Phil Hughes
January 17th, 2008 | by David |Everyone that knows me knows that I am a really big Yankees fan. I was born in upstate New York so I don’t want any of you haters talking about me being a frontrunner. One of the Yankees best prospects, Phil Hughes, recently started blogging. Besides my love of the Yankees and the fact that this guy will be the ace of the staff within 3 years, I find it fascinating that he is blogging. Its the age group though. I haven’t looked up the stats but the number of people in the early 20s that have their own blog must be relatively high. Either that or they are on Facebook or MySpace which have blog qualities.
I don’t really have any entrepreneurial thoughts around this fact. Its more of what this means to corporate America. If HP or Exxon or GM think they can continue to get by by operating in slow methodical IT ways they are really mistaken. People that have grown up with Yahoo and Amazon and previoulsy mentioned services ar enot going to put up with “It is going to take 5 months to get this new field added to your application…oh and by the way I need a cost benefit analysis on that.” The generation using blogs and wikis and mashups understand that things should move faster. Web services and SOA allow for more rapid deployment, but so many corporations still run their IT shops like it was 1992.
If a superstar pitcher for the New York Yankees is blogging, don’t you think that new hire engineer is too, or at least understands how things should work with today’s technology?
