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Full Name: Edward Cone
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Email Address: efcone@mindspring.com
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Bio: Senior Writer and author of the Know It All blog

Ed Cone has worked as a contributing editor at Wired; a staff writer at Forbes; a senior writer for Ziff Davis with Baseline and Interactive Week; and as a freelancer based in Paris and then North Carolina for a wide variety of magazines and papers including the International Herald Tribune, Texas Monthly, and Playboy. He writes an opinion column in his hometown paper, the Greensboro News & Record, and publishes the semi-popular EdCone.com weblog. He lives in North Carolina with his wife, Lisa, two kids, and a dog.
   
Rating Points: 1441 Points
Average Rating: starstarstarstarstar from 387 Votes
Total Stories: 201
Overall Ranking: 4 of 389
     
Articles By This Author: (Most recent articles first)

starstarstarstarstar 2010-01-05 8 Things Business Hates About IT
starstarstarstarstar 2009-12-30 Security Focus for 2010
starstarstarstarstar 2009-12-09 Troublemakers on Staff
starstarstarstarstar 2009-11-13 10 Reasons Your Team Hates You
starstarstarstarstar 2009-11-06 Where the Jobs Went
starstarstarstarstar 2009-10-30 A Discussion on Social Media
starstarstarstarstar 2009-10-14 Eleven Ways Google is Evil
starstarstarstarstar 2009-08-13 Ten Hot IT Certifications
starstarstarstarstar 2009-07-16 12 Recession-Resistant Software Investments
starstarstarstarstar 2009-06-24 10 Ways IT Can Help Business Out in Tough Times
starstarstarstarstar 2009-06-10 Tech Job Updates
starstarstarstarstar 2009-06-10 IT Snooping on the Rise
starstarstarstarstar 2009-05-15 E-mail Management Lags
starstarstarstarstar 2009-05-05 Five Books About Technology Projects
starstarstarstarstar 2009-03-31 Five New Web-Borne Security Threats
starstarstarstarstar 2009-03-25 14 Insider Security Threats
starstarstarstarstar 2009-03-25 Big Tech Firms Get Bigger
starstarstarstarstar 2009-02-25 How to Navigate a Flat World
starstarstarstarstar 2009-02-16 CIO Paul Johnson: Investing in a Down Economy
starstarstarstarstar 2009-01-29 Scandal Unnerves Offshoring Clients
starstarstarstarstar 2009-01-29 Sex, Drugs, Rock `n` Roll and Your Web Site
starstarstarstarstar 2009-01-29 Planning for a Tough Year
starstarstarstarstar 2009-01-29 Managing IT Through Tough Times
starstarstarstarstar 2009-01-27 Dealing With Data Overload
starstarstarstarstar 2009-01-06 What Political Polling Tells Us About Business Intelligence
starstarstarstarstar 2009-01-06 Good and Bad News on Spam
starstarstarstarstar 2008-12-19 Don`t Believe the (Tech) Hype
starstarstarstarstar 2008-12-16 Bruce Schneier on IT Insecurity
starstarstarstarstar 2008-12-03 Top 10 IT Stories of 2008
starstarstarstarstar 2008-11-10 10 Insightful Web 2.0 Books
starstarstarstarstar 2008-11-10 Robert Scoble on Corporate Blogging
starstarstarstarstar 2008-11-10 Unchaining CIOs From IT
starstarstarstarstar 2008-11-10 Technology in Troubled Times
starstarstarstarstar 2008-10-22 Tech: Election Game Changer
starstarstarstarstar 2008-10-16 Tech`s Role in the Presidential Campaigns
starstarstarstarstar 2008-10-15 IT in the Political Season
starstarstarstarstar 2008-10-08 Data: IT Doesn't Own It
starstarstarstarstar 2008-10-07 Smothering the iPhone
starstarstarstarstar 2008-10-02 Don`t Blame IT for Wall Street Mess
starstarstarstarstar 2008-09-25 Vint Cerf: Keeping the Internet Healthy
starstarstarstarstar 2008-09-24 Why New Microsoft Ads Are Best in a Decade
starstarstarstarstar 2008-09-10 Social Responsibility: Doing the Right Thing
starstarstarstarstar 2008-09-10 Indian Tech Firms Diversify
starstarstarstarstar 2008-09-03 How CIOs Can Make Mergers Work
starstarstarstarstar 2008-08-29 Freshly-minted CIO
starstarstarstarstar 2008-08-29 IT and Sports
starstarstarstarstar 2008-08-04 Do Your Web 2.0 Efforts Work?
