tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274Mon, 02 Sep 2024 05:59:58 +0000backchanneldave evansgiovanni galluccijason fellmansteve guengerichtom parishtwemetwitterynema mangumYnema Mangumhttp://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Y)Blogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-4777095896948376075Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:14:00 +00002009-03-25T09:15:32.385-05:00I don't know why people keep pointing to this blog in my bio, but I don't post here anymore. I have a blog at Sun called People in the Cloud at http://blogs.sun.com/humancloud/.That's where you should go to find more up-to-date info about what I've been doing...Thanks!~YYnema Mangumhttp://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2009/03/fixing-ia09-incorrect-blog-link.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-3601668417126816849Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:23:00 +00002008-11-14T11:27:19.101-06:00The short story:They met in an online chat room.They were married in an elaborate ceremony on Second Life.She caught him having an affair with another woman in Second Life. Yeah. He was having an affair with an avatar.Now, they are getting a divorce.Our world continues to amaze me.http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/11/second-life-affair-ends-in-divorce.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-633413394196919531Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:43:00 +00002008-10-28T08:51:08.186-05:00Just read an interesting post by Paul Murphy on ZDNet. He said a lot of interesting things about Sun and gave some good advice to our company. I like this in particular: Basically: the strategy would be to charge a premium price for a premium product and differentiate on operational stability. Build on the Fujitsu relationship, stay the course with the big data center customers, but focus a http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/10/just-read-interesting-post-by-paul.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-8343360993061757288Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:40:00 +00002008-10-24T09:45:02.349-05:00On CNN 10/24/08: TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday. <!--startclickprintexclude-->http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/10/virtual-world-murder-leads-to-arrest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-5359149566688168228Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:10:00 +00002008-10-23T09:17:03.131-05:00I've been writing another blog, so the one you're reading has become more personal to me.The new blog is work-related and can be found at http://blogs.sun.com/humancloud/. It's about the confluence of people and cloud computing.Check it out and subscribe to the feed.http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/10/ive-been-writing-another-blog-so-one.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-8706437391855848686Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:11:00 +00002008-10-10T15:17:35.863-05:00Twitter has moved into politics, adding a constantly updated, filtered feed of political tweets. These are based upon a few hot election topic tags, which they seem to change often.Now, if only Twitter would automatically update the feed I watch. I don't like to constantly refresh my Twitter UI to see who I'm following and what they're tweeting.Go Twitter. Can't wait to see what you'll do nexthttp://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/10/twitter-moves-into-politics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-3282419759484737935Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:10:00 +00002008-10-09T10:49:13.045-05:00I have spondylolisthesis. This is the forward movement of one vertebrae over another. In my case, it's the lumbar region and effects L4, L5, and S1.Lots of people have this and never know. It usually starts in childhood, and especially in athletes who participate in sports like gymnastics.I was never a gymnast. My back problems started when this guy, who was already on probation and shouldn'thttp://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/10/spondylolisthesis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-2506190982218846256Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:51:00 +00002008-09-26T17:40:25.249-05:00We tailgated at the Texas game last weekend. Sam and I wandered around the sponsor booths and were excited to see the Dell / Intel Extreme Gaming Tour. I have to admit I'm a big fan of AMD technology, especially when it comes to gaming. But, I was very willing to look at what Intel had to offer.Our family loves gaming. In fact, if you play Halo 3 online, you'll find us at BelowZero34, YAMY34,http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/09/dell-and-intel-extreme-gaming-tour.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-1521350603194909585Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:53:00 +00002008-09-17T21:13:45.060-05:00I sat beside a very nice man on the plane down from Boston last week. He was good-looking, smart, and an avid fan of JC and God through the influence of the Church of Christ.We had an interesting and stimulating conversation, where we mostly disagreed about a number of subjects. He insisted the Bible was the whole and final word of Christ. I claimed that I must love God more than he does http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/09/brad-pitt-donates-100k-to-support-gay.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-8169779755114048258Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:03:00 +00002008-09-09T14:55:43.999-05:00I just skimmed through an intriguing article on why some people survive disasters against all odds versus others who perish. It was written by John Blake for CNN. Give it a read.The common traits of these survivors, according to Laurence Gonzales (who has studied this question at length), are:Refusal to be a victim. Survivors are not whiners. They don't complain about the bad things that are http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/09/rambo-types-are-first-to-go.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-7956524702665453461Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:10:00 +00002008-09-08T16:22:17.337-05:00CNN: Palin accepts nomination and gives it back to DemsWashington Post: Palin's coming out partyBBC: Palin takes battle to democratsNPR: Palin strikes back at criticsUSA Today: Palin introduces herself, jabs criticsYahoo: Palin hits a grand slamI vote differently at the state level than I do at the national level. On the national stage, I watch for candidates who will lower my taxes and provide http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/09/links-for-september-4-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-5953678406725393020Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:50:00 +00002008-09-04T08:45:57.638-05:00Hey. I contributed to a book...2 years ago. It was just published.PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiencesby Deirdre BreakenridgePublished by FT Press, 2008ISBN 0321510070, 9780321510075304 pagesHere's a summary:"PR 2.0 is a combination of social media tools that are available to communications professionals for both large and small brands to use to reach influencers and consumer audiences http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/08/hey.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-1212930999306077350Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:37:00 +00002008-08-04T10:48:44.527-05:00I think Tina missed me. She climbed into the backpack at my feet this morning and started purring. Now, she's asleep.http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/08/tina-louise-in-backpack.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-4484277014998726549Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:02:00 +00002008-08-01T15:36:22.719-05:00Check out some amazing video of a rare solar eclipse in Siberia from ireport.com.I am not responsible for any sort of blindness or other eye degradation caused by this video.http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/08/check-out-some-amazing-video-of-rare.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-8353185988555556826Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:27:00 +00002008-06-20T12:16:11.879-05:00backchanneldave evansgiovanni galluccijason fellmansteve guengerichtom parishtwemetwitterynema mangumI had a much better time today at Interactive Austin 2008 (AI08) than at SxSWi 2008. I believe this can be directly attributed to the level of maturity of the audience at this conference. SxSWi 2008 seemed a mish-mash audience of vastly different age ranges and levels of experience in Web 2.0 technologies and social media. It was difficult there, as a panelist, to develop a message that would http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/06/interactive-austin-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-205026087602326274.post-2393866326868291035Wed, 14 May 2008 16:15:00 +00002008-09-04T08:46:29.969-05:00I've been lucky enough to interview lots of great people like Sharon Taylor (chief architect of ITIL v3), Tom Bishop (CTO of BMC), whurley (chief open source architect at BMC), J.P. Garbani (vice president of Forrester Research), etc. Here are links to some podcasts I've produced and/or hosted in the past.MOST POPULAR:Tom Bishop - In the Mind of a CTO 2006-11-20 14:04Mark Stouse - BMC at the http://ynemamangum.blogspot.com/2008/05/listen-to-my-podcasts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Y)4