Across a large enough population of really talented and experienced individuals emerged ten reasons for each position. You can argue the viability of certain ones, but all-in-all it’s an interesting outcome given the hype about companies moving to public cloud and CIOs all claiming they’re looking to exit the data center business.

A Reality Check on “Everyone’s Moving Everything To The Cloud”

This is well worth 15 minutes of your time. I hear similar things every day as I wander from client to client. However, it’s good that JP has taken the time to put them on paper.

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Shaper | Origin

Slightly expensive but I’d love one of these. Very clever concept.

The scale of changes that will be brought by the move of the center of internet usage to Asia will be massive.

After reading this report I can only see the mountains of work in front of us to restructure what we have to support these changes.

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/D0N5V1PjTsIasR

KPCB’s Mary Meeker presents the 2016 Internet Trends report, covering today’s Internet growth.

2016 Internet Trends Report — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers

Security engineers are working on technologies that can mitigate much of this risk, but many solutions won’t be deployed without government involvement. This is not something that the market can solve. Like data privacy, the risks and solutions are too technical for most people and organizations to understand; companies are motivated to hide the insecurity of their own systems from their customers, their users, and the public; the interconnections can make it impossible to connect data breaches with resultant harms; and the interests of the companies often don’t match the interests of the people.

The Internet of Things Will Turn Large-Scale Hacks into Real World Disasters

By the time that we have a certification model for IoT its probably going to be too late. This is probably the biggest risk to the development of the industry over the medium term.

Each new technology allows a new fashion, in this case the fashion for types of holiday photos.

There is a step change with faster shutter speeds, with colour, with hand held cameras and finally digital.

How vacation photos have changed over the last 130 years

The next change is IoT photos. Cameras that take the same photo every day at the same time. Are you ready for the fashion for the accidental photo?

Today business takes photos of equipment at key moments. The car at the beginning and the end of the rental. The next step for manufacturing is the photo of each step in assembly.

“Last year we began testing a quality filter setting and we’re now rolling out a feature for everyone. When turned on, the filter can improve the quality of Tweets you see by using a variety of signals, such as account origin and behavior. Turning it on filters lower-quality content, like duplicate Tweets or content that appears to be automated, from your notifications and other parts of your Twitter experience.”

New Ways to Control Your Experience on Twitter | Twitter Blogs

This is a bit like the proverbial tree falling in a forest. Does this mean that Twitter now gets let off from policing the trolls?

The troll has still behaved badly, it’s just that the target doesn’t see it. Importantly, the friends of the troll see the comment.

Will Twitter allow someone to study the change? This is very important.

This puts the current state of corporate data mining to shame…

The Wikiverse project is an interactive 3D visualization of Wikipedia, reimagined as a cosmic web of knowledge. Here, articles are stars bound together to form topics, fields and subjects.

Wikiverse: a galactic reimagining of Wikipedia

Ori Systems

Populations are getting increasingly dense. Space costs more year on year. However, we do little to optimise it’s use. Each room has a different purpose.

This is a great solution, for a version one. Version two needs to be modular and then Ikea can start to get scared!

This article is worth spending some time on.

We’re heading for a very different world and that will require a very different set of skills. So why are we teaching the same skills?

Discussion of school reform seems to talk a lot about getting new technologies into schools, not new subjects.

Imagine a project in which students identified a potential problem in their community, collected and analyzed data about that problem, and then presented that report to someone who could potentially make changes to the community.

Perhaps their data could come from public records, or perhaps their data could come from interviews with community members, or from some other physical collection mechanism they devise.

Thoughts on the future of math education | mathbabe

Now you’ve had a think about how this applies to schools, what do we need to do to remake the business training program? 

What percentage of the workforce cannot program? Why?

Om and Gruber are having a public disagreement about Eddie Cue.

My comments (made on Leo LaPorte’s Twit) about Apple, Eddy Cue and the fragile state of iCloud services have struck a nerve, with most disagreeing with me and only a few actually agreeing with the gen

Source: Gruber & I disagree about a few issues about Apple

The basic story is that Cue was at a basketball match when iCloud was experiencing an outage. Om says that Cue should have left the match to lead his times, Gruber thinks that Cue was allowed to stay because he couldn’t have helped anyway.

I think Gruber is missing the point — attending a game when a division you are responsible for is down for six hours is a clear lack of empathy for the customers, and also is a sign that standards are falling of what used to be an Apple Standard for building products of delight. Sure, things might have taken as much time to fix the iCloud, but the message you would have sent out to rest of the Apple team would have been different.

I believe deeply that they’re both wrong, and worse, we’ll never know if Cue is doing this right.

As the leader of an engineering team, Cue’s role is to lead the post incident process. It’s true that he can’t do much in the heat of the moment except “cheer lead” the team.

However, the following weeks are far more important. Did he lead the post incident review, follow up on the identified problems, get a full and frank root cause analysis? Only if changes to infrastructure and process are made will he have delivered.

This is his role and it helps if he isn’t part of the incident and has nothing to hide.