The Art of Information

If you’ve invested some of your valuable time to read my posts over the past 2 months, let me first say, “Thank you”. I hope you found them interesting and they caused you to think, ponder, consider, or reconsider. So as 2009 winds down, and you have an opportunity (hopefully) to leave your inboxes, WordPress [...]

Shame on us technology vendors for making “Cloud Computing” more intimidating of a concept that it need be.

Stay with me now, this post’s beginning may seem obtuse, but I promise there’s a common thread. (Data) storage, Interactive infographics, and Trees (the organic type, not the file system type).

For me, and I suspect an increasing number of customers, EMC’s announcements, like this week’s anti-climactic FAST  blast, are increasingly “forward-looking” and provide little details or a convincing number of actual customer testimonies (EMC’s own IT department is an objective reference?!). That’s the “Marketecture” part (see Dilbert below), and points to a trend of EMC [...]

Last week I shared my affinity for the infographic and suggested that as the amount of raw data explodes, finding context and value in data becomes more dependent upon HOW it is presented. This week’s installment of “information inspiration” shows that data, when presented with appropriate context can even define WHO we are.

Information may still be power, but in the hyper-caffeinated, over-saturated, help-me-i’m-drowning-in-data world we all live and operate in today, I believe it’s HOW information is conveyed that truly matters. I am an infographic geek, you see. Read on to see if you may be too…