Saturday, August 13, 2011

Aweekstweets August 7-13 2011: the week of the downgrade

RIP Ken Oshman. Pivotal entrepreneur in the development of the competitive office telephone equipment market.

8 hours ago

"Britain's PM considers social media ban to curb riots" (bit.ly/r0xMoE) JK--Since when is Hosni Mubarak advising 10 Downing Street?

8 hours ago

Caught "Jumping the Broom" on DVD. Pleasant romantic comedy about culture conflict between affluent & working-class African-Americans.

9 hours ago

CFO’S TERROR Everything’s coming to closure. The books in their fulcrum are righting. What hangs is one wee … (cont) deck.ly/~2fFwt

11 hours ago

Quick metric for declining starpower: U don't recognize the names of 2 of the 3 most recent films made by actor who won Oscar 10+ years ago.

13 hours ago

Yes. Worry about in vino veritas. It's a business tipsy, the most risky of all.

13 hours ago

Please enough of the sniggering jokes & suggestions re Bert & Ernie. Former's only peculiarity is punk 'do, latter's his rubberducky fetish

14 hours ago

Chinese producers tainting food products with harmful additives? If PRC ever wishes to export foodstuffs again, they must seriously crakdown

14 hours ago

Now I'm confused. Wot I thought of as Tuvan throatsing origin8d in Mongolia? Mongolians angry @ China 4 claiming it? Too many odd overtones!

14 hours ago

I liked Maher's comment that the same general public that consistently holds Congress in low esteem consistently elects them every 2 years.

14 hours ago

WSJ interview with Mel Brooks. He is just organically funny & witty w/ every twisty turn of phrase. Obviously works these phrases constantly

14 hours ago

Must mainline me some classic Ramones without delay to rock the crazy week gone by into a semblance of oblivion.

14 hours ago

I will be doing a #Hadoop best practices webinar in a few weeks time with #Pervasive & #Karmasphere. Stay tuned for details.

14 hours ago

Is Steve Cropper in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame yet? Don't tell me he isn't. Look him up.

14 hours ago

Business trips for me are nothing like vacations, no matter how nice the place. My work schedule brackets any incidental pleasures in worry

14 hours ago

It's hard to believe that I did everything I did today. And did my annual physical. I don't kid myself. This shit takes a physical toll.

14 hours ago

Feels like I'm becoming an introducer within the Silicon Valley-centric #Hadoop segment. In spite of fact that I'm 3000 miles away.

14 hours ago

WSJ says GM planning export-oriented Indonesia plant near Jakarta. I suggest dredge/build dedicated oceanport west of Pluit near airport

15 hours ago

Many customers of #SAS whom I speak to are quite perplexed by which tool from that vendor's vast portfolio is best suited to what problem.

16 hours ago

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches from the album Since I Left You JK--"That boy needs therapy."

22 hours ago

Yes I do carry big heavy bags of paper with me everywhere I go. Sometimes they're full of blank sheets for me to scribble details & analysis

22 hours ago

Shout-out to new tweeter @nonash88 . Now you have the formidable task of following me on social & supporting me real-time on my bread&butter

22 hours ago

"Scientists Pop Atoms in Microwave, Out Comes Quantum Entanglement" (http://bit.ly/r5Q1Xa) JK--Kernels get lodged between God's teeth.

12 Aug

Interviewed by Beth Stackpole, as was @bevelson , for TechTarget article on collaborative social #BI tools

12 Aug

Bill Maher. What's the point of him inviting rightwingers to his show if he won't let them get a word in edgewise. Just a reverse O'Reilly.

12 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Into the Sun (feat. Miho Hatori) by Sean Lennon from Into the Sun JK--Gentle samba from the Beatle progeny.

12 Aug

How do you model, simulate & test quality of customer experience across multichannel #CRM? It's like freeform dance with zillion variations

11 Aug

"I'll view what they're viewing." Recomm'dat'n engines in social TV networks will magnify the ratings influence of hip people on their peers

11 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp When I Stop Dreaming by The Louvin Brothers from When I Stop Dreaming: The Best of JK--Pure Appalachian nirvana

11 Aug

@rpsherman I mix work & pleasure continually anyway. Interleaving Hadoop & music in equal measure.

11 Aug

Computing for pleasure, which, to my wife, is instinguishable from me computing for work.

