James Kobielus' Blog: Aweekstweets December 14, 2009 to January 8, 2010

Saw "Leap Year." Good solid rom-com, strikingly set upon Ireland's landscape, with emotional layering, another superb Amy Adams performance. 11 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Here's a dumb idea that just might work: Jay Leno & Conan O'Brien co-host the Tonight Show. The Today show has multiple hosts. Why not? about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck

@EricaDriver Immersive BI. That would involve immersing yourself in the info, visualizations, & problem space. See @bevelson "BI workspace" about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to EricaDriver

Self-service BI: putting developers and users in the same exact location: in your own mind, with right brain/left brain conversations about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck

"Principle of Proximity: THE Best Practice in BI" (http://bit.ly/4XHPcC): JK--Self-svc BI has greatest "proximity." hence very best practice about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck

@SethGrimes With storage costs being the gating factor on DW growth, my 10-40x avg-DW-cap growth-by-2020 prediction may be conservative. about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to SethGrimes

"Internet Predictions" (http://bit.ly/5RbLBw): JK--Vint Cerf forecasts storage costs drop by factor of 100 by 2020: dirt-cheap petabytes! about 8 hours ago from TweetDeck

Prediction is very predictable: every year-end, like clockwork. Failing to acknowledge failure of last year's predictions: also predictable. about 8 hours ago from TweetDeck

Near as can tell, "integrated" synonymous with "copacetic," which means "very satisfactory." Try substituting latter for former. No, don't! about 9 hours ago from TweetDeck

Integration. That's a classic vendor secret-sauce word. It defies useful definition, though. What's it mean to be "more integrated"? about 9 hours ago from TweetDeck

On call with FICO & @johnrrymer to discuss Decision Optimizer 6 about 10 hours ago from TweetDeck

5 in 5....i've never done that before...as I told @merv, I've tweaked my M.O. about 11 hours ago from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Process Mining: Because Your Company’s Workflow Issues Aren’t Always Obvious" (http://bit.ly/5WZQ17) (http://bit.ly/74wcMp) about 11 hours ago from TweetDeck

My advice for Conan is to hang tight. Jay will return to 11:30 damaged by fiasco. Conan will emerge into a bidding war if NBC lets him go. about 13 hours ago from TweetDeck

"DARPA seeks radical ocean surveillance technology" (http://bit.ly/8N88Av): JK--Pixar may bid on this work, leveraging "Finding Nemo" IP. about 13 hours ago from TweetDeck

"Cellphone Radiation May Thwart Alzheimer's" (http://bit.ly/7N12Dg): JK--So what's the net-net: Do we strap them to our heads now? about 13 hours ago from TweetDeck

@spwalker I can see the NoCal headlines now: "Temblor sends jitters and fear thru Twittersphere round here" 2:59 PM Jan 7th from TweetDeck in reply to spwalker

"The New Decade of Advanced Analytics: Roll Over Rocket Scientists!" (http://bit.ly/5anmem): JK--Self-re-tweet, to underline previous tweet. 2:07 PM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

"BI expert 2010 forecasts" (http://bit.ly/7IEJyc): JK--Sez me "User-frndly pred modeling -> info wkpl," so rocket scientist skills overkill 2:01 PM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

@donalddotfarmer Analysts are everywhere. I'm part of National Capital Region analyst community, from many firms. I'm NoVa, not NoCa. 1:31 PM Jan 7th from TweetDeck in reply to donalddotfarmer

Interesting. Can gauge geo epicenter of IT analyst tweet-o-sphere from responses to common jolt. In other words, confirm what already knew. 1:13 PM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

Following NoCal earthquake reportage from IT analyst community. Possible to gauge Richter/epicenter from aggregated, geolocated tweets? 1:09 PM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

@drnatalie Pilots should ask passengers to check behind prior to reclining seat. If not, risk of damaging laptops, solarplexus, nerves, mood 1:07 PM Jan 7th from TweetDeck in reply to drnatalie

"Time Capsule: Looking Back at Yr Job 50 Years From Now" (http://bit.ly/8nQ206): JK--Hmmm. When I'm 101, will I care about this stuff? 11:54 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

New blogpost "Social Network Analysis: Fuse Igniting EDW Growth. Planet Petabyte or Bust!" (http://bit.ly/5g4sYs) (http://bit.ly/4ximti) 10:27 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

"Eleven BI/Analytics Topics for 2010" (http://bit.ly/8oviKi). Good set of research topics from @SethGrimes 8:00 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

Working on #forrester TEI ROI study on DW appliances. Looking for few more good case studies to interview. Know any? U yourself interested? 7:58 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

Disagree. You can love your spouse but sustaining a relationship is work. Same with careers. @Hacksec #Infosec #Privacy #Compliance #Risk 7:56 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

"Death Throes of Free TV" (http://bit.ly/7dHoeG): JK--Never been truly free. Never been free from commercial interruption & pledge drives. 7:54 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

If that sort of retro-logic were valid, we'd be able--in theory--to build predictive models that specify the exact lifespan of everything. 7:48 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

That sort of logic usually produces the blindingly useless post-facto analysis of "well, they survived, didn't they, so they were fittest." 7:46 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

Famous Darwin quote (http://bit.ly/5JxjSR) is tautology: net-net, it says those who survive are those with greatest propensity to survive. 7:43 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck

@SethGrimes @HiddenVirginia You mean, how many years before all people living in Virginia were recognized as citizens AND had suffrage? 7:05 AM Jan 7th from TweetDeck in reply to SethGrimes

RT @HiddenVirginia "VA Gen'l Assembly oldest continuously operating rep body in USA." JK--Fun fact: no longer called House of Burgesses. 3:41 PM Jan 6th from TweetDeck

Hey vendors, this point bears repeating: if you want an analyst to mention you, it helps to have something interestiing to share with world 2:29 PM Jan 6th from TweetDeck

Hmmm...enterprise oper BI = agile BI + IT gov, where agile BI = self-service+mashup+SaaS+in-mem+federation+ [longer equation truncated] 1:48 PM Jan 6th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Back To The Life by Spoon #KEXP: JK--Grammies should give award for best use of laughter. This would have won in 2002. 1:25 PM Jan 6th from TweetDeck

I've taken 3 enterprise user inquiries this week on data warehousing in the cloud/SaaS. I'm seeing a steady buildup of interest. Interesting 1:05 PM Jan 6th from TweetDeck

