Aweekstweets December 6-13 2009—approaching solstice

TECH-AND-TECH-INDUSTRY TWEETS

Anybody who's focusing on what SQL can't do is implying SQL was intended to be the be-all language for info access/manipulation. Get real. about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

JK2—SQL is purely to access and manipulate structured, relational, tabular data sets. But, considering that there is far more unstructured and semi-structured information out there, it’s probably best that we don’t try to force-fit SQL into all of that. Considering the range of access protocols in SOA, Web 2.0, and other services environments, it’s better to treat SQL as just one language to be supported in a broader information virtualization environment.

Starting to think ParAccel's "FasterOrFree" program is pioneer of new pricing model in DW market. Vendors put their money where mouths are. about 3 hours ago TweetDeck

JK2—This is the only sustainable value-based pricing model in the DW market. Vendors will continue to assert 10x and greater performance improvements vis-à-vis the completion, or vis-à-vis their previous versions, or vis-à-vis what customers are doing now. The only way for the poor customer to know if these claims hold water is for the vendor to demonstrate this enhanced performance on the customer’s own queries and data sets. If the vendor can demonstrate an order-of-magnitude improvement, they can justifiable charge customers a premium. If they can’t, the vendor should bear the financial risk for its hype, and give the solution to the customer for free (if they’ll have it). Secondary issue: Whether the vendor should also provide free or discounted maintenance, support, and upgrades, and for how long.

Have a briefing just a few minutes from now with Kognitio, a provider of DW software, appliance, and cloud solutions. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

JK2—These guys are one of several pure-plays with the full range of DW form factors (note: when I said “cloud” in this tweet, I meant public “SaaS,” which Kognitio calls “DaaS”). About half of Kognitio’s revenues come from DaaS customers. Considering that Kognitio has been offering this for several years, I consider them one of the most mature providers of “DW in the cloud.” In other words, they’re just a little ahead of the market—though, of course, Aster, Vertica, and a few others offer public cloud/SaaS-based DW services.

Actionable analytics: let users mine & interactively explore non-obvious patterns, while making most salient points blindingly user-obvious about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

JK2—The core definition of data mining is that it identifies non-obvious patterns in historical data sets. But all of this statistical gold digging can’t serve business if it doesn’t produce a steady stream of nuggets meaningful to business people who don’t have degrees in advanced math.

Taking briefing from ParAccel...significant customers wins, pipeline, deal size growth....excellent momentum 11:15 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

JK2—I like to take refresher briefings from all DW vendors every 3-6 months. With ParAccel, they’ve benefited from the steady growth in the DW space as a whole, but also from their own aggressive pricing, marketing, and sales—plus outstanding progress on scaling their massively parallel DW appliance up and out.

Social network analysis (SNA) not just for social networks in Web 2.0 sense. SNA research shows loneliness contagious (http://bit.ly/6qr2Lx) 8:48 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

JK2—Just curious: Do those online dating services use social network analysis to identify those myriad “dimensions of compatibility”? If so, do they update those models based on actual results, in terms of people hooking up—or not--based on those dimensions? Or that all pure hogwash? Preying on the desperation of lonely people?

"Google turns on real-time search" (http://bit.ly/74UJT2) JK--Be curious to see if/when Google turns it into real-time srch-powered BI SaaS 12:26 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

JK2—Just curious, nothing more. Seeing as how Google has made so little headway in the enterprise market, I doubt they could make much of a go with a BI SaaS service. I do expect Microsoft to integrate Bing technology into their BI stack in the next 2-3 years. Calling Bing a “decision engine,” and giving it a name that begins with “B-I” sort of hints at that direction.

RT @daniel_abadi: "[SSD-to-disk] bang difference is small for seq wklds, & buck diff is big": JK--Now it is. But I'm pointing 10 yrs ahead. 2:54 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—Solid state drives offer order-of-magnitude performance, reliability, and power-consumption advantages over traditional storage media. No one seriously doubts that rotating media will disappear over the next decade or so. Cost parity (per TB) will be achieved by the middle of the ‘10s.

RT @daniel_abadi "SSDs... orthogonal to whether SSD will drive DW growth" JK--Disagree. Lo-cost SSDs will deliver superior DW bang4buck 2:29 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—SSDs will become the preferred storage technology in DW appliances by 2015, I predict.

RT @merv @daniel_abadi "data doesn't grow because of HW, but in spite of limitations #PB" JK--Right. As I said, HW economics a gating factor 2:25 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—As the list price of DW appliances approaches $2,000/TB (one-tenth of today’s leading-edge $20,000/TB), the average size of enterprise DWs will grow by a factor of ten: into the 100s of TBs. That will be in the middle of the coming decade. As the list price of DW appliances drops by yet another order of magnitude (to $200/TB), the average size of enterprise DWs will reach the petabyte level. That will be the end of the coming decade.

RT @daniel_abadi "disks will still be used at [petabyte] scale" JK--Yes, but in declining proportion to SSD, which will dominate by 2019 12:49 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—In 10 years, you will be as likely to find a rotating disk on a new DW appliance as you are to find a tape drive on today’s appliances.

RT @CurtMonash "1000x in 10 years is annual doubling. Seems little high to me" JK-Content analytics + cheap SSD will drive annual doubling 11:22 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—Think of all the unstructured and semi-structured content streaming in social networks. Think of all the information in your enterprise’s content management systems. Think of all the compliance-relevant data in your e-mail systems. Think of all the audit logs in all of your transactional systems. Think of all the years worth of historical information you will want to persist from all applications. Think of all the streaming event data you will need to aggregate to drive complex event processing applications. Annual doubling? That’ll sound quaint when your tsunami demands annual quadrupling and beyond.

"The Tech Industry's 10 (Not So) Dirty Words" (http://bit.ly/7sC5G3): JK--What? Are they outsourcing tech magazine writing to fratboys? 10:11 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—The only word in the bunch that Beavis and Butt-Head would have snickered at is “dongle.”

"Google Helps Publishers Erect Pay Walls" (http://bit.ly/4KBSUd): JK--In some ideological circles, this blatantly violates "don't do evil." 10:02 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—Can someone point to a specific business opportunity that Google refused on the grounds that it would have required them to undertake a joint venture with Lucifer?

RT @CurtMonash: @jameskobielus "If average DW is in low petabytes in 10 years, where do you place it today?" JK--Low terabytes:1-10TB. 9:52 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—More than three-quarters of today’s DWs are in this range, by my rough reckoning.

I visit Bing as much for the new photos on home page as for search capabilties. Google's interface, even with seasonal typeface, bores me. 9:51 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—And, quite frankly, search engines strike me as deadly dull. Albeit indispensable.