11 Aug

Aubrey Plaza's character on "Parks & Recreation" just namedropped the defunct indie group Neutral Milk Hotel.

11 Aug

Kinda of a dumb question, don't you agree? If it's on the public record, check for yourself. BTW, who are you exactly?

11 Aug

Top story: Stocks rebound! Following the break: analysts speculate whether sundown will be followed by temporary darkness.

11 Aug

Challenge of covering a space is partly in seeing something in stuff you look at every day and may be a wee bit jaded about.

11 Aug

An enterprise #Hadoop solution is, at heart, one that lets U move model mine & manip BigData volumes to and/or from ApchHdp-centrc platforms

11 Aug

Startled brown white-tailed rabbit in my frontyard this morn. Startled one in Rancho Bernardo last wk. Suspect it stowed away in my carry-on

11 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp When U Love Somebody by The Decemberists from An iTunes Session JK--Cool! Colin M & crew cover recent Fruit Bats!

11 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Mother's Little Helper by Polyphonic Size from Nouvelle Vague Presents New Wave JK--Huh? Late 60s Stones New Wave?

11 Aug

"Customary #EDW concepts vs. Hadoop: #Forrester makes the call" (http://bit.ly/neBSgU) JK--Not just that, Kobielus invokes Inmon & Kimball

11 Aug

"Twitter Is Removing Your @Mentions Folder. Here’s How To Get It Back" (http://cot.ag/qEfmlj) JK--This a dumb joke? That removes the social

11 Aug

@nyuhanna & yrs truly interviewed a #Microsoft ref customer for SQL Server #PDW

11 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp: We Carry On by Portishead from Third JK--These folks do ghostly-mechanical-ominous extraordinarily well!

11 Aug

Yes, I can jam the adjectives into a tweet. #Panorama Necto is an innovative boundary-spanning #BI "3.0" solution.

11 Aug

Took briefing from #Panorama on #Necto #BI soln w/ social self-svc contxtual interactiv pub-sub adaptiv root cause anlysis & NextBest Action

11 Aug

@nancykoppdw Glad I could stimulate your thinking!

11 Aug

Did a customer inquiry re #Teradata #CRM that quickly became, at customer urging, a #NextBestAction best practcs, use cases, & solutions inq

11 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp: When Will You Die? by They Might Be Giants from Join Us JK--Great funny/nasty new one in their classic goofus style

11 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Superman's Song by Crash Test Dummies from The Ghosts That Haunt Me JK--1991. This guy has/had a great voice.

11 Aug

That Newsweek cover photo of Michele Bachmann is what she looks like in most photos I've seen of her. No distortion. Slightly deranged smile

10 Aug

WashPost reports that new US Poet Laureate Philip Levine grew up in Detroit "a mile from 8 Mile Rd." Quik calc pinpoints poet at 7 Mile Rd.

10 Aug

Does every #Hadoop solution vendor implement every spec in that stack I linkd to earlier? Does every user impl? No way. What's common? MpRdc

10 Aug

WSJ reprts that mistakes in scientific studies surge. Just in: Einstein ghost retracts relativity. Askd 4 coment, OldTstmt God sez toldja so

10 Aug

What is #Hadoop you ask? For starters, how extensively does your product portfolio (or production env) implement these? http://bit.ly/229KBJ

10 Aug

Interviewed (by email) by Valerie Valentine of Information Management re #Microsoft release of #Hadoop HDFS connector for SQL Server & PDW

10 Aug

John Phillips name-checked Alexandria, his hometown. And, for past quarter-century, mine too (if you count Franconia as Alexandria, that is)

10 Aug

Listening to The Mamas & The Papas cover of "Dancing in the Street." Sitting in Falls Church VA. Mama Cass mentions Falls Church in outro.

10 Aug

Listening to Dandy Warhols "Bohemian Like You." I'll forgive them the JumpinJackFlash-y intro--they take it into a very Dandy direction!

10 Aug

@TonyBaer Spammers rarely promise anything quite that classy--or specific to any Vegas hotel-casino that's way off-Strip

10 Aug

Dear Spammers: If U want 2 fool me into clicking on one of yer come-on messages, dont promise free meal at establishment that grosses me out

10 Aug

Working on a preso deck that brings my CLV & CEM metrics for #CRM #NextBestAction into a more seamless synthesis. Love does indeed drive $

10 Aug

Dandy Warhols. Every time one of their songs comes on the player, it feels like dear old friend coming to spend time. A few rockin' moments

10 Aug

@NeilRaden I don't suppose any battle is a joke. But whence the name?

