I "graduated" from the Blogging Idol sometime last year, and said I'd like to try my hand at blogging for "Ahead of the Curve". Then I promptly dropped out of the blogosphere, and became a lurker for a while. No excuses - just busy, not inspired, not motivated in the winter - but here I am, back again. I'll see if I can think of interesting things to post more often.
In watching this blog for a while, I can't help but think it hasn't got very many readers right now. Hopefully this can change! Congrats to Kathleen Lau for keeping the posts flowing! The most recent one is what got me started.....buzz words. And my question is: Is "ahead of the curve" another buzz word, and if so what does it mean?
I ask that because it'll help me to decide what to write about. A few weeks ago I was reading an IEEE magazine that was talking about the work going on to create robots that are smarter than we are....in 20+ years from now. I assume that's ahead of the curve! I've also seen a few magazines making their annual predictions for 2009. Are these "ahead of the curve" or are they right on the curve?
Anyway, perhaps this group's name is just like "next generation" and its really just an excuse to look at what's going to hit us next. I've seen "adoption curve", hype cycles, roadmaps, etc. also used. A couple of years ago I'm sure we would have called a focus on Green IT ahead of the curve.
Let's see where this road will take us, and see how many curves there are to get ahead of. All ideas and suggestions are welcomed - I'm pretty keen on data center automation, systems management and ITIL automation these days, so you'll likely find me chatting about those a bit.
Don Sheppard (Blogging Idol 2008)