The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Another Good Enough Challenge to Proprietary Enterprise Search The protestations of the enterprise search vendors in hock for tens of millions to venture funders will get louder. The argument is that proprietary search solutions are just better. Navigate to “Postgres Full-Text Search Is Good Enough!” This has been the mantra of some of the European …
The Future of News: Looking East I read “Hacking Media: Al Jazeera Hackathon Imagines the Future of News.” The write up is interesting because it suggests that fresh thinking about “real” journalism does not occur in Midtown Manhattan. The other main point I noted was:
Open Source Business Intelligence Tools: A Narrow View Last week, a person with considerable experience in business intelligence told me that interest in open source software applicable to intelligence purposes was evident in South America. I poked around and came across “5 Open Source business intelligence Tools.” I was hoping to learn about open source …
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Finding Books: Not Much Has Changed Three or four years ago I described what I called “the book findability” problem. The audience was a group of confident executives trying to squeeze money from an old school commercial database model. Here’s how the commercial databases worked in 1979. . . . . . . What the …
Enterprise Search: Confusing Going to Weeds with Being Weeds I seem to run into references to the write up by a “expert”. I know the person is an expert because the author says: As an Enterprise Search expert, I get a lot of questions about Search and Information Architecture (IA). The source of this remarkable …
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Enterprise Search: Fee Versus Free I read a pretty darned amazing article “Is Free Enterprise Search a Game Changer?” My initial reaction was, “Didn’t the game change with the failures of flagship enterprise search systems?” And “Didn’t the cost and complexity of many enterprise search deployments fuel the emergence of the free and open source …
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Fake Content: SEO or Tenure Desperation Bottom Line Up Front: Indexing systems have a spotty record of identifying weaponized, shaped, or distorted information.
