Stuff the Beatles left off the White Album January 23-27 2012

Is the 'quantified self' movement just a fad?

Google kills more services

Jim Kobielus on 2012

http://www.decisionstats.com/jim-kobielus-on-2012/

Apps Overtaking Middleware

Amazon Dynamo DB: Big Data's Big Cloud Moment

The PC industry is heading for collapse

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-pc-industry-is-heading-for-collapse/17828?tag=nl.e019

What Megaupload's Demise Teaches about Cloud Storage
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7823979/7006273/548530/0/

Using Libraries In the Age of eBooks
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3393423/5553367/280399/0/

Web Jargon Origins Revealed
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3394228/5553367/280481/0/

Facebook's Timeline Apps: Beacon 2.0
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3394228/5553367/280484/0/

Internet Promotes Literacy, Study Says
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3394228/5553367/280486/0/

Hadoop Takes a Giant Step Toward the Enterprise

http://www.smartertechnology.com/c/a/Business-Analytics/Hadoop-Takes-a-Giant-Step-Toward-the-Enterprise/?kc=STNL01232012STR3

The 10 dumbest tech predictions for 2012

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/the-10-dumbest-tech-predictions-for-2012/3004?tag=nl.e101

Oracle's Hadoop move could push rivals toward big data bundles

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223599/Oracle_Move_Could_Push_Rivals_Toward_Big_Data_Bundles?source=CTWNLE_nlt_thisweek_2012-01-23

Megaupload, Anonymous, SOPA and the Internet fallout

The Hazy Future of Phones
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3395283/5553367/280841/0/

Microsoft Takes a New Approach to the Cloud

IBM Debuts New Analytics Appliance to Help Retailers Transform Big Data Into Business Opportunities

MicroStrategy Delivers Free In-memory Data Discovery Capabilities to Salesforce Users http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4952253&access=EH

MicroStrategy Announces General Availability of MicroStrategy 9.2.1m http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4952278&access=EH

12 Hadoop Vendors To Watch In 2012

Hadoop's Flexibility Wins Over Online Data Provider

Q&A: EFFECTIVE PREDICTIVE MODELING TECHNIQUES MORE THAN A MATH
PROBLEM
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16147559/2433922

IceWeb, nDataStor Team on Unified Data

The MDM and Governance Ripple Effect

Testing the Edge of the Cloud

Dot Collectors and Dot Connectors

Cloudera Teams With O'Reilly Media to Merge Hadoop World and Strata Conferences

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudera-teams-oreilly-media-merge-143500569.html

Google+ Says 'Yes' to Nicknames, But No to Anonymity
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3396420/5553367/281192/0/

Google Looks to Speed Up the Internet
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3396420/5553367/281195/0/

Facebook, Twitter Devs Release 'Don't Be Evil' Tool for Google
Search
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3396420/5553367/281202/0/

The Web's Growing Muscle

'If I Die' Facebook app sends your final message

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223679/_If_I_Die_Facebook_app_sends_your_final_message_?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2012-01-25

Microsoft set to launch SQL Server 2012 on March 7

6 Predictions For Business Intelligence In 2012

CEP and Big Data 2

CRM data integration provider Scribe boosts cloud offering with GUI synchronization services

Alteryx, another disruptive technology of huge importance

Cassandra and Hadoop

Understanding the options for Big Data in the cloud

Rival Social Nets Scold Google With 'Don't Be Evil' Bookmarklet
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74258.html

Google's Plan for World Domination

Microsoft's plan for Hadoop and big data

http://links.eqentia.com/520b2ad1536d771f/?dst=http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/microsoft-big-data.html&utm_campaign=visibli&utm_source=cloudcomputing&utm_medium=twitter

EMC Tops Backup Appliance Market

BI Experts: Why Enterprise Data Strategies Must Support Business Goals

Q&A: "Cool BI" List Includes Dashboards, Visual Discovery Tools

2012: Year of Cloud BI

Q&A: Analytics, Unstructured Data, and the Growth of Social Media

From the BI Scorecard: The Year Ahead in BI and a Look Back on 2011 Highlights

EMC lays out product roadmap, warns of disk shortages

Google to combine users' data across its services

Tibco adds geolocation to its Tibbr social platform

Why the time is almost ripe for Solid State Disks in the data center

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/networking/why-the-time-is-almost-ripe-for-solid-state-disks-in-the-data-center/5279?tag=nl.e102

IBM Netezza Appliance: Speed Lane To Retail Insights

BPM AND ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE: THE CASE FOR INTEGRATION
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16160853/2433922

GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT: ORACLE, IBM LEAD PRODUCT MDM SOFTWARE MARKET
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16165565/2433922

CREATE BUSINESS RULES IN ORACLE HYPERION FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16165164/2433922

Total Execution of Social Networks and Analytics

Cloud and Social IT Serendipity

Applications of R in Business

Amazon Web Services moves backups to cloud with new appliance

BMMsoft Announces EDMT Solution 9.0 on MySQL for Small and Medium Enterprises

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/25/4213792/bmmsoft-announces-edmt-solution.html

Amazon Dynamo DB: Big Data's Big Cloud Moment

SAP's HANA in-memory database will gain ability to run ERP this year

Is Security An Afterthought For NoSQL?

