Jaron Lanier and the creeping entropy of our connected world

By Rick White on September 18, 2011
This entry is filed under Android, Digital World.

Jaron Lanier’s book You Are Not A Gadget is worth the read.  He calls it a manifesto and as such it is unattainable, but it forces the reader to consider the sinister implications of how the internet’s information is monetized (even as we cherish the illusion that most of the information on the internet is “free”).

I think this book can help non-technologists understand the accumulating perils of lock-in, the creeping entropy of our connected world.

Wow, that sounds dark!  But like Lanier, I am enamored, enthralled by, or in thrall to–pick your poison–technology and the smart dissemination of information.  Lanier is funny and entertaining too.  When he is interviewed on TV, the co-panel smiles nervously as he talks.  They have not read his book.

Speaking of lock-in, I really need to go back to thinking about Eclipse and the Google version of Oracle’s java…

Jaron Lanier in the Microsoft Lab

By Rick White on July 9, 2011
This entry is filed under Digital World.

Really interesting article in The New Yorker (July 11 & 18, 2011) on the fascinating and complex Jaron Lanier.  With people like this guy in the lab at Microsoft, reports of that company’s growing irrelevance may be premature.   He was one of the luminaries behind Kinect.

Documents Are Dangerous

By Rick White on April 22, 2011
This entry is filed under Auditing, Business Process, Development, Document Handling, Security, Workflow.

Information risk officers all over the corporate landscape woke up one morning recently and realized the document is at large, it has escaped, and it is not secure

A random thought on MVC

By Rick White on March 28, 2011
This entry is filed under asp.net, Development, mvc, razor, View Engine.

MVC is for lovers of http

Welcome to the Softwhite technology blog!

By Rick White on March 18, 2011
This entry is filed under General.

Our contributors will post their thoughts perdiodically on all things technologic, particularly as applicable in the finnancial space.  We are interested in more than platforms and design patterns (though those areas will certainly not be off limits).  We will delve into conceptual matters such as work flow; technology frameworks that work for and address the work flow; security; compliance; solving supply chain issues; and much more.