Satisfaction
stalking. What happens when every commercial establishment you do business at
follows up by asking how well you were served?
In
70s, a geeky Wayne State Univ prof had local public TV (Chan 56) show on film
history. Excellent educ companion to the DIA film series
My
fondest memory of Detroit Institute of Arts was weekend film series. My buddies
& I went there regularly in highschool. Foreign, art. Gr8
If
they sell off the Detroit Institute of Arts, I hope it's not piecemeal. A fine
museum. Only real claim to that neighborhood as "cultural"
Listening
to Radio Singkawang stream on the tablet. Waiting for my sister-in-law Maria
Aliman to come on and sing.
Cold
windy night. Lost power for while. Came back on before midnight. Didnt put too
much crimp in evening. Drinking chatting w/Paul & Diane
Have
a good 3-day. I'm shutting the work laptop down (but not my personal social and
surfing machines).
"#Bigdata at
work: 12 stories about reinventn" (http://ow.ly/lnqkK )
JK--Click thru each 2 full stories re various industry case studies
"Which
side o #bigdata
debate do you sit on?" (http://ow.ly/lnndY ) JK--I'm on
"Resolved: big data is hot stuff" side. Rebut that, buddy!
"Finding
the fit 4 thought leadership in social media" (http://ow.ly/lnlE0 )
JK--Fit is obvious & organic: more channels to speak yr mind
RT
@peterwinick Do you create #ThoughtLeadership
in isolation? (http://buff.ly/Sot8ym ) JK--You mean so
I can hear myself think? Indeed I do
"#BigData:
Practical Solutions [Video]" (http://ow.ly/lnj8J )
JK--Stream of yesterday #Datamation
G+ Hangout panel w/me & @shawnrog.
"Scalia
Resigns Post as Scoutmaster" (http://ow.ly/ln5MN )
JK--While we're on the subject, please resign the post that pays you a salary
"Boy
Scouts vote to lift ban on gay youth" (http://ow.ly/ln4da )
JK--Good. "Bigoted" not in the "Boy Scout Law" (http://ow.ly/ln4JV )
"Facebook
is new religion Ashton Kutcher sez" (http://ow.ly/lmYMr )
JK--Really? Thanx 4 remind why I'm not big fan o org relig or Kutcher
http://lnkd.in/Hjp2wW
Harsha: It's interesting to consider the value of ambient data. I recently
wrote a blog discussing how to measure...
This
wk #IBM q-hs: http://ow.ly/lmKaf
http://ow.ly/lmKcB
http://ow.ly/lmKeg
http://ow.ly/lmKgf
http://ow.ly/lmKj3
Bonnie
Jo Mason "Ringo I Love You" (http://ow.ly/lmGS5 )
JK--1964. Better known as "Cher ."
Radio didn't play it. Co-written by PSpector
Brother
and sister-in-law in town for the holiday weekend. Plan a fair bit of eating
and museum-going. DC area rich in stuff to do.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp America by
Simon & Garfunkel from Bookends JK--Duo that always springs to mind when I
hear Kings of Convenience duo
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Homesick by
Kings of Convenience frm Riot on an Empty Street JK--2004. Note 2 self: why've
U not bought ths luvly LP?
"Agile
Approach to Databases" (http://ow.ly/lmeuT ) JK--Aslett of 451
Group calls 4 tight iterative collab dev w/virtzn & schema-free dbs
"Applying
AI & Semantic Web..." (http://ow.ly/lmdh7 ) JK--1st sentence
starts "simply put" & stretches over 59 words w/ 8 depndnt
clauses
Headlines
are good first filter when scanning the trade press. If the headline implies a
dumb story premise, I skip over it. Nail the head!
Everything
i write is work-in-progress for something else that I may write. Treating any
expressed thought as finished product is a dead end
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Don't Think
Twice It's All Right by Bob Dylan from Freewheelin' Dylan JK--Admire his moxie
rhyming "road" w/"knowed"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I Need My
Girl by Th National from Trouble Will Find Me JK--2013. Pretty one from these
dudes. Their stuff always gr8
RT
@laughbook: I'm not arguing, I'm
explaining why I'm right.