IBM, Oracle Make Competing Smart Grid Announcements

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=121003Y8RBWD&nl=2

Amazon Rolls Out Ultra-Scalable DynamoDB

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=121007WBM55U&nl=2

Big Data's Big Challenges for Content Management
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74243.html

TIBCO Spotfire Webcast to Offer Insights on Increasing Customer Engagement, Efficiency and Loyalty Through Advanced Analytics

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/tibco-spotfire-webcast-offer-insights-on-increasing-customer-engagement-efficiency-loyalty-nasdaq-tibx-1611256.htm

PepsiCo Makes Employees Social Ambassadors

Why Personal Health Records Have Flopped

Mavuno: A Hadoop-Based Text Mining Toolkit

http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/16519051392/mavuno-a-hadoop-based-text-mining-toolkit

Preston Gralla: Is Steve Ballmer a better leader for Microsoft than Bill Gates had been?

Microsoft set to launch SQL Server 2012 on March 7

Joomla gets search, database reinforcements

NoSQL-Based Database Service for Apps Launched by Amazon

CIA-backed Cleversafe announces 10-exabyte storage system

EMC To Release 'Project Lightning' Flash Cache Soon

6 Predictions For Business Intelligence In 2012

Twitter can now block tweets in specific countries

Oracle proposal would create single committee to oversee Java specs

Talend Seeks More Partner 'Mindshare' For Its Open-Source Software

4 Best Practices for Process-Centric CRM

Not All Analytics Fit for the Cloud

Big Data is More Than Hadoop

How to Predict the Future and Act with Certainty

Alteryx, another disruptive technology of huge importance

Cassandra and Hadoop

My thoughts on IBM, NEC, and OpenFlow

Can Cloud-Based Collaborative Data-Sharing Be Secure Enough for
Defense Systems?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3398729/5553367/281990/0/

Microsoft Cloud Service Lets Users Crunch Big Data
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16173082/2433922

Analysing customers: It pays to keep data near where they are crunched

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c0f5f848-412f-11e1-8c33-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1kfY5hmJw

IBM Joins Google, Microsoft In Cloud Productivity War

Amazon cloud storage gateway scrutinized by competitors
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16190734/2433922

IT Execs Predict Big Future for Clouds, Big Data

Cloud, SaaS Offerings Bolster Business Intelligence Market

Amazon Web Services Launches AWS Storage Gateway

Solid State Storage Can Save You Money

Twitter Prepares To Censor Tweets, Country by Country
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3399745/5553367/282398/0/

INTEREST GROWING IN CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/16191532/2433922

Scientists Close In on Invisibility Cloak
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/74285.html

Aweekstweets Jan 22-29 2012: the week the electrical dust had started to rust my trapezoid thermometer taste

5m

#Hadoop Wave is locked/loaded for publication on Thurs. Yes, market is evolving very fast. In my Feb 9 teleconf, I'll put Wave in context

6m

"The Point!" (bit.ly/94DJWO!) JK--Didn't realize the main character, Oblio, was voiced by Mike Lookinland (Bobby from "Brady Bunch")

9m

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Me and My Arrow by Harry Nilsson from Greatest Hits JK--Theme to early 70s anim8d made-for-TV film "The Point" on ABC

17m

"7 Speaking Tips That Beat Pretend Your Audience Is Naked" (bit.ly/AkMRU9) JK--That tip can distract U if speaking at beauty pageant

26m

Yo La Tengo "Autumn Sweater" (youtu.be/UIkMeaAfIRw) JK--Hoboken-born title act in Onion piece, whose show featurd fictional disaster

30m

Squirrel Bait "Sun God" (youtu.be/PImYNoVrsl0) JK--I'd never heard of them before, but they were referenced in that Onion piece.

31m

Daniel Johnston "Speeding Motorcycle" (youtu.be/fv_t66T3cV4) JK--Artist referenced in Onion piece.

33m

Death Cab for Cutie "You Are A Tourist" (youtu.be/p8lwAJJpyt4) JK--Band referenced in Onion piece.

35m

The Dismemberment Plan "Life of Possibilities" (youtu.be/nRLOf3bSlVs) JK--Group referenced in Onion piece.

37m

Galaxie 500 "Tugboat" (youtu.be/mT__EYIujYY) JK--Group referenced in Onion piece.

38m

Sebadoh "On Fire" (youtu.be/jcbmBm5k-dc) JK--Group referenced in Onion piece.

40m

Funny thing about that Onion article: There really is/was Schoolkids Records. Ann Arbor. My absolute fave record store in late 70s/early 80s

43m

Classic piece in @TheOnion from 2002: "37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster" (onion.com/bOaiWg)

49m

Simon & Garfunkel "April Come She Will" (youtu.be/mxsoNoUOM8Q) JK--Paul wrote a simple short tune around classic-feeling verse.

51m

The Beatles "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (youtu.be/UQG8fGXQBYo) JK--John & Paul gave this to George to sing off their 1st LP.

52m

The James Gang "Walk Away" (youtu.be/x_GZIaghqV0) JK--Woke up at 1am and somehow had craving to hear this one.

55m

@bfr3nch #Hadoop Here: "On Hadoop 1.0: James Kobielus" (bit.ly/zAX07o)

3h

Rented "The Tree of Life" & wish we hadn't. Art film that makes no fucking sense. Dinosaurs, galaxies, Brad Pitt, biblical hoohah? Stop it!

