As I continue my journey through the terminology difficulties of modern IT management, one issue that keeps coming up (as recently as this week’s IQPC IT Governance conference, where I spoke) is the question:

Our favorite three-letter acronym has been adopted by Dave Sifry as the newest feature on his blog search site, giving it a little social media flavor by allowing people to write about current topics and others to vote on the best commentary.

Recently I was pointed to a new blog “Marriott on the move“, started by the CEO of Marriott Properties, Bill Marriott.

Just when you thought it was safe to write a check for stock investing, the options backdating scandal hits.

Google recently announced plans to open a brand new server facility in North Carolina, a move expected to inject new life into the local and regional economy. The company’s negotiating tactics, however, are now coming under scrutiny as state documents from the proceedings are now becoming available.

Finally Microsoft gets to snicker at Google a little. Both companies planned Sydney flyovers for Australia Day to snag aerial snapshots of Australians doing Australian things. But due to a miscommunication between Google and Sydney air traffic controllers, the search company ended up a bit late to the prom.

Penguin Books and De Montfort University have launched an intriguing new project that they’ve described as “an experiment in creative writing and community.” The experiment’s objective: for a large group of volunteer writers to create a single, preferably coherent novel. Oh, and the title of the “wikinovel” will be A Million Penguins.

SuperPages.com wants local business reviewers and is willing to pay any amount of vanity for them. The online directory unveiled its “Reviewer of the Week” program, an effort to meld local search and social networks.

Imagine buying a car before you have had driving lessons of any kind, and then sitting behind the wheel trying to figure out how to get you and the car back home.

You would likely fail. Not only that, but you would most likely have an accident by either running into another car, or into a wall or something. That’s not how to learn to drive.

Someone I met on the Internet went M.I.A. He recently turned up again, to explain he had been in a serious accident in which he suffered a life threatening injury.

Microsoft has announced that extended support for Windows XP Home will be extended five extra years, reaching all the way to April 2014.

MyBlogLog has been taking the blogosphere by storm the past few months, even before the acquisition by Yahoo.

TechCrunch maven Michael Arrington and former Netscape head Jason Calacanis will team up to run the TechCrunch20 Conference, where tech startups will be highlighted based on merit instead of fees. Their choice of venue to announce the new show just happened to be the first day of DEMO, a conference that highlights startups and charges a hefty fee for them to attend.

If you want to make your website validate the WAI or Section 508 accessibility guidelines, you have to separate adjacent links with more than white space.

I submitted an article written in 2005 to Netscape (for those of your outside of the social media world, Netscape a runs “submit and vote on news site” like Digg).

Like many of you, I suspect, I found Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software (you may need to register) in the New York Times interesting.

I had this post in my drafts for over 10 days now.

This article explains how an enterprise can leverage increased value generation, thereby aiding competitive advantage, by adoption of the `Enterprise Value Generation Service Orientated Architecture Platform’ (SOAP).

I heard a great radio ad about radio advertising, which included the following:

Steeprock Media, an audio production company focusing on broadcast recording and interactive media has launched Orpheus, a Web-based music library. The purpose of the library is to allow media producers to create customized music that will fit the specific needs of their projects.

When you look at the most popular launching points for Internet uses, Yahoo ranks right at the top of the list. As an informational portal, the site has carved out a niche that puts it second only to MySpace in terms of how much time users spend perusing Yahoo’s various offerings.

Though currently only seven percent of Internet users tag content on a daily basis, tagging is expected to grow because of its sheer utility – maybe even at the expense of the now quite old-world categorizing ways of the Dewey Decimal System. Internet search as we currently know it is also expected to change as a result of people-powered indexing.

Much criticism has been heaped upon Yahoo as the company continues to lag far behind Google in terms of search market share. Those critics, however, might be surprised to find out that Yahoo users actually spend more time on site than those who frequent Google’s online offerings.

Six Internet companies have banded together in an effort to raise their profiles and have created their own Super Bowl ads, which they have uploaded to YouTube. Lacking the kind of budget it would take to air an ad during the game the half dozen decided to take a gamble and attempt to create a viral video campaign.