"Google Chrome OS is 10 Years From Broad Enterprise Adoption" (http://bit.ly/4B19bR): JK--Excuse me, but that's the equivalent of "never." 9:48 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—Without a strong open-source push, it’s not at all clear that Google Chrome can ever gain broad adoption. Linux is there, and it’s done it in a decade or so.

RT @bmichelson "2010: Rise of Event Processing" (http://bit.ly/6LLYO3): JK--Predictive analytics: better u see future, better 2 drive change 9:35 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—I’m a bit jaded about event processing becoming the next big thing. It’s big, all right, and it coming to the BI space in a big way, but it’s not a new thing, and not something that will burst into universal adoption anytime soon. Some analysts have been claiming for several years that “event driven architecture” is the next big thing.

"What IBM's Acq Of Guardium Really Means" (http://bit.ly/5Nta5S): JK--IBM should build InfoSphere event DW platform for DB security events. 9:26 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—Event processing can be the next big thing in specific application domains. Event data warehousing, for example, which could provide log aggregation for security, e-discovery, and predictive analytics.

RT @teradatanews @jameskobielus "[DWs] tend to mash [all analytics] into a single [virtualized, distributed pool of data]" 9:16 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—In Q1, I’ll be developing a Forrester report on virtualizing the DW in to the cloud, and evolving it into a complex content warehouse for advanced analytics.

RT @gilbaneboston #gilbane09 "Linguistics vs statistics 2 ends of spectrum of search technologies" JK--Mine the words vs. mind the numbers 8:20 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—Social network analysis is all about mining the statistical patterns in people’s behavior. It’s also about mining the substance of the things they say—to each other, to each other, and to no one in particular. What’s on their minds. And how their thoughts surface aspects of a collective social intelligence.

Forrester clients tell me they plan to keep core EDWs no larger than 10TB for foreseeable future. Reason? Expensive storage. 8:17 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—Bring down the cost of storage, and the average EDW will grow accordingly. Pent-up demand.

True gating factor in DW growth is storage cost. Universal adoption of cloud storage for staging, archiving, backup will light the fuse. 8:11 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—Public cloud storage is where petabytes will enter the enterprise DW picture. Through outsourcing of staging, archiving, and backup to cost-effective, scalable clouds.

RT @CurtMonash (http://bit.ly/7tfwhU): "Framework for DW growth" JK--Moore's Law-like growth call for avg DW in lo-petabytes within 10 years 8:06 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

JK2—Remember that Moore’s Law is just a trending rule of thumb. It’s not actually written into the immutable laws of the universe.

OLAP is all about fast, flexible, multidimensional queries against large, prejoined, structured data sets. Not great cocktail party talk. 9:27 PM Dec 6th from TweetDeck

JK2—Social networking isn’t great cocktail party talk either. It’s become so common that it’s now like discussing who’s got the coolest e-mail signature. Best experienced, not discussed.

Yes, @NeilRaden & @TonyBaer, OLAP is sclerotic topic. @bevelson and I define it as "spreadsheet pivot table on steroids." 9:23 PM Dec 6th from TweetDeck

JK2—One big difference: Using OLAP won’t get you suspended from Major League Baseball.

SHAMELESS-SELF-PROMOTION TWEETS

"Data Analytics and Cloud Computing: Convergence or Collision?". Greenplum & #Forrester Tues Dec 15 1:30-2:30 PM EST (http://bit.ly/2cPRqv) 34 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Yes, I'm becoming one of the pod people. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

On Tuesday, I do a podcast with @greenplum and #Forrester colleague @frankgillett on DW, analytics, and the cloud. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

RT @jameskobielus: On Tuesday, I do a DM Radio podcast with Sybase on in-database analytics (http://bit.ly/8sMlTa): JK--Also w/ Fuzzy Logix. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

On Tuesday, I do a DM Radio podcast with Sybase on in-database analytics (http://bit.ly/8sMlTa). about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

On Monday, I record podcast with @AsterData & @Dana_Gardner on convergence of transactions and analytics. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

RT @DataInfoCom: Podcast: Instrumenting Your Enterprise For Maximum Predictive Power http://bit.ly/85Ro8U: JK--Le podcaster? C'est moi!!!! 6:11 AM Dec 10th from TweetDeck

Rich Nieset discussing@Kickfire MySQL appliance audited industry benchmarks, TPC-H, for query performance vis-a-vis Oracle/HP. #analytics 12:52 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

Rich Nieset discussing@Kickfire advanced column store in DW appliance; requires one-tenth the disk; runs on MySQL Enterprise DB #analytics 12:49 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

Rich Nieset discussing@Kickfire SQL co-processing chip's performance advantages in DW appliance #analytics 12:47 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

Rich Nieset discussing@Kickfire SQL co-processing chip's performance advantages in DW appliance #analytics 12:44 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

RT @Kickfire: @jameskobielus: Best Practice in Data Warehousing = Analytic Appliance-based approach ... like @Kickfire! #analytics 12:43 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

RT @Kickfire: @jameskobielus: Data warehouse reality check = scalability / performance, flexibility / agility, and affordability #analytics 12:43 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

RT @Kickfire: @jameskobielus Hardware acceleration becoming one of the key secrets to success in Data Warehousing #analytics 12:43 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

RT @Kickfire: @jameskobielus Ave price of Data Warehouse dropping from $200k / TB a few years ago to around $50k / TB today #analytics 12:43 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

RT @Kickfire: @jameskobielus: 75 - 80% of EDW deployments are under 10 TB, but companies need modular scalability #analytics 12:42 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

RT @Kickfire: @jameskobielus: More companies facing pressure to evolve their Data Warehouse (http://bit.ly/6pj8Ja) NOW #analytics 12:42 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

Kickfire webinar, "More Bang for Your DW Budget" #analytics : Presented mine. Rich Nieset presenting. Flattered me. I don't blush, or do I? 12:40 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

Getting ready to present Kickfire webinar, "More Bang for Your DW Budget" (http://bit.ly/6pj8Ja) at top of the hour. #analytics 11:46 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

Did webinar, "BI Branches Out," today, with @JeffreySchwartz , App Dev Trends. Went well. Great Q&A. Interesting interactive poll feedback. 2:10 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

Preparing for webinar "BI Branches Out," 2pm (est) today, with @JeffreySchwartz , App Dev Trends (http://bit.ly/6votFt ). Lots to discuss! 12:13 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

RT @dougmow: "Nice piece on social networking by @jameskobielus: http://bit.ly/8Osdef" JK--Thanx! Key theme that will inform my 2010 agenda 9:06 AM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

New Forrester blogpost: "Social Network Analysis: Going to Become Too Ubiquitous for Its Own Good" (http://bit.ly/5SetBh) 3:55 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

"James Kobielus, #Forrester, discusses new BI solutions and capabilities coming to market, Tues Dec 8, 2pm EST" (http://bit.ly/8blAjK) 9:05 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

