BTW, I've been at 4 analyst firms in my career: tiny, mid-tier, big-brand. I've seen all models and personality dynamics from the inside.
Analyst firms that ground biz model around specific "rockstars" are inherently unstable. Those who prevent stars from emerging are faceless
Bohannon "Let's Start The Dance" (youtu.be/bhjSVzfXcuo) JK--Oh, OK.
Tom Tom Club "Genius of Love" (youtu.be/gTLPQ9h659A) JK--Only one of the namedropped musicians I'm not familiar with is Bohannon.
Cabaret Voltaire "Nag Nag Nag" (youtu.be/RAcRj8pXhMs) JK--Love this electronoise number from Rough Trade "Wanna Buy a Bridge" compile
Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (youtu.be/qHYOXyy1ToI) JK--Song has become iconic of era, but was just another tune back then
Chordettes "Lollipop" (bit.ly/wK50By) JK--A pop confection of the sweetest order.
Paul & Paula "Hey Paula" (youtu.be/3ZIYFG1SccQ) JK--U find yrself loving this song, in spite of knowing it's pulling all your strings
Edd Byrnes & Connie Stevens "Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" (1959 Amer Bandstand) (youtu.be/3gDT2Xk5-Oo) JK--"Cloud 9"="shagging"
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Teenybopper idols of yore: Fabian (youtu.be/qacdlN7UqWs), Frankie (youtu.be/SSyMxJDaK90), Bobby (youtu.be/ax-6U-KaBAY)
Here's that horrible footage of the tsunami rapidly sweeping away Kesennuma, Japan a year ago (youtu.be/iQfdl7y-blE). Gives U shivers
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@rwang0 #legacy #analyst #crchat #sxsw #archat Churn among big-brand analyst firms due 2 M&A, "rockstars on the move," & biz-model fatigue
@rwang0 #legacy #analyst #crchat #sxsw #archat Churn among mid-tier analyst firms related to "I'm retiring; who will buy me out?" scenario
@rwang0 #legacy #analyst #crchat #sxsw #archat Churn among teeny analyst shops is related to "one #rockstar " scenario & human mortality
@rwang0 #legacy #analyst #crchat #sxsw #archat Market has decided. Analyst ecosystem has stable big brands, mid-tiers, & zillions of teenys
@rwang0 #legacy #analyst #crchat #sxsw #archat My sense is that "next-gen" is simply "more & more diverse analyst firms."
@rwang0 #legacy #analyst #crchat #sxsw #archat Actualy, U assigned "value" 2 "legacy" analyst fir here: bit.ly/x5asLS Value= "toast"
@rwang0 #crchat #sxsw #archat Think in terms of "sustainable" analyst firm, Ray: one not entirely dominated by one personality. Real team
@rwang0 #crchat #sxsw #archat Not prudent idea to dis other analyst firms' perfectly valid business models. No gold standard for this stuff
@rwang0 #crchat #sxsw #archat "Legacy" is purely from each person's own career-self-centric point of view. It's firm you used to work for
@rwang0 #futureofwork #fow #crchat #sxsw What the hell is a "legacy analyst firm"?
@rwang0 #futureofwork #fow #crchat #sxsw Maybe your higher-order career plan is to keep changing careers. Or keep multiple parallel careers
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Light My Fire by The Doors JK--For this 8-year-old boy, this was the top jukebox song of summer 1967.
@rwang0 #futureofwork #fow #crchat #sxsw No. Career plans are only thing that defines a career, as opposed 2 just one damn job after anothr
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Sarah by Posse from Posse JK--Cool new rocksong from all-female Seattle group. Love how they call out name "Sarah"
Heard a great song on public radio over-the-air today. Collab of Chieftains & Decemberists. Makes perfect sense.
Always funny when mktg email promoting an event in which I'm speaking is caught in my spam folder. Keeps me from getting too self-important
WSJ article on creativity. It comes from recognizing when a problem is serious enough to warrant your full inattention.
Athletes & their inspiring stories. Entrepreneurs & their... Celebrities & their... I've never seen media do analysts & their inspiring...