@OMichaelo True journalist? No such religion. Just people in a profession that involves churning out copy for periodic publication. 11:11 AM Jan 6th from TweetDeck in reply to OMichaelo

Most interesting takeaway from recent NPR chat with NYTimes reporter: their mgt encourages them to tweet. All the news that's fit to tweet! 11:09 AM Jan 6th from TweetDeck

Me and other #forrester analysts are discussing our cloud/SaaS coverage plans for 2010. 10:24 AM Jan 6th from TweetDeck

RT @lauradidio: Is it any wonder that IBM, HP et al are putting more emphasis on their services orgs? That's where the margins are best 10:08 AM Jan 6th from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Conversation as a Complex Event" (http://bit.ly/7OHqWr) (http://bit.ly/8MRtdp) 9:59 AM Jan 6th from TweetDeck

"Cisco Acquired Most Start-Ups In Decade" (http://bit.ly/6eIvy5): JK--Curious if anyone's compiled vendor batting avg: which acqs made diff? 6:57 AM Jan 6th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: What Would I Want? Sky by Animal Collective #KEXP: JK--These guys are Phillip Glass-y cyclic, but in popsong form. 6:41 AM Jan 6th from TweetDeck

Pondering British precip. Listening to "Rain" by Alison Statton & Spike (1997, Cardiff) & "Rain" by Beatles (1966, Liverpool). 6:39 AM Jan 6th from TweetDeck

Having conversation with Michelle de Haaff, CMO of Attensity, on the "conversation-driven enterprise"...irony is fully intentional 2:18 PM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

Oh no! I introduced "high-tech" vs. "high-touch" into discussion of social ntwking with fellow #Forrester analyst. OK Naisbitt--you memed me 1:44 PM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

@Victor_Sokovin Thanks for the clarification on all that. I've had it thrown at me as a stigma word in many contexts in my career. 1:07 PM Jan 5th from TweetDeck in reply to Victor_Sokovin

RT @Victor_Sokovin: " articles on tech subjects...journalism." JK--Yr "journalism" slap: does that also apply to analysts who write poorly? 12:24 PM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

RT @Victor_Sokovin "write articles on technical subjects. I call this journalism." JK--Essentially, that description applies to all analysts 12:07 PM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Know Better Learn Faster by Thao with the Get Down Stay Down #KEXP: JK--Title of great 2009 song is my mantra for Teens! 10:50 AM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

Hmmm...I suspected that some big M&A news would follow New Years Day...this is big news.....no comment on it other than "big." 9:54 AM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "The New Decade of Advanced Analytics: Roll Over Rocket Scientists!" (http://bit.ly/61qlLw) (http://bit.ly/6U5Foc) 9:36 AM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

@Victor_Sokovin Interesting. At what point in my career did I become a "journalist"? Do I have a doppelganger? 8:59 AM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

Hmmmm.....Northrop HQ's bolting SoCal for National Capital Region....I wonder if they're coming to VA or MD...I'm rooting for Old Virginny 7:04 AM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

@bevelson will soon publish a great #forrester report on BI SaaS. I urge our clients to read it. 7:02 AM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

The notion that I'm "taking on Inmon" is absurd. I simply responded to an opinion put forth by another analyst. 7:00 AM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

Ah yes, Twitter, my quicktake scan at current news and buzz...what did I do before this? Was that really less than a year ago? 6:59 AM Jan 5th from TweetDeck

@SethGrimes The 40s--i.e., WW2--was pure disaster, but modern computing was invented then. Good things do take place in disaster areas. 6:58 AM Jan 5th from TweetDeck in reply to SethGrimes

@bethtorrie Well, then, that was the only mention I've heard of this season. And I was paying attention. 3:37 PM Jan 4th from TweetDeck in reply to bethtorrie

It was the Aughts and it was awesome. Cheryl Waters of #KEXP knows what I'm talking about. 3:21 PM Jan 4th from TweetDeck

Flabbergasted nobody put Shins' "Wincing The Night Away" in their top 10 albums of Aughts; released exactly 3 years ago, it was in my top 2 1:20 PM Jan 4th from TweetDeck

Just realized something. I didn't once see or hear the word "Kwanzaa" this entire holiday season. Sign of something? 11:46 AM Jan 4th from TweetDeck

@SethGrimes We survived didn't we! So the disaster wasn't total. 11:28 AM Jan 4th from TweetDeck in reply to SethGrimes

Emerging consensus in my head is that first decade CE & last BCE were leap decades: had no "zero" years. All l8r CE decades start at 0-year. 10:44 AM Jan 4th from TweetDeck

Emerging consensus among the handful of people I have hand-selected to represent everybody that the Aughts were pure disaster, as a decade. 10:37 AM Jan 4th from TweetDeck

"Long Search 4 Quick Fix" (http://bit.ly/8yRpen): JK: 50% self-conscious wearing Manilow t-shirt. 100% self-conscious writing 4 "New Nixon" 10:18 AM Jan 4th from TweetDeck

RT @nenshad: @jameskobielus Good post and I agree but I hope you know that Inmon trademarked "DW 2.0"... :): JK--Whatever! 10:13 AM Jan 4th from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Whither Data Warehousing in the Teens?" (http://bit.ly/4nbgQi) (http://bit.ly/61wNWZ) 9:35 AM Jan 4th from TweetDeck

Wow...the crush of email piled up during my time-off. Oh well, I'm rested. I'm up to it. 7:45 AM Jan 4th from TweetDeck

@Alyssa_Milano What does it mean to "tweet way too much"? This isn't a self-destructive habit, like smoking or narcotics. It's expression. 9:30 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck in reply to Alyssa_Milano

@znmeb I don't know of any number-theoretic contributions to nano either. But I suspect that it'll come handy in quantum engineering. 9:29 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck in reply to znmeb

Obvious who's been taking holiday breaks from Twitter. Curious who'll resume their pre-holiday tweeting output/rhythm, and who won't. 9:27 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

@geekosaur Wealth is annuity stream ($ or in-kind) extractable from any resource (tangible or otherwise) not consumed immediately. 9:19 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck in reply to geekosaur

RT @znmeb: "error-free DSP" (http://bit.ly/6WvO99): JK--Cool. Number theory drives our engineering of DSP, crypto, and, I suppose, nano. 9:16 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

@SethGrimes Good observation. Also noticed that humans in this film were all cinema cliches. 9:13 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck in reply to SethGrimes