LIFE-OF-AN-ANALYST TWEETS

@Claudia_Imhoff #BBBT: Analytics doesn't require software. Just analyst doing job: in head, back-of-envelope, on fly, via Twitter. However. 4 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to Claudia_Imhoff

Am I crazy, or does jet travel cause fingernails to grow faster? about 8 hours ago from TweetDeck

All analytics'd out for one day. Doing a solitary Charleston cha-cha--cha, here in my chair somewhere. about 23 hours ago from TweetDeck

Reading WSJ (http://bit.ly/6d0oSv) about Second City's 50th. I'm no actor, but everyday's a bit of improv & always something good for a laff 6:59 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

Proofing & correcting typos & awkward/overstuffed constructions in yesterday's blog. I tighten/tweeten/sweeten my stuff obsessively. 8:56 AM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

RT @heather_lukens: "ADT webcast page says..but it's tomorrow right?: JK--Tomorrow, all right, unless they've perfected time travel. 10:02 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

RT @rwang0 "product mktg pro prove their cred to influencers. Start w the truth!" JK--And don't be offended when we speak truth back to you! 8:22 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

CONTINUING-TO-INDULGE-IN-SOCIAL-MEDIA-ARE-CHANGING-THE-VERY-FABRIC-OF-OUR-POSTMODERN-EXISTENCE-WAIT-A-SEC-WHY-AREN’T THESE IN TECH-TWEET? TWEETS

My suggestion for total privacy on Facebook: Don't use Facebook. 6:10 AM Dec 10th from TweetDeck

Very nice, very nice. My Twitter profile streams by in a "lifestream" in my AIM client. May get me to use AIM again...for other than IM 5:36 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

"TIBCO Unveils tibbr" (http://bit.ly/93hSYx): JK--Topic-oriented pub-sub incorporating a Twitter-like followme/followyou model. GA early '10 7:41 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

Being asked to respond to online satisfaction surveys automatically reduces my satisifaction. Heisenberg's Principle? Hawthorne Effect? 9:57 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

"TwitterPeek: The Single-Purpose Tweeting Device" (http://bit.ly/7gn8RO): JK--Would be fine if I only tweeted. 9:54 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

Just testing this Twitter photo capabilty in TweetDeck. Some old hippie photo I had lying around (http://tweetphoto.com/6004077) 8:30 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

RT @stoweboyd: "good morning edglings!" JK--And a good morning to all you earthlings. Resistance is futile. We control your transmission. 8:25 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

Problem with computers in our lives is that they tend to mash everything--work and life--into a single cluttered field of experience. 7:49 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

MUSIC TWEETS

Listening to Rilo Kiley, "Silver Lining," from "Under the Blacklight." Doing a duet with Jenny Lewis. about 23 hours ago from TweetDeck

Listening to The Seekers, "I'll Never Find Another You," from Time-Life's "Treasury of Folk" collection. Harmonizing silently with that lady about 23 hours ago from TweetDeck

Listening to cryptic and apparently forlorn but quietly gorgeous "Re: Stacks" by Bon Iver from "For Emma, Forever Ago." Wintering 4:51 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Animal Party by King Khan & BBQ Show #KEXP: JK--One of those great new revivalist rock-n-roll bands: vintage 60s garage 7:18 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Svefn-G-Englar by Sigur Rós #KEXP: JK--Arctic Icelandic chiller from 2000 remains one of this decade's musical landmarks. 9:40 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Bamboo Banger by MIA #KEXP: JK--Good. Maya Arulpragasam credits Jonathan Richman. Opening lyrics quote his "Roadrunner" 9:01 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist #KEXP Sadagora Hot Dub by Amsterdam Klezmer Band: JK--Reminds of Liechtensteiner Polka. Dad had that on vinyl. We're Polish 8:52 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Dirt in the Ground (live) by Tom Waits #KEXP: JK--Tom's best "voice from the crypt." Always seems that he invites mockery 11:31 AM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland by Grandaddy #KEXP: "Digital snow, frozen pianos, electronic bands, frostbitten hands" 11:19 AM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

Speaking of The Dutchess and The Duke, also check out Arthur & Yu, a Seattle man-woman duo with similar feel. Cinematic but somehow intimate 6:52 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Sunrise / Sunset by The Dutchess & The Duke #KEXP: JK--This group has an Ennio Morricone-like vibe, with male/female duets 6:51 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Ludlow St. by Julian Casablancas #KEXP: JK--Great one. I like this guy's solo stuff better than his Strokes recordings. 2:49 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: You Are My Joy by The Reindeer Section #KEXP: JK--Not an Xmas song. Just a joyful ode from Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol. 1:16 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

Listening to k.d. lang's "The Mind of Love" from the very slinky, languid, lounge-y, French-y and aptly named "Ingenue" LP. Early 90s. 10:58 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Lucinda-Ain't Goin Down (live) by Tom Waits #KEXP: JK--Today's Tom's 60th. Bless his gnarly heart! 9:09 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

RT @TonyBaer: @NeilRaden "Mingus...ironic how he was later silenced by crippling disease." JK--Same's been said about Iron Man Gehrig. 8:57 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

RT @AlanMorrison "Has Sting mellowed? haven't we all?" JK--Dylan hasn't: same stubborn cuss as always: now an age-appropriate curmudgeon 8:37 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

RT @morefromalan "Billy joel is a pretty easy target." JK--I like some of his, but his songwriting tends toward labored crowd pleasers. 7:46 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

RT @TonyBaer "He was a kid from Hicksville (nr Levittown), Springsteen was from Jersey." JK--Didn't claim Bruce an Islander. 7:42 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) by Dave Rawlings Machine #KEXP: JK--Great C&W version. Co-wrote with Ryan Adams 7:41 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

RT @NeilRaden "Elton & Boss have slipped into cheeseball realm" JK--Still love their recent work: Elton's filmsongs, Bruce's Seeger sessions 7:40 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

I know I may gore some sacred oxen here, but Billy Joel is pure cheeseball, IMHO. Tries to be one part Elton John, one part Springsteen. 9:30 PM Dec 6th from TweetDeck

TV TWEETS

See that PSA where teenager texting while driving? His mobile predicts likelihood of surviving imminent crash? Predictive analytics. Classic about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

RT @NPRbackstory: (diane sawyer) For Stephanopoulos, It's Officially 'Good Morning': JK--Hmmm. Whose face is easier on the eyes? Hmmmm about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

Graphic blandishment: animation on "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Magic process for transforming sorry saplings into Xmas tree spectaculars? 8:33 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

"Smothers Bros: Dangerously Funny Pair" (http://bit.ly/6stB0D): JK--Great podcast: Check out awesome clip of DSteinberg censored sermonette! 9:00 AM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

