Information Manager Journal

Everybody Has a Share, Day One

Today marks the fourth anniversary of my first TypePad blog, and I'm commemorating it in a special way, by beginning to write and post an entire book on a blog. Everybody Has a Share: Myth, Madness and Momentum in the Digital Decade is a book about the historic impact of open source, open standards, security, and privacy on all of us. Join me there for the fun.

Dreaming in Code: Nighty-night, easy software

Software is hard. Sure, we can keep asking for it to improve, but always remember, software is hard. If it's doing something truly useful that is! Listen to Scott Rosenberg lay it all out in my latest Opening Move, where we discuss his new book, Dreaming in Code. And yes, Scott pays homage on page 335 to my very own Calendar Swamp.

How the 1960s shaped the personal computer

Coming on April 25: What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer, by John Markoff. Now of the New York Times, Markoff and I were in adjoining cubicles in 1981 at InfoWorld. We shared a single NorthStar computer with two monitors and a switch box, so only one of us could be using the NorthStar at a time. Markoff is the perfect writer for this book.