5h

Next best action in multichannel #CRM . When applied 2 customr experience, should simply shape guide foster. Only optimal expernce is Heaven

6h

RIP James Farentino. Handsome TV actor I hadn't heard about in years. Reading his obit. Both impressive and pathetic.

6h

Lynda Carter Altman has been DC-area local as long as I have. She gets her still-beautiful face in paper every time she goes out for a bite.

6h

James Kobielus likes liking the "Like" feature and even likes the likeness and other features of likable Facebookers. Like, far-out daddy-O!

6h

Contemplating what I'll call my aweekstweets and stuff blogposts this weekend.

9h

Local TV news. The place to turn to if you need a daily feed of local crime.

9h

The next "V" in #BigData is either Variability, Volatility, Value, Verticalization or.....Vertigo...I'm getting dizzy up high here...

9h

In fact, my children's generation (they're 20-somethings) speak a bit like IT professionals. The Internet/computer lingo started in in utero

9h

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Little Mercy by Doomtree from Live on KEXP JK--These musicians speak like IT professionals. "Best practices" etc.

9h

RT @TibcoSpotfire Join us Feb. 2nd w @jameskobielus of @Forrester: "Advanced #Analytics in #CRM" bit.ly/yEH7dN #SCRM

9h

"Scientists Close In on Invisibility Cloak" (bit.ly/zFAyMM) JK--So what. I'll B impressed when they devise SpiderMan wristwebshooters

10h

"Twitter Prepares 2 Censor Tweets, Country by Country" (bit.ly/zyXW7t) JK--Hope dont retroactively rewrite 2 expunge historical recd

10h

Front-page WSJ story yesterday on #SAP #HANA was eye-opening. Editors of major biz paper think DB tech worth calling general attention to.

10h

Economists who serve presidents of either party tend to prescribe same policies. That's why I dont praise or blame party in power 4 economy

10h

Economy's picking up. Should help incumbent re-election 2 White House. See '96 & '04 for precedents of embattled president buoyed by economy

10h

Wish I had propeller-head. I need to keep my head in the Cloud. Better than being Edward Scissorhands, cutting everything to ribbons.

10h

#ff @bevelson @rbkarel @kateleggett @waband @nyuhanna

10h

#FF @cpapenfuss @datagenius @BIMarcom @TDWI @timoelliott @juliebhunt @TibcoSpotfire @bitterer @merv @davidloshin @tydak

10h

#ff @bitterer @bevelson @curtmonash @claudia_imhoff @colinjwhite @databaseguru @danvesset @davidloshin @howarddresner @dmenningervr

10h

Comes a time every day where I realize I've been breathing shallowly for hours, trying to concentrate. A deep breath then is mind-expanding.

10h

Amazing. #BigData hasn't totally blown my mind yet with its sheer "too-much-ness." It is all too much for one dude to grok without caffeine

13h

Another tricky part of #BI is not being distracted by all the questions you could conceivably ask of the data. What's your burning question?

13h

Getting the data right is the trickiest part of #BI. Are you slicing & dicing a golden fruit, or something rotten at the core?

13h

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Rock & Roll by The Velvet Underground JK--It saved Jenny's life? What'd it do? Did Chuck Berry talk her off a ledge?

15h

I love Apple. I mean I love apples (eg juicy one I'm biting into now). Gotta watch those sudden uppercase eruptions. Might send wrong signal

16h

"Why Big Data Won't Make You Smart, Rich, Or Pretty" (goo.gl/DMTEG) JK--Unless you're already smart enough 2 cash in. Pretty...slick

16h

"Dying Steve Jobs kept a letter from Bill Gates at his bedside" (bit.ly/yl3SqR) JK--Sounds like SNL sketch-fodder.

16h

Dear Companies That Want 10 MInutes of My Precious Time 2 Respond 2 Online Customr Satisfaction Survey: Give me something precious 4 my time

16h

"Analysing customers: It pays to keep data near where they are crunched" (on.ft.com/AD5fkC) JK--RAM price declines stimul8 in-memory

16h

@LoraineLawson It's simply a matter of being comfortable with one's own skin, whatever skin you're fated to live in.

16h

"Microsoft Cloud Service Lets Users Crunch Big Data" (bit.ly/wsuVon) JK--Hey MSFT, converge this with your cloud #BI strategy!

16h

@LoraineLawson Depends on one's opinion of one's own face at 50. "Deserve" is double-edged word. You project nice or nasty "deserts" onto it

16h

My phone is optimized for tweeting, my tablet for retweeting, and my laptop for tweeting, retweeting, & reading.

16h

"Can Cloud-Based Collaborative Data-Sharing Be Secure Enough 4 Defense Sys?" (bit.ly/wEmhaZ) JK--Cites #Exostar ForumPass. Hi Vijay!

16h

Please stop using "disruptive" in any context other than genuine catastrophes. In IT context, it's lame. We seldom quake in our boots.

16h

"Nature gives you the face you have at 20. Life shapes the face you have at 30. But at 50 you get the face you deserve." - Coco Chanel

16h

"Talend Seeks More Partner 'Mindshare' For Its Open-Source Software" (bit.ly/w4IOpN) JK--Positioning itself to take on Red Hat?

