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Computing Utility – the Next Big Thing?
The recent cover article in Business Week about Google becoming the foremost computing utility reminded me of an article by David Warsh in the Boston Globe circa 1990 as he described research by Paul...
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The Power of Metrics to Guide Software Development
One of the big challenges with software product development is how to prioritize which features to add. Many books and academic papers are written on this topic each year. From my vantage point, the...
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The Future of Higher Education – MLA Seattle
Action driving tweets – who knew that such few characters of text could drive action that leads to engaging learning. A few days ago, Cathy Davidson tweeted that she was headed to Seattle, WA to the...
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Is the university experience wasted on the young?
Every now and again, the universe conspires to free up some time to do some face to face learning with terrific resources in the academic world. After a whirlwind set of face to face meetings with...
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Easy Productivity Boost – Multiple Monitors
Seeing this NY Times article, I was reminded of one of our key recommendations for boosting productivity in eDiscovery – make sure each lawyer reviewer has multiple monitors. From a capital investment...
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Daydreaming of Kindle Social Highlights
One of the joys of riding the ferry between Seattle and Bainbridge Island is bumping into the eclectic collection of friends and colleagues somewhat randomly. The other night I had the pleasure of...
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What could an old fart possibly know about technology?
The day started with my wonderful son-in-law sending me a reminder of how ancient a technology mariner I am. He’d found this “What if?” answer from XKCD on “If all digital data were stored on punch...
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Lifelet: Data Visualization to the Max
I attended the Institute for System Biology Future of Health Symposium 2019. If I use the scale of WUKID (Wisdom Understanding Knowledge Information and Data) I barely functioned somewhere between the...
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Why are there so few visual analytics applications?
I wish I knew. Robert Crawford asked “Why are there so few interactive visualization software application products in the legal space? Attenex Patterns showed us the power of visual analytics to...
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Know Now
What if you could accurately predict, in fact even know, your quarterly results at the beginning of a quarter rather than at the end of a quarter? That is the question that Eric Robinson and I explored...
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The Map is Not the Territory. Or is it?
Day 165 of Self Quarantine Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.: 177,000 One of the profound early influences on my thinking was the statement in Alfred Korzybski‘s Science and Sanity “The Map is not...
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Are our cars getting too smart to be safe?
A while ago I wrote about my Honda CR-V watching me. Last night, I got quite frightened when my CR-V decided to slam on the brakes while I was crossing railroad tracks in Seattle. Fortunately the car...
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SoDoToTAO Examples
Covid Deaths in U.S.: 1,109,679 Get Vaccinated! Stop the War in Ukraine! I am doing it again. OMG, I am doing it again. During my morning free writing, I realized that my SoDoToTAO process was at...
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