Computer Weekly Editor's Blog

I saw this really interesting post on the Scobleizer blog today. What question would you ask Tim Berners Lee?

While reading the Sunday Times at the weekend, I stumbled upon a new buzzword - Moofers or mobile out of office workers.

A quick search on Google - turned up this blog post from Personnel Today's Work Clinic, which gives a thorough explanation of the term.

People who use technology to make hotel lobbys and coffee shops their mobile office. Of course this has all been enabled by the huge and fast development of free Wi-Fi networks.

And there's a guy at Microsoft that has a great blog all about Moofing.

I followed with interest the recent squabble between Facebook and Robert Scoble over who owned his data on Facebook and have read some really good posts on this issue, such as the pro privacy and consumer louis gray and a different take on the debate from Freedom to Tinker.

Wow... what a statement. Businesses need to start embracing virtual world technology as it's going to as popular as email in five years time, according to a report by Forrester.

I've just been hunting for a great green image, cos let's face it's one of the hottest topics going at the moment in enterprise IT. Anyway I found this image, which I really I like. Expect lots of Green IT coverage from ComputerWeekly.com this year - we already have a dedicated channel on Efficient IT a and will have more great Green content for businesses coming soon.

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Interesting post I just spotted about privacy and data. According to Shiny Shiny and a story on Computer Weekly the UK's Information Commissioner Richard Thomas is not happy with Facebook's policy to not delete someone's personal data when they decide to leave (and not want to come back to) the community.

For those of you that use feed readers and like to personalise the way the internet looks in a glance then the new Ginger Netvibes could offer something interesting.... its currently in beta. I'll take a look and let you know what I think.

But why call it ginger - is ginger suddenly cool??

Yesterday was a big day in politics. Yes Peter Hain finally resigned and yes Guido Fawkes got his man. So, maybe for the first time in British politics, a blogger can claim to have exposed an MP's failings and contributed to his downfall.

Guido Fawkes broke the news of Hain's resignation ahead of Sky News - which is impressive, but he also broke the donor scandal in the first place.

Why am I happy about this? Well I'm pleased that the real power of bloggers is being recognised - Guido was on Newsnight last night. But I'm also pleased because at ComputerWeekly.com we are placing a lot of emphasis on blogging.

Get the latest analysis - see Cliff Saran's blog - is it the end of Windows and JP Kamath's blog post on Microsoft buys Yahoo?.

What I love about these really hot stories is that a new name soon develops. In the case of Microsoft and Yahoo becoming part of the same family, the blogosphere has been going mad, and not surprisingly some genius concocted the unimaginative, but nevertheless logical "Microhoo".

Well whatever you may think about the story - it's not going away and the noise continues.

Well it says it all.

This image is attributed to Joe Manna, who also comments on the proposed takeover.

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This evening I have been trying to get a payment from an eBay sale through PayPal. Unfortunately for me, I have always been more of an eBay buyer than seller, keener to find a bargain, than I am to sell off my useless hoarded wares.

So having made a sale using PayPal I was confronted with the uncomfortable situation of not being able to remember two out of the three security criteria I had input when I signed up to its services. Hence I couldn't recieve the cash or find the buyer's address to send the goods to.

We have just moved house from London town to rural, sunny Norfolk. It's lovely and has all gone fairly smoothly, apart from my wife's running battle with BT's customer service team to get our broadband set up. Of course, the fact that BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen confirmed his departure last week has nothing to do with this event in the Garner household, although I can confess that my wife is a formidable woman and not one to be trifled with!

Here's how to find out whether or not you spend too much time on YouTube. Can you spot all the Interent meme references in Weezer's Pork and Beans video? If so, you definitely need rehab...

But Weezer weren't the first US nerd rock band to take on this concept. The Barenaked Ladies got there first. See over the jump for more...

What's ComputerWeekly.com really about, right now? This, according to word-cloud generating service Wordle's view of the text on our home page at 16:26 today:

I think Wordle word clouds could make fantastic quick and easy business cards for Web 2.0 types and bloggers. Whack your CV or your blog into Wordle, screengrab your Wordle cloud and pop that into Flickr (remembering to thank and link Wordle for their Creative Commons kindness, in a good online citizen kind of a way) and then use card-print service Moo. Business cards created and ordered in under an hour without leaving your desk! All you'll have to wait for is the post - it could put your local copy shop out of business!

Thanks for the heads-up on this service to both Ian Grant and fellow CW blogger, Ian White.