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Big Data – Is It A Big Deal?

<published earlier by FedScoop, http://fedscoop.com/big-data-is-it-a-big-deal/>

In our increasingly fast-paced world, the buzz-word du jour, Big Data, looks like a winner of the fastest transition from cool, new, vacuous, poorly-defined concept to mainstream acceptance and implementation.

A year or two ago if you had mentioned Hadoop, listeners would have thought you had the hiccups (or had just sneezed). Now even the non-Technorati use the term in casual conversations.Big Data – Is It A Big Deal?

Thoughts On Teleworking

I teach a class at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) about the future of Information Technology.

One of the great things about doing this is how much I learn each semester, I find I always gain much, much more than I bring to the class (pointed out to me by the observant students …).

In a recent discussion thread one of the students had some interesting things to say about telecommuting which I thought deserved a wider audience. So with a tip of the hat to Neelima Jampani …Thoughts On Teleworking

Why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk or How I Literally Married the Internet

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I find myself these days on a regular basis having discussions, for one reason or another, about the impact of Information Technology and inevitably the Internet on organizations, life, society, culture, and in general, the individuals having the conversation.

About a decade ago, the first time I remember having this discussion with a friend of mine, he remarked that he felt his parents had experienced greater dislocation due to technological change than he had. His parents had lived through the growth of radio, the invention of television, the ubiquitous growth of telephones, and the creation and expansion of commercial air travel.

All he and I could come up with, at the time, were faxes, cell phones, and perhaps email; which while significant seemed less amazing than the list he had for his parents. That was a sobering conversation since the common wisdom was that everything was changing so radically. Having said that, I suspect that if I repeated that conversation today we would both come to a different conclusion.Why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk or How I Literally Married the Internet