James Kobielus' Blog: April 2010

Data Foundations and Trillium Software Forge Alliance to Deliver Unified Data Governance & Data Quality Solution for Master Data Management http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4234525&access=EH

NoSQL Needed For Cloud-Sized Data

Comparing Social Media & Traditional Newsletters

EIGHT TIPS FOR DESIGNING, MANAGING AN ENTERPRISE CPM SYSTEM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11378203/2433922

Steven Minsky: ERM vs GRC?

SEC Says No to Myopic Approach: Costly Example from Goldman Sachs

Joe McKendrick: Virtual Appliances and Acceleration: Software Can be Speedy, Too

Nari Kannan: How In-memory Analysis is crucial for Iterative BI Insights!

Mike Pascucci: Social Intranets Part II - Personalization

XML Appliances for Service-Oriented Architectures

IBM's Smarter Systems: Getting the Word Out
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69809.html

External Data in Enterprise Data Warehousing – Trendy and Trying

Should operational reporting should be included in the scope of BI strategy development?

Gartner's BI Summit Warning: Buyer Beware

Secure P2P Scheme Leverages Social Networks

Kognitio Stays True to Row-Based Databases -- TDWI: http://bit.ly/bZ3x9G

Using BI to Assess BI: The Efficacy Conundrum

SAP(R) Solutions for Portfolio and Project Management Help Turn Ideas Into Reality http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4235655&access=EH

Panorama Software Launches One of the First BI Suites on PowerPivot, Microsoft's New In-Memory Platform http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4235901&access=EH

Microsoft Kicks Off Worldwide Launch of SQL Server 2008 R2 http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4235903&access=EH

Facebook Opens Up Social Tools To Broader Web

Microsoft Launches SQL Server R2

Facebook to Spread Its Tentacles Across the Web
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69808.html

BI, Analytics and Statistical Science

Recalling the Bottom-Up Enterprise

Microsoft Fills Up Database with New Technology

Fine Tuning with Business Analytics and Process Engineering

Brand Reputation Management in the Era of the Social Customer

Don’t Put Influencers in the Corner

TDWI: REACH BUSINESS GOALS WITH A UNIFIED DATA MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11389609/2433922

Microsoft GP 2010 features integrations, BI

Social Networking Web and OAuth: Twitter Client for Google App Engine
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-oauth3/
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5849

Avatier Identity Management Cloud Computing Solution
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100421005951/en/Identity-Management-Cloud-Computing-Environment-Provider-Teams
http://www.avatier.com/identity-management.html

GARTNER'S TAKE ON EMERGING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11387711/2433922

TIPS TO BUCKLE DOWN A MIDMARKET BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE STRATEGY
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11388113/2433922

New storage products reduce cost of managing "big data"
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29955.wss

SQL Server 2008 R2 Hits RTM, Release in May

http://redmondmag.com/articles/2010/04/21/sql-server-2008-r2-hits-rtm.aspx

Oracle Reassures Developers about Future of MySQL

Mitch Wagner: Work the social networks ... before you need work

Microsoft's long-awaited SQL Server 2008 update finally ships

Is Google the new Rome?

Microsoft, Oracle differ on cloud visions

Microsoft's long-awaited SQL Server 2008 update finally ships

Holding Social Media Marketing's Feet to the Fire
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69832.html

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 to Arrive May 1

Microsoft Launches SQL Server 2008 R2

Microsoft Fills Up Database with New Technology

Twitter and the rise of data platforms

Gartner's Take on BI Cost of Ownership

It's Very Early in the Game for SAS Social Media Analytics

My Take on BI Cost of Ownership

BI Integration Fear Factors

Facebook Plots its Future: Will it Be Our Overlord?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/984017/5553367/74568/0/

How Facebook Plans to Dominate the Web
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/984017/5553367/74576/0/

ORACLE USERS LIKE EXADATA IDEA BUT BALK AT PRICE
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11397896/2433922

BI Grows Despite Economic Woes

Aweekstweets April 17-23 2010—the week Sonya and I had a little laugh at Bjork’s expense

Aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash double-U double-U double-U dot whatever dot com about 2 hours ago via txt

Amazing how many micro recalcs we can make on the fly when navigating known backstreets and highways to reach an appointed place & time. about 4 hours ago via txt

Life is waiting rooms. It's making room in your time for waiting. For occupying every nook of this pleasant mental elbow room. about 4 hours ago via txt

Listening to Stuart Moxham "Over the Sea" from "Signal Path." Recorded with friends & family. As on his Gist & Young Marble Giants projects about 4 hours ago via txt

It was the week we realized how sensitive global society is to tweaks in the air we ingest. How our engines have more than birds to fear. about 4 hours ago via txt

Twas a busy week, so many quick recalculations. Geog, temporal, social, material. All incremental. All is tweak. Not a volcanic disruption about 4 hours ago via txt

RT @kexpplaylist: Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants #KEXP: JK--My fave TMBG track. These guys too clever-cute by half. about 7 hours ago via TweetDeck

@nyuhanna Hey dude rest of here at #forrester have amphibious laptops. IT didn't give U one? Auto-switches from last legs to first flippers. about 7 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to nyuhanna

@merv #BBBT Calpont the only example I can name of a DW vendor that moved away from appliance approach. But not only one gone open source. about 7 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to merv

@fribeiro1 World domination doesn't scale because world doesn't want to be dominated. The world will remain many dueling domains & dominions about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to fribeiro1

Exactly why would a tech vendor's AR group "protect" their tweets. Don't they want to broadcast what they're doing far & wide? about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck

Friend Mel Jenkins currently interviewed live re "Xmas in April" on NewsChannel 8 WashDC: http://bit.ly/X3YUA. Playback l8r when have time. about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck

@rossbates The National is a really really good group. I'm loving what I'm hearing from the new one too. "Boxer" blew me away. about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to rossbates

@fribeiro1 Point not 2 rag MSFT for this-that dead dream. Or rip any vdr a new 1 for the same. Point is world domination schemes don't scale about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to fribeiro1

@fribeiro1 I love it. "that OAuth-ish service they had." What once caused general alarm re MSFT 2big4britches hegemony-grab now marginalized about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to fribeiro1

"How Facebook Plans to Dominate Web" (http://bit.ly/9ZiGUu): JK--Suggest clone MSFT former Passport/Hailstorm strategy. Worked like charm. about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck

Analyst general posture: "I'm aware of you" "I like what U got going (except for *.*)." "I may recommend you to some clients (w/caveats)" about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck

AR pros often evaluated on "analyst awareness" "analyst sentiment" & "analyst propensity (to recommend)." On their role in boosting those. about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck

RT @bob_sutor: "Roy Orbison would have been 74 today." JK--"Ooby dooby ooby dooby ooby doo wah-doo-wah-doo wah-AHHHHH!" about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck

Pet peeve: public restrooms where water faucet motion-activated but adjacent handsoap dispenser not. U hold out dirty hands eternity waiting about 10 hours ago via TweetDeck

Taking detailed business-update briefing from #ibm #cognos now. Joined by colleagues @bevelson @paulhamerman. Impressive growth! about 10 hours ago via TweetDeck

@ScottHorvath I personally have more than half-century of learning to discard, systematically. Hope to learn new stuff these next 50+ years about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to ScottHorvath

#netezza Enzee Universe is June 21-23. I'll be speaking there: http://bit.ly/dtLUxm. Social network analysis. See you there! about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck

Information management vendors all over the spectrum showing healthy growth and profits. Good to know. about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: New Slang by The Shins #KEXP: JK--Every time this Millennium Decade classic song gets played, I get transported. about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck

RT @VirtusaCorp: Harnessing R-T Process Analytics: Interesting panel discussion in offing http://bit.ly/9LzkBB: At #forrester IT Forum! about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck

@atulgg Your interpretation of my tweet is exactly right sir! about 12 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to atulgg

@atulgg Thank-u! That flattery earns u a response to original question: Google is diversified but still predominantly a one cash-cow company about 12 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to atulgg

