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About Dana Blankenhorn
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Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for nearly 25 years and has covered the online world professionally since 1985. He founded the Interactive Age Daily for CMP Media, and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age's "NetMarketing" supplement, and dozens of other publications over the years.
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Dana Blankenhorn
Dana Blankenhorn has been a journalist, writer and part-time futurist for over 30 years.
At the present moment I run only a personal blog in addition to my ZDNet open source blog.
DanaBlankenhorn.Com has the subtitle The War Against Oil. In the past I have used it to write about political history, e-commerce, personal matters, some ideas related to open source, and The World of Always On, which is the idea of using sensors, motes and RFID to turn WiFi links into platforms for applications which live in the air.
My IRA account at Schwab holds a few tech shares, most notably some Intel and Applied Materials, but there are no open source companies in it. I don’t even own any CBS stock.
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Dana Blankenhorn
Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for nearly 25 years and has covered the online world professionally since 1985. He founded the Interactive Age Daily for CMP Media, and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age's "NetMarketing" supplement, and dozens of other publications over the years.
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Microsoft, Wikileaks and the nobility of lies
David Gewirtz asks whether  the latest Wikileaks data dump could bring on World War III, because it shows (again) how what we say publicly isn't what we know privately. Savio Rodrigues thinks...
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OpenVizsla gets the support to go forward
OpenVizsla would leave proprietary systems of all kinds using USB, like the Apple iOS iPhone and the Microsoft Kinect, open to jailbreaks, unlocks and syncing apps of all kinds
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Symbian shutting web sites down
When I first joined this beat Symbian was the dominant mobile platform. Now the foundation that took the platform open source is shutting its virtual doors.
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Tandberg illustrates stupidity of software patent policy
The patent is still complete tripe, and should never have been filed
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Mistrust of motives hampers health IT
The key to protecting privacy is to eliminate the motive for violating it.
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What Apache Wave means and does not mean
Google is waving bye-bye, and the question is whether Apache can breathe life into it.
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Privacy fears slow health IT push
Until we settle on a unique identifier for all personal databases privacy is unachievable.
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Is Diaspora too late
Most of the attention is focused on the idea of aspects, sub-groups of friends that let you separate your boss from your mistress, or your wife from the guys you go to Vegas with.
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Reform attention turns to business models
We know what works. The only question is what will make it happen, the private sector or the political system.
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Open source vs. global warming
Once items are connected via sensors to IPv6 you have intelligence that can be used for finding your stuff, turning it on-and-off remotely, and for home security.
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Novell sale shows its control by Microsoft
Microsoft still has something to hide from the open source community, and something to hold over its head.
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Allscripts has not launched open source medicine
AllScripts did not introduce open source to health IT. It opened an app store.
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Microsoft to test limits of Kinect market
The Kinect interface is Version 1.0 of something that might evolve into something cool. It could well become more important than the XBox it was built to support.
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The real purpose of net neutrality
Net neutrality is only necessary because American carriers have a bottleneck on the last mile.
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Groklaw accused of censorship
Especially obnoxious is sandboxing, censoring the fact of censorship from the person being censored.
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IBM convinced clouds are the way to health
Collecting EMR data on your patients by hand, and turning a hard drive into your file room, is not the future.
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Android fail. The answer is a Google phone
Android might indeed become the Windows of the mobile world. But that does not make Google its Microsoft.
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Any sympathy for SIA Oracle complaint?
The service industry says Oracle is being mean to them. Any sympathy for these poor devils from the open source community?
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Third dimension of the open source incline is copyright
A programmer who assigns copyright to a corporate entity may be no better off than an unpaid employee for a proprietary project.
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Can HealthPoint model work in America
It's sort of an Amway model, only more systematized. The question is whether paranoia over privacy and the qualifications of the outreach staff would ever allow this to go forward in America.
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