Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Pretty much says it all…. PALO ALTO, CA – An international mathematics research team announced today that they had discovered a new integer that surpasses any previously known value “by a totally mindblowning shitload.” Project director Yujin Xiao of Stanford University said the theoretical number, dubbed a “stimulus,” could lead to breakthroughs in fields as [...]
Eric and Kim Norlin are good friends, so it goes without question that I am supporting Eric’s latest conference, Glue. Scheduled for May 12/13 in Denver, Glue promises a range of sessions and tracks that are about the nuts and bolts of integrating cloud and on-premise computing models… standards, metadata, connectors, and adapters. Neat stuff, [...]
Does Isaacson really expect us to believe that newspapers generated all of their revenues from print subscribers… he is suggesting that making content available online without a subscription is the equivalent of giving it away for free, advertising be damned. The problem is that fewer of these consumers are paying. Instead, news organizations are merrily [...]
There’s not much good news here other than the fact that these ships aren’t sitting in docks empty and not in use. Car manufacturers are increasingly using ships to store excess vehicles because ports’ parking areas have become overwhelmed by the build-up of unsold vehicles. The move is a rare positive development for operators of [...]
Newly appointed and confirmed (and apparently free of tax problems) Energy Secretary Chu is making some dire predictions about the consequences of global warming. Chu’s primary concern, it appears, is that the public does not share the same degree of concern and Chu’s strategy for dealing with that is “public education”. In the course of [...]
I don’t think any informed people who comment on this industry are saying newspapers are dead because people are not consuming their products, print or otherwise. I have written many posts about the fact that they continue to grow their online product at a rapid clip but suffer from a business model that translates poorly [...]
Pinal County in Arizona just canceled their traffic camera contract with Redflex, the company behind a great majority of these traffic camera programs, including the one in Denver that I wrote about last week. Moreover, Babeu said, total motor-vehicle accidents increased by 16 percent in the same time period, and fatal collisions in the Queen [...]
Michael Krigsman did some digging into the State of California’s CIO report on state level IT and found some interested statistics, and provided a not so complimentary view of management of IT within the state. This is important because it’s one more example of taxpayer monies being consumed at alarming rates with little accountability by [...]