@atulgg Why specifically are you asking about Google? I don't recall tweeting anything specific about them in several days. about 13 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to atulgg

@chrisabutler When I met him, I didn't realize it was him. Just another guy drinking a beer at Second Chance. Then we spoke about Ohio. about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to chrisabutler

"SQL Server 2008 R2 Hits RTM, Rel. in May" (http://bit.ly/cG1KGw): JK--Many important new features. Differentiator? CEP 4 true real-time BI. 7:37 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Where food prepared, was in the air, sheared of bone, soaked in flame. From spontaneous spark, a marinade came. 4:08 PM Apr 22nd via txt

Calc, logic, & keen eye have always been humanity's chief predictive tools. If I rub these possibilities together, will they spark? 3:46 PM Apr 22nd via txt

I skip Brian Boitano's. 3:38 PM Apr 22nd via txt

Yes, I watch Giada de Laurentiis' cooking show with the sound off while I exercise. What of it? 3:37 PM Apr 22nd via txt

@Initiate My printer prints water-soluble ink. Fortunately, pages that got soaked R old data that don't need 4 lo-latency high-perf queries 2:14 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck in reply to Initiate

By the way, analysts on webinars occasionally accidentally overturn cups of water on physical desktops while talking. Not me, though. Never. 2:07 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Great questions everybody! Hope you found it useful. Colin did a great job of presenting some key themes and columnar advantages. 2:05 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Mahony wrapping up his preso, highlighting FlexStore as its hybrid columnar architecture. Q&A in just a moment. Me and Colin & you! 1:48 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Mahony discussing how Vertica complements MapReduce. 1:47 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Mahony discussion illustrates that difficult to provide blanket statements re any DB appr entirely unsuited to particular apps. 1:46 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Mahony discussing columnar optimizations for ad-hoc queries. 1:45 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Colin Mahony grants that columnar not suited/optimized to OLTP. 1:44 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Mahony debunking columnar myths. Very effectively addressing columnar "challenges/disads" that I presented. Vendor innovation key. 1:43 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Mahony discussing columnar opt'zn for real-time CDR, tickstream, clickstream, & other real-time event data ingest, persist, query 1:41 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Mahony discussing "late materialization" as speed-booster in their column architecture. 1:40 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica C.Mahony. DB natively columnar? Storage, cmprsion, retrievl. On-disk & in-mem. Opt'zer & exec engine. Loads & trans. Col-aware MPP 1:39 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Colin Mahony discussing optimizations to QP execution, compression, MapReduce, column-row hybrid, adv analytics libs, DB designer. 1:36 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Colin Mahony presenting strong Vertica discussion re columnar. I expect this to stimulate industry discussion on columnar. 1:32 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica This is one of the largest attendee rosters of any DW webinar I've done in a long time. Lots of Qs in advance. 1:31 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Colin Mahony presenting detailed history, adoption, and differentiation discussion re Vertica and its columnar architecture 1:30 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

#vertica Colin Mahony speaking about their MPP-columnar architecture. 1:27 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

@chrisabutler For sure. Not female wait-person. Straight, but writes from woman's POV. "I know what boys like." I met him in Ann Arbor. 1981 1:00 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck in reply to chrisabutler

Just about to start #vertica #forrester webinar re columnar as new analytics mainstream, 2pm EDT (http://bit.ly/93S0G8). Q&A will be lively 12:56 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Hey vendors, don't keep referring to your products and releases as "major." I decrement your message for each obvious unsupported hype word 12:23 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Hey vendors, if you've never spoken with me, and if you're so new/small that it's likely I never heard of you, present your ABCs first. 12:18 PM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Ahhhh....ptui....so much ad-hoc-ing, this and that and the next...so much, feeling like I wanna ad-hoc a big ol' loogie...but I won't. 11:42 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

@alyswoodward Who's talking "business value" here? I'm speaking of what I personally value in a friend, & how I tell real from false friends 11:41 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck in reply to alyswoodward

