Comments on: Best Defense: History or Technology? http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/04/02/history_or_technology/ because technology is just another ecosystem Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:19:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tecosystems » Apache’s Open Letter to Sun: Of Trees and Forests http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/04/02/history_or_technology/comment-page-1/#comment-57852 tecosystems » Apache’s Open Letter to Sun: Of Trees and Forests Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:50:27 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/04/02/history_or_technology/#comment-57852 [...] and so on, but for all of that it’s just one incident. Much as I’d like to be judged on my body of work rather than a single post, I’ll judge Sun’s openness - or lack thereof - on their [...] [...] and so on, but for all of that it’s just one incident. Much as I’d like to be judged on my body of work rather than a single post, I’ll judge Sun’s openness – or lack thereof – on their [...]

]]> By: History or technology: Which is the better defense of identity? Both. « Jon Udell http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/04/02/history_or_technology/comment-page-1/#comment-51486 History or technology: Which is the better defense of identity? Both. « Jon Udell Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:44:58 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/04/02/history_or_technology/#comment-51486 [...] Stephen O’Grady asks whether history (i.e., a person’s observable online track record) or technology (i.e., strong [...] [...] Stephen O’Grady asks whether history (i.e., a person’s observable online track record) or technology (i.e., strong [...]

]]> By: Jon Udell http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/04/02/history_or_technology/comment-page-1/#comment-50509 Jon Udell Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:03:41 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/04/02/history_or_technology/#comment-50509 "Call me naive, but I’d like to think that my track record here counts for something." It counts for a lot, and I rely on mine in just the same way for the same reasons. But: counts /for whom/? Will the millions who were first introduced to Kathy Sierra and Chris Locke on CNN yesterday explore their track records and reach their own conclusions? More to the point, what about Alan Herrell's track record? I would be inclined to explore it but I can't, now, without digging it out of the Google cache. The best defense is a strong track record /and/ an online identity that's as securely yours as is feasible. “Call me naive, but I’d like to think that my track record here counts for something.”

It counts for a lot, and I rely on mine in just the same way for the same reasons. But: counts /for whom/? Will the millions who were first introduced to Kathy Sierra and Chris Locke on CNN yesterday explore their track records and reach their own conclusions?

More to the point, what about Alan Herrell’s track record? I would be inclined to explore it but I can’t, now, without digging it out of the Google cache.

The best defense is a strong track record /and/ an online identity that’s as securely yours as is feasible.

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