Sat.Mar 26, 2011 - Fri.Apr 01, 2011

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List of the 242 most influential publications in the world

Trends in the Living Networks

Nate Silver , the political statistician extraordinaire, has turned his attention to publishing. His interest is honed by the fact that his blog is now hosted on the New York Times, which is currently implementing a paywall. He has done an analysis of the most influential publications , consisting of a simple review of how frequently publications’ names appear in Google News and Google Blogs followed by the word “reported&# , to give a representative sample of how often publications

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"GovCloud: The Book" Launched at National Press Club Event

Cloud Musings

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Windows Small Business Server 2011.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials & Windows Home Server 2011 RTM! Wa hoo ! Another set of great products out the door from the Windows Server Solutions team. Both Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011 have released to manufacturing!

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Autism Awareness Month 2011

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Every year when April – otherwise known as Autism Awareness Month – rolls around, I ask myself, “Awareness? Awareness of what exactly?&# In the past I have often forgotten my own advice and tried to find a “one-size-fits-all&# answer to the question. (My advice: there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all for anything.) Some years I just bailed on the question altogether.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Infographic: Building Success in a Connected World

Trends in the Living Networks

Last weekend I was musing about the elements of success in a connected world. Something clicked, and I was able to pull out of it a visual representation as below. For my keynote tomorrow morning on Building Business in a Connected World I will just run through this diagram together with commentary on how to approach each of the key elements. Click on the image for full size.

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How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

I am working on a separate post about attrition and knowledge management, and was reminded of a favorite story from CompuWorks , a partner of KMA’s who specializes in training. They were discussing with a client the value of having employees well-trained in the latest version of Microsoft Office, and the attendant increase in productivity it would bring.

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Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Music to my Ears - Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon.com announced new solutions to help customers manage their digital music collections. Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player enable customers to securely and reliably store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, tablet, Mac

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11 recommendations to create the future of government

Trends in the Living Networks

The Institute of Public Affairs of Australia (IPAA), the professional association supporting senior Australian public service executives, is not prone to rash statements. Thus it is very encouraging to see its new policy paper, The Future Course of Modern Government , provide some pointed insights and recommendations on how to create the government of the future.

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People Leave. Does Their Knowledge Go With Them?

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

I'm probably not going to ruffle a lot of feathers by asserting that the days of "thirty years and a gold watch from the same employer" are over. [flickr photo credit: "Carla Carpenter Retirement Party" by grantlairdjr: [link] ]. Attrition is a fact of life, and the dialogue at a recent meeting of the Boston SIKM (System Integrators and Knowledge Managers) Leaders group made me think about knowledge management and attrition, so I did some research and learned: The average member of the U.S.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: How to Re-Install RTM on an RC version of.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, March 31, 2011. How to Re-Install RTM on an RC version of Windows Home Server 2011. Windows Home Server 2011 has been announced as reaching RTM , and you’re excited because you took the time to download to evaluate the final release version of Windows Home Server 2011 , and even though Microsoft told you not to install it in production, you did anyways, because rules really

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Keynote: Building Business in a Connected World

Trends in the Living Networks

Tomorrow morning I am giving the keynote at City of Port Phillip’s inaugural Breakfast Briefing session for the year in St Kilda, Melbourne, on the topic of Building Business in a Connected World. Here are event details and registration. Below are my slides for the presentation, which is almost entirely based on our Success in a Connected World visual framework launched earlier today.

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Reflections on the early days of social networking as LinkedIn reaches 100 million users

Trends in the Living Networks

Last week LinkedIn reached a significant milestone: 100 million users. On the occasion LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman sent out an email to the first 100,000 users thanking them for being early adopters. The email included the recipient’s member number, which are given in order of signing up. You can look it up yourself in your LinkedIn profile URL; it is the number after “id=”.

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Pushstart adds a new start-up seed accelerator to the Australian tech scene

Trends in the Living Networks

Today at the excellent SydStart event is the official launch of Pushstart , adding to the increasingly rich network of support available to tech start-ups in Australia. There are two key elements to Pushstart: a mentor matching service , bringing together a pool of currently over 50 mentors with start-ups through the year, and a Start-Up accelerator , which will offer a small amount of capital, mentoring, and some physical space for a 3 month program.