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Branding Chatter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Branding Chatter

See Ed Burghard's paper.li online paper Branding Chatter. He is a former Harley Procter Marketer at Procter & Gamble who has lots of insightful things to say on...

Developing Successful Brands about Places
From The Eponymous Pickle

Developing Successful Brands about Places

Ed Burghard sends along his blog post on developing brands about places.  Thoughtful. " ... I started the article off with a definition of place branding. At the...

One Bit Can be Stored in 12 Atoms
From The Eponymous Pickle

One Bit Can be Stored in 12 Atoms

A report on research at IBM that has decreased the number of material atoms required to store a single bit of information from about a million iron atoms to only...

Web Search and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Web Search and AI

Matthew Hurst makes a good point about the ubiquity of Web search slowing the development of artificial intelligence.  I saw this repeatedly in the enterprise. ...

Listening to Your Customers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Listening to Your Customers

In Innovation Excellence:  This good article mentions the (possible) Henry Ford Quote:

Kroger Robotic Convenience Store
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Robotic Convenience Store

A Robotic Convenience Store.We saw an early prototype of this idea several years ago.  A device that contains hundreds of items for ready vending.  Was seen as...

Thinkvine gets Funding
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinkvine gets Funding

Local Firm gets Funding. "... US

Future  of BI in the Organization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of BI in the Organization

Mark Montgomery of Kyield writes. He cites a Forrester report: " ... One of the main themes in the report concerns expanding the use of BI throughout the organization...

Sculpting Your Own Profession
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sculpting Your Own Profession

In the HBR. design your own profession. Depends upon the local culture as to how successful this will be.

Facebook Allows Data Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Allows Data Analysis

In ReadwriteWeb: Fascinating description of how Facebook is allowing the aggregate and statistical use of its data. What is described here is unstructured textual...

Friday Squid Blogging: Argentina Attempts a Squid Blockage against the Falkland Islands
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Argentina Attempts a Squid Blockage against the Falkland Islands

Yet another story that combines squid and security. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...

Business Intelligence Requirements Gathering
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Intelligence Requirements Gathering

Somewhat obvious but useful examples of who and what to get together to better insure the success of a BI effort.

Recovering a Hacked Gmail Account
From Schneier on Security

Recovering a Hacked Gmail Account

Long (but well-written and interesting) story of someone whose Gmail account was hacked and erased, and eventually restored. Many interesting lessons about the...

Eames Documentary Online
From The Eponymous Pickle

Eames Documentary Online

Worth a look. We worked with Herman Miller on innovation projects: PBS Eames documentary now online:If you're at all inter

Shut Down or Restart: New UK CS Report
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Shut Down or Restart: New UK CS Report

The Royal Society in Great Britain has just released a ground-breaking new report called Shut Down or Restart: The Way Forward for Computing in UK Schools which...

Real Computer Science in High Schools
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Real Computer Science in High Schools

As someone who is always looking for outreach opportunities with middle and high school students, I enjoyed The Guardian's recent article called Michael Gove to...

"Going Dark" vs. a "Golden Age of Surveillance"
From Schneier on Security

"Going Dark" vs. a "Golden Age of Surveillance"

It's a policy debate that's been going on since the crypto wars of the early 1990s. The FBI, NSA, and other agencies continue to claim they're losing their ability...

NIH Institute Creates New Division for Bioinformatics, Comp Bio
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NIH Institute Creates New Division for Bioinformatics, Comp Bio

The National Institute of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS), an institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) supporting basic research and research training...

Teaching Teachers and Students Together
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Teaching Teachers and Students Together

The other day Chris Bowen (that

Affective computing
From Putting People First

Affective computing

Chapter twelve of the interaction-design.org resource is now available in preview. It deals with what HCI specialists call
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