Data-scientist
skillsets? (http://lnkd.in/zyypcP ) Friday #IBM quick-hit
Data-scientist
skillsets?: http://lnkd.in/zyypcP
RT
@hsmigala Tuning in NOW 2 "#BigData for
Business" @Datamation http://bit.ly/16VWVag
@jameskobielus Tech glitches
kept @fhalper from join
Google+
Hangout #bigdata
panel w/ @fhalper @shawnrog will start 5 minutes from
now, barring last-minute tech troubles http://ow.ly/lkPjq
Next
big thing? I just hope it's not an asteroid headed in our direction. I keep my
expectations close to terra firma.
"Wal-Mart
Puts Its Faith in #BigData
for Mobile Strategy" (http://ow.ly/lkEEc ) JK--Geofencing:
personalizd app senses when user in store
"Business,
Art & Science" (http://ow.ly/lkC1n ) JK-@ritajking on need to integrate beauty
into fabric of commerce & exploration.
My
educated hunch is that the amount of commentary on #bigdata in the
universe is the single largest component of big data in the universe
"Data-Driven
Innovation: A Guide for Policymakers" (http://ow.ly/lku21 )
JK--Excellent SIIA whitepaper & public policy roadmap
RT
@shawnrog: I'm speaking at a Google+
Hangout today at 1PM MT with @jameskobielus
@fhalper Talking Big Data - http://www.datamation.com/events/big-data-practical-solutions.html …
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Wishing (If
I Had a Photograph of You) by A Flock of Seagulls JK--Retweeting so posts in my
FB under my mom's photo
Finished
my 4 quick-hits for next week. Monday's a holiday. Broke new conceptual ground
in each of the q-hs. Several will become blogs.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp That's Who I
Am by Neko Case frm Ghost Brothrs o Dk Cy JK--"Put my hand in your front
pocket & tighten up your screw"
"Financial
mkts at risk of #bigdata
crash" (http://ow.ly/ljSrg ) JK--Well, duh,
reinforce the floorboards at the exchange. PBs are heavy!
"MAD:
New Analysis Practices for #BigData"
(http://ow.ly/ljRyx )
JK--Essentially, interactive ad-hoc dimensionless, whole-pop exploration
“Say
goodbye to anonymity” (http://ow.ly/ljRfD ) JK--Automated facial
recognition getting better, faster, cheaper.
"#IBM Announces New
Capabs 2 Delivr Real-Time Analytics via Cloud" (http://ow.ly/ljQI5 )
JK--DB2 w/BLU Accel + SAP HANA in IBM SmartCloud
It's
always nice to leave the messaging option open in Facebook for all
friends--else why friend? But hide annoying ones from your news feed
Facebook
is like a near-death experience. You're always seeing your entire life flashing
before your eyes. People from every stage of it.
#Bigdata under
control? Wrestling definitions down to size (http://lnkd.in/zZ-bgg )
Thursday's #IBM
quick-hit
Big
data under control? Wrestling definitions down to size: http://lnkd.in/zZ-bgg
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Love at
First Sight by The Gist from Embrace the Herd JK--1983. Brief post-Young Marble
Giants projct o Stuart Moxham
Writing
quick-hit with my take on "philosophy of data": phil o science,
epistemology, aesthetics, logic, ethics, phil of mind, politicl phil
Facebook
crossed an inflection point for me a few weeks ago. Realized I'm "all
caught up" with everyone from old days who happens 2 B on FB
School
of Seven Bells "The Night" (http://ow.ly/ljbzw )
JK--Named 4 Colombian pickpocket school. Test: not ring bells in teacher
pockets
Definitely
a pre-Memorial Day slowdown in interesting social media activity. Perhaps
people rediscovering real life (e.g., barbecue).
"#Big Data is
watching you, & you, & you" (http://ow.ly/liq8A )
JK--More of the tired "1984" analogies. Switch to "Animal
Farm" 4 change
"#Hadoop 2.0: New
#BigData
Possibs" (http://ow.ly/liov3 ) JK--Incl Storm,
Giraph, Spark, & MPI. These + Hive/HBase refactored around YARN
"#BigData &
the million-node ntwk" (http://ow.ly/lio2o ) JK--On IoT, you may
need humans to coalesce digital dust into golden dustbunnies
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I Know What
Boys Like by Th Waitresses frm Just Cant Get Enough: NWv Hits o 80s JK--Melody
all "nyah nyah nyah nyah"
One
of my favorite cynical phrases concerns whether something's all it's
"cracked up to be." Does getting cracked up involv ingesting crack?
Catch
me June 5, 1pm ET #IBM
#AARP webinar:
"Embracing Dynamic, Agile Analytics Platforms for #BigData".
