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IT Leaders Overstate Cooperation with Business: CIO Survey

Let’s take one of our occasional journeys into that alternate reality known as…The Mind of IT. We’ll start with this survey by CIO.com, which compares responses from CIOs and business department leaders. It concludes they are working more closely than before but also finds a sharp disconnect in perceptions As in, 54% of IT leaders thing they’re working closely with business units to prioritize IT projects but just 27% of the business executives agree. Even more divergent: 73% of IT leaders think they recommend technology solutions while just 29% of business leaders think so. So either IT overstates its role or business leaders understate it. Or both.

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Bottos Creates Blockchain-Fueled Marketplace for AI Training Data

April 17, 2018

All the cool kids (and that definitely includes you, Dear Reader) know that cryptocurrencies use blockchain and that the only thing cooler than blockchain by itself is using blockchain to pay for data. Bottos ups the ante still further by using blockchain to track and pay for data that’s used to train artificial intelligence. It’s so cool my fingers feel cold just writing about it. AND their Data Marketplace will include a rating system for AI companies and data providers to ensure transparency. I need gloves.

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Meta Faces Class Action for Overcharging Facebook Advertisers

April 17, 2025

Remember the good old days, when lying was considered unacceptable? The folks at Iron Tribe Fitness, a South Carolina gym, are holding Meta to that forgotten standard in a class action suit alleging that Facebook overcharged advertisers as much as $4 billion by using one type of auction bidding process while claiming to use another.  Meta blames the error on a “software glitch” that began in 2013 and continued for at least four years.

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