10 Aug

Experience analytics. Sounds like trying to quantify the ineffable. But we all like to list our favorite things. That's a simple analytic.

10 Aug

As new socials come online & old friends want to re-social thru them, what's the etiquette for declaring "one social with you is plenty"

10 Aug

Some vendors and users still freak at the word "cloud," thinking that it only refers to public hosting. The word carries baggage, don't it?

10 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp My Mistakes by Eleanor Friedberger from Last Summer JK--This has suddenly become my fave new song.

10 Aug

"Is Social Networking's Honeymoon Nearly Over?" (http://bit.ly/q8WPjv) JK--In other words, is Google+ essentially Winklevoss 2.0

10 Aug

Critical thinking in a blink. It's absolutely essential for shooting down distractions before they can do damage on your attention span.

10 Aug

"Microsoft adds Hadoop support to SQL Server, data warehouse" (http://bit.ly/pDxMbI) JK--Just the bare minimum: connector to external HDFS

10 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Memory Gospel by Moby from Play: The B Sides JK--Remember Eminem's dumb one-sided feud with this guy?

10 Aug

"Social Media Makes Mark in London Riots" (http://bit.ly/nn9JP6) JK--Enuff of such headlines. Rioters also drove horseless carriages Im told

10 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Itchy Fingers by Junior Boys from It's All True JK--Cool new one. Like Hall & Oates gone disco.

10 Aug

Boy am I glad I organize my notes from previous inquiries. Saves my tail in a pinch every time.

10 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Draggin' The Line by Tommy James & The Shondells from 40 Yrs Complete Singles Collection '66-'06 JK--TJ still active?

10 Aug

Much of life is resisting dumb advice on language and how to use it.

10 Aug

WSJ review of John McWhorter "What Language Is" (http://on.wsj.com/oavID2) JK--IDIOM: Ingrown Disheveled Intricate Oral Mixed. Cool mnemonic

10 Aug

@NeilRaden That's nothing. My grandpa rode up Pork Chop Hill and nibbled on the Big Rock Candy Mountain!

9 Aug

@NeilRaden Speak up sonny! I can't hear ya!

9 Aug

@NeilRaden Theodore Roosevelt brought us out of what depression?

9 Aug

Mt. Rushmore. I love the cheesy patriotic iconic nature of the place, carved into the earth, oddly exalting Theodore Roosevelt.

9 Aug

What's this "girl next door" nonsense? Are there zoning ordinances prohibiting girls out of one's league from residing in the adjacent home?

9 Aug

Kylie Minogue. Is she the older shorter white Aussie Beyonce, or is Ms Knowles the younger taller black Texan Kylie. Which is yr ref diva?

9 Aug

Social media listening & much text analytics, applied 2 user-generated content, is experience analytics. Experience of being me cantcha see

9 Aug

Behavioral analytics. It is in fact experience analytics. People tend to act out their inner dramas.

9 Aug

Watching video for Hanson "Give A Little." Great song. Wicked riff.

9 Aug

Now that everybody is friends with everybody else on socials, has anybody done study to determine whether more people can stand each other?

9 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Summer Place by Fountains of Wayne from Sky Full of Holes JK--Fine new release from indie-pop veterans.

9 Aug

As I said, my consulting dance card is full. It's more like a mosh pit. My head's banging & band's clanging on one chord "HA-DOOP HA-DOOP!!"

9 Aug

#Zettaset. Founded in 2007. VC-funded. Mountain View CA-based. Formerly known as GOTO Metrics.

9 Aug

Taking briefing from #Zettaset , a vendor of HA, management, security #SIEM, and optimization tools for #BigData #Hadoop

9 Aug

@forrester Assist #Forrester w/rsch on #MDM in suppt of #HR proc. Complete survey http://forr.com/pLsYXm & get free doc #dataquality #BPM

9 Aug

@forrester Emerging business architect role vital in leading biz transformation supported by tech (http://forr.com/ogYlUT) #BPF11, #BPM

9 Aug

Interviewed by @chriskanaracus of #IDG re MSFT announcement on PDW news & #Hadoop interop plans http://bit.ly/p0tobK

9 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Anarchy in the U.K. by Sex Pistols from the album Never Mind the Bollocks JK--See previous tweet.