Eating lunch outside. Listening to Chantays' "Pipeline" from Rhino's "Cowabunga!" surf-rock boxset. Hangin' ten & walkin' the nose. 11:29 AM Apr 22nd via txt

@kevinmerritt #Microsoft Mobile users need copy/paste more critically than other users. Typing on mobile clients more of a bother. 9:23 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck in reply to kevinmerritt

@alyswoodward #Facebook Perhaps far fewer links but higher quality per link is exactly what distinguishes true friends. Facebook take note. 9:22 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck in reply to alyswoodward

"Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 features integrations, BI" (http://bit.ly/9Vgk4J): JK--400 prebuilt rpts + integ wth SS08 RS, AS, PwrPivt, Shpt 7:46 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Catch me & #vertica #forrester webinar today, re columnar as new analytics mainstream, 2pm EDT (http://bit.ly/93S0G8). Deep discussion. 7:41 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Who covers what? Ongoing perplexity confronting all analyst relations pros. Also confronts analysts. Who to collab with re this-or-that? 7:39 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Why doesn't Facebook introduce a "dislike" option? Perhaps Facebook's evil twin will. Some day. It would cause Internet to burst in flames. 7:20 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

You choose from among your teachers. You choose from among their teachings. You choose how you'll put those teachings to the test. 7:17 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Some words of wisdom. Advice from yoga guru Cindy. 7:16 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Push yourself to sensation, not pain. Breathe in to stretch a little further, exhale to relax into that stretch. Keep breathing. Relax. Push 7:15 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Would a fine arctic layer of volcanic ash accelerate or slow global warming? Black absorbs heat, right? 7:12 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Social everything introduces ubiquitious web of guilt & resentment. As in "you didn't see my post?" & "why didn't they respond to my tweet?" 7:09 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

"Microsoft Apologetics On Why Copy/Paste Unnecessary" (http://bit.ly/bAL0pX): JK--No friggin' way! How do you think I tweet so much content? 7:00 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

"Facebook Opens Up Social Tools To Broader Web" (http://bit.ly/djcc46): JK--Which reminds me: "social" is the new "intuitive." Soft & GUI 6:58 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Interesting purported spam sender. A former United Nations Secretary General. I think not! 6:46 AM Apr 22nd via TweetDeck

Tired of being a change agent. I'd prefer to be an agent for bills, preferably in large denominations. 8:12 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

Watching "Austin City Limits." Have never watched "American Idol." Prefer singers who perform own compositions. Prefer not 2 C them judged. 7:10 PM Apr 21st via txt

Reading actual paper newspaper. Not online on-demand simulacrum of paper newspaper. What I read isn't particularly new. But it's on paper! 5:32 PM Apr 21st via txt

Having first mapped out my #forrester #scrm ROI calculator conceptually to a fine grain, building the spreadsheet surprisingly took no time 5:24 PM Apr 21st via txt

@chrisabutler Love your music more with each listen. Reminds of Tindersticks, Neal Halstead, Alexi Murdoch, Richard Hawley, Stuart Moxham 4:53 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck in reply to chrisabutler

@chrisabutler Pretty songs. Thanks. At first I thought you might be Chris Butler of Waitresses, but you're different guys, styles, countries 4:51 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck in reply to chrisabutler

RT @kexpplaylist: Western Days by Gabriel Mintz #KEXP: JK--NIce soulful new singer with twangy guitar. Sounds a bit like Grant Lee Philips. 2:42 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Lake Michigan by Rogue Wave #KEXP: JK--I keep forgetting Chicago's on this lake. For me, it's the southern shore of U.P. 2:18 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

As said when I started tweeting 14 mnths ago, specialize in compressed expression & semantic packing. Leverage journalism training & haiku 1:57 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

@chrisabutler #scrm In <140 href="http://twitter.com/jameskobielus/status/12592196676">1:54 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck in reply to chrisabutler

@kitson Don't look at me! I didn't take 'em. Is that a penlight you're holding? Quit shining it in my eyes! 1:50 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck in reply to kitson

