Link by Link: 93,754,333 Examples of Data Nonchalance
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A consumer advocacy organization says companies and institutions have collectively fumbled roughly 93,754,333 private records in the last two years.
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN BOSTON - A new study that estimates how much digital information the world is generating (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.
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This book excerpt uses an example sales campaign to introduce the Java Data Mining application programming interface.  From data preparation to modeling to evalution and deployment, the short example gives a feel for the business problem and solution.
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Anisotropy--there's a word you don't hear everyday
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IDC An exabyte is 1 quintillion bytes. In 2006 alone, the human race generated 161 exabytes of digital information. So? Well, that&#146;s about 3 million times the information in all the books ever written or the equivalent of 12 stacks of books, each extending more than 93 million miles from Earth to the sun. And, as a study from IDC ...
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How many people have gotten home after a blindingly stressful day and realize they&#39;ve forgotten something important? Well, now at least there&#39;s a scientific explanation for the oversight.
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Moore's Law isn't alone. Many technologies now improve so quickly it boggles the mind.
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News, Infocus, Columns, Vulnerabilities, Bugtraq ...
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In a new entry on his blog today, Marco Tabini introduces us to 5 PHP Performance Tips that we "probably don't want to hear".   I thought it might be interesting to write an article about the performance-enhancing tips you probably don't want to hear about - that is, those that are most likely to produce measurable (and durable) results but do require some effort on your part.   His list consists of:  You Don't Need To Plan Ahead In Order To Have A Plan Combat Database Abuse Do You Really Need A Database Anyway? Scale Horizontally Refactor To Scale Vertically  For each, he explains the title and gives a bit of validation to the point. There's some great mentions of tools that you can use to help accomplish them too - a profiler, the Lucene and Xapian full-text databases, and Lustre.
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Researchers claim to have solved the mystery of the people who simply do not count. It could be because they are lost for words.
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Una nuova ricerca di mercato conferma il trend negativo di Microsoft Internet Explorer e la continua crescita di Mozilla Firefox. A poche settimane di distanza dalla precedente indagine curata da WebSideStory
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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Potential distractions at the computer are ever present and enticing. So research is aiming at ways to keep you focused.
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Featured links from the CNET Blog Network
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The computing technologies to go beyond Moore's Law
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Sebastian Bergmann has posted the results of some benchmarking on the compilation he's done on the branches of PHP from version 3.0 all the way up to 5.3-CVS.   As people keep asking me for an update to my previous benchmarks (PHP / GCC / ICC Benchmark, PHP 5.1 / GCC Benchmark (Update), and PHP 5.1 Performance, I quickly ran a new benchmark today.   He rendered the results out into a series of charts defining the number of total seconds taken for the compile and how long each of the components took. It's impressive to see how much of a jump there was between the 3.0 series and 4.3.   He also includes his compile settings (and machine information) as well as the numbers for the results if you'd like to graph them out yourself.
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When it comes to searching, more is not always better. Data experts are honing topic maps to better classify the information that's out there. By John Gartner.