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2015/09/292015/09/29

Review: Big Data, Little Data, No Data – Scholarship in the Networked World

Christine L. Borgman 5 Stars Major Contribution with Some Oversights This book is extremely well-developed and and a major contribution, not least because it it one of the best explorations of information ecologies that are vastly more intricate and cover vastly more time, energy, and locational space, than most realize. It was recommended to me …

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2015/08/232015/08/23

Mongoose: Rocky Anderson Sues USG & NASA — PBI on 3 Revolutions Emergent

The perfect storm is brewing. Former Salt Lake City mayor sues Bush administration, NSA for spying The former mayor of Salt Lake City is suing former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney and the National Security Agency for spying on the city during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

2015/08/202015/08/20

Yoda: Google Going Up In Flames

Strike, lightning did…. Four Lightning Strikes in Belgium Erase Google Customer Data

2015/08/142015/08/13

CNN: Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump agree on 1 big issue

Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump agree on 1 big issue Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders aren’t political pals. But they agree on one key issue: they think the U.S. government’s jobs numbers are a crock.

2015/08/032016/03/26

Reflections on Cyber-Corruption

It breaks my heart to watch all things cyber continue along very corrupt paths associated with a melange of linear thinking, bureaucratic inertia, truly evil covert operations that undermine cyber-security, and of course the persistent lack of accountability. It was my great privilege to be among the first to sound the alarm on cyber-security, joining …

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2015/07/292016/03/26

Reflections on Peter Drucker from the Grave

#bigideas I do miss Peter Drucker. I also think often of him, and Frank Lloyd Wright and many others, such as Russell Ackoff (“stop doing the wrong things righter, do the right things”). I use them to remind myself that it takes a quarter-century or more — and generally some cataclysmic failure — before the …

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2015/07/202015/07/19

Stephen E. Arnold: The Google Bubble

Google: The Forever Rising Revenue Starship Will legal hassles, cost cutting, the surge in mobile usage, and the challenges of making money in China and Russia slow the Forever Rising, the new monetary interstellar vehicle? Absolutely not. Lawyers, even countries, cannot exert sufficient gravitational pull to cause the money craft to veer from its trajectory. …

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