I rarely turn the TV on for news anymore. That's so last century.
Sin ca ju I!!!!!!!!!
RIP Johnny Otis. "Willie & The Hand Jive," for starters.
Slowly decompressing my head. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Dentist office waiting room. Routine checkup. Listening to Crowded House "Don't Dream It's Over" on overhead. Lots of mags. None interest me
Parade's "Walter Scott's Personality Parade" stays random: Q: "Are Alicia Silverstone & Liv Tyler half-sisters?" A: Yes but not 2 each other
Colbert: "We must stand for corporations because they have no legs."
Colbert: "The only difference between Mitt Romney & a statue of Mitt Romney is the statue never changes its position."
Colbert: "You gotta thank the bloggers for just coming outside."
Colbert: "I don't need to pander to the most beautiful people in the world."
Colbert: "Whoever said you can't go home again didn't have a friend with a private jet."
Colbert: "I am the Martin Luther KIng of ccorporation civil rights."
"Colbert...turns spotlight on super PACs in South Carolina" (wapo.st/w35jg1) JK--Hilarious. I will quote Colbert in several tweets.
@0_h_r_1 Deck.ly doesn't work anymore, it seems. Check my Facebook for poem that I wrote 10 years ago that sums up my present state of mind
Zero 7 "Destiny" (youtu.be/INn1C6ImJKg) JK--This one puts me into an incredibly deeply mellow place. Always. LIke musical magic.
The Shins "Simple Song" (youtu.be/tvj_a5dwrf4) JK--Listen for yourselves. From the forthcoming new LP. They just stay awesome!
Sam Beam mentions strategically dropping curse words into his lyrics. He has an artist's ear for the texture of a memorable phrase.
Iron And Wine: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (youtu.be/6nT911jkWEo) JK--Sam Beam writes cool songs with funky folky-poetic zest.
Tom Jones' Tiny Desk Concert at NPR Music (youtu.be/118zckalkJ0) JK--Tom is even cooler as an old man stripped of showbiz hoo-hah!
I am registering a "like" for every picture of cute kids on Facebook tonight. Just because kids make me smile.
Feelin' awfully mellow tonight. It's not just the wine.
NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert: Nick Lowe (youtu.be/JKhawkQQQmY) JK--Lowe has inhabited his aging person in the coolest way.
Godsmouse (bit.ly/A7PtEk) JK--Simple effect--your cursor casts apparent shadow on earth's surface--but totally addicting.
Lambchop's Kurt Wagner Plays A Tiny Desk Concert at NPR Music (youtu.be/IG_uM5th6Fo) JK--Very subtle, soulful guitar, voice, & songs
The Who live late in Keith Moon's life (youtu.be/WT5uAIPFft8) JK--They had the most awesome stadium presence of any rock band.
Jerry Lewis & Buddy Rich drum solos (youtu.be/141o_jwG7cA) JK--Both of these dudes were pieces of work.
Jerry Lewis "Typewriter" (youtu.be/Fxm0TN5WDQI) JK--Yes, he mugs shamelessly for the camera. But always eminently watchable.
Big Star "September Gurls" (youtu.be/BNKSs1J38EA) JK--Essentially, zero airplay in its day. Only became aware of them in past decade
The Monkees "Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day" (bit.ly/w4PT7A) JK--Their stuff still sounds as fresh as it did when I was a kid.
Life is definitely a journey.
Fairly good week. The air smells like snow.
Seeing a distinct shift in #BigData mania toward #Hadoop + #NoSQL + graph databases.
Fairly good week. Nothing earth-shattering in the news. But some cool NDA stuff for the next few weeks.
@practicingEA Ask what real nice?
I tend to follow people on Twitter who are at least vaguely interesting. I don't follow people who are blatantly moronic. Fine line.
Using a visual #BI tool to do some analysis for a forthcoming #forrester report. I won't say which vendor/tool. That would imply endorsement
Garbage "Stupid Girl" (youtu.be/1HBxUWSxcq8) JK--Unlike Stones song (diff song), this one sung by girl...I mean woman.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Everybody's Under Your Spell by The Duke Spirit from Bruiser JK--Reminds of great Garbage--the band Garbage, that is
I swear, Tom Jones could milk a song for all the suggestive potential the TV censors allowed in the late 60s. Classic!
Tom Jones "Help Yourself " (youtu.be/OvHkWl8HfrI) JK--Welsh singer performing hipswinging hit on his great ABC series from late 60s.
Saying you're #BigData without any of the scalability bonafides is the "check's in the mail" of this new scale-intensive world we live in.