South Carolina county GOP making candid8s pledge they've never watched porn or cheated on spouse. Party running on new ideology: HypoCracy
Sarah Palin. Remember the day when there was a minute statistical chance she could be in line 4 US pres? Me neither. Glad was just bad dream
Almost a year since Japan earthquake/tsunami. Later, I will link to 10 min video of tsunami devastating city. Most horrendous disaster scene
I love those Time-Life boxset infomercials, even w/ sound off. Video clips cool to watch. Songs play in head. "150 Teen R&R Hits Early 60s"
Vh-1. New videos by Foster The People, Young The Giant, Katy The Perry, & Jabba The Hutt.
RIP Peter Bergman. Firesign Theatre principal helped bring cerebral postmodern freeform absurdity into the mainstream of comedy.
I cannot remember the last time I looked up a phone number in a phone book.
Wife and I are too sleep-deprived. Gonna do a light dinner, skip the DVD rental, and catch some late winter shuteye.
Any attempt to turn yoga into a kind of competitive sport or showoff forum is evil and should be addressed thru calm indifference.
Got thru the day and week. Halle-frickin-lujah! Now chillin at Panera with acai iced tea.
"Infographic: What happens in a single day on the Internet" (tek.io/y0X1u2) JK--Where's the stats on how much time is wasted?
The Black Keys "10 A.M. Automatic" (youtu.be/y-CukK3eYt0) JK--These guys know how to have serious fun with video conventions.
RT @martinsoorjoo "The Black Keys as a Rock & Roll Model for Tech Startups" (onforb.es/AEZRDY) JK--Ample energy, tight team, gr8 vibe
"How to write an enticing press release without 'news'" (bit.ly/zfgvG3) JK--No! I've seen enuff hot-air balloons masquerading as news
"Big data and the end of theory?" (bit.ly/wGht4X) JK--Poppycock! Are computers gonna automagically build valid theoretically models?
RT @johnlmyers44: #BBBT " @Claudia_Imhoff announcing a new concept 'swell foop'" JK--I too have had a swollen foop. Keep your weight off it.
RT @kdnuggets: "data puking of 'known-knowns'...data orgasm-inducing 'unknown-unknowns'" (vsb.li/5SVDe5) JK--Rumsfeldian analytics?
RT @LDRLB "Is Maslow's Hierarchy still relevant?" (ow.ly/9ylv5) JK--It's relevant if U need ready graphic 2 jam into PPT re "needs"
Interesting discussion of real-time analytical processing for geospatial intelligence & #BigData in motion (bit.ly/zYykYC)
Prepping for a consulting swing through the SF area early next week. Have general & specific thoughts prepped. But I'm agile live in-person
I'm at the Constant Comment portion of the workday. When I'm OD's on the hard caffeine & must content myself with the odd spicy cuppa tea
@johnrrymer #PaaS #IaaS #SaaS Yes, I too am weary of everybody sticking their "aaS" in our faces.
RT @chrismatthieu "I dare you to hack my Mac. Its IP address is 127.0.0.1" JK--If U insist. BTW, what's your Mac's social security number?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Losing My Edge by LCD Soundsystem JK--Yes, I am. But on the flipside: that makes me that much smoother!
Taking briefing from #SAS on "how to operationalize results" of advanced analytics in multichannel next best offer.
@BigDataGuru #FF Thanks. Actually, I like to think my view takes in all of this crazy planet's #BigData analytics forests
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp: Black Cab by Jens Lekman frm Oh You're So Silent Jens JK--I'm damned, but I luv song that starts w/ "oh no goddamn"
Apple simply calling its latest the "new iPad." I suggest they call Tim Cook simply the "new CEO." Then, after a few months, "same ol' CEO"
Some interviewee on Charlie Rose tossed the phrase " #BigData " at Charlie, who didn't even bother to go there.
"Mr. Sulu steers Facebook to MySQL solution" (bit.ly/yJtEUE) JK--Problem traced to evil daemons planted by Romulan hackers.
