Dave Sabol

Adding and editing content via wikis growing in popularity at companies.
Just as employers are figuring out the role of blogs, their value and downside, along come wikis. Actually, wikis have been around for quite some time, but experts say it’s just now that mainstream employers are starting to tap into the power of such Web […]

U.S. media conglomerate Viacom Inc. Tuesday unveiled a licensing deal with Joost, a new Internet service that specializes in commercial video content. Key to the agreement was Joost’s promise it would protect Viacom’s copyrights, Viacom Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman said. This stumbling block led to the collapse of similar talks with YouTube parent Google […]

On my ride into work, I heard a story on NPR that really caught my attention. It was based on a new study that conducted by Carol S. Dweck from Stanford University that was published in Child Development that showed if you teach students that their intelligence can grow and increase, they do better in […]

Employers see big benefits from e-learning compared to more traditional training methods, according to research from e-skills UK. Eight in 10 employers said the biggest drivers for using technology to teach is the accessibility, flexibility and cost-effectiveness that high-tech courses offer. Currently these courses generally consist of training programmes offered to staff on their PCs […]

As I have been watching the preliminary ideas on the “blizzard”, “snow storm”, “system” that is supposed to effect the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic come in from a myriad (Accuweather, NWS, Weather Channel, etc.) I have noticed that there is a tremendous deviation on how each are interpreting the same raw data that is being provided […]

Wow, it looks like we could be in for quite a storm over the next few days. I suspected as much given the excitement late last week at Accuweather.com. Some how they just knew this was going to be the “big daddy storm” everyone in the mid-Atlantic was waiting for. Now, I guess all that […]

Since I have been bitten with the blogging bug, I have found that ideas for post don’t always come when I am conveniently located at a computer. Many ideas hit me during my 60-mile commute to work or on the return trip home. Ideas also seem to magically appear during some of the most regular […]

I’m not sure if it’s just me or not, but I can’t take a winter without snow. I guess from my perspective if we are going to be forced to deal with shorter days and the cold the snow might as well come along as a package deal. One of my hobbies (passions) is the […]

There is an obvious gap between when I last posted and now. I can rationalize why in two broad strokes. The first was travel time. I left Hong Kong on Monday, 26 January 2007 at 10:00 PM (local time) or Monday, 26 January 2007 at 9:00 AM (EST). I touched down at SFO (San Francisco […]