Hey vendors, dont say U're #BigData if PBs, rl-time, and/or polystructrd data not core of yr approach, or if dont scale-out to 100s of nodes
And, yes, I do plan to go to the #Cloudera #Hadoop event this coming fall. Couldn't make it this past fall due purely to work conflicts.
Heard rumors of #Hortonworks and #Yahoo planning to host #Hadoop Summit week of June 11. Was a great show last year. I'll go to this one too
"Microsoft's Bing: Mere 'decision engine' no more" (zd.net/zEZy0F) JK--MSFT positioning it as enabler for doing, not just deciding.
"Amazon Launches #BigData Svc" (bit.ly/w3eP8w) JK--In addition to #Hadoop svc, Elastic MapReduce, which has been live for a few years
Next best action, predictive analytics, customer experience optimization, social graph analysis, cloud/SaaS--the stars are aligning.
RIP Etta James. Among her best-known songs: "At Last" (youtu.be/_1uunRdQ61M).
" #Hadoop Challenges" (bit.ly/wbVdWs) JK--Good high-level discussion by @williammcknight
Nantucket Nectars has printed the most useless piece of trivia inside bottlecap: "Benjamin Franklin's mother was born on Nantucket."
Nah, #bigdata isn't being hyped. The hype won't truly begin until we start spelling it all uppercase with exclamation points: BIG DATA!!!!!!
#FF @nyuhanna @NeilRaden @ocdqblog @onwallstreet @Pspeer @pleclare @howarddresner @rwang0 @rbkarel @jamet123 @johnrrymer
#FF @jaimefitzgerald @JeffShadid @Ravi_Shankar_ @jilldyche @RomanStanek @shawnrog @Claudia_Imhoff @stevepol @silverdata
#ff #businessintelligence #influencers @alyswoodward @BarryDevlin @BeyeNETWORK @BIScorecard @bitterer @Claudia_Imhoff @ColinJWhite
Hmmm...exactly one year to Obama's second inaugural.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Rubber Ring by The Smiths from Louder Than Bombs JK--Nobody sez "U're a clever swine" more convincngly than Morrissey
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Odessa by Caribou from Swim JK--2010. Layered production wiggles & shakes like an unstoppable electronica snake.
Interviewed via email by @chriskanaracus re a #BigData vendor announcement due out next week.
WSJ "A Gut Check for Many Ailments" (on.wsj.com/z23xq4) JK--My gut tells me this is absolutely right.
PIPA. No, it's not Kate Middleton's sibling. It's Senate's sister legislation to the House's news-magnet SOPA.
I have heard only one pro-SOPA message. That was on the local radio. I live in the DC area. That spot meant for legislators to hear.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Transmission by Joy Division from Permanent JK--A postpunk classic that I was only barely aware of when it came out.
Amazon has #Hadoop , #NoSQL key-value, & RDBMS. So does Oracle. Expect other database cloud, appliance, & software vendors to follow lead
After two tweets in a row that use the word "ass," I thought I'd made it a triplet and leave it there.
After my first Star Trek related tweet ever, I'm bracing for onslaught of Trekkie-bots to start following my sorry ass.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Museum of Flight by Damien Jurado from Maraqopa JK--May the powers that B grant Damien at least one big-ass radio hit
My highschool English teacher used Star Trek 2 explain reasoning styles. "Scotty induces & Spock deduces." I pointed out that Kirk seduces.
Listening to Snow Patrol "Tiny Little Fractures" from "Final Straw" (youtu.be/duKlBQWA78Q). JK--2003. A great charging dynamic.
I'm always gratified when clients tell me they appreciate my technical depth in published research, inquiries, & consulting. I sweat details
@jamet123 And thank YOU for your comprehensive approach to this topic.
Cool. I was number 16 on list of #forrester "best-read" analysts in 2011. But I don't hold a candle to @rbkarel @bevelson @waband
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp White Telephone by Charlotte Gainsbourg from Stage Whisper JK--Nicely atmospheric. A frosty winter feeling.
WSJ "The Eternal Teenager in Love" (online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…) JK--Excellent interview with Dion DiMucci.
Newt. Fun fact: He was named for an amphibian because he's even lower on the evolutionary ladder than the reptiles.
Expecting freezing rain tonight. Nothing is as heartwarming as a midwinter frigid bonesoaking & icecoating. Picture postcard winter!
Eastman Kodak's Chptr 11. Very sad corporat casualty of digital age. Products were primary imagers of modernity since l8 1800s. Fading fotos
Perry drops out of GOP race. The 3 or 4 or was it a score of federal agencies that he proposed deepsixing can all breathe easier.
