Financial Times + Endeca = Newssift
Now that the cat is out of the bag, I’m proud to tell readers here about an effort I’ve been…
How do You Define Community?
I was watching Fox News the other day, I don’t remember what show it was but the commentator was talking…
Kosmix: I’m Impressed
One of the recurring objections to exploratory search is that it can’t work for the web. For example, some folks…
Challenge: Blog + Twitter vs. Aardvark
I asked Aardvark the following question this afternoon: Trying to track down an animated short where a bunch of critters…
Clay Shirky: Save Society, Not Newspapers
There is so much writing about the impeding demise of the newspaper industry that’s it’s becoming easy to tune it…
#1: Here’s a thought…
The first in an occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Hadoop…
You Really Have to See This: From MIT Media Lab
Words can hardly describe how neat this technology is. I'm excited and enthused for many reasons, including the potential power…
Getting inside a CIO’s head
I was disappointed to see that our nation’s first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, is having some major distractions, with…
Should Public Safety Departments be Merged?
Not unusual by any means, another story about merging police and fire departments appeared in yesterday’s issue of the Mercury…
Blog + Twitter vs. Aardvark: A Rematch
It’s clear that my blog + Twitter vs. Aardvark challenge yesterday wasn’t much of a challenge, so I’m trying again.…
