by Whit Andrews | October 22, 2008 | 4 Comments
I have often said that I think with a keyboard, which is a bad way to think sometimes. Especially if you’re working with a spreadsheet instead of a document.So I’m going to scribble notes here for a moment. I’m putting together a proposed RFP for enterprise search/information access technologies right now. It’s been something people [...]
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by Whit Andrews | October 17, 2008 | 3 Comments
Now I know why the two novels I wrote fifteen years ago and crammed in a drawer stank. I’m a late bloomer! Yay! Memo to self: Obtain patron.
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by Whit Andrews | October 17, 2008 | 5 Comments
Here are the rumors I heard in the past week about Who’s Gonna Buy Whom in the current global financial mess, in my specific market, and what i think. THESE ARE ALL RUMORS. I don’t have any inside information, and if I did, I couldn’t share it with the likes of my readers, frankly — [...]
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by Whit Andrews | October 15, 2008 | 14 Comments
My colleagues have had great fun with this picture of me from the Fall Symposium Keynote (video here) (word cloud here). Some of the captions they suggested are below. Perhaps you have one of your own? “You know how to whistle, don’t you…” Andrews achieves a 32-foot watermelon seed spitting. “There is a cold front [...]
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by Whit Andrews | October 14, 2008 | Comments Off
Mercado always struck me as a very strong, highly specialized vendor — even when it was trying not to be so specialized, which was the case in the early 2000s, when it made an effort to be a broader, widely appropriate vendor. When it came to merchandising features, they tended to lead the market by [...]
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by Whit Andrews | October 13, 2008 | 2 Comments
One of the things I do is keep a Google News Alert on my name — picked this Computerworld bit up just now. Egotistical? Efficient? Both, I think. I usually link to mentioned of me in the media and tag them “ink” on my personal blog. Is this ink? I just don’t know. Or this? [...]
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by Whit Andrews | October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment
More to come on how I feel about word clouds, but I found a good use for them in generating a sort of edutaining graphic. This is a word cloud using the script for the analyst keynote at Gartner Symposium this week. (Thanks to Wordle.)
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by Whit Andrews | October 6, 2008 | 2 Comments
In my last post, I noted that I’m starting to use an application at The New York Times (actually, The New York Times is an application to me now) to share what i read. I mentioned to them – and they said they agree, and are working on it – that context is REALLY important [...]
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by Whit Andrews | October 1, 2008 | 2 Comments
There was a time when I was a street reporter, and at that time, I used to get in trouble for reading the Times Metro. What “Times Metro,” you ask? The New York Times, Metropolitan Edition, I answer. My close friend Alex Wright — who never intended to work in journalism, I don’t think, unless [...]
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