic configuration at powerup. A new set of client-side service examples ease talking to remote web sites. Maintenance and production configuration tools are provided to reduce setup costs.
PowerNet is strong enough to be used on internet-facing sites with no firewall or other security measures.
For more details see our PowerNet page.
Version 5 with SOAP, XML and web services is in preparation. Web services enable embedded systems to be interrogated by and to exchange information with applications such as Excel and Project.
CANopen implementation
The CAN fieldbus is popular in many industries requiring high reliability. This implementation for Forth 6 compilers was originally developed for railway control systems, and is released as a cross compiler extension. Please contact us directly for more information.
Previous compiler versions
We are aware that embedded systems can have extremely long development and production lives. Consequently, we make previous compiler versions available where there is no direct upgrade path. The Forth 6, Forth 5 and Forth 4 cross compilers are still supported where Forth 7 compilers are not available; see the pricelist.
RTX-2000 returns!
The RTX-2000 and RTX-2010 CPUs from Intersil were dual stack CPUs with fast and deterministic real time behaviour, but are no longer available. Now the significantly faster RTXcore is available for incorporation into FPGAs. In a Xilinx Spartan 2E, the VHDL clean-room implementation gives twice the original performance at lower cost, and includes an on-chip UART. The current software development tools work unchanged.
Free ARM Forth for Philips LPC21xx CPUs
A free Forth system with 125 page manual for all Philips LPC21xx and LPC22xx CPUs with at least 64k Flash and 16k RAM and cystal frequency of 10, 12, or 14.7456 MHz.
- Download lpcforth.zip.
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Scooping a whole holiday meal from the floor and serving it to my guest sounds totally gross. I would go to Plan B. Thank God, I'm a good and fast cook, I can whip up just about anything out of nothing, tasty and all.
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GITOMER: Writing my own legacy. One word at a time. Yours?
by Jeffrey Gitomer Published: March 7,2014
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What do you do when you get up every day? Anything to do with your legacy? I doubt it. Here's a short version of your morning: Shower. Coffee. TV. Get dressed. Check your calendar. Check your email. Check your social media. Maybe even make a follow-up call (or two) or read a few pages. No […] [...]


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Countings Crafts
Merry X-mas everyone!
This is my present to all of you <3
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This is where my crocheted art calls home. I do a lot of yarnbombing (yarn graffiti or whatever you want to call it), and whatever else pops into my head. (mebbe other art sometimes too!)
I decided to go with Countings Crafts because I got the nickname Counting from a friend after I failed to properly introduce myself while counting out a chain stitch.
I also run a Katamari Tumblr! (katamaridamacy.tumblr.com) So if I <3 something Katamari related, that's probably why. Katamari and Yarn are my two loves.
I also have a blog about yarnbombing at http://gmotherslegacy.blogspot.com. Check it out!
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