9 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp London's Burning by The Clash JK--Have to restrain oneself not to think of the Clash every time riots break out in UK

9 Aug

RT @applegirl: "I love days when downtown Chicago smells like chocolate chip cookies." JK--"Sweet Home Chicago" (http://bit.ly/qUfwwc)

9 Aug

Seems like everybody's verticalizing adv analytics into industry-specific and/or painpoint-focused #CRM solutions leveraging social media.

9 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp: New Slang by The Shins from Oh, Inverted World JK--Has one of those "Greensleeves"-ish melodies that burrow deep

9 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Sometimes I Don't Get You by Yo La Tengo from I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass JK--Hoboken soul!

9 Aug

"Microsoft's, Google's Big Data Plans Give It An Edge" (http://bit.ly/pcRTqy) JK--Good discussion of MSFT "Daytona" & GGL Fusion Tables

9 Aug

Long. Lengthy. Elongated. Can you think of any English synonym that goes deeper down the dimension that these words denote?

9 Aug

Laissez faire. My mnemonic on that has always been "let's see how the market shakes out and call that fair."

9 Aug

"The Data-Fueled Display Ad Revival" (http://bit.ly/nNcTUq) JK--Think of it as next best offer machinery in the service of Madison Avenue.

9 Aug

"Are Google's best days behind it?" (http://bit.ly/qjbH8b) JK--Same question was asked about Apple back in the 90s.

9 Aug

"Startup 2 release 'stone-like' optical disc that lasts forever" (http://bit.ly/p0K1NV) JK--Umm stones erode. When forever arrives, well see

9 Aug

"Fastest-Growing Vertical in IT? Healthcare" (http://bit.ly/puj65Q) JK--Driven partly by insurance reform compliance, partly by cost control

9 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Pouring Rain At Dawn by The Jayhawks from Mockingbird Time JK--Great new one from classic alt-country band.

9 Aug

Once again, the turbulent financial markets rumble ominously. As always, nothing much I can do about it. But focus on what's in front of me

9 Aug

One tweeter's profile describes as "writer, drug addict, musician, nerd, & very immature." LOL But I wont follow unless he tweets more often

9 Aug

I'm still looking for #EDW vendors to package relational, columnar, and #Hadoop repositories into unified appliance family w/common tools

9 Aug

Assist Forrester w/ research on #MDM in support of #HR processes. Complete survey http://forr.com/pLsYXm & get free doc. #dataquality #BPM

9 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye by The Decemberists from An iTunes Session JK--Excellent Leonard Cohen cover.

9 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Griselda by Michael Hurley, The Unholy Modal from Have Moicy! JK--Kneeslapping old-timey hoedown jam.

9 Aug

Saw "Crazy, Stupid, Love." Great, film. Laughed, pretty, much, through, the, whole, thing. Lots, of, great, performances. Tangled, lives

9 Aug

Tweet-lite day for me. Head-down in consulting & research tasks. Q3 is much busier than I expected. That's a good thing!

8 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Is It True? by Tennis from the album Is It True? JK--New one? No sophomore slump for them? Sounds promising.

8 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Opposite of Hallelujah by Jens Lekman from Night Falls Over Kortedala JK--Can't not smile at Jens' bouncy gloom

8 Aug

"Study: Twitter Helps Investors Predict the Stock Market" (http://bit.ly/qwGMuT) JK--Predict that it will stay jittery? I coulda toldya that

8 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp My Mistakes by Eleanor Friedberger from Last Summer JK--Great new toe-tapper from Fiery Furnaces singer.

8 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp: See No Evil by Television from Marquee Moon JK--Should be Google's theme song. Or, better yet, Do No Evil.

8 Aug

@The_Quacker One grabs the bull by the horns, in which case I'm referring to the doorknob, & slams shut. Also, ignore social & email & phone

8 Aug

Rediscovered the joys of focusing on one task for more than an hour.

8 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Wired For Light (Live Drum Version) by School of Seven Bells from Prince of Peace JK--Drums make it even dreamier

8 Aug

@forrester How can U empower customers thru business proc transformation? @waband offers 6 tips: http://forr.com/pO53Ge. #BPF11, #CRM, #BPM

8 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Jeepster by T. Rex from the album Electric Warrior JK--Ever notice that this glam-rock song has country-western beat?

