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CIO and Chief Content Officer at IT World Canada (ITWC) 40 years in technology. Author. Musician.
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While this has been a very interesting experiment and experience, I've come to two conclusions. One, our company doesn't have the cycles to devote to this. And second, this has not attracted the audience or community that I'd hoped. So I'm going to be shutting down the server for at least a few months while we regroup. Thanks to everyone who joined.

A great interview with Interac's current president and CEO Mark O'Connell on my weekly interview podcast.

https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/mark-oconnell-president-and-ceo-of-interac-is-our-guest-on-hashtag-trending-the-weekend-edition/545024

Mark O’Connell, president and CEO of Interac is our guest on Hashtag Trending, the Weekend Edition | IT World Canada News

Mark O’Connell is the outgoing president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Interac. As he prepares to turn over the reins to his successor, I spoke to him for my Leadership In The Digital Enterprise podcast. He offered some great insights and reflections on Interac as an organization, as well as his unique leadership style.

IT World Canada - Information Technology news on products, services and issues for CIOs, IT managers and network admins

Maybe technology can bring us closer together. These two young entrepreneurs have made that their mission.

https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/weekend-edition-features-colin-rees-and-daniel-rizzi-co-founders-of-we-watch/543859

Weekend Edition features Colin Rees and Daniel Rizzi, co-founders of We-Watch | IT World Canada News

We used to have a sign in our window. I remember it from when I was a teenager. As I was writing this, I was trying to bring the image to mind and a lot of memories ran through my mind. Originally, I grew up in some pretty tough neighbourhoods. In one, a train track

IT World Canada - Information Technology news on products, services and issues for CIOs, IT managers and network admins

Testing the #academia outreach here on Mastodon. Please boost if you think you know others who might know.

I'm looking for some good light undergraduate-level books/articles in English about Taiwan under the Japanese and during the White Terror. History, culture, I would even love recommendations of short fiction if you have any.

Thanks

#Taiwan #Colonialism #WhiteTerror #JapaneseColonialism #History #CulturalStudies #Literature

I’m in the news for joining the wga/sag strike lol
MUSK FLIPS BIRD Musk says he will replace Twitter bird logo today and Twitter brand in the future. Gift version of our story: https://wapo.st/3OrYmXA Link fixed
Twitter begins rebrand to ‘X,’ removing bird from company logo

Early Monday, the logo on Twitter’s own account on the site had been replaced by a black and white “X.”

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Preview of tomorrow's Hashtag Trending, my daily podcast where I ask what strategy on earth would cause a company to abandon an iconic and totally well known logo and identity and then rebrand to something absolutely unknown and frankly - boring? The truth is out there. Ooops. That's the X-files.

Red Hat vs the open source community is the the subject of my Weekend Edition interview show with my guest Greg Kurtzer from Rocky Linux and a second bonus interview with benny Vasquez from the AlmaLinux OS Foundation.
#RHEL #RedHat #RockyLinux #AlmaLinux #HashtagTrending

https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/red-hat-enterprise-linux-and-the-open-source-community-in-conflict-my-interview-with-greg-kurtzner-founder-of-rocky-linux-and-a-special-bonus-interview-see-below/543265

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the open source community in conflict. My interview with Greg Kurtzner, founder of Rocky Linux (and a special bonus interview – see below) | IT World Canada News

The announcement that Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code would only be available through Red Hat's customer portal might not seem like news. But the explosion that it caused reverberated through the open source community in the past week. I've covered this on a couple of our daily news podcasts on Hashtag Trending and on

IT World Canada - Information Technology news on products, services and issues for CIOs, IT managers and network admins
Yup. Someone tried to create a South Park episode and it worked. Forget copyright and all that - are you comfortable with a superior intelligence learning from South Park? Are you, Kenny? There is a more serious side to this story in light of the writer and performer strikes and the whole idea of how to enforce copyright in an age of AI. This and other stories from my daily news podcast. #ai #chatgtp #openai #youtube #priceincrease #mercedesbenz #southpark #kenny #itworldca #technewsday

Some days the news just makes you say, "what?"

This was one of those days. Some serious stuff, but some of it was silly or just made me shake my head.

https://youtu.be/r87rzCd6eRQ

IT spending set to grow - Gartner. This and more tech news for July 20, 2023

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