"Analytics Drives Next Gen Of Moneyball In Sports" (bit.ly/yzrPau) JK--Shhh! Don't breathe word about yr #BI spreadsheet-on-steroids
" #Hadoop hype & data Yodas: Tales frm PAW" (bit.ly/ydg2pe) JK2--Note TurboTax ongoing real-wrld experimnt, per bit.ly/y68UQM
" #Hadoop hype and data Yodas: Tales from Predictive Analytics World" (bit.ly/ydg2pe) JK--Highlights the Ha(data)dump syndrome.
The The "This is the Day" (youtu.be/phWv7l8Lm_A) JK--All-purpose song for annotating any arbitrary day with unspecific importance.
Hanging early morning at Panera. Read article in WSJ yesterday about this being one of trend toward "fast casual" dining. Whatevr that means
Hey vendors, don't make ridiculous claims in your PR press release headlines if you want me to tweet them verbatim. I don't repackage BS
Couldn't sleep. At 4:30am, caught Charlie Rose's interview w/ Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn. He's high on diverse socials for diverse communities
Dear ex Rush Limbaugh advertisers: How, after so long, are you just now realizing he's an obnoxious gasbag?
Watching commercial 4 shaving product in which Andre 3000, Adrien Brody & Gael Garcia Bernal strut past honeys, far too in love with selves
@kurtbreighley Kurt, I know you well for somebody I've never actually met or spoken to.
"21 Essential 21st-Century LPs" (on-msn.com/wZp8uS) JK--List annot8d, NOT COMPILED, by #KEXP @kurtbreighley aka waycool DJ El Toro
@kurtbreighley World note re "21 21st ctry LPs" tweet ( bit.ly/wMViWo), DJ El Toro didnt compile, just annot8d. His tastes far cooler
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Delirious by Prince from 1999 JK--I'm not a huge Prince fan, but I love this one.
"Can #BigData nab ntwk invaders?" (bit.ly/zi6ADo) JK--Peta-scale log analysis 4 security incident & event mgt: key #Hadoop use case
"21 Essential 21st-Century LPs" (on-msn.com/wZp8uS) JK--From MSN Entertainment. List compiled by #KEXP @kurtbreighley aka DJ El Toro.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat by Bob Dylan from Blonde on Blonde JK--Song I imagine Bob singing with an acerbic grin
In Méliès' vision & NASA's realization of moontrip scenario, most memorable image was of humans looking back, from lunar surface, to Earth.
Amazing how powerfully human civilization can advance its technical prowess in just 67 years while remaining bloodthirsty barbarians @ heart
Les voyages dans la lune. 1902 (youtu.be/7JDaOOw0MEE). 1969 (youtu.be/RMINSD7MmT4)
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Parade by Air from Le Voyage Dans La Lune JK--French electro-duo cinematic soundtrack to youtu.be/7JDaOOw0MEE
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Our House by Madness from Madness JK--Yeah. Sheer madness 2 put house in middle of street. Roadblock, car crashes etc
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp My Drug Buddy by Lemonheads frm Shame About Ray JK--Dont friend them on socials unless U wanna B "person o interest"
Solar flares. 15B+ years and the Earth still has not been scorched to a crisp & life still somehow clings to this orb. I think we'll survive
RT @stephen_wolfram: Personal analytics...from 20 years of data (wolfr.am/x2ImqT) JK--Proof that Stephen does occasionally sleep.
@SethGrimes I don't call myself an industry "authority" or "expert." I'm closer to "observer." But fundamentally I'm a market researcher.
Cool trivia about famous Muybridge image I just tweeted. Horse owned by Leland Stanford. Sequence captured in Palo Alto. Hi-tech, 1876.
Eadweard Muybridge. You know. Famous 19th century photographer who proved all horse hooves leave ground in gallop (bit.ly/xbFFvK)
Cool processed elephant-in-motion image: bit.ly/xrE6YF. Someone pls photoshop Muybridge-y sequence of #Hadoop elephant in gallop!
