December 2008

Who knows, who cares?

December 31, 2008 General

As I’m getting ready to close out this annis horribilis I read this beautfiully crafted piece from Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of The Guardian. It candidly chronicles the issues surrounding its botched reporting of Tesco’s tax avoidance schemes in the middle of 2008 and the difficulties the paper had in unraveling the story. While [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks 12/31/2008

December 31, 2008 Asides

Best of 2008: Most pointless press release – 30 Oct 2008 Slow news days – obviously tags: pointless, PR The Outsourcing Blog…”Horses for Sources”: Horses outsourcing predictions for 2009 Thinking about outsourcing? Then check out Phil’s predictions. Some will make a lot of sense to professionals. tags: outsourcing Executive Recruitment in the Recession in the [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks 12/29/2008

December 29, 2008 Asides

Social Abacus – Future of Measurement – 2009 Many perspectives on measurement of things happening on the Internet. As if 95% really care anyway. tags: measurement TakingNotesEpisode92.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) Podcast (22MB) – for the Lotus Notes fans out there. tags: lotusnotes Tax Research UK / Is economics a science? Economic slugfest. The problem with the [...]

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The politics of accounting and bank failure

December 29, 2008 General

Over the holiday period, the Washington Post put out a piece entitled: Accounting Standards Wilt Under Pressure. The nub of the piece is that political finagling put US banks in a bind on the ‘mark to market’ issue such that the SEC felt compelled to cave into the banks demands that they operate internal methods [...]

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Defining the new for 2009

December 28, 2008 Featured

Right now there is a fascinating, furious, facile and plain crazy discussion swirling around the interwebs on the issue of authority. How it started, how it has become amplified and where it is going are of lesser importance than the fact it is opening up a discussion I believe will be extremely important for professionals [...]

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2008: glad that one's (nearly) done

December 28, 2008 General

Ten days without a post. That’s the longest I’ve taken time out in the three plus years this blog’s been going. It’s given me time to reflect on 2008, the best and yet worst of years for many  people I know. Looking back, I found my 2008 wishlist, almost none of which came true though [...]

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Twitter Updates on 2008-12-21

December 21, 2008 Asides

My written french and spanish is crap/terrible/horrid: my real friends make lots of allowances. Thanks # My grasp of Andaluz is basic yet the peeps here are forgiving. Can you imagine the same in SV? # @rawn: Andalucia is a gentle part of Spain. Despite the macho stuff. in reply to rawn # @marilynpratt: I’m [...]

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Does the Force.com offer advantage?

December 18, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Dave Turner riffed on my piece about SageLive. In doing so, he makes a valid point that shows benefits for both customers and suppliers on the on-demand world: [We are] building CODA 2go on top of Salesforce’s Force.com platform rather than our own infrastructure. From our standpoint, using a proven, scalable platform has been a [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks 12/18/2008

December 18, 2008 Asides

SAP Network Blogs: Blag’s picks for 2008 If you want to read the best of the best from SAP then this is Blag’s selection. He’s a super smart guy BTW. tags: sap Revenue recognition tops list of financial statement chicanery – Financial Week Lots to consider as companies transition to IFRS then tags: chicanery, IFRS [...]

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