17h

"Twitter can now block tweets in specific countries" (bit.ly/xdyBeo) JK--Apparently, they have no "don't be evil" in their charter

17h

Usual morning chore of inspecting wife's and own bulk mail folders. Hey, I'm a considerate husband. I do put out the trash.

18h

I've stopped following me on socials. Won't this guy ever shut up?

26 Jan

I can't stand quasi-formality of Facebook's "so-and so & so-and-so are now friends." Sounds like "going steady." When ya getting engaged?

26 Jan

The IT trade press seems hellbent on handing Steve Ballmer his walking papers. What exactly did he do to piss them off? Monkey boy dance?

26 Jan

Tech vendor told me they used Twitter as shoestring marketing tool. I said small world. I've been using it as lightweight publishing tool.

26 Jan

You wanna go to the moon, Newt? You wanna go to the moon? I'll send you there. Bang! Zoom! Right in the kisser!

26 Jan

WSJ reports that HANA stands 4 "Hasso's New Architecture." Only remotely interestng new detail in piece appearing today. Lotsa 10x trashtalk

26 Jan

Very different fotos of Obama w/Arizona woman politicians: in one, nasty governor chews him out, in another, wounded representative embraces

26 Jan

Technically, I don't think someone's head can spontaneously combust. But David Cronenberg may beg to differ. Regardless, mine feels that way

26 Jan

Multidomain master data management, relying on complex relationship modeling, can be a graph analysis challenge. Graph database MDM repos?

26 Jan

Taking briefing from Neo Technology, a leading graph database vendor.

26 Jan

Why does media propagate this demeaning "propeller head" epithet re tech industry people? We're the core of modern business & culture.

26 Jan

Mavuno: A Hadoop-Based Text Mining Toolkit (bit.ly/yuXVtZ) JK--Brief #Forrester please. Sounds interesting.

26 Jan

"Is Ballmer better leader 4 MSFT than Gates had been?" (bit.ly/wnDbYU) JK--I've never met a single "propeller head" at MSFT.

26 Jan

"TIBCO Spotfire Webcast 2 Offer Insights on Increasing Customer Engagement, Efficiency & Loyalty Thru Adv Analytics" (mwne.ws/A45Zw4)

26 Jan

@bevelson #Forrester #BI Hey dude, that report you wrote is one of my favorite go-to docs on all things visualization in BI context.

26 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Emmylou by First Aid Kit from The Lion's Roar JK--Nice modern country vibe on this one. New artist worth watching.

26 Jan

"Is Security Afterthought 4 NoSQL?" (bit.ly/xNjye1) JK--Afterthought 4 #Hadoop & #BigData generally. "Security" doesnt begin with "V"

26 Jan

Note to longtime techies: To the extent you invoke Xerox PARC, Homebrew Computer Club, & Marc Andreessen, you're lapsing into fogeyism.

26 Jan

Android tablet now my breakfast companion. Listen to #kexp, glance at pers email, & check FB pre-work. Occasionally get wet cereal on screen

26 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Carolyn's Fingers by Cocteau Twins from Blue Bell Knoll JK--1988. Still feels like cutting edge. That Cocteau rush!

26 Jan

First thing every morning I sort the wheat from the chaff, e-mail-wise. I've plugged anti-chaff rules into my spam filter.

26 Jan

@SemperD Thanks! I tweet it all for you!

26 Jan

In degrees of real-world separation, I once knew Bob Ethington, who definitely knows Ralph Carney, who definitely played with Tom Waits.

25 Jan

Egidia sends her love. She'll be accompanying me again.

25 Jan

You won't be attending?

25 Jan

I'm very choosy about wine. I tend to choose whatever wine somebody has just poured in my glass.

25 Jan

Sitting here reading equivalent English & Malay texts frm 1614. Sitting here thinking in 2012 US English. Overhear wife speaking 2012 Bahasa

25 Jan

My "blues name" is either Pigmeat O'LAP or Blind Lemon McHadoop, king of the Big-Ass Delta Data Gutcrunchers. You may address me as "Mister"

25 Jan

Warm day near Alexandria, Virginia. Tweeting this simply to see if Weather Channel app scoops it up into social stream for this vicinity.

25 Jan

Twitter is a powerful tool for fast social reconnect, when the moment is ripe.

25 Jan

#BI #analytics #DW & related data mgt/integration specialties come in a dizzying range of position titles. Holy MOLAP!

25 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Payback, Pt. 1 by James Brown from 50th Anniversary Collection JK--Song hugely influential on white punk-rockers

25 Jan

On #BI inquiries, pointing #forrester customers to practical guidance is easy. I simply direct them to @bevelson comprehensive/deep research

25 Jan

With an incoherent #BI initiative in your company, the first consideration is always "where to start?" Who's the "BI nag" to prod it along?

25 Jan

Helped a customer this morning on inquiry to put together quick action plan for bootstrapping internal #BI strategy to present to mgmt.

25 Jan

There are only so many ways you can slice & dice the concept of #BI before it's mush. Hey, analysts, don't overanalyze analytics! Trust me!

25 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Beach Sluts by Howler from America Give Up JK--Song and album titles make me laugh.

