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David Tebbutt reflects (mostly on cooperation, collaboration and communication).

Recent Blog Posts

If 'semantic web' annoys you, read on...
Say semantic web to a lot of people and the shutters on their brains come down. They may have lived through the disappointments of the AI or expert systems eras. Or they may simply know how impossibly tedious it would be to retrofit their...
David Tebbutt | 15th March '10

Are multi-touch surfaces heading your way?
In the days of black screens and green type, the arrival of colour was somewhat puzzling. If computers had got us so far without colour, who'd want it? Everyone, it seems. Then came windows, icons, mice and pointers. Again, we were all...
David Tebbutt | 6th March '10

KM that works
As if IT directors don't have enough on their plates, they're being sucked in to all sorts of new areas. Every enterprise is, or soon will be, an online publisher. Many will transition from a hierarchical mentality to a more collaborative...
David Tebbutt | 1st March '10

Eco-efficiency: a global online gathering (Jam)
Well, IBM's Global Eco-Efficiency Jam has been going for 15 hours now. It aims to avoid science, politics and beliefs and focus on pragmatism and practical actions individuals and organisations can take now and in the near future to...
David Tebbutt | 28th January '10

Is the eco-wind blowing your way?
It wasn't so long ago that all 'green' activity went under the heading of 'idealism'. Nothing wrong with that, but the so-called developed world is not big on that sort of thing. It doesn't put money in shareholders' pockets, satisfy...
David Tebbutt | 4th December '09

Time to stop taking water for granted
Every day in recent months, the water level in our local lake has been dropping. The ducks have less and less water to swim in and find their food. As the water recedes it exposes smelly black mud (for want of a better word), it's probably...
David Tebbutt | 19th November '09

Moving to a new app? Mind the data trap
If you're anything like me, you're always on the lookout for software that will improve your life in some way. It might help you communicate more effectively and more widely or simply get you through the work week more productively. You...
David Tebbutt | 19th November '09

Frighten the kids, or encourage the grown-ups?
Have you seen the Act On CO2 'bedtime stories' advertisement that our dear government has spent £6M on? Although it's a cartoon, the words are real enough. Fundamentally, it tells children that they're victims of grown-ups' actions and,...
David Tebbutt | 22nd October '09