Dead blog walking!

Remember me? I'm posting all my usual drivel at Google+ now. I just don't have the mental bandwidth to keep this blog up to date as well.

Soon, the main page of richi.co.uk will redirect there, once I've worked out the kinks, but I hope to keep the old permalinks live.

So please join me on Google+ -- you don't need to sign up to read what I have to say.

Six days to IPv6 Day; I couldn't care less

  The Long View (Computerworld)

It's World IPv6 Day next week: Wednesday, so just six days to go. Is it important to enterprises? Perhaps, but not for the reason most people believe. We're told that addresses are running out fast, but that's not really true. Let's think about this, in The Long View...
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Is Email Dead? Or Just Pinin’ for the Fjords?

  (HP Input Output)

No, email’s neither dead, deceased, nor demised. But neither is it, as Monty Python’s Michael Palin would have said, homesick for the geographical features of its native Norway. You don’t need me to tell you that email is alive and well inside your organization. Beautiful plumage.

But some would say it’s too alive. In many organizations, email is used as a dumping ground for information that doesn’t belong there; email can also be used for certain collaborative tasks for which it’s simply not suited.

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Everything You Know about Spam Filters is Wrong

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Filtering spam email is all about looking in the content of the message, trying to find certain dodgy words or phrases, right? Well... no. Not so much. While that was certainly true in the email Dark Ages of ten years ago, today’s filters are completely different.

Spam filters need to sift through your incoming email stream and automatically decide which are spam and which are legitimate—or ham. It’s a tremendously difficult job to get right; to reach today’s levels of filter accuracy, anti-spam technologists over the years have invested huge amounts of financial and intellectual capital.

To decode the mysteries, read on...

Several Strategic Platform Challenges Ahead

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In my new blog, Mobility Matters, I want to concentrate on the crossover between mobile platforms and enterprise collaboration. MM will discuss how today’s mobile platforms can be employed for truly enterprise tasks, including supporting mobile sales forces, mobile customers, and improving commuters’ productivity. Whether it’s IT-provided or bring-your-own-device, you’ll find it here.

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JCPenney's Google spamming: Don't let it happen to you

  The Long View (Computerworld)

You may have seen the news over the weekend that the uber-retailer JCPenney was slapped on the wrist by Google. It would appear that the store's been boosting its position in search results, via some nefarious practices. Could this happen to your employer? Yes! How can IT people help protect their marketing department from making a similar mistake? Find out in The Long View...

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How should we pronounce "Nokia" anyway?

  The Long View (Computerworld)

So this morning, I made a crack about how Nokia CEO Stephen Elop doesn't even know how to correctly say his own company name. Seems like not everyone agrees with me. Let's have a pointless, Friday debate, in The Long View...

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