starstarstarstarstar 2008-08-01 Harnessing the Power of Networks
starstarstarstarstar 2008-08-01 Redefining Silicon Valley
starstarstarstarstar 2008-07-14 A Tale of Two Cultures
starstarstarstarstar 2008-07-14 For CIOs, An Uphill Climb to Diversity
starstarstarstarstar 2008-07-10 Net Politics Grows Up
starstarstarstarstar 2008-07-09 Green IT Gains Momentum
starstarstarstarstar 2008-06-25 CIOs Need to Embrace Web 2.0
starstarstarstarstar 2008-06-22 The Danger of the New iPhone
starstarstarstarstar 2008-06-05 IT Disaster in the Making
starstarstarstarstar 2008-06-05 Everything Old Is New Again
starstarstarstarstar 2008-05-13 The Future is About Information, Not Tech
starstarstarstarstar 2008-05-06 Twitter: Not Ready for Prime Time
starstarstarstarstar 2008-04-29 Is Web 2.0 Too Much of a Good Thing?
starstarstarstarstar 2008-04-27 Clay Shirky: How the Enterprise Moves to 2.0
starstarstarstarstar 2008-04-22 Software Integration: The Next Generation
starstarstarstarstar 2008-04-01 Some CIOs See Expanding Roles
starstarstarstarstar 2008-04-01 CIO: The Accidental Strategist
starstarstarstarstar 2008-04-01 China`s Censorship Hits Home
starstarstarstarstar 2008-04-01 Tech to Help End Airport Lines
starstarstarstarstar 2008-03-05 Google Goes Under the Sea
starstarstarstarstar 2008-02-11 BT`s Next Challenge
starstarstarstarstar 2008-02-11 How IT Transformed BT
starstarstarstarstar 2008-02-11 Try It, You`ll Like It
starstarstarstarstar 2008-02-11 Gaming The System
starstarstarstarstar 2008-01-22 How CIOs Stays Relevant with a CFO Boss
starstarstarstarstar 2008-01-16 The "New" Chief Information Officer
starstarstarstarstar 2008-01-16 CIOs, Meet Your New Boss
starstarstarstarstar 2008-01-09 Nicholas Carr: Why IT Will Change
starstarstarstarstar 2007-12-18 Facebook's Privacy Debacle
starstarstarstarstar 2007-12-14 5 Signs of an IT Generation Gap
starstarstarstarstar 2007-12-12 Managing Across the Generations
starstarstarstarstar 2007-12-12 Bridging the IT Generation Gap
starstarstarstarstar 2007-11-13 Just Because It's Legal Doesn't Make It Right
starstarstarstarstar 2007-11-08 Is Steve Jobs Manipulating iPhone Customers?
starstarstarstarstar 2007-11-08 People-Powered Search?
starstarstarstarstar 2007-10-15 Why Some Companies Emulate Facebook
starstarstarstarstar 2007-10-08 Mapping Business Relationships
starstarstarstarstar 2007-10-08 Building the Enterprise Network
starstarstarstarstar 2007-10-08 Informal Organizations
starstarstarstarstar 2007-10-08 Social Networks at Work Promise
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starstarstarstarstar 2007-09-21 A Different Kind of Culture War
starstarstarstarstar 2007-09-12 Will Microsoft Become Facebook for the Enterprise?
starstarstarstarstar 2007-08-08 Power of the New Digital Disorder
starstarstarstarstar 2007-08-07 Campaign 2008
starstarstarstarstar 2007-08-06 The Web 2.008 Campaign
starstarstarstarstar 2007-08-06 Election 2008: The Internet Campaign
starstarstarstarstar 2007-07-05 Web 2.0 Reality Check
starstarstarstarstar 2007-06-14 Text Messaging: Old School
starstarstarstarstar 2007-06-07 Why Do Women Leave IT?
starstarstarstarstar 2007-05-08 Getting IT Bullies to Behave
starstarstarstarstar 2007-04-17 Web Video Grows Up
starstarstarstarstar 2007-04-07 Google's Growing Pains
starstarstarstarstar 2007-04-06 Man in the Middle
starstarstarstarstar 2007-04-06 4 I.T. Managers Leading From The Middle
starstarstarstarstar 2007-04-04 Is the Internet Ready to Break?
