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I tweeted this week a point which I thought was important:

There’s a threat to cloud computing in the form of value add thick client service management (horizontal integration) eg ID management

Ben, and Mike responded, but I couldn’t seem to get my point across and trying to explain a view on the future of IT in [...]

I have had an opportunity recently to be exposed to people I haven’t, in the course of things, had to deal with in quite some time. In truth it has taken me back to my therapy days and the long hours of discourse covering irrelevant events in a long distant past.

These people have [...]

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This particular post has turned into a bit of a novel and as a result I am going to split it up into bite sized chunks - here is part I.

I‘ve had a number of troubling interactions recently at work related functions around online marketing. These involve conversations between me and senior marketing types [...]

Pellacor has descended into what I described to someone recently as Sam’s personal playpen on the internet; but as outlets for creative activities and self-absorbed drivel go, I think it serves its purpose well. I am yet to hammer the voice into a cohesive and congruent whole but it is still early days and, [...]

The first iteration of A blog post developed using Agile Methodology has been rolled out, and here it is, sure it might not look like much now, but the core functionality agreed is included and the team believe we can deliver a useful and informative piece of software/writing.

Initially the team is made up [...]

I have reached the conclusion that pellacor is not the best release valve for my thoughts about the future of the media industry, and particularly not in the form of presrciptive opinions below. I realise that the you guys are fucking shit up attitude helps no one and I intend on working slowly and [...]

For those that don’t know me personally: I manage the New Media Business at the New Zealand Press Association, and about half my job is business development, the other half is online news strategy and project management.

But news for me isn’t just my job, it’s my passion, it’s my love that stretches from [...]

It is a big mistake to lump all social media together as if it were a single entity, or in fact even remotely similar, like network television, or metropolitan newspapers.

The fact is that social media is as diverse as the people you have walked past this morning on your way to the office; [...]

The newspaper industry underwent a period of massive consolidation during the latter part of the 20th Century. This was a result of new digital technologies that predated the rise of the internet but facilitated the sharing of articles from a single newsroom across different newspaper titles within a single company. This meant newspaper [...]