I’ve been a bit crazy recently with attending conferences and presenting, so I’ve been a bit quiet. And I might continue to be given my current workload. But I’ve come here to write for self serving purposes. After all, what good is a blog if you can’t use it for self serving purposes (the answer is no good).
I was asked to write a piece on the cloud (I know you’re shocked) in the upcoming issue of Educause Quarterly which will be dedicated to the cloud. If you’re peer reviewing for that particular journal, we will now pause so that you can close the window (the peer review process is double blind) ………………………………………………………………………………………..
Ok good. Now that they’re gone. Here is a link to a first pass at my article:
Essentially its a rehash of my presentation at NERCOMP with a bit more depth and significantly fewer audience members asking questions (not that I mind questions…that was my favorite part by far. its just that i didn’t actually get to finish the presentation properly because there were so many questions). The article itself defines the cloud, and then uses videos to illustrate each of the definition’s points.
Questions, comments, and feedback are welcome.
And yes, I was trying to be funny when I used the cloud to deliver an article on the cloud (see web address of article for more details).
Nice article, simple and to the point. I wish you could explain more re. private and hybrid cloud. Also, if you are indeed using the videos, it would help to summarize the content of the video. Helpful for blind and/or hard-to-hearing people. The Caption tool doesn’t work on those videos.
thanks for the feedback ranti! i’ll look into figuring out a way to make the videos more usable for the blind/hard-to-hear group.