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Hi. This is my blog site.


We are all subject to a lot of official communications these days from companies, governments, celebrities and others.  All too often these are ghost written passages concocted by overeager PR machines and do little to tell you anything new about the author or his or her true interests.

All the best writing at Thomson Reuters gets done by our journalists, so I certainly don’t pretend that I can improve upon the impressive work they produce every day, often at great personal risk.  Instead I’m going to write about what interests me, which is often my work at Thomson Reuters, as well as wider issues such as technology, information publishing, sports and globalization.

I imagine much of my audience will be internal at Thomson Reuters, although this blog is open to anyone.  I am currently experimenting with various bits of it so it may change from time to time.  But I'll try to update it regularly, although sometimes the doing makes the talking about it difficult.  My real aim is to engage in an electronic dialog with whomever wants to comment on a post or otherwise share their views.

 

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  • Summer Holidays

    I'm now on vacation, which means this blog is too. Although I enjoy writing, I turn off all electronics for 10 - 14 days a year. As this blog should attest, I'm no Luddite, but the best way I can relax and also give my family my full attention is...
    08-10-2010, 5:05 PM by Tom Glocer to Tom Glocer's Blog
  • Reflections on Sun Valley 2010

    I have been reflecting for a couple of weeks on the significance of some of the young companies that presented at this year's Sun Valley Conference, always hosted so professionally and graciously by Allen & Co.  Thingd presented its vision...
    07-24-2010, 10:44 PM by Tom Glocer to Tom Glocer's Blog
  • Workflow By Any Other Name

    "Workflow" is defined by Wikipedia (the term is shunned by most established (read print) dictionaries) as "a sequence of connected steps ... a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person [or] a group of persons."   I have always found...
    07-08-2010, 12:37 AM by Tom Glocer to Tom Glocer's Blog
  • Friends Reunited

    Here I am at 33,000 feet again (legally, thanks to Cathay Pacific), listening to one of the truly great jazz compositions – Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis.  Perhaps it was my recent culturally-rich trip to Spain or my brain-jangling, Lost in...
    06-12-2010, 7:09 PM by Tom Glocer to Tom Glocer's Blog
  • Blog Time

    I often get asked when do I find the time to blog.  The answer rather self-evidently is right now.  I, with the not inconsiderable assistance of a 747 and trained crew, am flying at 31,000 feet en route to Singapore. Whichever direction...
    06-09-2010, 11:07 AM by Tom Glocer to Tom Glocer's Blog

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