RT @InformationWeek "The Myth Of Big Data" (twb.io/yCAAXU) JK--Not a myth. More of myth-underthtanding: none of this is easy or cheap
Few subject-line phrases scream "SPAM" louder than "You have been chosen." It's more a matter of "You have been randomly targeted." Delete!
@medriscoll Good name for that #Hadoop pattern: distill, transform, preprocess, augment, & prep data pre loading into #BI DBMS/DW
#KXEN releases InfiniteInsight v6 pred analytics tool w/ deeper social graph (bit.ly/yXsFYJ), plus "Genius" tool for marketers.
@BigDataGuru #BigData #BigDataRockstars Thank you, you are so kind, so kind, so kind.
@SethGrimes #CEP Every day I tell myself I'm no expert. I'm just some dude who tries to keep up. If I didn't, I'd soon be useless.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Night Air by Jamie Woon from Mirrorwriting JK--New artist. Each one of his moody soul songs makes me want even more.
"Big data not just about the analytics, says Amazon CTO" (bit.ly/xPBBjN) JK--It's about scalable data mgt 4 analytics & transactions
"Best Practices from Real-World Experiments" (bit.ly/xqaSa0) JK-- @infomgmt syndicated republish of my blog from yesterday.
"Alan Turing: Exhibition offers rare glimpse of the man behind enigma" (tek.io/zmfRw1) JK--Where can we get access to his papers?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Mercy by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club from Howl Sessions JK--Tough leather rockers' most soulful. Schweet!
"Have you hugged a geek this week?" (tek.io/ArpEg7) JK--Apart from the better-looking geeks, have U hugged one? True test of mettle
"Hadoop Connectors Hitch Databases To 'Big Data' Clusters" (bit.ly/zJTNvu) JK--EDW connectors: criterion in #Hadoop Wave
I'm doing, um (1,2,3,4)....at least 5 #BigData related consult jobs this month. Some advisories, some webinars, others workshops & speeches
LOL when someone on Internet asks if you're "local" without specifying where they are. No, I'm not local. I'm a spirit permeating the cosmos
#Teradata releases 6690 appliance with hybrid/virtual/optz'd storage layer supporting HDD & SSD scaling out from 6 terabytes to 60 petabytes
@SethGrimes Oh, trading on stale insights grounded in the fading past & calcified in a smarmy solution pitch. I see a fair number of those.
"Ray Ozzie startup has mobility, communications at core" (bit.ly/y4mUZE) JK--Would be cool if Ozzie brought back Osborne Computer.
"Are Data Scientists Hiding in Shadows?" (bit.ly/zLRa0J) JK--Need problem solving skills + domain knowledge + adv analytics chops
@SethGrimes I know how U feel. I try 2 add some new content or angle 2 every preso, so I dont go into endless-repeat mode on the core topics
Shatner's most memorable sketch, "Get a Life" at the Trekker Conference, from SNL: youtu.be/FeS4tVFbNNk
W. Shatner, who hosted SNL once, has the best description of how weird the show's pre-live production flow is: youtu.be/3dE1IUUfSDU
Kinda nice out there. Chased a squirrel up a tree. He gave me the slip. But, hey, I'm out of practice.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Silent Song by Daniel Rossen from Silent Hour/Golden Mile EP JK--New one from Grizzly Bear principal.
New blogpost: "The Real-World Experiment: New Application Development Paradigm in the Age of Big Data" (bit.ly/y68UQM)
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased) by Radiohead from Hail to the Thief JK--Brilliant LP from mid-2000s.
@CurtMonash Curt, you have the gift of speaking in tongues. Cherish that.
"Facebook makes a play for Pinterest traffic w/Friendsheet" (bit.ly/wrwmPH) JK--Makes sense. FB is my core social visual photo tool
UBU ROI? (bit.ly/zuQl3s) JK--Huh? I dont see any return on investmnt calculatr 4 universal business utility. What's with the sneetch?
RT @IBMbigdata Yahoo has >40K nodes running #hadoop w/ 180-200PB data @katsnelson #bigdata JK--Check out my case study: bit.ly/zB3Wg0
@lmclaughlin That also describes the working rhythm of an industry analyst. Indigestion stalks the time-crunched knowledge worker.
