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The Book Lives On

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post The Book Lives On appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ” We spoke on the phone and I learned that the intersection of society and data was her passion – and that her background was an awful lot like mine. My first project out of grad school was Wired magazine.

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Brands As Publishers - Part 2

John Battelle's Searchblog

The second installment of Toward A New Understanding of Publishing is up over at the FM Blog. However, not many brands want to be in the magazine or television business – even when they weren’t in decline, as they are now. From it: what does it mean to have a good voice? And how does that relate to publishing?

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Should businesses use collective intelligence and the wisdom of the crowds?

ChiefTech

Earlier in the year, a report was published of researchers who looked at mining Twitter to predict the success of movies. ” Others, like The Economist magazine, still see potential: search-volume forecasts will help spot consumer trends of this sort with increased precision. via guardian.co.uk.

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DB2 for z/OS: of Stored Procedures and the DB2 MQListener

Robert's Db2

A handy piece of code called the DB2 MQListener enables the bringing together of these two favorite technologies of mine -- DB2 for z/OS stored procedures and asynchronous transaction processing -- and that's what this blog entry is about.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

This is part of the opening monologue of the Ozark series and when I first heard it, I immediately stopped the show and dropped it into this blog post. Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). We lost money on shares.

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DB2 for z/OS: An Interesting "Flip Side" to Native SQL Procedures

Robert's Db2

I've done a lot of presenting and writing on the topic, starting with an entry that I posted back in 2008 to the blog I maintained while working as an independent consultant. It's no secret that I've been bullish on DB2 for z/OS native SQL procedures since the get-go.

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