MPAA chief calls SOPA Web blackout a "gimmick." Would he have calld Montgomery Bus Boycott a "gimmick"? Social protests express popular will
#Solariat sys arch: low latency, high throughput and availability, #bigdata , & horizontally scalable w/ clusters, sharding, & replication
Intention is function of someone's awareness + sentiment + propensity + permissions + wherewithal, constrained by object availability
Let's retrofit old songs w/next best action call & response: "How much is that doggie in the window?" "We can give it to U at 25% markdown"
#Solariat has tech for "intention & response" that is suitable for #CRM Next Best Action. They are looking for channel partners.
Taking briefing on #Solariat, startup w/cloud-bsd social listening svc that detects "intention" on social media at scale. @znh also on call
"Amazon Dynamo DB: Big Data's Big Cloud Moment" (bit.ly/ynI1qJ) JK--Key-value store w/ACID & HA. Separate from their EMR #Hadoop svc
Enjoyed & learned a lot at #CMAdata yesterday in Toronto. Canadian analytics companies are very sharp on marketing campaign optimization.
"McCartney's Cloud-Based Archive Getting Better All the Time" (bit.ly/ynhibo) JK--Where the Beatles assets to go to live & let die.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Annie You Save Me by Graffiti6 from Stone In My Heart JK--Saw them on Leno recently. Excellent tune.
"Microsoft engineers file system for a new era" (bit.ly/zcwNgV) JK--ReFS. Filenames max 32,000 characters. If you must be verbose
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Simple Song by The Shins from Port of Morrow JK--Gr8 new one frm much-awaited new LP. Due in March. I'll get it ASAP!
"Oracle Big Data Appliance Featuring Hadoop Goes Live" (bit.ly/wNWjdI) JK--Released. Didnt "go live." Not a cloud/SaaS offering.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark & Hilldale by Love from Forever Changes JK--Gr8 fractured title!
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Alone Again Or by Calexico from Convict Pool JK--Love cover. Love this cover. Love Love.
Hey @loserboy #kexp "punches outside its weight class" in the world of online radio influencers. You are not mistaken.
Experience optimization. An optimal work experience should include a good laugh or two at regular intervals. Seriousness can prove deadly.
@BestBITools Not kidding. Won't say who. I'm not into the whole "public shaming on social" thing.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Maggot Brain by Funkadelic JK--1971. Year after Jimi passed. Clearly, his spirit very much alive in this.
Ha ha ha. Just saw a consultant ask for developers with 10+ years of #Hadoop experience. Omigosh. Made my day.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Be-in by Dandy Warhols from Dandy Warhols Come Down JK--Smouldering burning bass-y trance song. Dandies do 'em well!
Odd phrase: "I hope this message finds U doing well." Who's doing the finding: "I" or "this message"? If latter, is info sentient life form?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Grey Cell Green by Ned's Atomic Dustbin from God Fodder JK--Band with delightful nonsense name.
Interviewed by Nicole Laskowski & Mark Brunelli of #TechTarget re my recent #Hadoop case study report.
Presenter says "answer to that is #Hadoop " at #CMAdata. #Hadoop is not a specific answer to anything. It's part of vocab for answers.
RT @MJMcKean: Just hearing about the passing of Tom Ardolino, NRBQ drummer; solid rock'n'roll guy. RIP
Seems to be one topic only today on social media (I'm slightly exaggerating, but not too much): Stop SOPA/PIPA!
James Vogtle of #Accenture discussing continuous "test + learn" multichannel @ #CMAdata. I refer 2 that as "real-world experiments."
"Enterprise #Hadoop :Big data processing made easier" (bit.ly/zpLvHU) JK--Excelent overview of some Hdp vendors. Stay tuned 4 my Wave
Good conversations here at #CMAdata. Multichannel next best offer, customer segmentation, marketing automation, & experience optimization
"Landscape amnesia." Jared Diamond's great phrase for culture not noticing gradual changes to their milieu. Apply to tech environment too.
I recognize that my speech topic, "conversational customer intimacy," has privacy implications. But I won't explore that this morning.
RT @CyG_science: Forgetting Actually Strengthens Memory--A Special Report (bit.ly/w8NaUN) JK--Someone tell my wife this. Mea culpa.
My #Hadoop Wave will publish on Feb 2, I'm told.
My #forrester colleague Rob Brosnan impressed the CMA at an event not long ago. Hope I don't disappoint by comparison. Brosnan's excellent.
The A/V coordinator at the Canadian Mktg Assn show is playing the whole Florence + Machine 2nd LP. I hadnt heard whole thing before. Superb!
