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wolfram’s search engine is kinda neat…

So since I live under a rock, I didn’t know about google’s fledgling competitor: wolfram’s  own search engine. Check it out…
You can tell it’s early days, but it’s kind of neat that it also takes equations ( I know… all that raw computing power and all I could think of was  sin(x) ), not just [...]

The zen of complexity

A lot of systems theoretic disciplines have seemed wholly useless because we took them as a set of tools with which we could rule over nature. Now I’m wondering if the insights from these sciences are just revelations FROM nature to teach us about our very tiny place in the grand scheme of things…
If so, [...]

Thoughts on Enterprise Social Media : Part I

In a short series of 3 nibble-sized posts, I’m going write about some of the things I’m learning about a rapidly expanding field: Enterprise intranets – specifically the inclusion of social media platforms with the attendant folksonomies and enterprise search functionality.
First off, I should declare my stance: I am a social media luddite. I am [...]

data, information, and the necessary delusions of purpose

In the same way that we kid ourselves that we are artists and writers, poets, lovers, mothers, Olympic sprinters, whatever… so too do corporate entities become mired in their own necessary delusions of purpose.
But of course… I persist in my unholy (hollow?) belief that the one true original purpose is the simple, banal processing of [...]

On consensing…

We live in a much faster-paced world today than our ancestors did, and we have to make decisions very quickly (something that, as it turns out, I really, really suck at… but less of that, and more about what I intended to write about in the first place).
We like to reduce decision-making to the equivalent [...]

Complex accounting is routing strategy. It’s here to stay.

[updated : 2009-12-19]
The only thing that’s interesting about the copenhagen climate summit is the strategies that nations employ to wriggle out of real and tangible cuts in emissions.
The interconnectedness of environmental and other systems on our planet has made us turn, naturally, to network theory for gaining useful insights. This is becoming more so with [...]

An hour in the sky: Google Wave, Sound Cloud.

Quickie post, as I am trying to curb my stay-up-late habits:
Because I live under a rock, the first I’d ever heard of ‘Google Wave‘ was when my friend Hazera told me to jump on it. Only she couldn’t exactly invite me, because, well… there were no invites to be had. So I did something I [...]

Feedback Analytics : (yet) another dashboard app

Have you heard of Kampyle? Or for that matter, ‘feedback analytics‘ ? Consider it a new (and growing) facet of web analytics.

Analytics : retro-fitting measurability – part 2

In my previous post on analytics and retrofitting measurability, I talked about the first two phases of getting to grips with metrics and analytics in an existing system. I divvied it up so because otherwise it would have been too long to read.

The Zen of Analytics (or, “this guy GETS it…”)

Just before I post part 2 of my humble ‘Analytics and Measurability’ articles, I would just like to invite all analysts, optimisers, and everyone of that data-harnessing ilk to join me in a deep bow of respect.
Read Avinash Kaushik’s post titled ‘This I believe [A Manifesto for Web Marketers & Analysts]‘.
Embody his five-fold path in [...]

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