starstarstarstarstar 2007-04-04 Scare Stories
starstarstarstarstar 2007-04-03 Women in I.T.: Where the Girls Aren't
starstarstarstarstar 2007-03-15 Dalzell's Filling Amazon's Shopping Cart with Services
starstarstarstarstar 2007-03-12 March Madness Over Data Analytics
starstarstarstarstar 2007-03-12 Beware of Bloggers with Baggage
starstarstarstarstar 2007-03-07 Big Change for Small Change
starstarstarstarstar 2007-03-07 Hacking's Gift to I.T.
starstarstarstarstar 2007-02-15 Success With Video Blogging
starstarstarstarstar 2007-02-12 Amanda Congdon: On the Set with Web Video's Crossover Star
starstarstarstarstar 2007-02-07 YouTube for President
starstarstarstarstar 2007-02-07 Every Company's a Media Company
starstarstarstarstar 2007-01-15 Ready for Prime Time?
starstarstarstarstar 2007-01-07 Hosted IT: When Simple Won't Do
starstarstarstarstar 2007-01-07 Amazon at Your Service
starstarstarstarstar 2007-01-05 Scott Rosenberg: What Makes Software So Hard
starstarstarstarstar 2006-12-12 Building a Better Wikipedia
starstarstarstarstar 2006-12-06 Inside eBay's Innovation Machine
starstarstarstarstar 2006-12-04 Know It All: The Color of Money
starstarstarstarstar 2006-11-08 Advice to Marketers: Beware of Blogs
starstarstarstarstar 2006-11-08 Putting Customers to Work
starstarstarstarstar 2006-11-06 Pergo's Card-Carrying Communicators
starstarstarstarstar 2006-10-31 Chris Anderson: Less Is More
starstarstarstarstar 2006-10-20 Case Study: Borderline Success at the Department of Homeland Security
starstarstarstarstar 2006-10-17 Bubble 2.0?
starstarstarstarstar 2006-10-09 Technology: Junk 2.0
starstarstarstarstar 2006-09-29 Robert Scoble: Life After Microsoft
starstarstarstarstar 2006-09-13 Opinion: Lessons of Lonelygirl15
starstarstarstarstar 2006-09-11 Online Fraud: Hired Gun Hunts Phishers
starstarstarstarstar 2006-09-06 Candid Cameras at Mohegan Sun
starstarstarstarstar 2006-09-05 Case Study: Mohegan Sun and the Future of Data Security
starstarstarstarstar 2006-08-09 Technology: Taking Web 2.0 to the Legal World
starstarstarstarstar 2006-07-20 France Touts Online Budget Game
starstarstarstarstar 2006-07-11 Solar Systems
starstarstarstarstar 2006-07-11 Green Beyond Greenbacks
starstarstarstarstar 2006-07-11 The Greening of the CIO
starstarstarstarstar 2006-06-15 Telcos on Defensive in Net Neutrality Fight
starstarstarstarstar 2006-06-12 Compliance: Is Sarbanes-Oxley Working?
starstarstarstarstar 2006-06-12 Larry Ribstein on the Holes in SOX
starstarstarstarstar 2006-05-12 Management: IT Education and The Modern-Day MBA
starstarstarstarstar 2006-05-12 Manager, Heal Thyself
starstarstarstarstar 2006-05-12 Giving IT Managers the Business
starstarstarstarstar 2006-04-24 Wireless: Oregon Road Tax Pilot Tests Alternative to Gas Tax
starstarstarstarstar 2006-04-04 Return on Noninvestment at Morgan Stanley
starstarstarstarstar 2006-04-04 Follow the Money
starstarstarstarstar 2006-04-04 Morgan Stanley: Trading Sideways
starstarstarstarstar 2006-03-06 Boeing: New Jet, New Way of Doing Business
starstarstarstarstar 2006-03-06 Measuring Virtual Distance
starstarstarstarstar 2006-03-06 Steal This Software
starstarstarstarstar 2006-02-06 Pioneer of RSS, Blogs, Podcasts Looks at What's Next
starstarstarstarstar 2006-02-06 What the Hell Does Web 2.0 Mean, Anyway?