Chilling with coffee & conversation here at Canadian Marketing Assn Analytics conf at Toronto's convention centre. My speech starts at 9:10
Multichannel conversations should be intimate attuned engaged interactive empathetic adaptive personalized consistent simple easy friendly
Speaking at CMA Analytics Conf on "Guided Conversations: The Key To Customer Intimacy." Yes, I have topics other than #bigdata #hadoop #edw
Speaking this morning at Canadian Marketing Assn Analytics Conf, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Bldg, Rm 702, 9am. See you there!
Don't censor the Web. Squash #SOPA & #PIPA once & for all.
Indicator of how devoid Romney is of personality. Didnt realize comercial "celebrity impersonator" doing him. Just sounds like dull anouncer
"On Hadoop 1.0: James Kobielus" (bit.ly/zAX07o) JK--LOL. "Kneedeep in enterprise elephant experiments"? Sounds like I sweep droppings
"Big Companies Try Crowdsourcing" (on.wsj.com/yyw2JW) JK--They're doing more than "try." They're sourcing to "crowd" known as "Asia."
"Apple Cofounder Wozniak Praises Android" (bit.ly/AbpBft) JK--I can feel Jobs rolling over & unquivering a few lightning bolts.
Took a few NDA briefings today. Which explains why I haven't been tweeting about them. Good stuff. Mum's the word for now.
If "The Artist" takes home Oscars this year, I hope the acceptance speeches will be silent placards flashed on-stage for 5 seconds.
@dmenningervr It's "made-up" in sense that it's verb that didnt evolve organiclly from older verb root, but from noun that lacked verb equiv
"Attrit" or "attrite"? My dictionary lists both. Either way, it's made-up word, a back-formation of "attrition." Either way, verb sounds odd
Interviewed by Alex Handy of Software Development Times re #Hadoop 1.0 milestone.
Speaking in Toronto tomorrow at Canadian Marketing Assn Analytics conf. Snow predicted. Wish me much luck. Wish I had mucklucks.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp A Town Called Malice by The Jam JK--Fun fact: Paul Weller hometown. Seat of Maliceshire, England.
Hey @loserboy , "Friends" theme is better to cover than the "Frasier" theme. "Tossed Salad & Scrambled Eggs" will kill budding music career
Online waiting for #IBM Smart Analytics System & zEnterprise Teleconf #ibmzanalytics to begin.
#TIBCO #Spotfire & me "Webcast: Adv Analytics in #CRM: Key to Cross-Channel Efficiency & Engagement" 2-2-12 Register: bit.ly/wRx8L0
"Mark Cuban's 12 Rules for Startups" (bit.ly/AymIAW) JK--"1) Dont start one unless obsession 2) If exit strategy, it's not obsession"
"Big Data: Mind Your Head in Cloud" (bit.ly/wPTwwh) JK--Cool graphic that shows sheer growing magnitude of different data types.
"Oracle’s Big Data Appliance is based on Cloudera" (bit.ly/xdfnce) JK--That, plus #Oracle hardware & plenty of ORCL software.
"Maker of Steve Jobs Action Figure Kills Project" (bit.ly/AxBQAf) JK--Legal issues & tough 2 show steal-Microsoft-oxygen in action
"When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other." - Eric Hoffer JK--Being the outlier/oddball often painful.
@jamet123 has right approach: Treat next best actions as analytcs-infused decisions as ntwk or workflow of linkd decisions steps & processes
"Requirements for Advanced Analytics" (bit.ly/wTOJ5T) JK--Oper8nl decision-net enhance--risk & opportunity--to drive key biz outcomes
"IBM Rattles Moore's Law With Smallest Magnetic Memory Bit" (bit.ly/ztNth1) JK--But that's galactic scale compared to quantum storage
"Microsoft Creating Real-Time Botnet Information Feed" (bit.ly/zry1RN) JK--Botnet threat signature surveillance & impact assessment.
"IBM rolls out new social analytics tools" (zd.net/yvjbrG) JK--IBM Connections 2 gauge employee, partner & customr social sentiment
"Geeks 1, Congress 0: Controversial anti-piracy bill SOPA 'shelved'" (zd.net/x7YUs4) JK--Game not over. Senate has bill. Kill bill!
"A letter of regret to Google Cloud (My)SQL?" (tek.io/As0MoC) JK--Author takes issue with GGL cozying up to #Oracle product.
"Universities Worldwide to Introduce Analytics Education" (bit.ly/yR08Um) JK--Should be in core curriculum of all science majors.
Seattle got bit of snow. I'm 3000 miles east of there. Just want to assure them the "other" Washington is no better at driving in the stuff.
The weekend was pleasant. Technology thoughts only intruded on my serenity when I specifically invited them in.
