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The Skeptical Informer 2013 number 10: CLARIFICATION

skeptic — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:54:00 +0000

After the publication of the Skeptical Informer 2013 number 10 I received the following email:

Rob

The Skeptical Informer 2013 number 10: We're baaaack!

skeptic — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 07:32:16 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 10th August 2013.

The Skeptical Informer 2013 number 9: Happy Birthday to Me

skeptic — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:14:28 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 16th May 2013.

The Skeptical Informer 2013 number 8: China

skeptic — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:43:12 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 15th April 2013.

The Skeptical Informer 2013 number 7: DevOps, another 5% Club or the next iteration of ITIL?

skeptic — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:14:40 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 2nd April 2013.

The Skeptical Informer 2013 number 6: changing how we in ITSM consume content

skeptic — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:21:44 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 22nd March 2013.

The Skeptical Informer 2013 number 5: Community building and expectation management

skeptic — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:02:17 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 15th March 2013.

The Skeptical Informer 2013 number 4: Big Ideas and Pink13

skeptic — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:12:07 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 3rd March 2013.

The Skeptical Informer 2013 number 3: Books rock

skeptic — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:19:42 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 4th February 2013.

The Skeptical Informer 2013 number 2: Kim Dotcom and Intellectual Property

skeptic — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:34:47 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 21st January 2013.

The Skeptical Informer 2013 #1: DIY IT

skeptic — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:29:13 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 10th January 2013.

The Skeptical Informer #8: Merry Christmas and an invitation

skeptic — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:03:03 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 29th December 2012.

2012 #7 ITSM is discovery not invention, and ITIL documents it

skeptic — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:40:10 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 23rd December 2012.

2012 #6 The old rules hold

skeptic — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:19:08 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 5th December 2012.

Ouch. So much for doing a newsletter weekly. Sorry, busy right now. Which is a good thing as the bills get paid at last after a long drought.

This newsletter is triggered by a quote I paraphrased from my old mate and DevOps sparring partner John "Botchagalupe" Willis. He almost said "Relativity is great but Newtonian physics still matters".

2012 #5 A tool is not an objective

skeptic — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:29:14 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 17th November 2012.

Here are a couple of simple principles I wish the IT industry would grok:

1) It doesn't matter whether we are talking about software or ITIL, they are just tools. Any tool is not an objective ("ITIL for its own sake", "We are converting to Remedy") Tweet this

2) Processes (or I prefer to say "practices") are not a unit of work ("we'll do incident first then change"). Tweet this

2012 #4 technology doesn't solve anything

skeptic — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:10:37 +0000

The IT Skeptic's Skeptical Informer newsletter for 11th November 2012.

I've said it before but it can't be said often enough: technology doesn't solve anything. Any solution is a composite of people, practices and things. Tweet this

2012 #3 Don't confuse your personal digital experience with business

skeptic — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:00:26 +0000

Your personal experience of the worlds of technology toys, tech bling, and personal computing do not tell us about how the world of business will change in response to technology. Tweet this

2012 #2 - The Value of Intellectual Property

skeptic — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:20:32 +0000

Lat week I sent the first of the newly-revived IT Skeptic's newsletter The Skeptical Informer in a new format: a (roughly) weekly letter on one topic, either topical or mined from the IT skeptic's archives.

This week, I want to talk about the perceived value of intellectual property on the internet, or rather the lack of any perceived value.

2012 #1 - Sharing On The Internet

skeptic — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:37:38 +0000

After a hiatus of about a year, the IT Skeptic's newsletter The Skeptical Informer is back again in a new format: a (roughly) weekly letter on one topic, either topical or mined from the IT skeptic's archives.

The Skeptical Informer, April 2011, Volume 5, No. 2

skeptic — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:04:32 +0000