Challenge: Blog + Twitter vs. Aardvark
I asked Aardvark the following question this afternoon: Trying to track down an animated short where a bunch of critters…
Is outsourcing business intelligence a good idea?
IntroductionThe phrase IT outsourcing tends to provoke strong reactions. People either embrace it as a universal panacea capable of addressing…
#1: Here’s a thought…
The first in an occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Hadoop…
Dos and Donts for getting help
This article was written for the IBM developerWorks forum, but the general principles apply equally to posting to the REvolution…
You Really Have to See This: From MIT Media Lab
Words can hardly describe how neat this technology is. I'm excited and enthused for many reasons, including the potential power…
Getting inside a CIO’s head
I was disappointed to see that our nation’s first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, is having some major distractions, with…
History
It's informative to see the history of automated trading to realize that it hasn't been around for very long so…
Should Public Safety Departments be Merged?
Not unusual by any means, another story about merging police and fire departments appeared in yesterday’s issue of the Mercury…
Blog + Twitter vs. Aardvark: A Rematch
It’s clear that my blog + Twitter vs. Aardvark challenge yesterday wasn’t much of a challenge, so I’m trying again.…
Define ‘enterprise mashup’ and win a $50 gift card
In this space, we argue a lot about definitions (or lack thereof) of terms and buzzwords, so it’s refreshing to…