@SethGrimes Agreed. "Avatar" felt like creaky old anthropmorphic sci-fi: thinly disguised earth allegory. 8:56 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck in reply to SethGrimes

It's been said that public-key encryption is the only practical application of number theory. Can you name others? 8:52 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

We've been bombarded with, and/or created, so many year-end/decade-end best/worst-of lists. Now I'm listing to port. And a bit listless. 8:21 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

Saddest musician death of the Aughts (not including MJ) was Kirsty MacColl. Before Xmas '00, hit by speedboat swimming with sons off Cancun. 8:15 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

Let's see. My fave movie of the Aughts was...."Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." It took bold creative risks & delivered deep message. 8:11 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

What's root of all wealth? Physiocrats said land; technocrats say technology; capitalists say capital; communists say labor. Age-old debate. 7:59 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

@brwood Ingenuity = innovation. The day business has monopoly on that is the day academe, arts, and all higher culture withers and dies 7:55 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck in reply to brwood

RT @kexpplaylist: All The Pleasures Of The World by The Crayon Fields #KEXP: JK--This mellow-making Australian group demands repeat listens 7:54 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

@ekolsky IT/biz convergence "unify into one." How? Sounds metaphysical. Biz runs on $, but do they "unify into one"? 7:50 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck in reply to ekolsky

@SethGrimes Re "Avatar" design, the Navi looked like cross between Native Americans, Vulcans, & Blue Man Group. Just didn't do it for me. 7:35 PM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck in reply to SethGrimes

RT @brwood: Ingenuity will change the nature of business, not engineering. Only when ingenuity changes engineering. 8:30 AM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

Cool. I had one of Information Management's most popular blogs of 2009: http://bit.ly/8d0TWQ 8:25 AM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

Prime numbers are cool: generate any pos. integer (via times-ing), just as "1" can (via sum-ing). Can model primes as units in alt-nbr-thry. 8:14 AM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

Most interesting fact about proof to Fermat's Last Theorem: Wiles developed it while maintaining work-life balance--and his sanity. Bravo! 7:57 AM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

RT @ekolsky Biz/IT "convergence" implies that IT is at the very heart of the definition of "business," which only serves IT's interest. 7:04 AM Jan 3rd from TweetDeck

RT @ekolsky "egg in my face -- sorry ": JK--NP. Actually, "business/IT convergence" is red herring. Real issue is measuring IT biz payoff. 9:41 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck

RT @bevelson: RT @RomanStanek: RT @dijitalife: "[tomorrow] is a rare palindrome date: 2010 01-02" JK--Also in US date convention: 01-02-2010 9:33 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck

First day of the Teens. Overcast, but not overbearingly so. Windy, but manageable. My expectations are comfortably low. Bring it on! 9:28 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck

Finished book on Fermat's Last Theorem, and sorta understood. I have marvelous proof that I did, but Twitter's character count too small. 9:26 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck

RT @ekolsky @SethGrimes @nenshad "JK:convergence=Computers replace all humans" | that's automation, not convergence...: JK--That's a joke! 9:21 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck

Light holiday reading: "Fermat's Enigma" by Simon Singh. Number theory is mind-blowingly......um.....arcane? 3:56 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck

Remarkable absence of significant overlap among best-of lists: people are thinking for themselves: I applaud that, people! 3:55 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck

RT @JeromePineau "I'll send you 2 bottles to compare. You decide": JK--That's my procedure. Consume first, analyze later--or never. 3:32 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck

Saw "Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel." Best combo of CGI & live-action I've seen in cinema lately. "Avatar" is clunky, at best. 3:09 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck

RT @nyuhanna: Choosing my running/workout songs for the month.. .any suggestions?: JK--That's Not My Name by The Ting Tings. 3:08 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck

RT @SethGrimes: @nenshad @jameskobielus @ekolsky "simple, sensible definition of business/IT convergence: JK--Computers replace all humans 3:07 PM Jan 1st from TweetDeck

Prediction: all new DWs will be all-SSD and all-cloud by 2020: for very fast, low-cost query across disparate info sets. 10:01 AM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Prediction: data mining and text analytics will be single, converged market segment by 2015: targeting social-media customer analytics. 9:58 AM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Prediction: M&A in predictive analytics will come fast/furious in 2010: targeted at SMB, integrated with BI, focused on in-mem visualization 9:57 AM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck

@JeromePineau One demonstrates fields of expertise by rendering commentary & by providing pertinent, specific comments on others' comments. 9:51 AM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to JeromePineau

Aughts end today. Ought we to derive some uber-theme from the 10 years now ending? Odds & ends only: an odyssey ongoing: a decade decaying. 8:42 AM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Exploring deep Beatles catalogue. Love all of Harrison's compositions. Start with: "Don't Bother Me" from "With The Beatles." 8:34 AM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Saw "The Blind Side." Redemptive power of love, sports, education, & white guilt. Bullock predictably earns her movie-star pay. Good, though 8:31 AM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Saw "Avatar." Multidimensional modern filmmaking: 3-D CGI, 2-D plot, 1-D character devel. Scenery-chewing beasties abound. Strikingly flat. 8:29 AM Dec 31st, 2009 from TweetDeck

WSJ says LinkedIn looking to increase time people spend in it. My suggestion: Merge with Facebook & Twitter. 12:50 PM Dec 30th, 2009 from TweetDeck

@carterlusher To make analyst summits more productive, give analysts option to blend face-to-face & virtual to suit their needs. 12:48 PM Dec 30th, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to carterlusher

Year-end best-of lists are getting more idiosyncratic every year. Critics agree less & less. Little overlap among their lists. Good thing? 9:45 AM Dec 30th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @jpmorgenthal: @atmanes "intricacies of Twitter spammers following you: http://is.gd/5GEfs" JK--Thanks JP. They're huge nuisance. 9:40 AM Dec 30th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Centers of excellence are key to stabilizing and spreading best practices. Best BI-using orgs cultivate them. 9:37 AM Dec 30th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @carterlusher: "AR teams adopt virtual events w/ mixed results" JK--I find them unproductive. Face-to-face lets me focus 100% on a vendor 9:36 AM Dec 30th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Still haven't been to a "TweetUp" around Northern Virginia. What do people do at these events anyway? 9:34 AM Dec 30th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @msnbc_tech: Top 9 Internet memes of 2009 http://bit.ly/5M7fRL: JK--Dumb selections to illustrate dumb concept. 9:33 AM Dec 30th, 2009 from TweetDeck