25 Jan

@TonyBaer Yes, you know it, Tony. Diffs btwn row & columnar storage will be less important. The compression/storage efficiencies will be key

25 Jan

"PEST, VPEC-T, Scenario Planning and Pattern Based Strategy" (bit.ly/zzBb3i) JK--Feels a bit too convoluted for biz-IT lingua franca

25 Jan

"IBM Netezza Appliance: Speed Lane To Retail Insights" (bit.ly/ApdnMT) JK--Article smartly focused on in-db predictive analytics.

25 Jan

"Why time is almost ripe 4 Solid State Disks in the data center" (tek.io/yw9QMD) JK--Performance is paramount. Prices fast dropping.

25 Jan

Juliana Hatfield Three "My Sister" (youtu.be/siJZXTuwBjA) JK--Just wanted to hear it again.

25 Jan

"Google to combine users' data across its services" (bit.ly/wrnQ0u) JK--Clear privacy & e-discovery ramifications--& user empowerment

25 Jan

#BigData is just big glob of raw goo w/out rich agile creative contextual & interactive visualization that calls out actionable intelligence

25 Jan

"Scientists say Facebook's roots go way back" (on.msnbc.com/zblStL) JK--Now can be told: Winklevoss Twins invented it in prep school.

25 Jan

RT@TheOnion "Romneymania Sweeps America" (onion.com/wBYiqg) JK--Unexpectedly & suddenly, he's not massively boring anymore.

25 Jan

BTW, #Forrester has expert on advanced #BI analytics visualization. His name is @bevelson . Actually, that's his handle. Just call him Boris

25 Jan

Saul Ilinsky discussing data visualization design on O'Reilly Strata call. A quantified society must be visualized creatively from all POVs

25 Jan

O'Reilly Strata "Toward the Quantified Society" (event.on24.com/r.htm?e=389653…) JK--Event starting now.

25 Jan

Tuning into O'Reilly Strata conf "Towards the Quantified Society." Will start at top of hour.

25 Jan

#Microsoft #Hadoop support for Hive add-in in Excel paves way for future Hadoop-centric user-self-service next-gen cloud #BI

25 Jan

"Microsoft's plan for #Hadoop & #BigData " (bit.ly/zirvaT) JK--Distro, in CTP, includes .NET MapReduce devel & Hive add-in for Excel

25 Jan

"10 Ways Google Is Working Towards World Domination" (bit.ly/AlLYh1) JK--Company co-founders were actually Pinky & the Brain.

25 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from Where All Merrymakers Go JK--I first heard this on car radio w/my 12-yr-old son.

25 Jan

Stuff is absolutely piling up. Breathe, Jim. Don't forget to breathe.

25 Jan

"Understanding options for Big Data in the cloud" (bit.ly/AzbD17) JK--Doesn't mention Amazon Web Services Elastic MapReduce. Why not?

25 Jan

"Cassandra and Hadoop" (bit.ly/xqaeMz) JK--Mentions #DataStax. Fails to mention #Acunu

25 Jan

"CEP and Big Data 2" (bit.ly/zJyHBx) JK--"Big Data 2"? LIke "Jaws 2"? Mentions HStreaming. Doesnt specificly call out IBM Infosphere Streams

25 Jan

LOL RT @mas_jones: @jameskobielus re "If I Die app" "Another Facebook Fail. The list grows.

25 Jan

"Microsoft set to launch SQL Server 2012 on March 7" (bit.ly/xckkPd) JK--FKA "Denali." Among other features, columnar storage.

25 Jan

"'If I Die' Facebook app sends your final message" (bit.ly/A4vXcx) JK--Geez. Please spare us the "goodbye cruel world" friend-spam.

24 Jan

Nigerian spam scam? From somebody named "Goodluck Jonathan." That's obviously a made-up name. Delete!

24 Jan

The Lounge Lizards "Do The Wrong Thing" (youtu.be/qIgLcQa5iRc) JK--1981. Arto Lindsay, John Lurie, et al with fractured no-wave jazz

24 Jan

Ambitious Lovers with Arto Lindsay et al. on Jools Holland's Night Music , 1989 (youtu.be/YCjvkZRLviw). Tuneful, cool, Latin-tinged

24 Jan

Golden Palominos "Clean Plate" (youtu.be/P9uSNetie2U) JK--1983. Arto Lindsay, Anton Fier, & other NYC downtown art/punk/funkers

24 Jan

DNA "Blonde Red Head" (youtu.be/sRSzGbuhF0g) JK--From Arto Lindsay's thoroughly compellingly strange NYC "no wave" art-punkers. 1981.

24 Jan

Blonde Redhead "23" (youtu.be/a7FqUNlEdwA) JK--Electro shoegazer trance music par excellence. Band named for early 80s song by DNA.

24 Jan

POTUS delivered State of the Union tonight? Wasn't paying attention. Which state won the competition this year? Bathing suit competition?

24 Jan

Darn darn darn. YouTube has no video of Jethro Bodine speaking of a "see-ment pond" or of how cool it would be to be a "double naut spy."

24 Jan

Darn it all YouTube has its limits. Can't find video of Skipper hitting Gilligan with his cap or calling him his "little buddy." Shocking!

24 Jan

Brian Wilson interview from '67 (youtu.be/sRFE-24ucxc) JK--Beach Boys maestro is 69, overcame mental illness, & finished "Smile"

24 Jan

Bob Dylan "Forever Young" (youtu.be/OaFV9FvrL0A) JK--Greatest songwriter of the 20th century is 70 & still cussedly productive.

