Cisco Zuluaga

... great people wax prophetic.

"There is no question about it. In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has." Robert F. Kennedy, 1961

Read the original context here.

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If only the real John McCain had been running

http://joelogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/if-only-real-john-mccain-had-be

This is something I gathered recently from The Economist.

My 2 cents: OK, so in 3 days someone big gets elected. But whether it's Obama or McCain wouldn't seem to make much of a difference. It's the global economy, stupid! Then again, perhaps I'm looking for a superhero?

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eLearning is getting more and more mainstream

http://joelogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/elearning-is-getting-more-and-m

... and the field is becoming flatter for all participants.

One implication is that Educational Leaders don't even have to mandate that the IT department exclusively handle their institution's Learning Management Systems. I'm thinking LMS design, development, and deployment outsourcing. IQity seems to offer something interesting especially for those in Ohio. I'd like to think that it matters little whether or not your school is based there. "Bring the learning to the learner" sounds like a good tag line. Or is it just me?

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Credit Default Swaps: $62 trillion market

http://joelogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/credit-default-swaps-62-trillio

I don't want to sound pessimistic but it sure sounds like the next "big" thing. Now where's the money?

Blogging is about taking a stand

http://joelogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/blogging-is-about-taking-stand.

... and being open to criticism too. Social change seems so evasive, doesn't it? Not anymore. Perhaps this is a good start. What do you think?

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How do you deal with with comment spam?

http://joelogs.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-do-you-deal-with-with-comme

My BubbleShare photos are currently under seige. And reCAPTCHA can't seem to even help.

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Time to rethink how to value intangibles?

http://joelogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/time-to-rethink-how-to-value.ht

In the light of what's going on globally, Shava Nerad seems to wax worrisome: "(A) huge amount of the wealth creation since the invention of the transistor is intangible, and since we have no way to quantify and account for innovation, creativity, excellent records of technical teams, and so on, the market has tried to find tricks to value them, mostly through the stocks of information economy firms. "

Follow her thoughts here.

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What's with the plurking and all that?

http://joelogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/whats-with-plurking-and-all-tha

In a June 2008 article, Darren Rowse put the Plurk karma (Read: credibility) bit under the microscope in "Top 10 Plurk Users Statistics - What’s the Karma Algorithm". This he does by pulling in some figures into a profile of a "typical" top plurker. That seems like a pretty neat way of helping us make sense of what makes plurk more interesting than twitter. Still, for purposes of online reputation management, it's nice to know that the data set indicates activity in the short term as the long term.

Yet something tells me the system can be easily "gamed". Perhaps one question is, "Will gaming the system be good or bad?" A quick answer could be "It depends." As to which variables the answer correlates is something I'm still trying to figure out.

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E-commerce is incomplete

http://joelogs.blogspot.com/2008/09/e-commerce-is-incomplete.html

... without a payment mechanism.

And that can happen when there is an exchange of value, typically involving some form of currency or anything that is "capable of pecuniary estimation". We can talk about private capital or social capital, but the latter is best left to another discussion.

So just to focus on private capital, perhaps one example will do. Disclosure: I have more experience with another payment mechanism for personal business. At the enterprise level, the following "About Us" narration of services that YESpayments - The Payment Processing Professionals offers -- especially in Manila, might just be worth considering.

A little Googling led me to this cached edition:

"About YESPayments™ YESpayments™ is an Internet credit card payment gateway. It accepts credit card transactions from sponsored merchants over the Internet and processes them through Acquiring Banks in Hong Kong and the Philippines. YESpayments™, handles the technical interface, provides risk management information and daily reconciliation. YESpayments™ has been in operation since December 2000. Technology and Security To protect card details as they are sent over the Internet data is encrypted using the Industry standard known as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). YESpayments™ uses 128bit SSL, the highest commercially available encryption. YESpayments.com has been independently audited and assessed by a risk management company to ensure compliance with PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). In addition, each month, YESpayments™ is “probed” for weaknesses by an independent security company to ensure the highest protection against intrusion."

Now for a more updated version that I freely edit.

YESpayments is designed for organizations that are serious about conducting business on the Internet. Incidentally, it has been processing Internet payments since 2003 in the Philippines, which makes 2008 YES IT Corp's 15th year in the Philippines. Here's one bit of information on what gives real value in any business -- people. "YesPayment offers 24/7 personal support in the Philippines."

Hoping they keep it up.

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