As always, Bruce Schneier has some poignant analysis of the attempted terror attack on an aircraft headed from Amsterdam to Detroit over the holidays. Once a society starts circumventing its own laws, the risks to its future stability are much greater than terrorism. Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat.
Read More...This is a short work week, and likely many of you are busy decluttering your workspaces and doing some basic housecleaning getting ready for 2010 to begin in earnest. Why not take a few moments to enjoy the following: 1. Christmas ’59, a short, nostalgic and funny story by John Hughes. (Fun fact: this story
Read More...We’re going to be quiet here on Unfiltered for the next few days, with posting resuming (sporadically) next week. On behalf of everyone here at MIPRO Consulting, I would like to thank our customers, partners, colleagues, friends and followers for joining us in enduring the harsh economic rains of 2009. It goes to show that
Read More...Jim Lehrer’s own rules for his approach to journalism, spoken publicly during his final broadcast on Dec. 4: “I promise you, one thing is never going to change. And that’s our mission. People often ask me if there are guidelines in our practice of what I like to call MacNeil/Lehrer journalism. Well, yes, there are.
Read More...Robert Scoble: The writing is on the wall. Small business marketing is moving away from focusing on SEO. Why do I say that? Because, well, Google and Bing are changing the rules so often and are getting so good at figuring out the real businesses that deserve to be on pages. Search Half Moon Bay
Read More...Since launching this blog in the middle of 2008, we saw readership grow from 50 unique visitors per month to nearly 5,000 (and trending upward), so I’d like to get one thing out of the way before highlighting 2009’s top posts: thank you. We appreciate all the kind words and referrals the PeopleSoft/Workday/Business Intelligence communities
Read More...It’s funny. I was going to write a longer post today, maybe the last truly good day for blog reading, just before the holiday frenzy begins in earnest next week. I was planning to talk about how 2009 was a forgettable year for most people, both personally and professionally, and that I wouldn’t be lying
Read More...Jeff Kaplan (@thinkstrategies on Twitter), writing for E-Commerce Times, has an excellent list of major SaaS/cloud evolution milestones we saw in 2009. I have included the list in its entirety below. Jeff’s full article is here. Wheeling and Dealing 1. Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) surpasses US$1 billion in revenue. Hitting this financial milestone clearly shows that
Read More...Absolutely fascinating: Dinotopia artist James Gurney posted this video about a "change blindness" experiment. 75% of the participants didn’t notice that the experimenter who bent under a counter was replaced by a different person. Says Gurney: "Here’s proof that most of the time we look but don’t see." I think Matisse said something to the
Read More...Foreign Policy asked their top Global Thinkers to recommend their favorite – or most important – books. The responses range from children’s books to biographies to policy manuals to fantasy novels. Here’s the full list of their suggestions.
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