John Willis's Blog

Welcome to Gloversville

botchagalupe — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:31:54 GMT

I became a huge Malcolm Gladwell fan after I finished the first page of the Tipping Point. I have read Blink

and I usually listen to it over and over again on long automobile trips

with my audio copy. Now with the advent of pod-casting I have become a

junkie for anything Gladwell. In fact I would pay good money to hear

him recite the Yellow Pages or Yellow Book.

Recently, I used one of my audible.com credits to download a pod cast of Malcolm Gladwell with Robert Krulwich at the 92nd Street Y. As always he was brilliant. However, in this clip he talked about a town up near Albany NY called Gloversville.

At the beginning of the 20th century Gloversville was the epicenter of you guessed it "gloves". As Gladwell describes, if you were to visit Gloversville in the early 20th century you probably would have found the place quite boring. However, if you really cared about gloves this was the place to be. Here is a quote from one of Gladwell’s writings about Gloversville.

It's hard to imagine anyone caring so deeply about gloves, and had we visited Gloversville in its prime most of us would have found it a narrow and provincial place. But if you truly know gloves and think about them and dream about them and, more important, if you are surrounded every day by a community of people who know and think and dream about gloves, a glove becomes more than a glove.

Does this sound familiar?

BarcampESM - Every Picture Tells a Story

botchagalupe — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:38:05 GMT

http://www.johnmwillis.com/wp/barcamp/barcampesm-photos/

BarcampESM Will Rock!

botchagalupe — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:15:27 GMT

whurley nailed the venue, its going to be at J Blacks on 6th St. The game plan is to have a party Friday night at J Blacks starting at 6pm and then the camp will run all day Saturday. I am looking forward to meeting everyone.

John Willis

BarcampESM - Cloud Computing an ESM

botchagalupe — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:27:22 GMT

I have added another suggested session for Barcamp ESM in Austin on 1/18/08.

Cloud Computing - Where does ESM fit in?

(John Willis, Johnmwillis.com)

+How is cloud computing going to affect ESM? What should ESM vendors

be doing today and what will the future look like? Google if you a

listening ... I am calling you out ... If you really want to help

"open" then please come and lend a hand.+

If you are interested please contact me. Also, if you are really interested please blog or put some pressure on Google to pony up. The probably have an exceptional amount of data on this subject and It would be great if they could "share" and participate.

See my post about the mild spat I had with Chris DiBona at OSCON last year in reference to this topic.

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