RT @markmadsen: @NeilRaden "AT&T take millions spent on Luke Wilson ads & BUY FEW MORE TOWERS" JK--Disagree. Wilson's career more important 11:15 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

TIME-MARCHES-INEXORABLY-ON TWEETS

2009: a year when global economy began painful long-term resurrection from late-2008 freak-out and worried about possibility of relapse 12:22 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

2009: a year when appliances deepened footprint in analytics & Oracle staked future on appliance-bsd (ie, Sun inside) "vertical integration" 12:21 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

2009: a year when analytics continued to branch out and mature in myriad directions: self-svc, predictive, content, real-time, cloud, etc. 12:17 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

GRATUITOUSLY-SENSUAL TWEETS

Sonya opened up the cookies, and I thank her for that. Had a mid-afternoon sugar jones...now satiated...for now 2:03 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

In my book, a wintry mix is any imbibulatory concoction that warms the soul--and melts your cold cold heart. 8:14 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

Can rejoice in this rich, full, calm near-winter air. Can ponder what mix of cold, clarity, humidity, & ionization produces it. Or do both. 12:09 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

HOLIDAY-MOOD TWEETS

"Black Friday Results Bode Well..." (http://bit.ly/7JQss2): JK--Bizarre phrase. Color's absence augurs season of commercial light? Change it 9:42 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

"Do You Have a Coupon for That?" (http://bit.ly/7SZenL): JK--Coupon culture takes the joy and spontaneity out of shopping. Ban 'em 9:37 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

GRATUITOUS-ERUDITION TWEETS

Love quasi-oxymoronic phrase: "exception that proves the rule." Obviously, exceptions DISPROVE rules. But "prove" has older sense of "test" 8:54 AM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

ARMCHAIR-PHILOSOPHER TWEETS

When someone labels self a "guru," I push back and head in opposite direction. Don't need prophet who stands to profit from leading me along 10:47 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

Half the time I think all human stress is due to trying to walk upright while trying to balance an overstuffed mind up top., 7:58 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

"Progress Software Underpins CERN’s Search for “God Particle”" (http://bit.ly/7UP1nR): JK--Heresy! Everybody knows the deity's a wave. 7:28 AM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

Learning how to sit in, and sink into, a chair is half the battle of sedentary life. Can be still but also poised for action. Max relaxation 9:08 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

ARTSY TWEETS

Just watching Quentin Tarantino talk tires me out. Hyper-excitable, strong element of crazy. Passionate. Saw him on Leno last night. 6:09 AM Dec 10th from TweetDeck

Revelation! Absolutely love Currier & Ives' contemporary lithographs of mid-19th century America. Peace & commerce. Not a hint of Civil War 10:26 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

RT @markmadsen: "he doesn't seem to be doing as well" JK--Yep: Luke's a lukewarm alternative to Owen, who's second-best to Ben Stiller 4:52 PM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

STRAY PERSONAL TWEETS

Good friends know they can count on Jimmy for a quick mojo infusion. Sometimes it's a 2-way intravenous proposition. 'SWotFriendsR4! 12:03 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

Inscription: "Halloween. NAIM. 10/70." NAIM was Catholic Widows & Widowers social group. Detroit. http://tweetphoto.com/6004077 11:47 AM Dec 7th from TweetPhoto

BTW, you'd be excused for thinking this me behind the shades and fake'stache. Guess who I resemble. http://tweetphoto.com/6004077 11:45 AM Dec 7th from TweetPhoto

Jan Coburn and Bill Kobielus, 1970. Party outfits. Dad was 46 then, a year after Mom passed away. http://tweetphoto.com/6004077 11:43 AM Dec 7th from TweetPhoto

STRAY POLITICAL TWEETS

So Obama accepted Nobel Peace Prize, discussed war he's escalating, used "just war" rationale. Hinted at war as alternative to unjust peace. 8 minutes ago from TweetDeck

"Will US Supreme Court overhaul Sarbanes-Oxley?" (http://bit.ly/8RHHJU): JK--"SarbOx": already feels like response to '00s trivia quiz. about 6 hours ago from TweetDeck

Cloud manifesto. SOA manifesto. Communist manifesto. Enough manifestos already. Kaczynski had manifesto. Not a credit to my people, BTW. 8:55 PM Dec 8th from TweetDeck

Karl Rove in WSJ says Obama can win in Afghanistan. Let me get this straight, someone in Republican camp wants this president to succeed? 10:30 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

"Painful Social Media Foray for Seattle Journalists" (http://bit.ly/65rUAe): JK--Twtr r-t p2p CEP? BTW, is Clemmons Huckabee's Horton? 10:21 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

STRAY SCIENCE TWEETS

WSJ article on permafrost melt in Fairbanks--city of 100,000--causing buildings to sink. Surprised subarctic can support city that large. 8:16 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

At what point does ALS' aka transition to "Stephen Hawking's Disease"? 9:33 PM Dec 6th from TweetDeck

RT @computerworld: "A solar storm in 2013 could trigger a giant power outage -- or not. http://bit.ly/4NDhwg" JK--Apocalypse now!--or not. 8:23 AM Dec 7th from TweetDeck

FLIPPING-OUT TWEETS

Flipped! Flipping out! Those who recall Flipper the TV show, the pinball game, and hardcore punk band will know what I'm talking about. Not about 22 hours ago from TweetDeck

Discussed the complex calculations behind a true man's strategic decision to drop the f-bomb to avoid long drawn out battle in war of words about 23 hours ago from TweetDeck

Worked the word "synoptics" organically into the conversation today. about 23 hours ago from TweetDeck

RT @jowyang @queenrania impressive leader...Excellent, inspiring, touching: JK--BTW check out funny Jordan entry in Onion's "Our Dumb World" 6:17 AM Dec 10th from TweetDeck

Would be ironic if we discovered Pluto has a core of solid plutonium. 4:54 PM Dec 9th from TweetDeck

FORRESTER blog repost Social Network Analysis: Going to Become Too Ubiquitous for Its Own Good

Social Network Analysis: Going to Become Too Ubiquitous for Its Own Good

By James Kobielus

Social networks are the future of online life, whether we like it or not. Before the end of the coming decade, relationships with everyone –including family, friends, colleagues, employers, merchants, suppliers, and government agencies—will hinge on your access to these parties, and theirs to you, through online communities of all shapes and sizes.

Social networks are becoming much more pervasive than today’s mass-market communities—such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn—would lead you to believe. Before long, many will be embedded in the full range of business and personal applications. In ten years’ time, today’s social networks will have evolved into a powerful, seamless worldwide infrastructure for collaboration, sharing, interaction, and transactions. Many will be integral features of the mobile, broadband, and streaming media services that shape business and consumer life. Many will be secure, robust environments that span across federated public and private clouds.