RT @kexpplaylist: Love, Reign O'er Me by The Who #KEXP: JK--Couldn't be a better example of what Roger brought to The Who. Serious pipes!!! 1:49 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

Took extremely excellent briefing from the good folks at #sybase. Looking forward to their analyst event next month in NYC. 1:48 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Mr. E's Beautiful Blues by Eels #KEXP: JK--One of the greatest chorus/slogans ever: "Goddamn right it's a beautiful day!" 12:59 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

@chrisabutler #scrm q1 a1: In my coverage area, for consulting project. q2 a2 (question back -atcha): What do you mean? 12:58 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck in reply to chrisabutler

Working on my ROI model for #scrm Social media listening & engagement automation & outsourcing for multichannel #CRM. 12:52 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

RT @bevelson: All #BI Wave scorecards are in. Now on to actual scoring. Also kicking off BI Tech Radar shortly w @jameskobielus 12:45 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Shampoo by Elvis Perkins In Dearland #KEXP: JK--Very talented singer/songwriter son of late "Psycho" actor Tony Perkins. 12:44 PM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

RT @Microsoft: SQL Server 2008 R2 to manufacturing (http://bit.ly/cKIkkr): JK--New CEP features enable truly real-time BI thru SS08R2 9:48 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

Me & #vertica #forrester webinar "Columnar DBMSs: The New Analytics Mainstream, but Why?" April 22, 2:00pm EDT (http://bit.ly/93S0G8). 9:26 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

"Quotidian" is actually a fun word to say. Wrap your tongue around us. Pronounce it as 4 crisp syllables, accent on number 2. 9:21 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

Forgetting your daily reading diet like forgetting to eat yr 3 quotidian squares. Catches up with U. Before U realize, you're malnourished 9:19 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

Your mom told you not 2 make funny faces, lest U freeze that way. She was right. Your habitual responses warp fine facial muscles into mask. 9:10 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

"HP no immediate plans 2 kill 3Com prods" (http://bit.ly/b6elAd): JK--Loaded headline, per Elmer/Bugs "shoot me now or wait till get home?" 9:07 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

#teradata "Blurr of Innovation" video (http://bit.ly/b46FEr): JK--Pioneering very fast all-SSD DW appliance. All-SSD DWs soon 2 B mainstream 8:58 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

@Futureratti Wow. Per wot-u-said & wot-i-tweeted (http://bit.ly/9O0gt4), nu best practice: read in reverse. Cut 2 Spoon "Written In Reverse" 8:53 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck in reply to Futureratti

"Comparing Social Media & Trad'l Newsletters" (http://bit.ly/cq7OO9): JK--My pref: social media to break news, trad'l nwsltrs for rollup. 8:33 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: California Stars by Billy Bragg and Wilco #KEXP: JK--Always always crank this one way up, and sing at top of lungs. Alone 8:31 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

I'm of 2 minds re superlong emails containing entire discussion thread. On one hand, nice to know all info's there. On other, unreadable. 8:28 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

"NoSQL Needed 4 Cloud-Sized Data" (http://bit.ly/d9L0Wj): JK--Ignores fact that RDBMS can scale to petabyte at lo-cost w/o sgl pt o failure 7:41 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

The world has a way of defocusing us. It's not the world's fault. The world's just doing what it's always done. Spin and spin. Centrifugal. 7:15 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

Starting to make mental note of where particular long-broken news stories come into focus 4 me: nowhere in particular. My head & scratchpad. 7:13 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

Starting to make mental note of where particular news stories "break" 4 me: TV, radio, newspaper, Yahoo, email, TweetDeck, FB, vdr prebrief 7:06 AM Apr 21st via TweetDeck

Social ntwk embrace by popular culture echoes search engines'. First we thrill at its connective power. Then tire of each other's proximity 9:44 PM Apr 20th via txt

Listening to Beatles "Rain," fr "Past Masters Vol 2." Originally flipside of "Paperback Writer." Feels like flip of "Tomorrow Never Knows." 9:20 PM Apr 20th via txt