24 Jan

Pete Seeger "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" (youtu.be/uXnJVkEX8O4) JK--Godfather of modern American folk is 92 & overcame McCarthyism

24 Jan

Willie Nelson "Gravedigger" (youtu.be/Bzz8jG2SO1Y) JK--This country-western great is 78 & staring into the void with quiet dignity

24 Jan

Tom Waits "Downtown Train" (youtu.be/hZhW76LAnTY) JK--This American original is also 62 and has the most awesome unbroken cool streak

24 Jan

Nick Lowe "Checkout Time" (youtu.be/lOIt6OZFxl4) JK--Power-pop pioneer is 62 and still a vital creative force.

24 Jan

Beatles "When I'm 64" (youtu.be/eCss0kZXeyE) JK--Paul's almost 70 & hasn't lost his hair. His kids are not named Vera, Chuck, or Dave

24 Jan

The Rolling Stones "Mother's Little Helper" (youtu.be/PL8dmdFC5Co) JK--Getting old isn't a drag. Getting bored is. Don't grow bored.

24 Jan

Indie group Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr said their 2nd choice for a bandname was Counting Crows Pt 2. Well played. Either name makes you chuckle.

24 Jan

13th Floor Elevators "You're Gonna Miss Me" (youtu.be/0OytJYBfwUk) JK--Sudden urge to hear this. Roky Erickson's scream is primal!

24 Jan

Did a cross-role #Forrester mind-meld on #BigData. Got to chat with some analysts whose work I admire but I haven't yet met in person.

24 Jan

"Google Looks to Speed Up the Internet" (bit.ly/A6vf3X) JK--Meddling in Internet plumbing? Who do they think they are? Cisco?

24 Jan

RT @MikeToner "What ever happened to Ask Jeeves?" #ask.com JK--Why don't you ask Jeeves? Or would that be far too meta? He might melt down.

24 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Alabama by Neil Young from Harvest JK--C'mon Neil. Whyn'tcha nag Ontario for a change? Give the folks back home hell

24 Jan

"Cloudera Teams w/O'Reilly Media 2 Merge #Hadoop World & Strata Confs" (yhoo.it/yByx3B) JK--Excellent. Clearly, a go-to #bigdata conf

24 Jan

Taking a briefing from #EMC #Greenplum #Isilon with @VanessaAlvarez1 . NDA. Good stuff.

24 Jan

Taking briefing by #Kalido. Me & @nyuhanna

24 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain from Psychocandy JK--What's he singing? "I'll be a plastic toilet"?

24 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Stay Useless by Cloud Nothings from Attack on Memory JK--Lots of tech-pun potential in bandname, LP name, & songtitle

24 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Holidays in the Sun by Sex Pistols from Never Mind the Bollocks JK--JRotten had snottiest vocal style in rock history

24 Jan

Re paper, my daughter is much like me. We print out materials (me: tech research, her: school texts) to facilitate in-depth analysis

24 Jan

Anybody who has siblings knows that the rivalry never ends, no matter how old you all are or what you've done in the world.

24 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp My Sister by The Juliana Hatfield Three from My Sister JK--Great honest sibling-rivalry song. Not many of those.

24 Jan

RT @loserboy "Mickey Mouse Joy Division Tshrts & Bonnie “Prince” Billy Coffee" (ow.ly/8EwaH) JK--1st=lawyer-bait. 2nd sounds gross

24 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Obstacle 1 by Interpol from Turn On the Bright Lights JK--They gotst angst in their pangst & they needs to dangst!

24 Jan

My time's in-demand at events like #TDWI. Believe it or not, I try to be reasonably fair in doing greetings, meetings, eatings, & briefings

24 Jan

Hey vendor AR/PR, I'm letting all your requests to brief me at #TDWI Vegas next month accumulate. A week or so before event, I'll schedule

24 Jan

But I said as much re #IBM #Netezza last year in this #forrester report (bit.ly/edr3gG) . It's a stable longterm commitment by them.

24 Jan

It is fairly impressive how #Netezza has grown its partner ecosystem after being acquired by #IBM while also going deeper w/ sibling brands

24 Jan

I expect #IBMNetezza to roll out a wider range of industry solution appliances, incorporating both #IBM & partner software & data models.

24 Jan

My life is filling w/ digital while at same time it is filling with paper. I dont consider those either-or media. Both have place in my life

24 Jan

#IBMNetezza Customer Intelligence Appliance (ow.ly/8EpTi) JK--Partnership w/ #Aginity. Industry analytic solut'n appliance 4 retail

24 Jan

Death of paper? Ha! What's dying is the reliance on paper as your only or even your primary means of distributing & consuming info.

24 Jan

@lauradidio Oh, that's right. Follow your inner cricket.

24 Jan

Cool Infographic on history Jefferson Airplane/Strshp/etc evolution (bit.ly/xVGC8B). Elegantly packs key details. Thanks 2 @mega_int

24 Jan

Taking briefing from #Acunu , #Cassandra software vendor that modified back-end & Linux kernel 4 rl-time, has key-val store, & cluster mgmt

24 Jan

Love/hate relationships are common & don't worry me. What I fear are people who love to hate and people who hate to love.