From an enterprise perspective, social networks are the “buzz” that can spell the difference between success and failure in a reputation-driven online economy. Already, we see a strong interest in social network monitoring and marketing tools. Everybody wants to know whether, how, how often, and by whom they’re being mentioned in Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and the like. And everybody wants to influence those discussions in their favor and extract maximum revenue potential from sales to people who use those media. Anybody who has ever tweeted the name of a large company and been immediately greeted by an automated “we’re following you” message from that same firm knows the power—and potential nuisance factor—of this new medium.

Clearly, social networks are highly monetizable. At heart, they are continuously refreshing streams of customer-generated intelligence on requirements, needs, sentiments, and experiences. As this new way of doing business gains traction, companies will focus the full power of advanced analytics on social networks, especially those where customers live. Forrester sees growing enterprise adoption of social network analysis, an emerging discipline of predictive analytics that mines behavioral, attititudinal, and other affinities among individuals. Though it can be applied to a broad range of scientific and other topics that involve no online interactions, social network analysis thrives on the deepening streams of information—structured and unstructured, user-generated and automated—that emanate from Facebook, Twitter, and other new Web 2.0 communities.

What exactly is social network analysis? Essentially, it involves discovering, mapping, and measuring relationships among people, groups, companies, and any other entities—including products, online content, and personal computers—with which they interact. It leverages such key data mining capabilities as segmentation, clustering, and regression to identify, for example, who are the leaders, followers, influencers, and outliers in social groupings. If viewed in the time dimension, social network analysis can reveal the cultural dynamics that spell the difference between a successful marketing campaign and a flop, or that drive one group of customers to renew their contracts and others to jump ship.

It doesn’t take much stretch of the imagination to see where this all might lead. As customers reveal candid thoughts in real time via Twitter and other social networks, enterprises can conceivably cut back on structured surveys, focus groups, and other traditional approaches to gauging demand. In their place, companies can simply and automatically “listen” to social networks through complex event processing; process unstructured text streams through content analytics; aggregate all intelligence into massive analytical data marts; and drive sales, marketing, and customer service through inline social network analytics models. The “killer app” for all this becomes the real-time “next best offer” your contact center makes from this intelligence, or the marketing campaign you re-arrange on the fly to save it from near-failure.

But there’s danger in this otherwise promising scenario. The problem is that social network analysis—automatic, real-time, effective--will become too popular. Enterprises will rely more and more on high-powered social-network-analysis models to divine market trends, segment the customer base, and tune their campaigns. As this approach gains adoption, companies will be tempted to pull back significantly from traditional outreach efforts—such as focus groups—that involve direct interaction with customers and other stakeholders.

It’s not that statistical models are inherently invalid. It’s just that they can become another layer of abstraction between you and your customers, preventing you from making personal connections with them and thereby securing their ongoing patronage and loyalty. Also, those models may crowd out the intuitional approaches you should use to gauge the cultural zeitgeist within which your business creates value.

To the extent that social network analysis encourages proliferation of superficial customer-segmentation categories—on the order of “Yuppie” and “Generation X”—it will invite backlash. One might refer to these sorts of magazine-ready segmentation labels as “statgeists,” meaning that they may have some grounding in statistical models of demographics and other metrics, but are little more than cutesy consultant-speak.

Beware of sexy statgeists. When you use these too-clever-by-half verbal concoctions, you gag a little, as do the real people to whom they ostensibly apply.

Aweekstweets November 23 to December 4 2009 dossemanas

TECH-AND-TECH-INDUSTRY TWEETS

RT @DataMiningTips: Mechanistician: Best Data Mining Algorithm http://bit.ly/82lIJb: JK--Best, schmest! Just give 'em options. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

JK2—I tried to steer clear of this “what’s the best algorithm?” business in scoring my Forrester PA/DM Wave.

Where, when, and from whom exactly did this word "statgeist" originate? Here, now, me. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

JK2—Expect a Forrester blog from me on this very topic, this very week, encompassing this and the following indented tweets:

Here's the thing about the statgeist: it's a figment of whatever stat model you use to characterize what you're observing. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

Difference between zeitgeist and statgeist? Former is finger to prevailing cultural winds. Latter uses statistical models as the weathervane about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

Social network analysis + real-time social network content analytics: good way of gauging the zeitgeist: or the "statgeist" about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

Somebody should divine the predictive modeling technique used by Nostradamus. Stats or SWAGs? Regression or obsession? Algorithm or alchemy? about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

RT @Truviso: "unique user tracking & segmentation.. breakthrough in web analytics : JK--Yep, enable powerful social network analysis. about 5 hours ago from TweetDeck

RT @RonaldDamhof @jheizenb "New BI trend: bashing BI trends" JK--Oldest BI trend in the book. The new BI trend is inventing new BI trends. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

JK2—Inventing new BI trends by inventing new ways to weave BI into our working lives, as evidenced by the following indented tweets:

"SAP readying potential Google Wave rival" (http://bit.ly/6QLITE): JK--Looks more like beefed-up BI collab in BusinessObjects. Cool. 1:53 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Taking MSFT briefing on PowerPivot. Herain Oberoi, Mike Tejedor & @donalddotfarmer. "Business insight in context of what u do day-to-day" 12:10 PM Nov 25th from TweetDeck

Tweets as key popularity indicators (KPIs of a different sort) in real-time collective intelligence (BI for social networking) environments? 12:48 PM Nov 25th from TweetDeck

"Microsoft: Black Screen of Death claims are flat-out false" (http://bit.ly/91zov7): JK--Do we really need color-coded screens of death? ;-) 1:50 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Sitting here trying to think of single thing Google developed (not acquired) that actually use regularly, other than search. Still thinkin' 1:48 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

RT @Intelligentform: "decisioning ....Predictive Analytics ....why equate them?" JK--Not an equation. 8:41 PM Nov 27th from TweetDeck

@Intelligentform "Automated decisioning" JK--Term of art for inline predictive analytics. Many micro-decisions to burden human with. 2:29 PM Nov 26th from web in reply to Intelligentform

"IBM feels cozy on sidelines as Oracle-Sun deal ... in anti-trust purgatory" (http://bit.ly/75ZNON): JK--Cue up Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun" 8:28 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

"MSFT Windows 8 Coming In 2012" (http://bit.ly/5WRgT7): JK--MSFT into tedious slog thru OS rev numbers. No hopeful "Vista" or "Millennium." 8:22 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Cloud DW: how/whether to virtualize across and leverage all the legacy flotsam of myriad hardware, OS, DBMSs, etc and thereby scale out. 7:14 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

All DW vendors contemplating cloud. Less than 50% have commercial cloud offerings now. 90% will by year from now. But few mature till 2011 7:06 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Well, the analyst community consensus on Google Chrome OS is breathtaking. It'll be a smashing success. It'll also fail miserably. 6:18 AM Nov 23rd from TweetDeck

