Our title is itself a book's and the first sentence, see that after the comma, is in its front flap by journalist Scott Rosenberg. Let's take some more words from it and share here. Blogging brought the Web's native character into focus---convivial, expressive, democratic. Bloggers have become the curators of our collective experience, testing out their ideas in front of a crowd and linking people in ways that broadcasts can't match. Blogs have created a new kind of public sphere--one in which we can think out loud together. The preceding paragraph is all in the book flap, front and back. It is the simplest answer if somebody is asking what a blog is, then and now. Although we see that as the magnanimous purpose of a blog which is really enticing and challenging. It adds choices and rooms for both sources and audiences without the regular prescriptive cadence. What's common is the responsibility. Whether or not we do it via blog, print and online news, and whoever
The earlier pronouncements about the top 3 layers of the OSI model, L8-10 of the (bold texts are added here) made sense in our world nowadays. They constitute the real requirements where a computing practitioner must perform its job a little better to achieve stability and sustainability in business-enabling and related technological facilities.
Layer 8 - The individual person—Technical (but fundamental)
Layer 9 – The organization—Administrative
Layer 10 – The government and international standards including management systems—Conformance or compliance
Without these, we never have been able to distinguished a job, that is final from the all on-going related tasks and non-stopping events concerning business-IT programs and projects. Much so for an IT operations that can be made upright until it fails, that's not having the regular maintenance it requires. Without the technical individual here, there is not much, even all the layers combined, can do for a business-computing systems that can be considered strategic, effective and efficient.
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