RT @IBMcloud @katsnelson discussing huge demand for #bigdata analysts, IBM offers free course at bit.ly/q1AjHi to build skills
@DHenschen You bet it was. I stuck a #Forrester stake in the mud when scoping the #Hadoop market. Others may/do disagree. C'est la vie.
Who, among the EDW Wave vendors, is now front-end columnar? #Teradata #Microsoft #SAP #Sybase #HP #Vertica . Whither #IBM #Netezza #Oracle ?
@NeilRaden You always do great work, bro. Happy to RT your stuff.
Enjoying the #BigData #datamanagement #analytics dailies rollups of #IBM @katsnelson . Helps me to grok such diversified portfolio
@merv The tweeting's organic to that mental hygiene. Read & tweet, read & tweet, repeat. People who say "U tweet too much" just don't get it
@merv Carving out time for email and reading (i.e., the research core of being an analyst) preserves my mental hygiene & stokes my mind.
@DHenschen #Hadoop #BigData No, but #NoSQL Wave would be a great idea. But would be a scoping challenge: where to draw the line?
Hey @loserboy #kexp I find Michael McDonald's singing voice quite irritating. Maybe it's just me. But you nailed that aspect of his vocals.
@merv "Morning email hygiene". Great phrase! A Merv-ism that I'm going to rip off with fiendish thieving glee!
RT @kimdossey: @NeilRaden on Big Data Analytics Arch: Understand when to use #Hadoop, Hybrid Sys or #DataWarehouses http://bit.ly/yZmanQ
Wife & I agree that we have no idea what Adele is singing about in "Rolling in the Deep." Can't even make out half the words.
@DHenschen It would if #Hadoop were the pinnacle of #BigData evolution. But it's not. #NoSQL graph & other techs also play into future
"Get #Hadoop certified ... fast" (bit.ly/yUHUgS) JK--Hadoop training and certification programs are in hot demand.
"Microsoft SQL Server 2012: Big Data Power Incomplete" (bit.ly/wlE8e6) JK--Seems to imply that #Hadoop would "complete" it.
"Twitter exec calls tweets 'ultimate #BI tool'" (bit.ly/yN0A2U) JK--Nonsense, but I indeed did sprinkle OLAP cubes over my cereal
Best not to retweet stories without adding your two cents. The majority of your tweets should add some value.
"Big Data Meets Virtualization" (bit.ly/yQY7aC) JK--Enables easier access, search, manipulation, & admin of myriad content types.
RT @BardessGroup: Can Big Data Replace Domain Expertise? (ow.ly/9tQ2C) JK--No, but can accel acquisition & sharing of expertise
Sheryl Crow "A Change Would Do You Good" (youtu.be/GDwLPMOzHLY) JK--Sing it Missouri girl!
Microsoft releases SQL Server 2012. Addition of columnar is most significant enhancement. Teradata has also added that in v14 of their DBMS
I'm not fluent in German surnames, but when I receive an apparent spam from named "Wolfgang Umlaut-Schlanger," I hit delete.
A while back Rush Limbaugh's mother commented on his strained relationships with opposite sex. Now he has his tongue caught in his zipper
When reporter asked "where would U put yr money?," I replied "Ain't gonna put it in any company I cover." Downhome dialect = no mincing.
When TweetDeck app for Android says I've "reached the end of all updates," I feel like I've fallen off the end of the earth.
Did the Justice League of America have farm teams and talent scouts?
I like reading mags that R several months old. To gauge whethr our cultur still gives crap about stuff it got all hot&bothered by back then
"Time-Lapse Growth of Las Vegas as Seen Thru Space Photos" (bit.ly/y7b16O) JK--Crawled all way to western hills. Thanks @mgualtieri
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Murder in the City by The Avett Brothers from The Second Gleam JK--Poignant country song. Not a pick-me-up, mind you
I like how the word "attention" contains the sound of the word "tension." Sustaining the former usually stokes the latter.
