The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Lousy Backlog? Sell with Interesting Assertions. If you are struggling to fill the sales pipeline, you will feel some pressure. If you really need to make sales, marketing collateral may be an easy weapon to seize. I read “Examples of False Claims about Self-Service Analytics.” The write up singles out interesting sales assertions and offers …
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Instance of the LinkedIn Blue Pencil Steele says: Yesterday I was censored by LinkedIn when I tried to post a story [by someone else] on “The Madness of Queen Hillary.” Coming as it does in the aftermath of Google manipulating both search and spam results in favor of Hillary Clinton, Facebook blocking YouTubes from Alex …
Technical Debt and Technical Wealth I read “Forget Technical Debt. Here’s How to Build Technical Wealth.” Lemons? Make lemonade. Works almost every time. The write up begins with a reminder that recent code which is tough to improve is a version of legacy code. I understand. I highlighted this statement:
Technology That Literally Can Read Your Lips (Coming Soon) The article on Inquisitr titled Emerging New “Lip-Reading” Technology To Radically Revolutionize Modern-Day Crime Solving explains the advances in visual speech recognition technology. In 1974 Gene Hackman could have used this technology in the classic film “The Conversation” where he plays a surveillance expert trying to …
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The Yahooing of Alphabet Google I read “Google Isn’t Safe from Yahoo’s Fate.” I learned in this article: Google is on the wrong side of major trends in the digital advertising industry: Google captures direct response dollars as digital ad spend shifts up the funnel, its focus is still on browsers and websites as engagement …
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Big Consulting Firm Smashes the Big Data Conundrum …lots of consultant fluff skewered…. Arnold sez: The trip will be a hike through the Ural mountains in winter. Phi Beta Iota: The master at his best. See Also: Big Data @ Phi Beta Iota
Avast: Pirate Libraries They are called “pirate libraries,” but one would be better-served envisioning Robin Hood than Blackbeard. Atlas Obscura takes a look at these floaters of scientific-journal copyrights in, “The Rise of Pirate Libraries.” These are not physical libraries, but virtual ones, where researchers and other curious folks can study articles otherwise accessible only …
