OMB on CIOs: Some context for the enterprise CTO
On 21 October, Mr. Clay Johnson of OMB signed out a memorandum for the heads of all executive departments and…
Update on Federal Cloud Computing
My last several briefings, including one yesterday at the FIAC, have addressed some of the dramatic changes underway in the…
Melissa Hathaway Op-Ed on Cyber Security
Below I'm going to post, in its entirety, the text of an e-mail I received from the ODNI notification service. …
The Technology Implications of the Obama Win
There are several megatrends sweeping the technology industry today. Some of them are about to be accelerated. I like to…
The Future of Cyberspace Security: The Law of The Rodeo
This is an update of my now annual assessment of the future of technology associated with good and evil in…
Proactive Data Governance and the Economic Crisis
Data Governance is entering a new stage. It’s no longer the obvious-to-a-few, confusing-to-many discipline that a few of us started…
2009: Challenge & Opportunity
The economic challenges of 2008 inspired some unique approaches for email use, including the dramatic increase in frequency and wide…
Insight and Serendipity
At a meeting in December, a friend recently handed out The Eureka Hunt, from the New Yorker magazine's issue of…
A Word of Thanks to Thanx Media
As I hope I’ve made abundantly clear in the past, this is not a corporate blog, and I try to…
Is Google destroying the planet?
In Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking Glass, the White Queen tells Alice that she’s “believed as many as six impossible…