Recording of #EMC #Greenplum webinar "Getting Agile thru #BigData Analytics" for download/replay (bit.ly/xSgnFM)
RT @chrispugh: I'm thinking about starting a Bon Jovi / Bon Iver cover band called Bon Jiver.
Vendors: note how @Greenplum has organized this webinar. Analyst+product person+partner discussing POV, platform, use case. Well-done!
@Greenplum #SilverSpringNetworks Ankur Varma discussng need 4 scalable unified multi-struct #BigData platform 4 end2end smart-grid algo exec
@Greenplum #Greenplum webinar on agile #BigData analytics is packed with good content. Looking forward to good Q&A
@Greenplum #Greenplum partner #SilverSpringNetworks discussing #BigData in smart grid optimization. Very interesting.
@Greenplum #Greenplum Avi Orenstein doing good job of summarizing each speaker's main points in transition points in preso.
@Greenplum #Greenplum Michael Maxey discussing extensive partner ecosystem in #BigData analytics: EDW #Hadoop etc
@Greenplum #Greenplum Maxey discussing functional core of data science team collaboration. They have tool called "Chorus."
@Greenplum #Greenplum Michael Maxey discussing the need for biz data science teams to automate & collaborate "grunt" work.
@Greenplum Michael Maxey says #Greenplum has built up data science best practices, partnerships, university outreach.
@Greenplum Michael Maxey speaking now on "Getting Agile thru Big Data Analytics" webinar. Discussing biz data science teams driving it all.
RT @Greenplum: webcast, Getting Agile Through Big Data (ow.ly/9uelY) JK--Sound check word was "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
RT @Greenplum: webcast, Getting Agile Thru Big Data with @jameskobielus @silverspring & @greenplum (ow.ly/9uelY) Live in 9 minutes!
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp You're Gonna Miss Me by 13th Floor Elevators JK--Sorta 50 ways to gloat over leaving your lover.
#Teradata recent announcemnts show going deep on open-source data/analytix: #Hadoop (HTWX) #R (Revolution) #GeoServer (bit.ly/8MPfUI)
RT @Greenplum: Tune into today's webcast, Getting Agile Through Big Data with @jameskobielus @silverspring & @greenplum ow.ly/9uelY
Interviewed by Brian Bloom of IT World Canada on that #Teradata Integrated Analytics Portfolio announcement. See previous tweet
Teradata Expands Integrated Analytics Portfolio (bit.ly/yj7Voz) JK--Partner. Adds #R suppt via #RevolutionAnalytics & in-mem via #SAS
Built To Spill "Goin' Against Your Mind" (youtu.be/cH9EJg4o9-s) JK--Title summarizes key yoga teaching: disengage your ego.
@brwood It definitely is, Brian. If you have good yoga instructor, they'll help you attune to the limits of your own being & to push against
Use cases. I like them as a framework for identifying key outcomes, benefits, apps, approaches, platforms, & best practices for biz techs.
RT @IBMbigdata @smarterplanet: Good discussion of smarter buildings & using analytics to find efficiencies. bit.ly/zUGVQF
"Microsoft Azure stabilizes after leap year glitch" (bit.ly/wrMzDn) JK--Had it programmed its cloud to the Julian calendar?
Interviewed by Brian Bloom of IT World Canada re Teradata 14 and other goings-on in the #EDW & #DBMS market.
@wattsteve #proudlysouthafrican I've heard of Johnny Clegg, but haven't heard his work. I'll check him out on YouTube
#Teradata releases v14 of their database (prn.to/A5ZuoK). Hybrid row/columnar partitioning w/virtual storage, temporal, security, etc
Developing abstract for March 28 webinar I'll be doing with #ParAccel on the analytic offload imperative in #BigData
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Hole In The Ocean Floor by Andrew Bird from Break It Yourself JK--New, lush, full-voiced Andrew w/violin
Funny how many otherwise well-informed people still think #BI is something distinct from "analytics." Former is subset of latter.