Done for the night with anything resembling work. Listening to Alison Statton & Spike, "Romance At Sea," live, Japan, 1994. Hi, Spike/Alun! 9:06 PM Apr 20th via txt

Yes, I do sleep (but not on the job, no matter how much the subject matter of my livelihood may put some of you to slumberland). 8:50 PM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

Drafted preso for webinar on May 20 with Portrait Software: "Emerging Best Practices in Customer Analytics: Constraint-Based Optimization" 8:48 PM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

Wonder if Kings of Leon seeking alliance with rulers of Castile, Aragon, & Andalusia. Arrange marriage of Franz Ferdinand 2 Queen Latifah. 4:10 PM Apr 20th via txt

British airports reopen. But risks of sudden reclosure still steep. Inbnd, outbnd, & connecting itineraries still under cloud. Pun intended 4:02 PM Apr 20th via txt

Gavin DeGraw video shows pretty girl with Motorola Razr. Dates the video. Gavin dates the girl. Perks of popstarhood. Gavin wears hood. 3:57 PM Apr 20th via txt

More old mental notes. Integ multiplic, deliv simplicity. SME/IT collab. Agile proc orch. Self-descr metadata. Silo-smashing. Reuse. Pubsub 3:54 PM Apr 20th via txt

Dusting off old mental notes. Fed P2P ESB. Integr'n sftware rntime appli. BRE+BPM+CEP+EAI. Pluggable proc logic. SOA/REST. Visual mod/dev. 3:53 PM Apr 20th via txt

RT @bevelson: "Major #BI client adv nxt wk cancel in Europe due 2 volcano." JK--Next bit o' fun: when smoke clears & everyone flies wherever 12:52 PM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

Interesting parallel. 9/11 caused postpone of NYC consulting trip back then. Eyjafjallajokull caused postpone of Germany consult next week. 12:20 PM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

@robsaker Scientists have a "publish-or-perish" bias. Have a career-maintenance bias. Have a fame&fortune bias. Have must-feed-family bias 10:44 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck in reply to robsaker

Speaking with advanced analytics tool/platform vendor #riverlogic. Powerful constraint-business optimization with predictive modeling. 10:43 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

Predictive science? In health-sci, that's key to fact-based medicine. Downplay "tradition" in treatment. Emphasize trial-validated findings 10:03 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

Predictive science? If natural selection simply used as catch-all post-hoc explanatory framewk, not full science. Predict what won't evolve! 9:58 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

Predictive science? Science w/o predictions is simply taxonomy & classification. Linnaeus important, but Darwin showed procreative dynamic 9:56 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

RT @Slate: "FDA plans to limit saltiness of food" http://slate.me/b2PHEe: JK--This just in: Federal Taste Administration will ration flavor. 8:39 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

"Why comp-sci students cheat"(http://bit.ly/9vwGkA): JK--WoodyAllen joke re cheating in philosophy:"looked into soul of guy sitting next2me" 8:35 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

"Facebook will let U 'like' anything on Internet" (http://bit.ly/a9dfdV): JK--Really? Can I "dislike" inevitable ubiquity of stupid likings? 8:29 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

"What's Not So Great About iPad: The 10 Biggest Complaints" (http://bit.ly/bE5CIK): JK--This Apple has lotsa worms. Steve sells apple pie. 8:14 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

"Why aren't SSDs getting cheaper?" (http://bit.ly/bvkBJo): JK--DW appliance market can't rise to new price-perf plateau until this happens 8:11 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

Ramping up to do #forrester #crm customer service Wave. 7:33 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Nude As The News by Cat Power #KEXP: JK--This lady has always used the awkwardness in her sultry voice for max impact. 7:30 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck

@morefromalan Being Baby Boomer who came of age in mid-70s, VU already an oldie. When Nirvana & J&MC hit, I was already way old. But love 7:29 AM Apr 20th via TweetDeck in reply to morefromalan

Without a doubt, the most cited influence in today's indie rock is Jesus & Mary Chain. 30 years ago, it was Velvet Underground. 9:14 PM Apr 19th via txt