@JeromePineau What did you think about the other 6 blogs I simulposted in the same septet? 9:20 AM Dec 30th, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to JeromePineau

RT @JeromePineau: New blogpost: "Kommentary on Wine 2" (http://bit.ly/7wEVz8) - Sorry Jim, ...Stick to BI :): JK--No, thanks 11:13 AM Dec 29th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on Wine 2" (http://bit.ly/7wEVz8) 11:09 AM Dec 29th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on Obama 2" (http://bit.ly/5nIu2e) 11:08 AM Dec 29th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on Memory 2" (http://bit.ly/5ScikC) 11:07 AM Dec 29th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on Yoga 2" (http://bit.ly/6RJoOu) 11:07 AM Dec 29th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on Media 2" (http://bit.ly/4YAPnS) 11:07 AM Dec 29th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on Commentary 2" (http://bit.ly/8ihRVh) 11:06 AM Dec 29th, 2009 from TweetDeck

At start of Aughts, I'd already been writing Network World column for 13 years. Blogosphere killed it last yr. Social media now my "column." 11:53 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

My coverage areas have shifted greatly in this decade. You all know my current focus areas. In 2000, I was groupware analyst, primarily. 11:48 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Fundamentally, 'twas decade of #KEXP. I first tuned in in Feb 2002, after getting broadband. I haven't stopped. It has transformed radio. 11:45 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: There There by Radiohead #KEXP: JK--Hands down my favorite Radiohead tune. From 2004's "Hail to the Thief." 11:42 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Don't know about you all, but somehow this decade's many shocks have helped me tune my personal shock absorbers. I feel reasonably calm. 11:41 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

The Aughts begin & end with Democratic administrations in Washington, and Republicans in between, but terrorism endures. Non-partisan issue. 11:38 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Saw "Up in the Air" over the weekend. Excellent new Jason Reitman comedy. Perfectly capture rhythm & feel of biz travel at end of the Aughts 11:30 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Saw "Have You Heard About the Morgans?" over the weekend. Lukewarm, predictable. Hugh Grant looks like he's physically ill most of the time. 11:26 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Saw "Invictus" over weekend. If this doesn't get Freeman the best actor Oscar, what will it take? Matt Damon will take best supporting actor 11:22 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Saw "Sherlock Holmes" over weekend. Absolutely ludicrous, but fun. But just too friggin' loud and kinetic. Of course Downey dominates 11:20 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Saw "Nine" over the weekend. We enjoyed it. Penelope Cruz is a great actress, & uses her sex appeal to maximum effect. Day-Lewis is low-key. 11:19 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Saw "It's Complicated" over the weekend. We enjoyed it very much. Steve Martin is becoming a still life in old age. 11:17 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @sarahp1986: "Off to see Nine a la cinema. Heard mixed reviews but looking forward nonetheless." JK--It was good. Reviews too negative. 11:15 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Finding hidden relationships in and across information silos: interactive exploration & collab among knowledgeable parties--and data mining. 11:11 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

This was the decade when work-life balance became trickier than ever: smartphones, Blackberries, social networks, telecommuting... 11:04 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

This was the decade we started to appreciate how extremophilic life thrives in deep-ocean vents--and probably on extraterrestrial planets. 11:01 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Sarbanes-Oxley: will probably go down as premier example of regulatory overkill in the Aughts. 10:59 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Theatre was real crowded this weekend. Holiday movies not all that great. My sense: pent-up demand for fun after draggy recession. 10:54 AM Dec 28th, 2009 from TweetDeck

For starters, I'm "discovering" Beatles songs I'd never heard before, especially from their early albums. 10:22 AM Dec 27th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Absolutely love the Beatles stereo boxset. Having their entire recorded output on my Zune transforms my experience. 10:21 AM Dec 27th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on Wine" (http://bit.ly/8BAX2m) 10:14 AM Dec 27th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on Obama" (http://bit.ly/5FpzvH) 10:13 AM Dec 27th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on the Economy" (http://bit.ly/7Um8qL) 10:13 AM Dec 27th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on Memory" (http://bit.ly/5cNSyv) 10:12 AM Dec 27th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on Yoga" (http://bit.ly/5vFg3N) 10:12 AM Dec 27th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on Media" (http://bit.ly/7oVQWq) 10:11 AM Dec 27th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Kommentary on Commentary " (http://bit.ly/5DAgqG) 10:11 AM Dec 27th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Saw "It's A Wonderful Life" the whole way thru, for first time. Love James Stewart's ability to seamlessly modulate from casual to frantic. 10:09 PM Dec 24th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Everybody says "dreary, cold winters" drive people from North & Midwest. As if dreary Southwest deserts & humid Southern swamps are so great 10:00 PM Dec 24th, 2009 from TweetDeck

That Eminem song "Stan" made me love Dido's "Thank You." But can't stand this decade's tendency to ruin good music with indigestible raps. 8:27 AM Dec 24th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Listening to decade-end NPR summaries of best indie. They miss Shins and Camera Obscura. Too predictably Wilco, White Stripes, & Radiohead 8:16 AM Dec 24th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Fave musical artist for decade: Camera Obscura. Fave album: CO's 2007 "Let's Get Out...." Fave song: title track to CO "My Maudlin Career" 7:25 AM Dec 24th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @googlenews: Senate passes healthcare overhaul - Los Angeles Times http://bit.ly/4zUL5n: JK--Painful but necessary procedural grind. 7:21 AM Dec 24th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Half-suspect some IT industry analyst will declare some obsolete paradigm dead this New Years Day, and each NYD to come. Just because. 2:42 PM Dec 23rd, 2009 from TweetDeck

I've met lots of IT pros who got start, or at least education, in theoretical physics. Job prospects there teensier than atomic nucleus. 2:30 PM Dec 23rd, 2009 from TweetDeck

Of course, theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson, father of IT pundit Esther Dyson, is still with us, and stirring up controversy. 2:27 PM Dec 23rd, 2009 from TweetDeck

Cool trivia: The late theoretical physicist Hugh Everett, who first posited multiverses, was father of Eels frontman Mark O. Everett ("E"). 2:26 PM Dec 23rd, 2009 from TweetDeck

