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Well worth reading.  Typical Kevin Kelly insight and level-headedness.
The AI on the horizon looks more like Amazon Web Services—cheap, reliable, industrial-grade digital smartness running behind everything, and almost invisible except when it blinks off. This is a big deal, and now it's here.
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UN Draft report on the use of data for sustainable development. It's very good already, but they are looking for comment from people who know a lot about big data, and who care that it is used properly by government and NGOs to make a better world.

(I was part of the group that worked on this report, though I played a very minor role in actually writing it.)
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I'll be sure to read this. I'm activey involved with the "open data" movement and appreciate how different the "data life cycle" can be when so many different players with varying levels of technical and analytical sophstication are involved. 
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I have been really impressed by Howard Schultz of @starbucks. Really looking forward to his new book 
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If you aren't planning to come to East Bay Mini Maker Faire in Oakland tomorrow, here are 170 reasons why you should!

10 am to 5 pm at Park Day School in Oakland.  Tickets are still available:

http://ebmakerfaire2014.eventbrite.com
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October 30, at O'Reilly Media offices in Cambridge.  Docker seems to us to be one of the most important things in software development in a long time.  It's also very important to our future plans for including active content in our books.
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My family includes vaccine deniers.  This one is for them, and for far too many others. Funny how fear works.  We're terrified of #Ebola (true, there are a lot of unknowns, and very high mortality if you get it), but tens of thousands die annually from the flu, 50 million died in the 1918 outbreak - and there is a vaccine that can help protect you.  I get mine every year. So should you.
Brace yourselves: Flu season is coming! And with the coughing, fevers and aches come all the alarmist articles and blog posts on unreliable, misinformative websites questioning the flu vaccine’s sa...
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It's sound logic to be a denier.  There's zero proof that puncturing your skin "does no harm".  It bypasses every natural resistance of your immune system.
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Important piece about why the "tradeoff" between security and privacy will inevitably end badly...
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The trouble is that we're in a bit of an echo chamber here — it sounds like we all believe the same things (basically, what +Charles Tryon wrote). So how do we engage with people who are scared and vulnerable to falling for the government security story? I suspect most of them don't have +Tim O'Reilly in their circles.
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I just started using Inbox, and I've been impressed so far!
 
Gmail is ten years old and it was time to update it for the mobile world and generally make it more Googley.   So do some rethinking, add a lot of AI, take advantage of phone smarts, tap into the Google Now backend, and you've got Inbox, an app built on top of Gmail that you use instead of Gmail.  My report....
Google’s rethinking of email lets you get information without opening messages
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The 10-year contract for the US recreation.gov site  is up for renewal, and the Department of the Interior had promised an RFP for a new contract that conformed with the open data mandate. If it were consistent with the Obama open data guidance, that RFP would require an API so that independent companies could provide alternate interfaces, just like travel sites provide booking interfaces for air travel, hotels, and more. 

Unfortunately, as drafted, the RFP allows the winning contractor to determine whether an API is feasible — meaning the company that benefits most from keeping all the reservations to itself  has the authority to do so. And the draft even removes data that is currently accessible — availability data — from public sharing. So, it’s a huge step backward, and completely out of step with the administration’s open data policy.

The founder of Hipcamp, Alyssa Ravasio, has written up some thoughts on how this RFP could be improved that I want to share with you. And after reading them, I’m hoping you will be moved to send comments asking the Department of the Interior to reconsider their RFP.

Comments on this draft are accepted via email to jasonmking@fs.fed.us through Wednesday October 22. Please send your comments.
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It's a mob scene in the #strataconf exhibit hall.
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A sobering read, especially when you walk around cities and still see people washing their cars and sidewalks, watering their lawns (heck, overwatering their lawns), and generally acting like there is no drought.

This article really brings it home.  The URL says it all:  "Why the California Drought is All Your Fault"
Political conspiracies, water witches, Exodus-quoting priests, and angry, defeated farmers in California’s dying, drough…
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true, they (and we) just ignore the biggest use of water (agriculture), not to exclude the importance of other wasteful practices. +Patrick G. 
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