Author Archives: David Collin

Uh-oh! Is that a pink slip in the inbox?

This isn’t exactly new news, but it does suggest that blogging can be hazardous to your job security. What do a flight attendant in Texas, a FedEx Kinko’s employee in Washington and a web designer in Utah have in common? They were all fired for posting content on their blogs that their companies disapproved of. The rise of blogging over ...

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There goes the EHR program

From the NYTimes: From the president on down, the Bush administration has been a proponent of modernizing the nation’s creaky health care system with information technology. But while the administration’s words of support for a high-technology future for health care have been plentiful, the dollars, it seems, are scarce. The huge federal spending bill recently approved by Congress eliminated a ...

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Yikes! It's the 900 lb gorilla!

Software giant Microsoft is now ready to take the plunge into the world of blogging by launching a test service to allow people to publish blogs, or online journals, called MSN Spaces….…MSN Spaces is free to anyone with a Hotmail or MSN Messenger account and people will be able to choose a layout for the page, upload images and share ...

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Wired up or Wi-Fied up?

I saw this article and some people came to mind–Adam Pellegrini specifically–and others at FICenter. Even me to a lesser extent. Mary Hodder owns two printers, but hasn’t used either one in more than a year. To tell the truth, she can’t remember the last time she printed something. Instead, Hodder, a 37-year-old internet consultant, spends almost her entire life ...

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