24 Jan

@lauradidio I don't get the angel/pariah link to JIminy Cricket. Fill me in. Perhaps I'm clueless. Set me straight Laura.

24 Jan

@IBMbigdata Apparently, the "pariah" wants to party with tech influentials on socials. Or just needs a hug from whoever.

24 Jan

Jefferson Airplane "Plastic Fantastic Lover" (youtu.be/zHC9NANKluU) JK--1967. Mentions IT vendor. IBM. "Science is mankind's brother"

24 Jan

Twitter follow-me requests this a.m. from one person whose profile implies they're angel, another who describes self as "pariah." No to both

24 Jan

Morning and day to be spent reviewing last round of vendor comments on #Hadoop Wave pre-publication.

23 Jan

I love how newspaper photo captions routinely describe Callista as Gingrich's "third wife." I'm sure that's how she introduces herself.

23 Jan

I love Leonard Cohen's characterization of louche lounge decadent Frenchy-German torch songs as the "European blues."

23 Jan

Today had some great customer inquiries on a huge range of interconnect data, analytics, & OLTP topics. I kept redrawing my mental diagram

23 Jan

Yes, Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney) is distantly related to the GOP pres candidate. In 60s parlance, "freak" & "straight" are bros.

23 Jan

Andrew Bird "Eyeoneye" (youtu.be/2959hVrrugo) JK--From his forthcoming "Break it Yourself" LP. He's amping up his volume.

23 Jan

Talking Heads "Once In A Lifetime" (youtu.be/XI3c-22lL_s) JK--My personal pick for greatest video in rock history.

23 Jan

Modest Mouse "Float On" (youtu.be/CTAud5O7Qqk) JK--Same basic message as Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime." A true son of Byrne.

23 Jan

Cake "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" (youtu.be/X5KmB8Laemg) JK--1998. The fractured lyric continually promises to make sense, then eludes.

23 Jan

Pavement "Stereo" ( youtu.be/Z5j4W2Y7RPQ) JK--1997. How exactly does this song avoid falling apart? It builds & gets funnier.

23 Jan

The Zombies "Tell Her No" (youtu.be/wqoJvNbiQLg) JK--One of those songs you imagine you could sing as well as Colin Blunstone.

23 Jan

Chicago "Colour My World" (youtu.be/74_SSQNNY0Y) JK--The simplicity of the piano + percussion + voice arrangement is its power.

23 Jan

Chicago & Beach Boys "Wishing You Were Here" (youtu.be/zdKdHE6m8hU) JK--1974. Strikingly great collaboration you wouldn't expect.

23 Jan

RT @merv: gets better and better every time - Fleet Foxes' Blue Ridge Mountains bit.ly/wPwFd8 #iTunes JK--You know it dude! Luv 'em!

23 Jan

Beach Boys "The Warmth of the Sun" (youtu.be/AP4KIrvfiJo) JK-One of my favorite lush harmonies by the striped young men.

23 Jan

The Beach Boys "Salt Lake City" (youtu.be/anLZ1o1mu-c) JK--The California dudes obviously dug those cute blonde Mormon chicks.

23 Jan

The Beach Boys "California Girls" (youtu.be/0a49McFOFp0) JK--Love how Brian intros with cheesy roller-rinky-dink organ pumping

23 Jan

Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg "California Girls" (youtu.be/hOhcwksG4hE) JK--There is indeed a melting popsicle image midway through.

23 Jan

The Magnetic Fields "California Girls" (youtu.be/vuENHA1l_K0) JK--Stephin Merritt lathers distortion over a fairly nasty sentiment.

23 Jan

Gonna go get the work stress rubbed, kneaded, & pressed clean out of me.

23 Jan

Newt Gingrich seems like a party crasher in the GOP race. Literally: he's going to cause his party to crash & burn.

23 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Eyeoneye by Andrew Bird from Break It Yourself JK--More rocking, darker, thicker-toned one from his forthcoming LP

23 Jan

Cambridge Semantics one of the few #BI vendors (call selves "operationl intelligence") that build on core W3C #SemWeb stds: RDF, OWL, SPARQL

23 Jan

Taking briefing from #SemWeb operational intelligence solution provider Cambridge Semantics. Me & @practicingEA

23 Jan

"Oracle's #Hadoop move could push rivals toward big data bundles" (bit.ly/w85gnl) JK--Bundles of Hdp & other #BigData DBMSs, that is

23 Jan

@yusufbash Good point. I'm dating myself in ways untold.

23 Jan

I'm jazzed & excited awaiting new LPs early this year from The Shins, School of Seven Bells, & Andrew Bird, among others.

23 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Moon Killer by Small Black from Moon Killer JK--Samples Pere Ubu "Thriller!" from LP "Dub Housing."

23 Jan

Let's create a prize for the dumbest overreaching/failed predictions. I say call it the "NostraDumbAss Award."

23 Jan

"10 dumbest tech predictions for 2012" (tek.io/xyfzOa) JK--Whew! None of mine in there. And my name not in obits. It's a good day!