Sentiment analysis: the new munition in the spinmeister arms race: who's truly got their algorithmic finger on the virtual vox populi 12:28 PM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @jswanhart "Dear Senators please refrain from making up terrible poems to read in senate" JK--Please blog so we can all throw tomatoes 12:27 PM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

Bubbles are built on buzz & buzzwords. Bubbles burst when the buzzing becomes unbearable, the buzzwords double-edged swords-a-popping. 12:17 PM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

Ummm...Dylan's Xmas album...but he makes this HIS song. 12:09 PM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

Enjoying the zydeco-ish "Must Be Santa" from Bob Dylan's Xmas song. Yes, you heard that. Seriously enjoying. 12:08 PM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

"Arnold Stang, actor known for nerdy roles, dies" (http://bit.ly/8JL3Hg): JK--Stang had the squeakiest voice in Hollywood. A true classic. 9:00 AM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

One of my fondest biz-travel memories of the Aughts was 2003, presenting Web svcs workshop at Nike HQ campus, Beaverton, Tiger Woods bldg 8:38 AM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

If BI fun, will be pervasive. Suggestion: many sportsfans analytics-crazy: give baseball buffs scorecarding + historical data back to 1869 8:23 AM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

What's needed to make BI fun, hence pervasive? Zero setup + cool visualizations + prepackaged, fresh public data/KPIs to whet appetite 8:17 AM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

So far, absolutely no one has offered to guide me through a GoogleWave. Hence, I pronounce it stalled, momentum-wise. Anybody disagree? 8:13 AM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

Social ntwking has diluted term "friends" of real meaning. IMHO, actual friends should be referred to as "buds" (short for "bosom buddies"). 8:10 AM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

NPR's done an unusual thing: provide fresh feeds of non-music podcasts that I eagerly await. 7:57 AM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

YouTube: the I-only-go-there-if-somebody-explicitly-links-to-a-video-clip-there social medium innovation of the decade 7:55 AM Dec 22nd, 2009 from TweetDeck

poem The Adapted Cat (http://bit.ly/4uCo6v): poem I wrote to prove that I can indeed write an extremely long poem---ripping off Dr. Seuss 10:34 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

fyi Project traces human ancestry and migration (http://bit.ly/8Zi5wY) 10:30 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

SOA--the ABCs (http://bit.ly/5at3PL); SOA--the 1-2-3s (http://bit.ly/6U9tYA); SOA--the TBDs (http://bit.ly/6LjiE9): ntwrk wd special section 10:29 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

poem Thisaway (http://bit.ly/4PUM8G): this was a crazy attempt to write a poem about SOA...really 10:25 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

poem Tickle (http://bit.ly/7YHM1Y): this one is meant to be as tactile as seventeen syllables will allow...you say tweets are too short? 10:24 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

poem Content (http://bit.ly/4F88i7): my rejoinder to the "Wired" magazine school of info-libertarians 10:22 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

poem Clock (http://bit.ly/4En50h): wrote this one in my head while thumbing through a book of cinema stills...in Westwood Village, LA 10:20 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

And so on and so forth...notice the similarity of my blogging and tweeting strategies...write text (macro or micro) in response to a pretext 10:15 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

fyi IT's Role In The Technology-Based Economy (http://bit.ly/6GCUDb) 10:12 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

fyi “Tensions on the Web”—and the attention paid to Collaboration (http://bit.ly/6GEQsu) 10:09 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

imho The difference between prose and poetry (http://bit.ly/4AVbAq) 10:06 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

fyi Relics of computer history in New York auction (http://bit.ly/8SYLYn) 10:06 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

fyi Who's the Smartest of Them All? Social software uncovers the true experts (http://bit.ly/53Vhmd) 10:04 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

fyi Does the open source model apply beyond software? (http://bit.ly/7juKXI) 10:02 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

imho The laws of identity governance (http://bit.ly/8wayEs) 9:59 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

fyi Washington Post Company To Buy Slate (http://bit.ly/64p8K7) 9:58 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

fyi IT calls for enterprise integration-BI link (http://bit.ly/51lsQH) 9:57 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

fyi Scientists Hope To End Book-Breaking Work (http://bit.ly/77bo03) 9:56 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

imho Federation much broader than identity (http://bit.ly/69fapF) 9:55 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Sitting here reviewing my own blogposts starting in late 2004....going to tweet a few of them for your consideration, 5 years later 9:53 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Today was bright sunny happy day after the big blizzard. Today didn't feel like you'd expect Winter Solstice. Tonight's night feels light. 9:10 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Watching ABC News Now...the only cable news channel that actually sustains my interest by delivering useful reportage and analysis 8:50 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Let's see if Dems can pass actual health-insurance reform law. IMHO, the only absolute MUST is to outlaw pre-existing condition exclusion 3:50 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @SethGrimes: "Twitter is quick, concise, and easily parsed." JK--Yep: encourages good journalism: keep headline tight & don't bury lead 3:41 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

What's especially freaky about Twitter, among all social networks, is how thoroughly it mixes business and pleasure, work and leisure. 3:38 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Funny thing, when this decade opened, SOAP was the hottest middleware topic. Now it's hopelessly passe. 3:27 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

I've been a full-time industry analyst for more than a dozen years now, and I've never seen an IT segment that has more vendors than BI. 3:21 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

MySpace has to be careful not to alienate potential users right out of gate. Example: can't link my blog without seeing ad for Scientology 3:13 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Predictive analysis is no crystal ball. It's more like kaleidoscope: every fresh model is like another twist of the tube: a brilliant dazzle 3:08 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Logging into all my social networks side by side to see if causes my head to explode. So far no kaboom. Rediscovering MySpace: my media hub. 2:59 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Would I be speaking out of school if I commented that it looks like we're entering a new tech bubble, fueled by social media hype? No? Whew! 2:34 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Somehow, with the heavy snowfall behind us, and all over the landscape, it feels like Xmas already came and went. 2:23 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Days off are cool. I can actually read tech news and commentary for fun, as long or as little as I wish, with time unhurried & elastic 2:20 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @LisaKayHawes: "Dr. Seuss said best in 1966: “Maybe Xmas, ...doesn’t come from a store." JK--Actually, 1957, when published "Grinch" 2:14 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Social network analysis will be one of my key #Forrester themes in the coming year. Predictive analysis on latent process innovations. 2:13 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Amazing the number of IT news stories I learn about first on Twitter. E-mail feels too slow for some stories--and for commentary on the same 2:07 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @rgeorge28: "Am I experiencing Twitter fatigue?" JK--You're not alone. I experience it daily. On journey of self-discovery: when's enuff? 2:05 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Nice to see I'm not only IT pundit tweeting about music they listen to. I got idea from "Wired" magazine's editorial staff's monthly vibes. 2:03 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Decade-end breather. World's gone thru serious stresses since 2000. More than most decades? Net-net, hard to say. No world war, thankfully. 2:00 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Year-end breather. Analytics continues to be key priority for enterprises. In new year, cloud analytics will be ubiquitous. And cheap. 1:58 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Excellent workout today. Recovering from shoveling. Reps stressed the triceps & back. Now all is sun & glare. Headache remains, but wanes. 1:56 PM Dec 21st, 2009 from TweetDeck

