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Three videos that made me think: How it feels to have a stroke (TED Talks) Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied ...

The service war begins ...

CNET: Today's must reads: Novell's lead pony, Microsoft on open source, and more

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Simon, thanks for the links. Video with slides is better :-) The points you're making re: competitive advantage existing at the operations level (and hence the QoS itself) and portability are very interesting. Re: portability and the issue of lock-in - Last month we announced Bungee Application Server + source code access (see the proposed ...

About a year ago, I took part in a meeting where the question: ''What does open source ''mean'' in a SaaS world?'' came up in conversation. A year later, that same question is becoming increasingly pertinent as the IT industry's move to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud-based computing accelerates. For Bungee Labs (I work there), ...

I'm thoroughly enjoying David Weinberger's Everything Is Miscellaneous (The Power of the New Digital Disorder). Weinberger has a canny knack for taking a subject matter I feel I'm already familiar with and yet illuminating and expressing facets of it in such a way as to greatly further and deepen my understanding of it. I'm storing the following ...

Michael - thanks for dropping by :-) Indeed, this example got me thinking about how new ideas can be spawned through fidelity errors...I wonder how many new theories or unintended trains of thought have led to new insights caused via "Chinese Whispers" ! ...A topic for a blog post all of its own!

Here's some classic Raymond Chen: ''Apparently I've been promoted by mistake all these years''.