Not particularly social to force customers to use social media if they prefer other channels. Give them personalized CRM instead. #scrm 9:02 PM Apr 19th via txt

Now use my Zune HD as much for Twitter and browsing as music. Personal tipping point of sorts. But my smartphone for posting fresh tweets 8:48 PM Apr 19th via txt

Listening to Cream's deliciously pumped cover of Willie Dixon's "Spoonful." Jack Bruce's full-throated vox matched Eric's axe lick for lick 8:43 PM Apr 19th via txt

Shared with Sonya my theory that it's curse of Bjork. Either pissed we're not buying enough of her albums. Or payback for swan dress jokes. 8:30 PM Apr 19th via txt

Read magazines back to front cuz actual content's there. Front's thick with ads. Read newspapers that way too. Front pages are propaganda. 7:43 PM Apr 19th via txt

Back to me again. That was freaking me out. I facebooked that photo instead. It's Thor's mugshot. Also here: http://tweetphoto.com/19144337 7:08 PM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

@merv found my shades photo scary. Here's a shot of me when I get really angry. Start spewing Icelandic obscenities. 7:01 PM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

Pioneering film editor Dede Allen dies at 86. Work on classics such as 1967's "Bonnie & Clyde" altered cinema's visual grammar. Jumpcuts! 6:01 PM Apr 19th via txt

Need to rename older cities to reflect decentralizing pops: Pitts'burbh? St. Peters'burb? 4:20 PM Apr 19th via txt

Walking my 'burb, listening to PJ Harvey 2000 gem: "Stories From City, Stories From Sea." Righteous rocking riotgrrl, pure poetic priestess 4:12 PM Apr 19th via txt

Androi-lytics. That's any analyst tracking how well the new Google smartphone platform's doing in the marketplace. 3:29 PM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

RT @Frauenfelder: "George Orwell is watching you" http://bit.ly/cRuC4H: JK--Eric Blair's sinister stare? 3:25 PM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

"Google Dreams Up Cloud Printing Service" (http://bit.ly/bWAARW): JK--Skywriting planes will print on clouds using volcanic ash as ink. 3:17 PM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

"Technologies That Could Define Next Century" (http://bit.ly/dxKZYf): JK--No point waiting till 2100 to find out. What about this century? 3:15 PM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

Patriot's Day is one of my faves. Never heard of it? It's a day the Mass-hubbed analyst community honors through email abstention. 2:50 PM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Yo've Got the Love (the xx remix) by Florence & the Machine #KEXP: JK--Florence will be bigger than Madonna. 1:18 PM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

Long for good ol' days of prop planes & transoceanic voyages? Invulnerable to airborne volcanic ash. But not icebergs & Baron von Richthofen 1:15 PM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

RT @jameskobielus: "Metadata's everything in Twitter evolution." JK--Yes, per 2 days ago. Just want to retweet per what said this morning 1:10 PM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

Metadata's everything in Twitter evolution. Would love 2 C overlong tweets auto-post 2 macroblog pointed 2 in 140-char tweetbody by shortURL 1:08 PM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

"This is What Tweet Looks Like" http://bit.ly/c1cIlx JK--Ah, beauty. Metadata far outweighs data. Payload riding social superthruster! 11:21 AM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: It's All Over Now Baby Blue by Bob Dylan #KEXP: JK--This song builds power almost imperceptibly verse by verse. 8:17 AM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

No need to damn Eyjafjallajokull. Once it melts the overlying glacier, the ash spew will diminish, and the magma will burst, ooze to ocean. 8:10 AM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

Prepping for #Sensage webinar, collab with #Forrester colleague John Kindervag, on SIM/log mgt & DW. Security event mgt. 8:08 AM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

RT @kexpplaylist: Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen #KEXP: JK--What you notice about Cohen is how good his songs are, his voice less so. 8:05 AM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

"More Colleges Move To Cloud Email Like Gmail" (http://bit.ly/cJFJHJ): JK--My kids did at UVa. That's when I realized Gmail not my cuppatea 8:03 AM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

