Analysis Staff Turnover Could Be IT's Biggest Issue for 2012 How long have you held your current position? If you answered less than two years, you are not alone. It seems that turnover could be IT's biggest challenge in the new year: keeping talented developers. Network World's Carolyn Marsan writes this week about the topic and it is well worth reading her story. This isn't a completely new problem. In… Enterprise David Strom View comments
2011 in Review > Best of 2011 Top 10 ReadWriteWeb Quotes of 2011 An intern once asked me, what's the difference between a "journalist" of my day and a "blogger" of his? I laughed and told him my day ain't over yet. Then I followed up by saying that journalism is something I do on a blog, and there are many other things one can do on a blog, only a few of which I'll allow. The thing journalists still do… Scott M. Fulton View comments
2011 Redux If HTML5 Kills the Blog Format, I Won't Shed a Tear At the end of this discourse, to borrow a phrase from my hero, Edward R. Murrow, a few people may accuse this reporter of fouling his own comfortable nest. But if you've seen this nest recently, you know that if it was fouled to any considerable degree, it might not look all that different anyway. At one of Microsoft's sessions on HTML5 and… Scott M. Fulton View comments
Hack of the Day Create an HTML5 Game, Win $30k and a Trip to GDC/SF We bring in the new year with a new Pokki developer contest. Like the one we mentioned in October, you have a chance to win 30 large. But this one has an extra bonus with an all-expenses paid trip to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next spring. All you have to do is build a new game in HTML5 and other Web technologies (but not using… Hack David Strom View comments
2011 Redux What Technology Wants: Kevin Kelly's Theory of Evolution for Technology Over the past week I read Kevin Kelly's latest book, What Technology Wants. It's a highly ambitious and expansive book, which looks at technology from an evolutionary perspective. Over 350 pages, Kelly outlines and explores technology as a living system, akin to humanity's biological evolution. The title alludes to this - 'What Technology Wants… Richard MacManus View comments