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May
29
2010

  • Drawing a huge following on Twitter does not necessarily mean that your tweets will have much influence. It turns out that some noncelebrities with meager followings have the greatest ability to start discussions and spread ideas.
  • most Twitter users had very few followers—24 was the most common number—and 99 percent had fewer than 200 followers. Only a small number of tweeters, about 500, had more than 100,000 followers.
Dec
10
2009

  • we’re fast approaching the point where open source to software will be like JIT to automotive manufacturing
  • open source is not a value proposition in its own right.
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Nov
4
2009

  • Government-funded basic and applied research at U.S. universities has given rise to multi-billion-dollar industry after multi-billion-dollar industry. It has been one of the pillars of the U.S. high tech sector. But at least in information technology, the model has been seriously weakened by changes that the administration of George W. Bush instituted at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which in the prior 30 years had bankrolled some of the most important advances in IT. Specifically, DARPA under Bush drastically reduced the role of universities in IT research projects it funded and shifted both power and money to companies. If the old DARPA model is not restored, the U.S. lead in IT — especially in software — could be lost
  • many factors gave the U.S. a competitive advantage in the commercialization of emerging technologies. They included: An unrivaled university system A relatively free domestic market that honed the competitive skills of its companies A robust venture capital and IPO market that fueled and then rewarded winners Clusters.
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  • when Kansas the Board of Regents decided to eliminate computing courses from the core student requirements, we could weigh in with the State. ACM and CSTA sent the board a letter External Link recommending that they put computer science back in the core.

  • Four projects have been granted top-level Rung 3 status, after resolving defects discovered during Rung 1 and 2, Coverity said. They are Samba, tor, OpenPAM, and Ruby.
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