"Social isn't a product, social is people and the people are on Facebook"

Former staffer and BFF Guillaume Runser recently sent me a link to James Whittaker's "Why I left Google" post. I get enough email spam from well intentioned friends and family to make a Nigerian envious and usually ignore most of it (sorry Mum!), but GR's a smart dude with a stream-crossing mentality so I thought I'd risk the nano seconds required to scan the link and am glad that I did.

You'll need to push through the opening sentence (unless you're Lady Gaga's teacup, opening with "Everyone wants to know why I left" strikes me as playing fast and loose with the definition of everyone). The wince is worth the reward as James offers up three thought provoking ideas:

Time to reboot last century's IT management model?

I recently wrote a blog post about the need for IT to change its ways before it becomes irrelevant to the business and was looking for a stock image to accompany it. Nothing really grabbed me - either too cheesy or too abstract.

So I made one...

"Oh no! Another 2.0!"

I happened upon this presentation from the Economist Group on the future of media consumption and sharing (aka Leanback 2.0) while tooling around Slideshare.

While I couldn't help but wince at the fatigue inducing, PR driven "2-dot-oh" suffix, the content itself was not only deeply interesting but beautifully produced with a reserved sophistication in keeping with The Economist brand.

Worth looking at if only to appreciate the well executed design aesthetic.

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Welcome and apologies, we've run out of dip...

Welcome dearest reader. 

It's not like I'm unhappy with the other outlets for my ramblings - the Twitter, the Lithium and the Facebook are all fine enough things - however I felt that none of them offer the type of fine grained control and more importantly ability to provide curated content that I expect from the great blogs and websites that I frequent.

It's obviously something of a shambles right now, so at the risk of putting up a corner "under construction" animated GIF, please check back regularly as I weave together the threads of my IT management travels and travails.

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