LIFE-OF-AN-ANALYST TWEETS

Looking forward to @bevelson BI SaaS Wave. I'm sure it will be good. Boris has an awesome list of vendors providing BI in cloud-like form. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

Continuing to push back on people's well-meaning attempts to rebrand me down from "James" to "Jim." 7:42 AM Dec 3rd from TweetDeck

Always love when people tell me they enjoy my tweets. Not interested in how many "follow" me. Just interested in who I'm touching. 8:10 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Taking time off today. Time to do stuff around the house. So it doesn't feel like "off." But "off," none the less. 1:14 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

RT @aristippus303: "the Kenneth Tynan of analyst bloggers eh?" JK--Who's that? 7:00 AM Nov 25th from TweetDeck

Fundamentally, analyst's personal blog is centerpiece of their personal brand. How would corporations feel if compelled to kill their brand? 10:53 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

When I first started writing James Kobielus' Blog (http://bit.ly/5uuyTt) 5 yrs ago, I gave myself license to goof around. Hasn't hurt me. 10:43 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

It's more than just freedom to utter expletives. Stylistic freedom is key. Can't imagine "aweekstweet" as official biz-blog format. 10:41 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Anyway, back to topic of analysts with personal blogs. Free speech, personal viewpoints. Twitter too. Freedom to occasionally say "fuck" 10:33 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Love when folks finally meet me & vice versa. Shock of "that's him?" For the record, I'm shorter, older, balder, & more myopic than I appear 10:26 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Definitely love doing consulting. Especially when it's face to face on their turf. Working virtual gets old. Simply need to be among people. 10:22 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Did 3 straight biz days consulting to 3 very different IT vendors. Airline screwup kept today from being 4th . But will deliver next month. 10:20 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

RT @rwang0: "personal blogs being squelched by mgt in companies....1st amendment rights?" #socmedia: JK--Archaic concept: freedom of speech 10:01 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

"DC area analyst." What's that really mean? My customers and the vendors I cover are everywhere. It means DCA, IAD, or BWI: which is mine? 9:36 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Reading my own aweekstweets (why do I do that?) is self-revelation. I do indeed multiplex all those topics in my brain constantly. Weird! 9:18 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

An analyst-in-the-world must reserve the right to tweet, blog, or otherwise publish any analysis on any topic. If it's worth saying, say it. 9:20 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Facts, or corrections of same, are what should be presented to evaluator. Stray evaluative language shouldn't be thrown in. I filter it out. 10:05 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

Also not useful to accuse the evaluator of bias 10:02 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

Always best when vendors address only their own qualifications and not make gratuitous statements about the competition. 10:01 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

Most vendors actually address criteria AS STATED. Makes evaluator's job all the easier. Following instructions in everybody's best interest 9:59 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

Hey PA/DM Wave vendors: here's the definition I'm using for "strategy maps" (http://bit.ly/55hBJq). I didn't invent the concept. 6:40 AM Nov 25th from TweetDeck

Ah, yes, day-before-Thanksgiving of wall-to-wall vendor pushback on my PA/DM Wave. I'd love that cup of cheer now, Wed morn, but don't dare. 6:35 AM Nov 25th from TweetDeck

Fine-tooth-combing the vendor feedback to their scores in the Forrester PA/DM Wave...isolation (thru music) good way of focusing. 9:43 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

Meager tech news volume for Monday morning. Everybody already got their pre-Thanksgiving announcements out there. Folks a-flyin home this wk 6:27 AM Nov 23rd from TweetDeck

Today's atypical day where I've kept the music off most of time. And I'm taking a break, go figure. Don't have headache. Just love the quiet 5:19 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

SHAMELESS-SELF-PROMOTION TWEETS

Wrapping up the Forrester PA/DM Wave. Will be published (I assume) early next month. about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

Check out the @kickfire webinar with Forrester Analyst @jameskobielus - More Bang for your Data Warehousing Budget http://bit.ly/54GWsz about 9 hours ago from TweetDeck

Podcast: "BI Branches Out," 12-8-09, 2pm (est), @JeffreySchwartz , editor App Devel Trends & yrs truly (http://bit.ly/6votFt ). 7:09 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Webinar: Greenplum, @frankgillett & myself "Data Analytics & Cloud Computing: Convergence or Collision?" 12-15-09 (http://bit.ly/2cPRqv) 7:01 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Instrumenting Your Enterprise for Maximum Predictive Power (http://bit.ly/5OwMsy) 7:10 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

CONTINUING-TO-INDULGE-IN-SOCIAL-MEDIA-ARE-CHANGING-THE-VERY-FABRIC-OF-OUR-POSTMODERN-EXISTENCE-WAIT-A-SEC-WHY-AREN’T THESE IN TECH-TWEET? TWEETS

"Internet's Destruction of Critical Thinking" (http://bit.ly/8uDY9o): JK--No way. Lets us talk back to everything. That's critical thinking. 2:09 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

RT @PublicityGuru: "Is Twitter the New Wire Service? http://bit.ly/4IpEXp" JK--Yes, indeed. That's my primary use of it, as tweet consumer. 1:33 PM Dec 1st from TweetDeck

All these Google Wave invites going out today must mean Google's either very confident it's primetime ready--or desperate for users. 5:17 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

A futzing-intensive Monday in cyberspace. Folks a-futzing with their new Google Wave, new TweetDeck version, new Kindle, new Windows 7, etc. 5:15 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

RT @swaynette: :Who do I know on Google Wave? How do I find you? I want to see what this thing does." JK--You know me. I'm also learning 5:13 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

Great thing about Twitter for uninitiated, and hesistant, new user, is that it comes packed with content and community--enticements to tweet 5:01 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

TweetDeck browsing: perfect music-on-hold activity: can pick up or leave off anywhere, anytime: not concentration- or continuity-intensive 4:21 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

Got invited to Google Wave today. Puttering around inside it. But still haven't figured out answer to key question: "why?" 1:16 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

Google Wave just sits there inert and uninviting if it isn't delivered pre-populated with interactive, collaborative content (i.e., Waves). 4:59 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

RT @aristippus303: "Facebook...cheesy." JK--Yes, it is. But I do like the ability to share photos. And to aggregate my tweets and blogs. 8:47 PM Nov 27th from TweetDeck

Arguments on Twitter are very ping-pong. Give me whiplash jerking my neck back and forth to follow. Ball's invisible as hummingbird wings. 8:44 PM Nov 27th from TweetDeck

That was too bitty. This version hopefully is bitsy. Let's see. 9:12 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

Going for the consistent photo across all my online personas. 9:06 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