@HowardKurtz That's right. Limbaugh has linked misogyny to anti-contraception, Santorum's stand, in the popular mind as defining the GOP
RIP Robert Sherman. Half of songwriting-brother team that, among other tunes, gave us "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Um-diddle-iddle!
Mindy Kaling "Flick Chicks" (nyr.kr/n067CY) JK--Rom-com women who don't exist in real life.
Fair number of people on socials don't realize it's rude to tell someone you're going to stop following them. Just stop/block. Don't tell.
"'TV Everywhere' Gets Tangled in Pacts" (on.wsj.com/xg3ut0) JK--These legalities can only stimulate emerging only-on-Web TV industry
"Hadoop Meets Near Real-Time Data" (bit.ly/wr96qc) JK--Key theme in #Hadoop commercializ'n. Expect most Hdp vdrs to offer by year end
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Tangled Up in Blue by Bob Dylan from Blood on the Tracks JK--Gr8 balllad from Bob's mid-70s comeback LP.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Big New Prinz by The Fall from A Sides JK--What if Freddie Prinz didn't compete in track? Don't think he did.
Listening to John Mellencamp "Ain't That America?" For shame, Cougar-boy! You don't recognize the place by now?
Listenin to Maroon 5 "Move Like Jagger." Reminds of gr8 line frm "Officer&Gentlmn": "Y'all got soft from listenin to that Mick Jagger music"
Some NFL teams' bounties for inflicting injuries on opponents. At what point will we admit that football is hazardous to players' brains.
This month marks 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts. Taught girls to be resourceful & prepared. Also core teaching of Boy Scouts. U go girls!
Interviewed by Christina Torode of #TechTarget re self-service BI.
"Citi and IBM Enter Exploratory Agrmt on Use of Watson Technologies" (ibm.co/y9ETXB) JK--IBM pls brief at NYC analytics event Mar 20
Silver Spring Networks, Forrester, #EMC #Greenplum webcast tomorrow 3/6 10am pst: Get Agile Through #BigData #Analytics ow.ly/9sO1r
Retweeted by jameskobielus
Haircut 100 "Favourite Shirts" (youtu.be/G2cat4kykzI) JK--That Unit 4 + 2 song & video suggested this.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp O Coco Da Galinha by Galactic from Carnivale Electricos JK--Shuffle-rhythm reminds me of youtu.be/NmVS6R3mF40
Gave my college student daughter a bit of on-demand encouragement. She needs it right now. Mid-terms. I know how stressful that can be.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Hong Kong Garden by Siouxsie and the Banshees JK--Good music, but the racist lyrics are offensive. Stop playing this.
Best quote I saw last wk: "I despise namedropping, and Lady Gaga agrees with me 100%." Who said that? I think I heard it from George Clooney
"CeBIT: Software AG Announces its Strategy for In-memory Mgt of #BigData" (prn.to/xJNHek) JK--Multi-terabyte. Leveraging #Terracotta
"FourSquare Dumps Google Maps for Rival" (bit.ly/wqfvpr) JK--What is this? "Dump on Google Day"? Can't we give a megalith a break?
"Google...Evil?" (bit.ly/xqNxT6) JK--Essentially, Google has set itself up from the start to be the arbiter of relative evils online
"Gene Weingarten: Take this™ and google it!" (wapo.st/ybUvzA) JK--WashPost's great humor columnist rips GGL naming conceit to pieces
"Google 'Assistant' Reportedly Will Surpass Siri" (bit.ly/A4o49O) JK--In same way that Google+ has "surpassed" Facebook?
" #Attunity & #Hortonworks Announce Partnership to Simplify #BigData Integ w/ #Hadoop" (bit.ly/wS1qUb) JK--Another HTWX partnership
Interviewed via email by Doug Henschen of #TechWeb re #Informatica #MapR real-time/streaming #Hadoop tech/partner announcement.
Ever notice that traditional media give excessive attention to every IT privacy or malware scare? Attempting to discredit the competition?
"Horizontal analytics." Whenever you append "horizontal" to a solution category, you're just referring to category. Drop the "horizontal."