starstarstarstarstar 2006-02-06 Too Many Blogs Spoil the Party
starstarstarstarstar 2006-02-06 Web 2.0 Reality Check
starstarstarstarstar 2006-02-03 Competitive Difference: How Avnet's Competition Does Mergers, or Not
starstarstarstarstar 2006-02-01 Avnet Tries Buying Its Way to the Top
starstarstarstarstar 2006-01-06 Swiss Company Proved Value of Services Architecture Before the Name Was Even Coined
starstarstarstarstar 2005-12-05 Microsoft Acknowledges Need to Help Build Web Services
starstarstarstarstar 2005-11-05 Ex-CIO Spends Venture Capital on More Than Just Tech
starstarstarstarstar 2005-11-05 The Distributed Megachurch
starstarstarstarstar 2005-11-05 Megachurch Megatech
starstarstarstarstar 2005-11-05 Virtual Office? How About Virtual Business Unit?
starstarstarstarstar 2005-10-15 What Does the CEO Really Need from a CIO?
starstarstarstarstar 2005-10-05 Succeeding at Unreasonable Speed
starstarstarstarstar 2005-10-05 Building a Company, and its IT, in 90 Days
starstarstarstarstar 2005-10-05 Splog Infestation
starstarstarstarstar 2005-09-05 Ira Winkler: Security is Easier—And Crooks Are Dumber—Than You Think
starstarstarstarstar 2005-09-05 Can IT Help LAPD Reduce Abuse?
starstarstarstarstar 2005-09-05 National ID Cards are On The Way
starstarstarstarstar 2005-08-05 Individual Knowledge Doesn't Always Help Understand Customer Groups
starstarstarstarstar 2005-08-05 Functional Web Personas Require "Imaginary" Click Trails
starstarstarstarstar 2005-08-05 Is Web Persona-fying Better Than Personalization?
starstarstarstarstar 2005-07-05 Telecom: Merged, Converged, On the Verge
starstarstarstarstar 2005-07-05 Tiny Chips & Lizard Brains
starstarstarstarstar 2005-07-05 Deregulation Pays Off
starstarstarstarstar 2005-07-05 Web Picks Winning Flavors for Ben & Jerry
starstarstarstarstar 2005-06-05 Kodak Refocuses to Keep Up With Customers
starstarstarstarstar 2005-06-05 Can IT Deliver Inspiration and Perspiration?
starstarstarstarstar 2005-06-05 Utility Computing Helps Wild Oats Keep Up Growth
starstarstarstarstar 2005-06-05 Wikipedia Founder Pitches Openness to Content Managers
starstarstarstarstar 2005-05-05 Is Offshore Business Process Outsourcing Running Aground?
starstarstarstarstar 2005-05-05 CIOs: Crisis of Confidence
starstarstarstarstar 2005-05-05 Finance CIO Keeps Auto Industry Rolling
starstarstarstarstar 2005-04-05 Backing Up the Banks
starstarstarstarstar 2005-04-05 Rise of the Blog
starstarstarstarstar 2005-03-25 Global Business Requires Human Networks
starstarstarstarstar 2005-03-05 A High-Powered Plea
starstarstarstarstar 2005-03-05 Dressed for Success
starstarstarstarstar 2005-02-05 Campbell's Soup CIO Doreen Wright speaks out on HR, IT
starstarstarstarstar 2005-01-05 Fair Game
starstarstarstarstar 2005-01-05 Take My Software. Please.
starstarstarstarstar 2005-01-05 Portal Power
starstarstarstarstar 2004-12-01 Shrink Rap
starstarstarstarstar 2004-12-01 Get Ready For the Coming Software M&A Wave
starstarstarstarstar 2004-12-01 Fingerprint IDs & Piggly Wiggly Goes to Market
starstarstarstarstar 2004-11-05 Web Politics 2.0
starstarstarstarstar 2004-11-01 Hut, Hut, Spike!
starstarstarstarstar 2004-10-15 Buyer's Poker
starstarstarstarstar 2004-10-15 New Kid on the Block
starstarstarstarstar 2004-09-15 The Value of Trust Through Privacy
starstarstarstarstar 2004-08-01 Knowledge is Speed: Hendrick Motorsports Inc.'s Jim Wall


 
 
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