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James Colgan of Xuropa sent me a piece by Michael Arrington at Tech Crunch regarding media bias and whether it is important for journalists to make overt effort to show where there bias lies.  Arrington submits that it is a requirement for all journalists to state clearly where they stand on issues and individuals in their reporting, while a journalist he was taking about claims his training keeps him objective... and he needs to keep his opinions secret. As one of those trained journalists I have to say... I side with Arrington on this one. Journalists are trained to approach what they are reporting on with as much objectivity as the possibly can muster.  I know some journalists that have never registered to vote in an effort to remain objective.  But my training clearly states that when we do have a bias, we are required to disclose that bias publicly.  Fox News, for all the crap that gets thrown at it, never makes an apology for it's right of center posi...

At the Design Automation Conference a couple of weeks ago, one of the big topics of discussion was the use of "Cloud Computing" and one the up-and-coming player in that field is Xuropa.  I did one of my live video interviews with James Colgan, Xuropa's founder an CEO, regarding how that is affecting the bottom line for the industry.  The real kicker came at the end of the interview where James talked about the hard evidence of benefit for the concept... and that got truncated when the bandwidth gods shut down the broadcast.  So here's what I got and after you watch it, I'll tell you tomorrow what the bottom line was. Watch video live on Vpype Live Broadcaster

I tweeted an innocuous statement this week about how I didn't believe in PowerPoint® and got some interesting comments and discussions about it.   Dan Holden said it would make a good blog post... An I think he was right. I've always hated this application and snort loudly when it's called a productivity tool because it is anything but.  I'm not alone in this belief.   The Department of Defense has had a very strict limit on presentations because it started eating up server and man-power bandwidth 10 years ago.  And things haven't gotten any better. Yesterday I was part of the 2025 Virtual Conference, speaking on the future of media.  The day before they asked for my presentation and I said I didn't have one and would not be using it.  Took them a few seconds to process that information.  "Really?  No presentation?"  Our panel closed the first day, went off without a hitch and was quite animated.  I checked in on a couple other session...