Video interlude: Me on The Agenda

by Mathew on February 11, 2008 · Comments

For anyone who’s interested, video of my appearance on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin is now up at the network’s website, or you can click and watch it below in a popup. As I mentioned in a previous post, I was on last Friday talking about the future of “cloud computing” with Nick Carr of Roughtype (who just came out with a book on the subject), as well as CBC tech commentator Jesse Hirsh and ComputerWorld Canada editor Shane Schick. We talked about some of the benefits and disadvantages, the security issues, whether the Macbook Air makes a good “cloud computer” and some other topics as well. It was a fun show, although Shane apparently didn’t think too much of Jesse’s views on the value of IT administrators.

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  • George
    I think Jesse talked more about "tyrannical" IT departments more than he said the word "cloud", and that's saying something. He needs to realize that IT doesn't block web apps like Facebook because they're on a power trip. For the most part they are simply enforcing usage, data security, and secrecy policies set forth by the people in the legal department who live in perpetual fear of the Submit button.
  • Amen to that. George.

    And by the way, Mathew, but I write for ComputerWorld Canada (an ITWorld Canada pub) Not IT Canada. Just an FYI.
  • Sorry about that, Shane. I'll fix that. For what it's worth, I
    thought you held your own with Jesse on that point pretty well.
  • much prefer "video interlude" to "ego alert" :)
  • Thanks, Eric :-)
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