"Google Mobile Ad Revenue Could Top $4B: Munster" (bit.ly/AyIH8H) JK--Thought he was still employed at Gateman Goodbury & Graves
Penance for tweet sarcastic about Richard Branson? Unsolicited attention of @branson_effect . "Learn strategies of self-made billionaires"
Meryl Streep wins Golden Globe? Oh must we continu 2 indulge ths woman's vanity & stoke conceit that she's one of all-time gr8st moviestars?
My two favorite states of being are thoughtfulness & thoughtlessness. Most of my actual life is lived in between those states.
@Brett2point0 Brett, it's only been 4 months since I did that preso. Be patient.
"House Kills SOPA" (examiner.com/computers-in-d…) JK--Hallelujah! Legislators actually converged on right course of action.
Rightwing daily Washington Examiner. Actual news starts on page 10 with Associated Press wire stories. "News" up front is staff hatchet jobs
Data mining is the opposite of mining in the traditional sense. You are not depleting the resource that you extract. You are enriching it.
Before long, you will be able to carry an entire data warehouse on a gadget. By "long," I mean end of decade. Ever cheaper flash storage.
Expecting analytics and data industry news this week. That's just intuition. Not sitting on any NDAs. MLKJDay marks end of holiday slumbers.
Packing warm clothes for Toronto, tho I'll only be there a short time & will be indoors most of that time. Should also bring huskies & sled
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes JK--Song magically combines winter & summer into single cycle of color & fertility
All I can say is that it's fortunate Dr. King didn't call himself a baton twirler for truth and justice.
Maybe I'm a geek, but I love "How It's Made" on Science Channel. I could watch a daylong marathon of episodes without blinking.
Yenta. Wonderful Jewish word for type of woman in every culture. Strangles with over-intentioned, overbearing advice for every occasion.
Richard Branson in late 60s resembld Austin Powers, then morphed into blond Mick Jagger & now looks like David Spade's creepy English cousin
Exploring Ann Arbor, Michigan on Google Earth. Cool 3-D effect on structures around Diag. Far-out, man, & Hash Bash not even in session now!
Exploring Madison, Wisconsin on Google Earth. Dairyland state's good sense 2 put city on isthmus makes most visible state capital from space
Exploring Higgins Lake, Michigan on Google Earth. Go-cart track on which we Boy Scouts competed is clearly visible from geosynchronous orbit
Exploring the Soo Locks on Google Earth. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario is much larger than Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. It's obvious from space.
Listening to Beatles "She Loves You" & "Sie Liebt Dich" from "Past Masters Vol. 1." Sound almost identical, except 4 language. Coincidence?
I have never understood the term "lo-fi" aplied 2 genres of music. Low fidelity 2 what? To comercial gospel that U must make formulaic crap?
Do firearms reproduce male heirs sexually? Why does it seem that everybody's a son of a gun? How can species survive without daughters?
Snooki. Nickname you'd give to yr pet hamster. Woman seems like understudy to 4th female lead in local dinner theatre production of "Grease"
Tori Spelling. Is there a reason we should care about her? Spell it out.
Fareed Zakaria CNN show gets credit for best pun of the day: "The Bain of Romney's Existence."
VH-1 seems to be morphing into the "Wives" channel. Basketball, Mob, Baseball, etc. Should merge w/History Channel & present Old Wives Tales
"In War, We All Desecrate the Enemy" (washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-…) JK--The horribly twisted human logic that has always sustained wars everywhere.
Madonna "Don't Tell Me" (youtu.be/gLFWRDsx5AI) JK--Dig this cool start-stop rhythm. The beginning has deliberate false start.
Brian Eno "Ambient 1 - Music For Airports" (youtu.be/vLOPaanz0gA) JK--1978. Eno boldly injected structured silence into pop vocab
What's totally radical about Beatles "Flying" is that it's incredibly ambient. Well before its time. Even an outlier in the Fab's catalog.
The Beatles "Flying" (youtu.be/6yTY__PKLDQ) JK--Complete 9:38 version from "Magical Mystery Tour." Their only instrumental. Druggy
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Boat Behind by Kings of Convenience from Declaration of Dependence JK--Modern mellow done right!
RT @kalynraphael: "Amp up yr Law of Attraction-Use yr Sexual Energy 2 Charge yr Manifestations" JK--Too complicated. Just use it to get laid
Albert Brooks @AlbertBrooks We wish John Edwards a speedy recovery so he can go to prison in good health.
Omigosh. My #ff list would be incomplete without acknowledging today. As long as I can remember, Saturday has always followed Friday.
I love the "discover" feature of the redesigned Twitter browser interface. It helped me find lots of gaps in list of people/orgs to follow.