Love yourself for who you are. That's the only lover who can never leave you. 4:37 PM Dec 20th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Hoisting two feet of snow from my property yesterday almost wore me out. "Almost"? Why be coy? I ache all over. 2:22 PM Dec 20th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Everybody on Twitter's raving about "Avatar." Give me a good rom-com. 11:58 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

One thing I'm noticing more and more: even longtime BI analysts barely understand the predictive analytics/data mining side of it. Hmmmmm 11:56 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Today was 1st time blogged what been doing since April 2005: my weekly log of titles/URLs to interesting tech articles: research is my core 11:54 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Shout-out to Deanna Crowder Tredinnick, who remembers govt exec ~ 20 yrs ago who was deeply suspicious of scary new tech called "voice mail" 11:47 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Always good when a vendor explicitly notes that something cool is not NDA. Always happy to mention important things--when everything's OK. 11:44 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Shout-out to the good people of eThority. Met with them last week. Love their user-friendly predictive modeling tool for non-statisticians 11:41 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Unfortunately, 2 Xmas parties likely to be canceled this weekend due to snow. I do love to party. Need to. Home workers aren't hermits. 11:38 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Biz travel can be tough on nervous system. Simple pleasures make them livable. The blessed isolation of an airplane at 30,000 feet 11:34 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Biz travel can be tough on nervous system. Simple pleasures make them livable. Speaking to the clerks in stores. 11:32 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Biz travel can be tough on nervous system. Simple pleasures make them livable. Rising at same time every morning. Walking alone for miles 11:31 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Biz travel can be tough on nervous system. Simple pleasures make them livable. Snapping random cellphone photos, Facebooking 'em via pix-msg 11:30 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Xmas tree lights are incredibly relaxing--especially when they're the only illumination--and you're alone. 11:19 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @SethGrimes: @JAdP "open srce column-store RDBMSes" JK--Right. Also seeing move toward hybrid columnar-row DBs: Greenplum, Oracle, Ingres 11:14 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @joanna_rustin "Thanks to....@rwang0 @jameskobielus & @ajaydawar for great blog reading": JK--My pleasure , Joanna. That's why I'm here 11:10 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Saw "Planes Trains & Automobiles" again. Thought about late John Candy. What a great dramatic actor he could have been. Sweet pathos face. 11:07 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Anyway, BI. I must have "midnight by Xmas tree " thought on BI. Yes, I do. BI won't be pervasive until it's somehow fun. As Twitter's fun. 11:04 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Was extraordinarily busy autumn at work. Note that I've worked Twitter organically into it. No "best practice" in all this. It's experiment. 10:56 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Was an extraordinarily busy autumn at work. Number & variety of speaking engagements was great. Always fun to explore leading edge topics. 10:53 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Was an extraordinarily busy autumn at work. #Forrester blogs I posted were quite well received. They set stage for my 2010 research agenda. 10:52 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Was an extraordinarily busy autumn at work. The PA-DM Wave's all wrapped up. Thanks to the vendors for participating. A very strong field. 10:49 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Couldn't ask for more perfect weekend to blizzard: taking 2 wks off, plan to stay home. Won't watch local news re weather. What's the point? 10:47 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Perhaps 2 ft snow to dig out from in DC when all done. Of course, I'm the shoveler. Must remember powerflex: support core, alternate L & R. 10:43 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "Articles I glanced at this past week: dec 14-18 2009" (http://bit.ly/4EAkWU) 3:13 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Have a good one everybody! No aweekstweets till the new year. I'm pooped. 2:59 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Hmmm...predicting a foot of snow for DC area. A week till Xmas. Hi-temps for next several days in low-30s. Predictive analytic: white Xmas!! 2:59 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

In terms of "personal branding," tweeting gives a huge # of people the feeling that you're carrying on real-time conversation with them 2:36 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @ManyaMayes: "Social Media and Sentiment Analysis (far more than a fad!) ...": JK--No fad at all. Core to advanced business optimization 2:30 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Sick and tired of reading about crisis in journalism. Every since I got my M.A. in journalism, I saw #1 crisis: the pay stinks! 2:28 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Do the math: composing 15 tweets/day X 10 secs/tweet= 150 secs = 2.5 mins. Glancing at TweetDeck more time-efficient than reading e-mail. 2:26 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

No one questions when people IM for business, and do it a lot. Think of it this way: 15 tweets a day demands about as much effort as 15 IMs 2:22 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Anyway, Twitter functions as a bit of water cooler chit-chat for home-based workers. You have to work from home to understand its full role. 2:14 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Every new medium looks like a waste of time who haven't gotten the hang of it. Best not to judge other people's use of it. 1:52 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Open issue: is it possible to tweet too much? that depends on your workstyle...each of us should allow others to find their own mix of media 1:35 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Key trend: CEP analytics--aka event mining--becomes co-equal branch of adv analytics, alongside those three just tweeted 1:34 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Key trend: social network analytics--aka relationship mining--becomes co-equal branch of adv analytics, alongside data mining & text mining 1:33 PM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New blogpost: "That new piece in sequence of tweet-originated pieces since I started tweeting in March of this year" (http://bit.ly/5H4VmR) 10:39 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New poem: "TWT10" (http://bit.ly/6Z6XxM) 10:32 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Snow's no worry. Flurries no worry. No need to hurry & scurry. Sit still--the flakes will fall & drape those worries in soft white slurry. 10:24 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

"SOAP gets the honor among 'worst tech of the decade'" (http://bit.ly/80qESX): JK--Disagree. Not worst--just victim of SOA-is-dead backlash 10:19 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Twenty-ten is my pref: fewer syllables; tighter alliteration; smooth numerical; parallel construction to "nineteen *"; alludes to nu "Teens" 10:12 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