"Forecasting the Demise of Social Media" (http://bit.ly/7BMqzG): JK--Inevitable backlash. Can see headlines: "First SOA, Now Social: DEAD!!" 3:09 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

"Turn Your Twitter Tweets Into Books!" (http://bit.ly/7EerCA): JK--As anybody slogging thru my aweekstweets knows, it's pure vanity project 7:26 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Oh, I have Plaxo. That's right, I have Plaxo. Explain to yourself again, Jim, why you have Plaxo. Well, I have Plaxo because.....Don't know. 11:08 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

Oh, I see. Blogger.com doesn't like bullets. Wonder what it's stand is on the 2nd amendment. 2:00 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

Raked remaining leaves this morning before the rain. Unfollowing the brain-dead tweet-pushers that have fluttered and cluttered my TweetDeck 4:30 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

MUSIC-CUZ-THAT’S-WHAT-I’M-WHISTLING-WHILE-I-WORK-IF-YOU-REALLY-MUST-KNOW TWEETS

RT @kexpplaylist: Santa Claus by The Sonics #KEXP: JK--60s Seattle rock band Xmas song recording that appropriates melody of "Farmer John" about 10 hours ago from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Killer Queen by Queen #KEXP: JK--This group mashed up an odd but distinctive blend of fruity and macho guitar-rock. about 11 hours ago from TweetDeck

RT @albumvsalbum "Beach Boys - "Pet Sounds" vs Beatles - "Rubber Soul"" JK--No. "Pet Sounds" v. Dylan "Blonde on Blonde." 1966 gems. 8:49 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Listening to "Caroline, No," from Beach Boys "Pet Sounds." At end, dogs are barking "pet sounds." Receding train sound is doppler shifting 8:04 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Castles Made Of Sand by The Jimi Hendrix Experience #KEXP: JK--From "Axis Bold as Love." At the time, 1967 felt dream-like 7:34 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: I Was Made For You by She & Him #KEXP: JK--Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward doing very cool early-60s-ish girl-groupy song 7:32 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

"Hailing the death cab for Cobol" (http://bit.ly/7IqCAZ): JK--Ben Gibbard, call your lawyer! 1:50 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Lesson No. 1 by Viva Voce #KEXP: JK--Great Seattle-Portland axis 2000s man-woman sotto-voce chill-groove indie group 8:58 AM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Doctor Robert by The Beatles #KEXP: JK--"Take a drink from his special cup, Dr. Robert." What was in it, John Lennon? 10:43 AM Dec 1st from TweetDeck

Finally got around to putting Carpenters greatest hits on my Zune. Already had Jefferson Airplane's. Both acts signed to RCA same day 1966 5:28 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

Amazing: Music legend Smokey Robinson is following me on Twitter. All I had to do was tweet him. Sounds like Aladdin's Lamp: "Open sesame!" 6:32 AM Nov 25th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Fairytale of New York by The Pogues #KEXP: JK--Flat-out, one of the best Xmas songs ever. Ever. 10:44 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Dog Days Are Over by Florence and the Machine #KEXP: JK--Wow! Who is this singer? Sounds like the new Annie Lennox. 10:22 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: What Have You Done? by Naomi Shelton & Gospel Queens #KEXP: JK--Another great new Daptone release that feels vintage R&B! 9:36 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Listening to the best version anywhere of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen": Sarah McLachlan & Barenaked Ladies: Kid ye not: Joyeux Canuck Noel! 9:59 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Listening to Smokey Robinson and the Miracles "Going to a Go-Go." So totally swinging 60s, urbanity, bounce. Like Petula Clark "Downtown." 9:57 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Listening to Carpenters' version of Leon Russell's "Superstar." People read way too much cultural politics into them. Gorgeous melodicism. 9:45 AM Nov 28th from TweetDeck

Listening: Rilo Kiley "The Angels Hung Around" fr "Under the Blacklight." Jenny Lewis sings in round tones, wicked inflections, killer hooks 9:27 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Librarian by My Morning Jacket #KEXP: JK--One of those exquisite lovesongs that transports you to a different world. 7:40 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Listening to Bobb B. Soxx & Blue Jeans "Bells of St. Mary" from Spector's "A Christmas Gift For You." Thinking "Planes Trains & Automobiles" 6:22 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Bon Iver: the name, sound. They (he) are to winter what Beach Boys are to summer. Bon Iver into snowboarding? Nah. Scratch that comparison. 10:19 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

I like Lady Gaga's music. I just don't like when musicians dress up in stupid get-ups that distract from the music. Also, dancing's overdone 9:46 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

Relistening to one of my 2009 fave albums: Andrew Bird's "Noble Beast." Gem-like, its beauty remains untarnished by repeated play. 9:44 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

Listening to Enya, "Lazy Days," from "A Day Without Rain": her best album: her most thrilling cycle of waltzes & prayers, airs & atmospheres 9:34 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Queenie The Dog by Daniel Johnston #KEXP: JK--Second song they've played from his new album. Even better than the first. 5:45 AM Nov 23rd from TweetDeck

Was listening to NPR podcast on Johnny Mercer birth centenary. Didn't realize same lyricist did "Hooray for Hollywood" and "Moon River." 11:35 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

Doubleclick continuous gibberish stream in TweetDeck to see full/compressed Johnny Mercer lyric to "Moon River." Happy posthumous100th (+40) 6:03 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

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TV TWEETS

Last night's premiere of Scrubs' 9th season (or 1st season of re-premise spinoff) worked well, not jarringly different. New cast funny. 2:43 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

TIME-MARCHES-INEXORABLY-ON TWEETS

Watching family home videos from 12 years ago. Haven't watched them in years. Rarely use the VCR anymore. How much longer til can't replace? 2 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Sonya couldn't believe when I showed how many photos I shot in the 70s/80s. More than 40 albums. Burden as much as blessing to watch over. 8:29 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Clear (literally) that pollution controls work. Evidence: my skyline fotos of Detroit, Chicago, NYC, & LA in 70s vs. what I've seen lately. 8:23 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Somehow, even nasty scenes of fading dilapidated Detroit neighborhoods in the 70s have twilight quality all their own. Especially in winter 7:48 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Color photos from the 70s have faded miserably. IMHO, the worst decade of all for color in photos, films, clothes, etc. Chromatic meltdown. 7:44 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Black-and-white photos always look classy. Hold their hi-contrast beauty well thru the years. Color is overrated. 7:41 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

1976. Gerald Ford campaigning in my hometown to be elected president. Have fotos of him, Wayne Rogers, Chuck Connors. None of them Livonians 7:39 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Reviewing roll-by-roll, month-by-month, album-by-album photo record I snapped btwn ages 13-25. Didn't realize then how fast time was passing 7:31 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

RT @robcur "Sharing dupe pics widely in family improves survivability" JK--Right. I prefer not to be sole custodian. My brothers have some. 6:26 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