"From here to tweeternity: Twitter to be preserved for posterity" (http://bit.ly/b7CWLQ): JK--How much data/storage/$ does that represent? 7:56 AM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

Home workers have Twitter for water cooler. 7:51 AM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

Week 2 of the Great Grounding. Actually, it's been less than a week. Feels like forever. 7:50 AM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

"IBM Guns for Oracle with Double the Cash Rewards" (http://bit.ly/bKKc07): JK--IBM playing hardball w/ Oracle re forklifting Exadata. 7:49 AM Apr 19th via TweetDeck

Concrete as today may be, creation churns continually, the leaves obscure the tree, and nature intended the abstract for you and me. 8:22 PM Apr 18th via txt

The Economist has annoying habit of telling U what to think before it shares details on why. Their reportage thereby loses credibility. 8:10 PM Apr 18th via txt

Reading Vanity Fair's Grace Kelly retrospective reminds of wretched likeness of statue that Monaco has installed on Ave. Princesse Grace. 4:36 PM Apr 18th via txt

Listening to Love doing "Maybe The People..." From "Forever Changes." Like Arthur Lee dropping acid in jam session with Satchmo & Bacharach 3:56 PM Apr 18th via txt

Must break into strings that not Icelandic words syllables or phonemes to recall correct spelling: Ey jaf jalla jokull. Double dot over O 12:57 PM Apr 18th via txt

That's right, Hollywood. Turn every bankable actor into an action hero, preferably with special powers. When every hero's super, none are. 12:39 PM Apr 18th via txt

One key difference: chocolate shakes taste good. 9:46 AM Apr 18th via txt

Wanna listen 2 Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld's advice on Fox News re blood pressure. But would be tantamount to washing meds down w/chocolate shake 9:39 AM Apr 18th via txt

Watching REM video 4 "What's The Frequency Kenneth?" Dan Rather footnote on rock history. Flip side of "What R U Running 4 Mr. President?" 9:33 AM Apr 18th via txt

Close your eyes and listen to these CBS guys: Andy Rooney & Bill Geist. Same voice, dialect, & ntwk. Different moods. Bill's a happy guy. 9:29 AM Apr 18th via txt

Oh. That KT Tunstall song is called "Black Horse & The Cherry Tree." Another now-venerable radio tune with sound hooks and Americana roots. 9:22 AM Apr 18th via txt

Watched "Precious" on DVD last night. Great job of building empathy & respect 4 beleaguered protagonist. Weathers horrors with deep smarts. 9:17 AM Apr 18th via txt

Every TV intervu with politician where do 2-sec cut 2 nodding interviewer reaction shot feels like "Daily Show." Must suppress urge 2 smirk 9:13 AM Apr 18th via txt

ABC "This Week" resurrects Oklahoma City bombing and gives Bill Clinton & Rush Limbaugh chance to comment. Put this on VH1 "I Hate the 90s" 9:06 AM Apr 18th via txt

Love those bellwether tech stocks. To the casual investor, they stand for everything. To an analyst in the trench, they're just big vendors 7:55 PM Apr 17th via txt

Funny how weakly you remember the week's beginning when the week's end comes on so strong. I can only review my receipts to remind. 7:52 PM Apr 17th via txt

The last syllable in Eyjafjallajokull is pronounced "kutt," but "u" like the "u" in Ashton Kutcher's surname. Suspect we've all been punk'd. 6:51 PM Apr 17th via TweetDeck

But to live outside the law, you must be honest 6:20 PM Apr 17th via API Retweeted by you and 21 others

Damn...forgot to mention the mopping part....probably because that task has been wife-sourced. 3:20 PM Apr 17th via TweetDeck

Dusting the house, then sweeping, then swiffing, then vacuuming, then putting the furniture back, then planting self on sofa, then eating. 3:18 PM Apr 17th via TweetDeck

@atmanes Right. And indefinitely. With even less hope that a military response might actually make a difference. 2:32 PM Apr 17th via TweetDeck in reply to atmanes

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