BusinessWeek magazine published an intriguing article in the June 2, 2008 issue. Beyond Blogs updates outlooks and predictions they made back in 2005 about blogs, social media, and other bleeding-edge web technologies. Stephen Baker and Heather Green, two BusinessWeek writers, compare and contrast the tech trends from 2005 to 2008. Three years have radically changed the way the main stream media and companies view the power of ...

A blog is not a forum. Both accept reader opinions, but forums require registration and blogs do not. ISTBuilding.com has two forums. Since last jumping my feed reader to comment, this website implemented Disqus-based comments enabling threading and registration. Personally, I think comment threading is counter-intuitive and unnecessary, but I don't really have any quibbles with implementing it here. Registration is a deal breaker. First, let's not be confused. The ...

When you do a Google search for "college of ist," the 5th and 6th results are from a personal blog titled "Daily Asshattery in the College of IST." Contrary to expectations, there actually isn't much content within this blog that ridicules the College, but the title of the site needless to say shines a negative light when it comes up right underneath the official College of IST website. I'm ...