RT @tim_walters "We still print and store photos, but it's only the 5% we want" JK--That model only works when have family archivist. 5:39 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Seasonal affective disorder: it's contagious: even across the years: looking at photos of Michigan winters in the 70s in my hometown induces 2:52 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Digital photography has ended era of people keeping physical albums/boxes full of tangible photos. Good thing, or family history oblivion? 2:35 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

33 yrs later, "Vote for America's Official Bicentenn Slogan": Candidate 6: "Freedom's way--U.S.A." (got my vote: dumb, but at least rhymes) 10:09 AM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

33 yrs later, "Vote for America's Offic Bicent Slgan": Candidate 5: "Stand fast, stand tall, stand American" (as USA shorty, I take offense) 10:08 AM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

33 yrs later, "Vote for America's Offic Bicenten Slgn": Candidate 4: "Take pride in Amrca's past, take prt in Amer's future" (by not dying?) 10:06 AM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

33 yrs later, "Vote for America's Official Bicentennial Slogan": Candidate 3: "Honor the past, challenge the future" (now challenge 2042?) 10:04 AM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

33 yrs later, "Vote for America's Official Bicentennial Slogan": Candidate 2: "America--the possible dream" (allusion to Man of La Mancha?) 10:01 AM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

33 yrs later, "Vote for America's Official Bicentennial Slogan": Candidate 1: "America is your past, you are her future" (hmmm, USA a lady) 10:00 AM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

TV Guide ad, '76 "Vote for America's Official Bicentennial Slogan." Don't recall/care which won. "All submissions...property of Slogans USA" 9:57 AM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Liberating my teenage-years photo images from those horrid, bulky, reverse-inscription-concealing, tacky 70s sticky-page mass-market albums. 8:54 AM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Decade's ending, dontcha know, and Tiger Woods is tarnishing before our eyes. Sad. Been brightest/richest athletic star of past 10 years. 5:26 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

Decade's ending, dontcha know, and Dubai's imploding. Feels like it was bound to happen. And it's happening. 5:21 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

People reading PA/DM into yesterday poem are correct. Janus-like, DM is history's spectacle, PA is futurity's: each lens refracts the other. 9:49 AM Nov 28th from TweetDeck

Also, re Facebook's post-from-TXT feature, annoying when 3rd stanza arrives, but 1st & 2nd don't. I post poems. 8:52 PM Nov 27th from TweetDeck

New poem "End, Decade!" (http://bit.ly/8wQLoH) 8:52 PM Nov 27th from TweetDeck

Lions lost again? They've been premier Thanksgiving turkeys for long as can remember. And their old stadium just sold for less than my house 3:53 PM Nov 26th from web

Working out really does work. I've been inhabiting this skin for 51+ years and somehow my nervous system stays better braced thru turbulence 6:27 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

OVERSHARING-FAMILY-STUFF-ON-TWITTER-BUT-KNOWING-FULL-WELL-THAT-MY-FAMILY-WILL-SEE-IMMEDIATELY-WHEN-TWEET-AUTOSYNCS-TO-MY-FACEBOOK TWEETS

Discussing quantum imaging applications with Jason Lee. Thanksgiving small talk. Really. I'm weird. Hope Sonya's not embarrassed. He's cool. 3:35 PM Nov 26th from web

Waiting for Thanksgiving: chance to meet significant somebodies my grown children seeing. I promise not to be De Niro in "Meet the Parents." 9:39 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Sonya needs to remember that geeks rule. Really. 3:37 PM Nov 26th from web

GRATUITOUSLY-SENSUAL TWEETS

Stapling is a pleasant activity. The press, crunch, click, and binding of a tidy stack of papers--brings even disorderly pulp into alignment 5:51 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Coffee is calming. If you use it to come down from long dark day indoors musing over nothing but interiors. And if you do so in coffee shop. 5:50 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

Weather was good here today. Finished all raking and disposing of dead-leafy matter. Also finished smoothing living stuff into tidy piles. 1:35 PM Dec 1st from TweetDeck

@Intelligentform "Manual selection"? That's highly pleasurable birth-control technique. ;-) 2:14 PM Nov 26th from web in reply to Intelligentform

Hey Panera Bread, thanks for following me. Clearly, you have bot listening for Twitter mentions. Do you also have free-food bot? 7:52 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Panera Bread's always a comforting coffeehouse. Kingstowne VA, Marlborough MA, Penna Turnpike--same cozy ambience. 6:26 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

HOLIDAY-MOOD TWEETS

"Defoliating a victory garden sure works up an appetite." - Firesign Theatre, from "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" about 10 hours ago from TweetDeck

December's almost here: the month of force-marched festivities. Oh well...any excuse for a party is a good one. 9:14 PM Nov 30th from TweetDeck

Giving thanks for tech turkeys to feast our tweets on. Name social net that you never quite got into (incl Twtr). Some will be history soon 2:35 PM Nov 26th from web

HIgh society. Why anxiety? Try variety. F*ck sobriety! 8:07 PM Nov 25th from TweetDeck

Happy Thanksgiving! My head's basted and broiled. Need some cool toddies. 3:30 PM Nov 25th from TweetDeck

GRATUITOUS-ERUDITION TWEETS

Starbucks was named for character in Moby-Dick. First outlet at Seattle Pike Place Market, overlooking Puget Sound docks. Connection? 6:56 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

ARMCHAIR-PHILOSOPHER TWEETS

Predictive power: what intuition delivers: ability to sense inevitables in yr nervous system: algorithms are dendrites fraught with futurity 9:50 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

Sitting tight is a good strategy for riding any fast-moving vehicle. Sit tight and focus. But relax your responses. Roll with the shocks. 8:35 AM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

STRAY PERSONAL TWEETS

Love when can comfort friend over phone. Neither needs to see the other's red face. Just feel the other's soothing tone. Both better for it. 9:30 PM Nov 24th from TweetDeck

STRAY POLITICAL TWEETS

NIce to see that, as his 1st anniversary in office nears, Obama is finally dealing with realistic expectations of what he can accomplish. 1:58 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck

STRAY SPORTS TWEETS

Boston's the biggest hometown sports-team-crazy city I've ever seen. When in Boston, best to feign interest in Sox, Celts, Patriots, Bruins. 9:52 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck

STRAY SCIENCE TWEETS

"Open Source Science" (http://bit.ly/738RJI): JK--See also "More Scientists Treat Experiments as Team Sport" (http://bit.ly/7Xsl16). 6:06 AM Nov 23rd from TweetDeck

HEART-OF-DARKNESS TWEETS

"The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery" (http://bit.ly/7k4lbC): JK--Really? You can have any heart any color you wish, as long as it's black? 2:54 PM Dec 2nd from TweetDeck