23 Jan

Frightened Rabbit "Swim Until You Can't See Land" (youtu.be/SzjERZU3wbY) JK--Another example of their subtle Scots rock vibe

23 Jan

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Loneliness & the Scream by Frightened Rabbit from The Winter of Mixed Drinks JK--Scottish band w/Scottish vibe

23 Jan

"Internet Promotes Literacy, Study Says" (bit.ly/xspFI8) JK--It promoted my own kids being able to type at young age. No typing class

23 Jan

"PC industry is heading 4 collapse" (zd.net/ynCwMD) JK--I last bought a desktop 12 years ago, laptop 2 years ago, tablet last month

23 Jan

Wishing Tracy Morgan a speedy recovery. The funnyman has delicate health.

23 Jan

Weekend was delicious blend of relaxation and stress. You know what I mean? If you don't, that statement shows how yoga has rewired my brain

23 Jan

"Jim Kobielus on 2012" (bit.ly/zwdF3K) JK--Wanna thank partner-in-poetry @0_h_r_1 for stoking my own self-involvement w/this headline

23 Jan

"Is the 'quantified self' movement just a fad?" (bit.ly/zOdkoo) JK--Trend that takes notion of "self-involved" 2 annoying new plateau

23 Jan

@beyondthearc Maybe I should.

23 Jan

Megaupload. Described in press as "one of the most popular sites on the Internet." I'd never heard of it.

23 Jan

The brittle ice layer remains from last week. I'll accept this as all the winter we deserve.

22 Jan

Google once again tops list of best companies to work for? It tops my personal list of companies I'm tired of hearing are best to work for

22 Jan

Johnny Otis "Willie and the Hand Jive" (youtu.be/TEeeGMpM_Nk) JK--Passed away this week. This one rocks with swagger to burn!

22 Jan

Egidia's been making new year's calls to friends & family. "Sin ca ju i" in Tio Ciu. "Gung hay fat choy" in Cantonese.

22 Jan

Shawn Mullins "Lullaby" (youtu.be/hG9C0VwruXE) JK--Spoken verses & sung choruses that paint a sympathetic portrait of a lost girl

22 Jan

Suzanne Vega "Tom's Diner" (youtu.be/FLP6QluMlrg) JK--A rap-like ballad that tells a narrative you follow from beginning to end.

22 Jan

Cowboy Junkies "Sweet Jane" (youtu.be/x4XVJj4jER4) JK--A re-interpretation of the VU/Lou Reed classic so perfect you sit transfixed.

22 Jan

Toad the Wet Sprocket "Something's Always Wrong" (youtu.be/gcCJQP5iggU) JK--One of my fave radio bands of the 90s. Terrific songs!

22 Jan

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under The Bridge" (youtu.be/GLvohMXgcBo) JK--Slow soulful gem from shirtless tattooed punk-funk-rock maestros

22 Jan

The Doors "L.A. Woman" (youtu.be/sl-IWlzSItM) JK--Led by Alexandria VA dude who gigged with some buds in southern California

22 Jan

Foo Fighters "I'll Stick Around" (youtu.be/nFzrHIzM6Qo) JK--Led by Springfield VA dude who got his start with some Seattle band.

22 Jan

Scritti Politti "The Sweetest Girl" (youtu.be/7VuEEFjunk4) JK--Song marked their transition from art-noise to romance-dance-pop.

22 Jan

The Raincoats "Shouting Out Loud" (youtu.be/AtjkG2aFVQU) JK--I remember blasting this on boombox on Detroit's Belle Isle 1 summer day

22 Jan

Essential Logic "Fanfare in the Garden" (youtu.be/36KHk5TMIlM) JK--Essential Logic was essential Rough Trade postpunk group.

22 Jan

Aztec Camera "We Could Send Letters" (youtu.be/8wqKZkIQkBE) JK--I have memories of listening to this song in deep Michigan winter.

22 Jan

The Gist "Greener Grass" (youtu.be/Se1IY2Ugjf0) JK--Stuart Moxham put vibrant instrumental on Rough Trade compile cassette. I have it

22 Jan

The Gist "Yanks" (youtu.be/qgweaxLCTKo) JK--Stuart Moxham's project that followed straight after Young Marble Giants. Same basic vibe

22 Jan

Stuart Moxham "Broken Heart Blues" (youtu.be/hrwpUpCqNTU) JK--Great rockr from guy best known as songsmith behind Young Marble Giants

22 Jan

@beyondthearc Data-science conference should offer prof education, multi-industry tracks, application focus, & wide range of adv analytics

22 Jan

A good example of a data scientist conference is SAS' annual "M****" events. Data scientists discuss projects. Ya learn stuff about business

22 Jan

Not really. I didn't see any specific or substantive data science focus at the Strata at which I spoke.

22 Jan

What's the "go-to" event for data scientists? There is none, yet, that isn't vendor-specific.

22 Jan

Poland the only EU country to avoid recession. The Polish quarter of me takes undeserved pride in the news.

22 Jan

RIP Joe Paterno. Reported by ESPN. Clearly, sudden/sickening late-life scandal severely tarnishes what otherwise woulda been golden legacy.

22 Jan

Digital media, digital channels, digital content, digital experience. All optimized thru #BigData, w/ #Hadoop #NoSQL & other new approaches

22 Jan

I'm happy I evolved my #BigData coverage to include #CRM . I take more briefings alongside #Forrester great Marketing & Strategy analysts.

22 Jan

Winter mornings put me at peace. I love the cold.