Register: http://ow.ly/licWE
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Doin' It
Right by Daft Punk from Random Access Memories JK--This hyperchirpy electronic
number is a devious earworm
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Home by
Austra from Olympia JK--One of those dramatically mannered voices that makes
you say "who dat?"
PR
pros see my blogs on non- #IBM
sites, overlook my byline, & ask me to say nice things about their clients
(often my competitors). Awkward
Term
"poster child" long ago set adrift from core meaning of
"guilt-inducing lure to charitable giving." Now it's any exemplar
(good or bad)
@metabrown312 That's too stilted,
unnatural. If I like a colleague, it's fair 2 compliment her "you're cool
and fun, always good to see you"
@metabrown312 Women actually DONT
want men 2 avoid commentng on their appearance. A simple "U look great
today" often suffices. Pleasantries
"When
#bigdata
invades your home" (http://ow.ly/lhoOT ) JK--Disagree w/premise
"data centers probably wont have capacity 2 store th data"
"Men
and women in the office: Are compliments taboo?" (http://ow.ly/lhnuH )
JK--Yeah, let's just become a cold, unfriendly society.
@jfpuget I doubt that teachers do
instruction on Twitter.
Real-world
experiments? (http://lnkd.in/VTXhy5 ) Wednesday's #IBM quick-hit
Real-world
experiments?: http://lnkd.in/VTXhy5
New
spam offer from Canadiana Pharmacy: a free pound of back bacon & case of
Labatt's with my next Viagra order. Pretty schweet, eh?
"Carol
Burnett to receive Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the Kennedy Center
I
tend not to respond to people who clearly haven't read closely what I've
written. Life's too short to repeat my own stuff word for word
Latest
DSM & def'n of "mental illness." IMHO, 3 manifestations:
behavioral experiential physiological: dys/function dis/ease dis/order
Drafted
latest #IBMDataManagement
article: "Social Business: The Power of #BigData in
Agile Engagement"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Love Her
Madly by The Doors from The Best of The Doors JK--"Love her...as she's
walkin' out the door." Nice caboose?
Today
was way more crowded with ad-hocs than I expected. I'm still breathing. That's
an accomplishment.
I'm
kind of looking forward to the 17-year cicadas. They don't chew the frame of my
house, crawl all over my kitchen, or stink up the joint.
"#IBM Puts Watson 2
Work in Business" (http://ow.ly/lfhrc ) JK--IBM Watson
Engagement Advisor = inline recom engine in multichan cust svc
"Bored
w/ mere medicine, #IBM’s
Watson adds customer svc 2 its resume" (http://ow.ly/lfgvZ )
JK--Bored? Hardly. Serving valuable new apps
Landscape
amnesia. JDiamond concept o how steady environmntal degradation in tiny
increments tends 2 B accepted as norml. No 1 recalls prior
@futureratti It's all about advanced
analytics at extreme scale. The hardcore use cases for that are in my blog: http://ow.ly/leZf0
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Riders on
the Storm by The Doors from L.A. Woman JK--Song's dramatic undercarriage was
Manzarek's insistent keyboard.
@futureratti I'm talking about
vendors whose solutions don't scale. #Bigdata is all
about headroom to scale up, out, and beyond
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I'll Keep It
With Mine by Nico from Chelsea Girl JK--Singer overcame vocal limitations with
sheer earnest yearning
My
fingers have gotten so fast at deleting commercial email that I tend to forget
that I can unsubscribe. So now I do. Lots of useless stuff
Now
in the business press, it seems standard to refer to any vendor that does stuff
with data as "big data." No matter how puny the data.
Information
glut? The vintage, vagueness, and vertigo of #bigdata (http://lnkd.in/CHAcee )
Tuesday's #IBM
quickhit
Information
glut? The vintage, vagueness, and vertigo of big data: http://lnkd.in/CHAcee
Thoroughly
enjoyed the "American Masters" portrait of Mel Brooks. By
"thoroughly enjoyed," I mean "just laughed and laughed."
"US
Navy dolphins find antique torpedo" (http://ow.ly/ldTKq )
JK--Interesting that our Navy was testing torpedos in Pacific that long ago
One
of my fave ambiguous phrases is "I've never seen anything like it!"
You want to ask: "OK, so, do you get around much?"
RIP
Ray Manzarek. Admit it: when you think of The Doors' sound, his piercing organ
was just as integral as Morrison's voice & lyrics.
