Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
This post on Zero Hedge should serve as a reminder that people who use one “less bad” statistic to support the case for economic recovery are metaphorically bringing a knife to a gun fight. Economic performance, market performance, and fiscal and monetary policy are incredibly complex subjects that are both interconnected and operate on their [...]
Image by dfarber via Flickr At the SAP academic research conference yesterday Hasso Plattner spent a lot of time talking about database design and why it’s still important. More significantly, he drilled into why re-architecting applications to take advantage of a fundamentally differently database than what we are used to with relational databases is critical [...]
Several stories have popped up, thanks to @pkedrosky for the links, about the popular blog Zero Hedge and who exactly is behind Tyler Durden. It is quite clear just from the variety of writing styles associated with the name “Tyler Durden” that more than one writer is associated with that name, It is also clear [...]
SAP Academic Research Conference
Environmental groups long ago lost legitimacy with mainstream Californians for simply being the Party of No, as in no development of any kind, anywhere, under any circumstances. There’s only so many times that you can raise the same objections and not turn into the proverbial boy who cried wolf. The latest example of this is [...]
Every once in a while this issue flares up, usually in relation to conferences not having anything other than a bunch of white guys on the speaker agenda, but I think we should stop fooling ourselves about the technology industry valuing diversity and on there being a system of meritocracy for achieving it. Women, Hispanics, [...]
I would sum up this puff piece on the so-called new AOL as “we’re big, we’re bad, we’re AOL”. But AOL, often derided as the original gated community, is now manufacturing a broad array of digital media that is free for the grabbing. There are 300 working content producers in its New York headquarters, backed [...]
Last week I watched a really interesting documentary called Moon Machines about the development of the machines that took us to the moon in the 1960s and 70s. What was really remarkable about that program was the absurd amount of new engineering that had to occur in order to achieve the man on the moon [...]
I just had a great conversation with a friend that covered, among many things, email marketing and how broken it really is. Then I come home and open up my email, finding this. Email marketing is so fundamentally broken that it defies the imagination. Single digit response rates are considered a great success and not [...]