If you can type, you can tweet. But not "automatic writing" in Jack Kerouac sense: rather, your inner-editor buttons-down your inner-writer 9:41 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Let's see show of tweet-hands. Pronounce next year as "twenty-ten" or "two thousand ten"? 9:09 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Need to be a moratorium on FM-radio Xmas-tune-streaming till Xmas Eve. Overdosed on Andy Williams' "whoop-de-doo" and "dickery-dock." 9:06 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Last work day before vacation. Last work day this week, month, year, decade. 8:21 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Llstening to Yoko Ono doing her song "I Love You Earth" from LP "No, No, No." If folks just parked their snark & listened, they'd love Yoko. 7:42 AM Dec 18th, 2009 from TweetDeck

"Sybase is latest database vendor to embrace MapReduce" (http://bit.ly/7B3rrx): JK--MapReduce's steady march to ubiquity in in-DW analytics. 1:51 PM Dec 17th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @tor: RT @peterc "sp*** [CENSORED] data transfer of 1,587.5TB @robinwauters" jk--Not transfer if no recipient. Also, very hi packet loss. 11:59 AM Dec 17th, 2009 from TweetDeck

"Is Enterprise 2.0 a crock?" (http://bit.ly/89CgWa): JK--Funniest headline of week. Guess what it's a crock of. I don't tweet the S-word. 11:11 AM Dec 17th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Everybody, I mean, everybody at the CTO level these days is asking about MapReduce & Hadoop. Not just in a data mining or DW context. 10:07 AM Dec 17th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Quite frankly, I suspect that friends and family don't care about that, or, to the extent they do, they know where to go to get it from us. 8:25 AM Dec 17th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Did not insert "here's what we did this year" letter in Xmas cards. Won't send that info in email. Facebook rendered all that unnecessary. 8:24 AM Dec 17th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @cdcurtis_sap: "Tiger Woods...AP Athlete of Decade. Interesting....ballots cast after wreck." JK--Not "husband of the decade," mind you. 7:38 AM Dec 17th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Why shouldn't I be able to set up BI rules to, say, auto-tweet a link to a report when a KPI--e.g., revenues--crosses particular threshold? 7:17 AM Dec 17th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Google & Nexus One. Oracle & Sun. Suddenly push into hardware among Web & software vendors. Something tangible, non-virtual to ship? 7:14 AM Dec 17th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Plowed through huge backlog of unread issues of The Economist. Now know far more about current British politics than the average Yank. 9:40 PM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

"AWS' Failures Black Eye 4 EC2 Cloud Cmptng" (http://bit.ly/4Nhu4L): JK--"Good old-fashioned solid reporting"? More like yellow journalism. 9:35 PM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @ntalukdar3 "Lady screaming at husband nonstop for 5 hours...normal?"JK--Hard to say. "Normal" is couple-relative. 9:29 PM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Why shouldn't I be able to select any arbitrary 140 chars in doc, right-mouse-click, & select "tweet," rather than "cut" "copy" or "paste"? 9:04 PM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

With all the stilled construction cranes and the vast Arabian peninsula to its west, Dubai would make a great wind farm. 8:57 PM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

You know that weird feeling when someone's name keeps being recommended as someone you knew in high school, and you've never heard of them? 5:32 PM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

"Rainstor launches cloud DB for big data archives" (http://bit.ly/6EBuHZ): JK--Archv, stagng, bkp, PB adv an marts: key cloud DW apps in '10 1:09 PM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

"IBM to Apply Analytics to Customer Service" (http://bit.ly/6hguj6): JK--SaaS-based sentiment analysis: key to agile e-business & cust svc 12:51 PM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Why state the state for US cities such as New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, Miami, etc? Is there any confusion? Not as if it's Springfield USA. 12:47 PM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @Victor_Sokovin: "we go find ATM to read report?" JK--Once again, what are you referring to here? 12:43 PM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Listening to Tom Jones in his classic loverboy swaggering mode on "Help Yourself." This Welsh dude, like Elvis, owes big debt to Dean Martin 11:16 AM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Clarification: Finishing up a #Forrester blogpost with @bevelson on whether RDBMS indeed has a future in BI, analytics, etc. 10:52 AM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Finishing up a #Forrester blogpost with @bevelson on the future RDBMS for BI, analytics, etc. 10:51 AM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @atmanes "many clients [say] IBM plethora of products too confusing already." JK--For sure. IBM must rationalize overstuffed portfolio 10:50 AM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Dear @atmanes, vendors strengthen value props by a) acquire best-of-breed, b) offer full stack, c) target new & legacy at diff segments. 9:22 AM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Taking InfoSphere Streams briefing from IBM: key CEP offering for analytics. Key differentiator: in-CEP predictive analytics tool/language. 9:08 AM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Developing a quick/dirty model of my personal social networks & linkages among. Plan to post to personal blog (which included in diagram). 7:59 AM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

See that @Dana_Gardner & I got IBM msg & pulled Twitter triggers at almost exactly same time. But, alas, he's quicker tweetslinger than I. 7:16 AM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Big acquisition to close the year: IBM acquiring Lombardi, further strengthening Big Blue's already considerable BPM value prop. 7:13 AM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Holiday shopping season. Every ad starts off with "tis the season." Half the time, seems we're celebrating some special day called "Tisthe." 7:07 AM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Listening to 2 great groups whose tunes are tangled with memories of early 80s & early 90s respectively: Bangles & Toad the Wet Sprocket 6:37 AM Dec 16th, 2009 from TweetDeck

The true dark matter in Twitterverse are those shortened URLs. If bit.ly etc go kaput, that's black hole at heart of many historical tweets. 2:49 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Alluding to traditional statement about "journalism is first rough draft of history," now auto-followed by "2009 year in review" twitters 2:36 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Speaking of first rough draft of gossip, that tweet was auto-followed by invites to pile-on media frenzy on all things "Tiger Woods scandal" 2:35 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

I love the recent Doonesbury line, in mouth of reporter Roland Burton Hedley Jr, that "Twitter is the first rough draft of gossip." 2:33 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Thanks everybody for the great questions on webinar "Data Analytics & Cloud Computing." Thanks to host #Greenplum @bwerther @richardsnee. 2:05 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

