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POPSMonetizing Twitter Recently on the web press has been reports about declining numbers using twitter. But interestingly this article picks up on that only 5% of twitters traffic is shared information traffic. There is something more interesting going on here than just numbers using to share.
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POPSThe Death of Taxonomies, revisited Interesting article this. To the point of the disposal of traditional hierarchical taxonomies. The call for the meta is recognising that the one size fits all just doesn't work. The semantics used should be syntax independent. Applicable in a variety of contexts yet are capable of technological translation and mapping onto local contextual situations.
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POPSClimate trouble may be bubbling up in far north By CHARLES J. HANLEY (AP) – 13 hours ago I think the chilling comment is "They said up to 10 percent of the undersea permafrost area had melted, and it was "highly possible" that this would open the way to abrupt release of an estimated 50 billion tons of methane".
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POPSWeb Servers Tip of the iceberg, as these probably don't include any government servers. How much is the virtual interconnectedness backbone Internet costing? (not just in plain monetary terms, but to the cost to the environment to keep them all running)
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POPSNews Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoch Broken business model? So let's transfer our existing business model to the web. Big enough, powerful enough, has the influence, or has influenced those to be able to to say that this is just an extension. Is this not going to be backed up,followed up, with the previous call to fundamentally regulate access to content on the Internet through subscription portals. The previous demands for a two tier web from traditional content providers.
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POPSMurdoch's Newspaper (Losses) With advertising moving over to other forms how long will it be before we see the demise of the number and variety of newspapers. Are journalists being disintermediated? Undoubtedly with our current downturn the value chains are changing.
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POPSWeb carbon footprint A problem that can only get worse. Before we all wish for a wind-up clockwork PC, what is needed is a collection of statistics and facts. Perhaps all PCs, data centres servers etc. should have in their core operating system a reporting function.
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POPSOnline spending shows strong annual growth in January The tipping point of the high street? With profit margins increasingly constrained on the high street together with increasing costs of renting and local business rate taxes. is it not surprising that we see so many boarded-up shops
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POPSDigital Britain: The Interim Report - Government outlines plans for UK’s digital transition As much as I am against all forms of piracy, and having a strong position on protecting intellectual property rights, there are bits of this report that concern me. My main feeling that I get when reading it, and it is a ground growing suspicion, is the desire for control. There are bits throughout this report ACTION 18 all instance has "scheme to fund the Universal Service Commitment " that includes "including who should contribute and its governance and accountability structures".
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POPSIT and the economic downturn Taking this clip from the Economist of 15 January 2009 the report shows that for IT, the recession will have a fairly neutral impact. Could we even say that there are "green shoots"? We could say that the leading edge technologies that will emerge from this recession are led by a very different approach to IT delivery.
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POPSThe Tyranny of Context For me, this blog shed light encapsulating the difficulties undertaken when viewing technology use and trying to understand its use. well worth a read.
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