The Black Keys "Howlin' For You" (youtu.be/TLSpj7q6_mM) JK--Had a good night's sleep. I literally dreamed I was watching this video.
It's not that I don't enjoy the merry-go-round. But occasionally I'd like to program a different song to play on each turn of the carousel.
I never indicate "standard" or "daylight" time when referencing timezones of upcoming events. Everybody in US is one or other at any time
Catch me tomorrow 1pm (eastern) on #EMC #Greenplum webinar "Getting Agile Through Big Data Analytics" (bit.ly/xSgnFM)
Developing speech I'll be delivering to the Online Publishers Association board on #BigData.
Saw DVD of & wasn't impressed w/Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer." Inept storyboarding. I didn't realize he too can produce cinematic dogs
Business rules. It's a technology. In an IT context, we're not referring to the etiquette of letting your boss win the golf game.
Subfreezing morning in the DC area to remind us it's still technically winter. Back up to 60 later this week.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp If Not I'll Just Die by Lambchop from Mr. M JK--Latest from veteran Nashville combo. Wee-hours jazzy romantic croon.
Feels like cable TV paywalls are going to die hard. People are sick of paying for content they will never watch.
Quite a week awaits. Looking forward to the usual crazy crush of activity. Not.
Autopoesis. Million-dollar word (bit.ly/3yM5BR). Means self-created as a self-referential universe. Solipsism, essentially.
March forth. Hup-two-three-four. Double-time. Now go full gallop. Halt. I said halt dammit!
Spoon "Got Nuffin' " (youtu.be/S4Q9zngV52U) JK--Austin band. Britt Daniel has scratchy aggressive vocal and whip-sharp sonic assault.
Shearwater "Animal Life" (youtu.be/UJel0kjRO3o) JK--Austin band. Jonathan Meiburg has operatic delivery that'd do Roy Orbison proud
Okkervil River "Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe" (youtu.be/RAWV28FFIHI) JK--Austin band. This is my fave Will Sheff vocal. Over top
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Cool It Down by The Velvet Underground from Loaded JK--Awesomely poppy album, complete right-turn from their others
"Allegedly consulted prostitute on Clippers basketball issues" (bit.ly/yj1Ggg) JK--Give good advice? Read more: bit.ly/xul4pH
Bummed that I'll be missing SXSW yet again. Of course, I haven't seen live music in ages.
Yelp? Who is that?
Winding down my nervous system to clear and calm it in prep for yoga.
So let's get this straight. The Republicans' number one issue is opposition to contraception.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp The Night by School of Seven Bells from Ghostory JK--New LP, the 3rd, from SoSB. Must buy.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Watching the Detectives by Elvis Costello frm My Aim Is True JK--New artist & 1st LP were revelations in summer '78
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp No One's Gonna Love U More Than I Do by Cee-Lo Green frm The Lady Killer JK--Today's greatest soul singer. No contest
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp What's Going On by Marvin Gaye from What's Going On JK--Fairly awesome blend of grit & gospel.
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros "Home" (youtu.be/DHEOF_rcND8) JK--What else have these people done? This is so funny/lively.
Jefferson Airplane "Good Shepherd" (youtu.be/lOWX2-l788A) JK--Here's a Jorma Kaukonen from "Volunteers." @djmichelemyers
@djmichelemyers I have long been one of the hugest fans of Jefferson Airplane. Just a great body of recorded music.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Somebody to Love by Ramones from Acid Eaters JK--Luv'd ya Joey, but Grace made it sexy.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane from Surrealistic Pillow JK--Classic acid-rock song that was actually about acid.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Ritual Union by Little Dragon from Ritual Union JK--One of the best songs from last year.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Homeless by Ladysmith Black Mambazo from their best JK--Love this South Africa choral group.
@josverwoerd I immediately retracted it. Don't know why I tweeted that.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Gold Digger (feat. Jamie Foxx) by Kanye West from Late Registration JK--Cool rap channeling a faux Ray Charles.
Rush Limbaugh back in the news? Ah, 90s nostalgia. Not quite as big or fat as he was during the Clinton era, but still very much the idiot.
