Conflict of Interest: common sense or witch-hunt?
People in this business get quite worked up about the conflicts of interest faced by ‘influencers’; analysts, prominent bloggers, and the rest. That concern is understandable and reasonable. We do need to know when the advice, guidance and opinion we’re being given is influenced by external factors (both positive and negative). But the vehemence with which a very […]
Facebook entry leads to military raid being canceled
Someone needs to sit down and talk to folks about social networking, and things that people should just not do. The New York Times leads off with a note that an Israeli Defense Force raid was called off because of an entry on Facebook. There is going to be pain involved with the debrief. The […]
Another Discussion on Transparency
Over the weekend all hell broke loose when uber blogger Michael Arrington made some comments to Leo Laporte about the need for full disclosure (details here and video below). Firstly I have to say that I’m disgusted beyond words by the reaction from across the blogosphere to this incident – the fact that Arrington has […]
Six Months Reflection, and a Treatise on Transparency
If you’ve ever read our About pages, you probably know that Zoho is our exclusive sponsor. This is a rather unique arrangement, where all Zoho gets in return for its support is the ability to advance the cause of Cloud Computing while leaving all editorial decisions in our hands. When we launched half a year […]