8 Aug

@jtwentyman You are quite welcome, Jessica. Glad to provide inputs for your article on #BigData #Hadoop #EDW.

8 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Monday Morning by Death Cab for Cutie from the album Codes and Keys JK--Another instantly memorable tune from DCFC

8 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp All I Need by Air from the album Moon Safari JK--Song is rare bird: interesting lounge music.

8 Aug

I meant to type "Forrester" into my browser address bar, but typed "Facebook" instead. Can't be Freudian slip.

8 Aug

That dramatic moment just before your lip learns whether the coffee is too damn hot.

8 Aug

Maybach. Daimler's most opulent ride. Not selling many of the vehicles. $375K pricetag. Also, very ltd distrib. Ive only seen in Monte Carlo

8 Aug

"Google's Self-Driving Car Crashes" (http://bit.ly/mT0sPY) JK--But in its defense, your honor, some stupid human was driving at the time.

8 Aug

"Google+ Floodgates Open -- Everyone Gets 150 Invites and an Invite Page (http://bit.ly/pfLIIp) JK--Every new social creates new friendspam

8 Aug

"World music"? That's sorta like "world painting" or "world architecture." Qualifier "world" says nothing. Just call it "music."

8 Aug

Listening to Cat Stevens "Oh Very Young" from his greatest. Love poetic compression of "your dad's best jeans denim blue faded up 2 the sky"

8 Aug

@ggheorghiu Sure. This, for example. But why does some stranger expect me to spend time mentoring them remotely? What's in it for me?

7 Aug

Considering using props in a couple of near-future speaking engagements. Considering them carefully. Nothing too hokey or showy.

7 Aug

Listening to great #KEXP podcast of Cave Singers (http://bit.ly/mYlqKv), live from Capitol Hill (Seattle) block party a few weeks ago.

7 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp That's Entertainment by Morrissey from Just Say Yes, Just Say Anything JK--Perfect voice, other than Weller, for this

7 Aug

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Walk a Mile in My Shoes (feat. Robert Owens) by Coldcut JK--Dedicated to those who think analysts work for free.

7 Aug

@ggheorghiu Gotta eat.

7 Aug

Dear Every Graduate Student in the World: Please don't imagine we can give U gratis guidance. Sincerely, Every Industry Analyst in the World

7 Aug

Curious where Maslow would put #BI in his hierarchy. Self-actualization? Nah. That's only when you go fully self-service & actionable.

7 Aug

Few things as mundanely annoying as "sign me in automatically" screens that never do, no matter how many times you indicate "yes, please"

7 Aug

Albert Einstein. Albert Brooks should drop his pseudo. Would be funny if always had 2 neurotically explain yes it's my real no I'm no genius

7 Aug

Even if Einstein had been crewcutted and cleanshaven, he would have been iconic for those soulful eyes. And, oh yes, for his smarts.

7 Aug

Listening to Neko Case "If You Knew" over & over, obsessively. Just one more shot, please, from this former Alexandria VA resident.

7 Aug

Listening to Harry Belafonte "Jamaica Farewell" from "Time-Life Treasury of Folk Music." A song I often sing acappella after a drink or two.

7 Aug

Ads 4 "male enhancement." "Enhancement"? Matter of degrees? I thought criterion 4 maleness was binary. Like being "a little bit pregnant."

7 Aug

When people pray at cross-purposes, the prayers cross & cancel in Heaven and make the Almighty quite cross with us.

7 Aug

Almost forgot. Norah Jones, half-Indian

7 Aug

Critical thinking. Critically important for you to keep lies, distortion, & manipulation from warping your POV & upsetting your equilibrium.

7 Aug

Arianna Huffington. She seems to have political ambitions. I'll leave it at that.

7 Aug

Thank you Standard & Poor's for whacking the entire US federal policymaking establishment on their debt-addicted heads. Downgrade = tuff luv

7 Aug

The faux-monumental hotel-casinos. Names like New York New York & Circus Circus. Vegas fills yr eyes w/ that dubl vision. Gets the best of U

7 Aug

Michelle Branch. Karen O. Racking my brain to identify other American popstars of full or partial Asian ancestry.

7 Aug

I don't golf, but I readily admit that golf courses are among the most beautiful & ecofriendly footprints of organized sports on this planet

7 Aug