Fly Reckless – EVE Online

I was listening to a podcast today about Servers/Virtualization/Storage/Cloud/etc (because that’s the industry I’m in) and heard about a little bruhaha between a blogger, Cisco and Gartner.  How can a BLOGGER get the attention of such lumininaries as Cisco and Gartner?  Apparently you just have to say the wong thing at the wrong time.

In a nutshell this guy (www.ViewYonder.com) posted this blog about some opinions of FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet) that came out as part of a Gartner paper and Gartner got ahold of it, found out that this guy worked for Cisco and proceeded to put the screws to Cisco to get this guy to lay off their precious papers.

That’s right, a guy writing about his own opinion (who happened to work for Cisco) was catching heat from his employers for a blog.  Eventually Cisco stood behind their employee, but not after a fair bit of sweating and nervousness on the part of ol Steve Chambers.  The post is off his site by the way.

Why am I talking about this?

I think it’s important for people to understand that in this great, wonderful blogosphere and world of social networking, there are real ramifications to speaking your mind and that what you do, and what you say can have both a very good impact on you personally as well as a very bad impact…  that and I almost started a blog about virtualization and VMware, and at this point am very glad I didn’t.

After a week of putzing around I’ve made the jump into a new part of Eve that I’ve never played with before.  Wormholes.

Many of you will probably groan, but I’ve been taking a break from Eve for a while and needed a significant change of pace to re-invigorate me and to drag me back into the game.  So I’ve joined up with a wormhole corp and started moving into W-Space.  So far I’ve learned a lot of new things and really had a great time.  The people are fun, very organized and there’s things to get involved with even if I’m on for just a short time.

I’m sure you’ll be seeing more of me in the next few weeks.

Silicon Buddha