one in five people still lacks access to clean, safe drinking…

one in five people still lacks access to clean, safe drinking water, and the United Nations predicts that nearly half…

JackMason
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Proof That Facebook is Censoring You

On a hunch by Craig Thomler that Facebook censors references to the word Twitter, I decided to put my money…

ariherzog
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Data Governance and the Coke Machine Syndrome

I was in a meeting last week and recognized the “Coke Machine Syndrome”, an important business parable that I learned…

SteveSarsfield
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Financial Times + Endeca = Newssift

Now that the cat is out of the bag, I’m proud to tell readers here about an effort I’ve been…

Daniel Tunkelang
2 Min Read

How do You Define Community?

I was watching Fox News the other day, I don’t remember what show it was but the commentator was talking…

JacobMorgan
5 Min Read

Kosmix: I’m Impressed

One of the recurring objections to exploratory search is that it can’t work for the web. For example, some folks…

Daniel Tunkelang
4 Min Read

The Guy Kawasaki Twitter Bump – Anderson Analytics Facebook Application

 Q. What’s the best way to market social networks?A. Other social networks of course.This past week, Anderson Analytics was beta…

TomAnderson
3 Min Read

Clay Shirky: Save Society, Not Newspapers

There is so much writing about the impeding demise of the newspaper industry that’s it’s becoming easy to tune it…

Daniel Tunkelang
3 Min Read

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…

Daniel Tunkelang
2 Min Read

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…

Peter James Thomas
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