"5
BI Requests IT Groups Must Challenge" (http://ow.ly/ldDFU )
JK--Great phrase: "data mudroom": ETL, metadata, taxonomies, etc.
Trick
to getting anything accomplished in IT is defining a strict scope of project.
But not so strict that you strangle agility to innovate
Announcing
you "won't screw up" a strategic acquisition doesn't inspire tons of
confidence, all things considered.
Always
glad 2 B of service. No matter who in my sprawling #IBM ecosystem o
colleagues & partners needs my expertise, I'm glad 2 B of service
Hey
email hack: my younger brothers don't address me as "James." Nice
try, though. We're informal. It's "Jimmy." Give it another shot.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp The Best
Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
by Th Mountain Goats frm All Hail W.Texas JK--Best ever chorus "hail
Satan!"
Interesting
weather. I'm staring at a large patch of hazy blue sky, and walking out into a
light steady rain. It's cool and calm, but humid.
Drafted
new AnalyzingMedia blog: "Influence Attribution is Such an Inexact
Science, You Hesitate to Call It A Science."
Socials
I actually use in my pers/pro life: Twtr, FB & LnkdIn. What I'm dabblin in:
G+ & Tmblr. Many rarely-used accts on others. And I blog
"#IBM's DB2: After
30 Years & a Look Ahead" (http://ow.ly/lcDMh )
JK--Continues 2 evolve. Recently releasd v10.5 supprts in-mem analytics
Accessed
my long-dormant Tumblr account over the weekend. Followed few more people and
places. Still not sure what value it adds to my life
"The
much-desired 18-25 demographic." You can smell any pitch at that
demographic a mile away. Strains to be "hip." What the hell is
"hip"?
What's
this? Somebody developed a #bigdata
next-best-offer app for Google Glass for salespeople? Do those goggles cause
hallucinations?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp The Biggest
Lie by Elliott Smith JK--The Sylvia Plath of indie. Sad oeuvre. Sad end.
Suicide not entirely surprising
While
I'm on the road, my head and pockets fill up with to-dos. The first task when
in my home office is to re-collect it all.
@delindesign Thanks, but it's not
mine. I just retweeted.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp La Cible qui
bouge by Jane Birkin from Di Doo Dah JK--1973. Breathy coo over urban
orchestral lounge.
A
morning of catching up from my three days away from the office. The three-day
weekend coming up is on my mind.
Size
matters, but sighs matter. Another way of expressing "it's not the meat,
it's the motion."
Big-data
discovery?: http://lnkd.in/bqVVei
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Tower of Song
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I Don't Want
to Get Over You by Mary Lou Lord from Live City Sounds JK--Cool folkish
Magnetic Fields cover.
Excuse
me, but this "singularity" blather in high-tech circles feels like
science-fiction fans having a bad acid trip.
Hard
2 believe some people freaking out over imminent return of cicadas. They came
& went so quickly 17 years ago we barely noticed th noise
RT
@McSwtrvst: diminishing returns
diminishin return diminishi retur diminish retu diminis ret dimini re dimin r
dimi dim di d | ! : .
Weekends
after road trips are usually blissfully aimless. We just vegetate in our
domestic routine. Which is fine with me.
Has
any political revolution truly raised th living standrds of th masses? Or is
that just bullshit story th wannabe rich tell 2 grab power?
The
real threat to privacy is flashless indoor photography from smartphones. People
are always fingering their phones. Perfect cover.
Read
profiles of upcoming summer movies. Nothing that wouldn't have been a summer
movie in say, 2003. It all feels like cinematic retreads.
Customer
loyalty. The fact that no business takes it 4 granted anymore is why they have
"loyalty programs." They know we're fickle as hell.
PDA.
It's a category of the gadget market that still exists only in minds of flight
attendants. They're always asking us to switch them off
I
do 10x the amount of thought leadership--volume, velocity, variety--now at #IBM vs when I was
an industry analyst. No one micromanages me
Myers-Briggs.
It's to organizational team building what paint by numbers is to art.
Lee
Marvin doing a cigarette commercial ages ago (http://ow.ly/l9ZJ7 ).
Effective advertising can be deadly. Beware!
@geneweingarten uses
"MIL" as abbreviation for mother-in-law. Which suggests MILILF. Let's
not go there.
RT
@rickygervais Stop worrying how
many followers U have. Say everythng U've ever wanted 2 say. Twitter is therapy
not a popularity contest
Genetically
modified food. Until such time as somebody shows that it is unsafe or tastes
yucky, I'll continue to eat it.
