{"id":365,"date":"2012-02-20T22:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T03:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=365"},"modified":"2014-07-31T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:22:22","slug":"drugs-hookers-and-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/365","title":{"rendered":"Drugs, hookers and IT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-366 alignleft\" title=\"SilasNglasses1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SilasNglasses1.jpg?resize=181%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"169\" \/><br \/>\nGood morning boys and girls!!\u00a0 I hope everyone has had a very productive past couple of months, I know I have &#8211; I have however; been delinquent in keeping my blog up to date, and for that I apologize to my cat (my faithful reader). As you can see, he even wears reading glasses so he never misses an issue, here is reading the most recent issue of my newsletter- &#8220;Computing Tips&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to the topic at hand, I had some spam comments; and one of the comments had a quote, but the quote was pretty good, it was by Edward Tufte: &#8220;There are only two industries that refer to their customers as \u2018users\u2019.\u00a0 Well, you can imagine that this got my attention<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A quick google search, and I landed on a <a title=\"IT Thought of the day \" href=\"http:\/\/www.itthoughtoftheday.com\/\">blog<\/a> by Scott Coughlin, I think he is out of Baltimore, MD.<\/p>\n<p>So this got me thinking of our IT folks at work, what are we pushing?\u00a0 <strong>Are we pushing or pimping<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IT folks call thier customers &#8211; &#8216;users&#8217;\u00a0 (guilty as charged)<\/li>\n<li>IT folks make their customers beg for their services&#8230;a little BDSM in us all<\/li>\n<li>IT folks charge more for the good stuff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He makes some pretty good (albeit funny) points, and the analogy was well done.\u00a0 So I tip my hat to you Mr. Coughlin, job well done.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this will be the little push I needed to get out of my writing slump and get down to business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning boys and girls!!\u00a0 I hope everyone has had a very productive past couple of months, I know I have &#8211; I have however; been delinquent in keeping my blog up to date, and for that I apologize to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/365\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":857,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/857","url_meta":{"origin":365,"position":0},"title":"Request for feedback","author":"DR D","date":"February 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Good morning boys and girls.\u00a0 I am working on a survey for school.\u00a0 Yes; the doctor is always trying to learn more. So you'll have to bear with me today, as this is not a blog post for your reading pleasure, but a post to request your feedback. 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