Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2009
From The Noisy Channel
Banging on Bing: A Bummer
So, Bing is out early. Yes, an early release from Microsoft! And it’s snappy, attractive, and offers decent quality. If I needed to use Bing as my main search engine for the web (yes, readers, imagine a world without Google and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is the Cloud Reliable Enough?
Having now encountered several severe Google outages, this issue has been coming to mind more often. Now that just about every business uses the Internet to communicate with and manage their interaction, remote management of…
From Putting People First
Clay Shirky on social media and the emotional dimension of news
Clay Shirky is this week’s guest on Nokia’s IdeasProject site. He talks about social media and the emotional dimension of news. “Clay Shirky says that the lightning-quick dissemination of news events via social media has heightened…
From Putting People First
FT special report on connectivity
The Financial Times has published a special report on connectivity, analysing the implications of a connected planet. My preferred pieces: Skills: Business must learn from the new tribe So-called
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart's Self Service Kiosks
Wal-Mart has started an experiment with self-service kiosks. An intriguing issue regarding the resulting data ownership issues. Given the kind of information that may be shared on these devices, who is responsible for security…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Data Via the Semantic Web
Readwriteweb article that points to work by PriceWaterHouse. ' ... explains how the Semantic Web and Linked Data can help enterprises manage their large-scale data better ... ' . See the linked report.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Networks
Noting the work of Peter Gloor at MIT. In particular he studies innovation networks-- the ecosystem of innovation, learning, and collaborative knowledge networks through which innovative ideas disseminate. Via Kate Niederhoffer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overreaching in Neuromarketing?
The interpretation of brain images and other biometric measurements are part of a broad and increasingly practiced set of methods called neuromarketing. Following article is a challenge to the application of these methods.Neuroimaging…