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Getting into the spirit
By jpenston | August 31, 2006 |
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Today is international blog day. So say the BBC and that’s good enough for me. The idea being that each blog links to 5 others. I’m sure the search engine crawlers are loving this - it would not surprise me at all to learn that Google were behind it. Now they have an advertising deal with ebay and a seat on apple’s board, don’t they control everything? At the very least, they could become a serious rival for Microsoft. More on that some other time, after I have had time to reflect.
So, my task is to link to 5 blogs… the first is easy. James Enck’s EuroTelcoblog is full of snippets from his conversations and research into leading edge technology. When I started this blog, my aim was to be different from James’, not because I don’t like what he does, but to the contrary, because I can’t compete with what he does.
The second was easy too, because I am doing some work with Mural Consulting at the moment and its always good to doff your cap occasionally to those that pay the bills. Mural have just launched SaaS Camp, which aims to develop a forum where Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) can be discussed. I’m not actually involved in the SaaS Camp activity, but SaaS is an interesting topic that has seen numerous rebirths and rebrandings over the years, and still needs to be grounded in commercial reality. Hopefully Mural’s team can drive that process.
The third one will have to be newswireless.net. Partly because I met Guy Kewney about two years ago and found him to be a fascinating fellow, although I doubt he would remember me. Partly also because newswireless.net posted an article by Wendy Grossman commenting on my HD-TV research piece, which, in my view, kind of missed the point. Wendy says that the report’s “key assumption that the Internet will become the chief or only gateway to high-definition content is probably wrong”. I’d argue that actually what I’m saying is that the internet will never be the chief or only gateway to HD content because its too expensive to do it that way.
The fourth will be Nechmads, because he liked my HD piece (so there!) and the fifth will have to be Alex Cameron’s Digitax TX blog. I’ve met Alex a number of times, and although we have philosophical differences (his words, not mine), I like him a lot simply because of the energy he brings into whatever he does.
Alex’s blog reads like he talks (at the speed of sound), and his passion and belief that we can change the world for the better (well, we can change the telecoms world for the better distribution of user generated content) is refreshing in an industry that lost a lot of its fizz when the bubble burst in 2000.
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