The days stay crazy, but I've adjusted my reflexes to this new order. It now feels as normal as life can feel on a fast track to wherever. 2:03 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Webinar "Data Analytics & Cloud Computing:" #Greenplum @bwerther discussing self-svc EDW cloud provisioning: magnetic, agile, deep (MAD) 1:19 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Webinar "Data Analytics & Cloud Computing:" #Greenplum @bwerther says customers want cloud-like efficiencies on premise-based servers 1:13 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Webinar "Data Analytics & Cloud Computing: Convergence/Collision?" #Greenplum @bwerther discussing their cloud EDW value prop 1:08 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Webinar "Data Analytics & Cloud Computing: Convergence/Collision?" Excellent cloud preso by #Forrester @frankgillett. I addressed cloud EDW 1:07 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Webinar "Data Analytics & Cloud Computing: Convergence or Collision?" #Greenplum #Forrester Looking forward to great Q&A. 12:35 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Delivering webinar "Data Analytics & Cloud Computing: Convergence or Collision?" with Greenplum & #Forrester colleague @frankgillett 12:31 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @SethGrimes "you write "self-service operational BI" in paragraph header, omit "operational" otherwise. Why? #BI" JK--Avoid awkwardness 12:25 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

I tend not to follow Twitterers whose sole raison d'tweet is "attract followers through these practical tips" or "make money" from it all. 12:12 PM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @toddthebrawn "10 time-tested ways to use Social Media - http://bit.ly/9TSTv " JK--Time-tested? Social media hasn't been around long time 11:53 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

What I am reading: 10 time-tested ways to use Social Media - http://bit.ly/9TSTv 8:00 AM Dec 7th, 2009 from API Retweeted by you

RT @scotthumphrey: "Self-service BI is #1 (http://bit.ly/6GPTTs)" JK--I don't actually number or rank them. But yes, that is important. 11:40 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

On DM Radio Virtual Roadshow Broadcast on In-Database Analytics, with Sybase (Irfan Khan & Joydeep Das) and FuzzyLogix (Partha Sen). 11:17 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

New Forrester blogpost: "Advanced analytics predictions for 2010" (http://bit.ly/6GPTTs) 10:31 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @dougmow "feeling anti-social?" JK--No. But it's natural to occasionally feel a bit "anti social network." Can get a bit suffocating. 10:01 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Society in the cloud. Sounds like traditional visions of the hereafter. Or an unwritten verse of John Lennon's "Imagine." 9:48 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Social media. Social mediation. Social middlemen. Social middleware. Social mixing. Social mashups. Social meanings. Social manners. 9:46 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @JesseNewhart: "Google gets its own URL Shortener. Goo.gl http://bit.ly/93grHh": JK--GGL's in? Is there still a future for bit.ly etc? 9:41 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Sent Jeff Kelly of searchdatamanagement.com my 2010 predictions on BI. Um, 6 predictions for Twenty-Ten. Not two thousand & ten predictions. 9:39 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @FitBusinessman: "He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak...." - J. F. Clarke" JK--Huh? So the meek won't inherit earth? Explain 9:37 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Love spam with subject "you must keep this in strictest confidence." Sure--just you, me, & ten zillion of your other anonymous "confidantes" 9:35 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

"Finding Talent Via Social Networks" (http://bit.ly/7eRQrr): JK--Social network analytics might segment, focus, automate this search. 9:22 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

"Taxonomy of Social Networking Data" (http://bit.ly/3EJyQt): JK--Great. Schneier's security. But I can see social ntwk analytics in all this 9:18 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @CHBoorman "Does this suggest you believe ONLY Oracle have cloud DW?: JK2--Of course not. Oracle doesn't have a cloud DW yet. 8:18 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @CHBoorman: @jameskobielus Does this suggest you believe ONLY Oracle have cloud DW?: JK--Of course not. 5:25 AM Dec 15th, 2009 from TweetDeck

2010 will NOT be the year of the cloud in DW. Once we see some coherent DW cloud strategy from Oracle, I'll reconsider that prognostication. 8:54 PM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Legalizing marijuana for medical uses vs. outright. Whichever position you take, distracts from another issue: smoking anything is bad 4 u 6:02 PM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @HealthCastleGlo: "Do you usually eat more, or less, when you are stressed?" JK--When stressed about possibility of starving, I eat more. 5:39 PM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Goody! My 3-step personal branding system has arrived: 1) remove branding iron from box, 2) heat over open flame, 3) singe brand into flesh. 5:07 PM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Preparing outline for webinar with Oracle in February on DW extreme performance and scaling. Topic #1 across DW space. Topic #2: price-perf. 2:56 PM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Recording podcast on "Big Data, Fast Processing, Limitless Scale" with #AsterData and @Dana_Gardner. 1:46 PM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

RT @nenshad "You might find inspiration for your end of year BI predictions here http://bit.ly/8zN00a": JK--Great thoughts! Thanks 1:20 PM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Curious whether anybody's collected on Oracle's "$10 million challenge." Curious whether anybody's finished reading the fine print. 12:22 PM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

"Cognos 9 to 'embed' SPSS, add social networking" (http://bit.ly/7Vd5tx): JK--Can social network analytics in IBM/Cognos/SPSS be far behind? 12:20 PM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Trying to make umpteenth year-end summary of BI trends sound spontaneous. Still valid, but don't want to seem like reading from script. 12:17 PM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

@Victor_Sokovin : Do you mean it wasn't the decade of businesses behaving intelligently? 9:47 AM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to Victor_Sokovin

"Google & Schmidt-Schneier Privacy Duel" (http://bit.ly/5yBUvg): JK--Tongue-twister. With this snit, Schmidt lit a fire under Schneier. 8:22 AM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

"Internet Society invests in W3C " (http://bit.ly/7L2mcW): JK--Are IETF & W3C best days behind them? Pace of standards activity slowing? 8:12 AM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

"Streaming Query Engines: Data in Flight" (http://bit.ly/7cw41q): JK--Streaming queries, operating over time dimension, key for CEP. 8:03 AM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

"Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap" (http://bit.ly/8h0FXv): JK--Interesting, but why no developing nations in this W3C activity? 8:01 AM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Dubai's bust is a fitting bookend to a decade that began with a bubble collapse, and that has been just one disaster after another. 6:37 AM Dec 14th, 2009 from TweetDeck

Aweekstweets December 14, 2009 to January 8, 2010—straddling the great calendrical divide