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Anti-Buzz

Anti Buzz Archives: Social Media

September 7, 2010

The following is an excerpt from the July 6 Antibuzz.  This fits very well with the previous article from Dr. Base and this from last week.
You need to be vigilant. Social media is less a soapbox than a place for you to respond to what people say about you – both positive and negative. Thank [...]

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The Anti-Buzz: Tech Support

August 31, 2010

The Buzz: Once you invest in a computer system, it should work forever. That’s why you paid so much money!
The Anti-Buzz: Like or not, your real investment should be in quality tech support.
Why: Like everything else you depend on, maintainence is required to keep it working properly.
I have already told you how we computer geeks [...]

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The Anti-Buzz: Computers Are (Not) Smarter Than Us

August 24, 2010

The Buzz: Computers are taking over the world! They are all smarter than us and we are doomed!
The Anti-Buzz: Computers are not smarter than us, and Skynet is not on the horizon.
Why: Just because a machine can do arithmetic in less than a nanosecond does not mean it is intelligent.
Practical advice might be at a [...]

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The AntiBuzz: Solid State Drives

August 17, 2010

The Buzz: Solid State Drives are great, the best thing since sliced bread, and we should all be using them.
The Anti-Buzz: Solid State Drives are great, the best thing since sliced bread, and we will all be using them in a few more years when they aren’t so expensive. Even right now they still have [...]

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The Anti-Buzz: User-friendliness

August 10, 2010

The Buzz: “User-friendly” means the machine or system will do everything for you, taking dictation if necessary, and prepare your taxes at the end of the year.

The Anti-Buzz: “User-friendly” means that the machine or system does not get in your way, and that common functions are intuitive to find.

Why: Unless you think your [...]

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The Anti-Buzz: Web Browser Malaise

August 3, 2010

The Buzz: Web Browsers are all the same. They are merely a decorative wreath of menus that surround my precious websites.

 The Anti-Buzz: Even though it might not always be a “big deal”, the inner workings of each browser can affect your experience.

Why: Web Browsers are more like an Operating System that crawls the Internet instead [...]

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The Anti-Buzz: Defragmenting

July 27, 2010

The Buzz: You don’t need to worry about defragmenting your hard drive.
The Anti-Buzz: You do need to worry about defragmenting your hard drive.
Why: Even a computer doesn’t like playing 52-card pick up every time you ask it to fetch something.
There are a few out there for whom this might be a sensitive subject. It’s sort [...]

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The anti-buzz: Mac part two

July 20, 2010

If you missed part one here it is:
The buzz: Macintosh is hip, nice-looking, and will make a better impression on my customers than Windows will. And this counts for something.
The anti-buzz: It does. And because of this I can recommend Macs for certain types of businesses – but I don’t feel a dental office is [...]

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The anti-buzz: Mac part one

July 13, 2010

This week I will tackle an onerous topic – the great operating system schism between Macintosh and Windows, with a dash of Linux/UNIX discussion for good taste. This is a hard thing to approach for a number of reasons, so let’s stay focused and remind everyone why I’m here and what I want to do [...]

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The anti-buzz: Social Media

July 6, 2010

The buzz: Social Media is useless.
The other buzz: Social Media is the key to mobilizing a gigantic army of customers with unquestioning loyalty to your business who will do your bidding forever and ever.
The anti-buzz: Social Media is word-of-mouth finally made concrete. You can participate in the conversation yourself, so long as you make the [...]

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The Anti-Buzz: Smarter not Faster

June 29, 2010

Hello and welcome to the Anti-Buzz!
The buzz: Computers are useless.
The anti-buzz: Computers are fantastic.
Why: Because I said so.
OK That’s a bit of a joke but it demonstrates the idea.  Every topic I discuss will be introduced as buzz vs. anti -buzz and the “why” gets expanded out into the meat of the column. Some weeks [...]

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