Creating a Culture of Transparency
I was reading an article yesterday that got me thinking again about the culture shift that is necessary for a…
Google Apps: The Missing Manual
I’ve mentioned before that I run my small business, Crucial Point LLC, primarily by leveraging cloud computing capabilities. With this…
Project Gaydar: A Reminder That Privacy Isn’t Binary
There’s a nice article in the Boston Globe about “Project Gaydar“, a project to predict who is gay based on…
#22: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Who’s with you on…
T2: Judgment Day for Twine?
Nova Spivack, CEO and founder of Radar Networks, just released a preview (see above) announcing Twine 2.0, a semantic search…
Transparent Text Symposium
One of the unexpected benefits of accepting an invitation to speak at SIGMOD 2009 was an invitation from fellow participant…
How to Create and Deploy Effective Metrics
I’m trying to catch up on a big backlog of materials and documents and documents that I’ve found useful… Here’s…
Always Be Closing
Originally posted on erp.com. One of my favorite movies is Wall Street. Near the end of the movie, Gordon Gekko…
A coincidence occurred. Film at 11.
BBC News reported yesterday that the Bulgarian lottery is under investigation because the same six numbers were drawn two weeks…
Beating The Placebo Effect: Red Pill or Blue?
Placebo pills routinely beat Big Pharma medications in clinical trials. As more drugs fail to make the cut due to…