Metacrap: When the sheet hits the fantasy

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Cory Doctorow is God. Well, by rights he should be given his insightful ’seven straw-men of the meta-utopia’ tenet.
By rights also, Doctorow should be up there with flaky luminaries like Tim Berners-Lee or the raft of other Social Media ‘Experts’ and ‘Cloud Consultant’ brigade of poseurs.
Despite the over-arching desire of organisations to mould, to [...]

Microsoft Drifts Into Cloud Cuckoo-Land

October 06 0 Comments Category: Uncategorized

   With Gates gone and the magic touch of Peter Pan a distant memory, burly Steve Ballmer cuts an awkward figure stumbling from one crisis to the next. Still smarting from the Vista debacle of 2007, the single most embarassing tech non-event since Charles Babbage tripped over his analytical engine or Edison dropped his first [...]