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Do Health Data and Metadata Ownership Licenses Help or Hurt Innovation?
We see how the current web of licensing agreements is hobbling cable TV operators as they find themselves having to compete more and more with web based streaming services. Isn’t it also possible that similar restrictions regarding health data and metadata might provide similar challenges to creating new and beneficial products and services from shared data?
Stop Calling It "Social Media"!
Using “social” networks to build a publishing or broadcasting infrastructure has the inevitable impact that those not part of that infrastructure can become excluded from participating. That has both positive and negative impacts.
Managing Data-Intensive Programs and Projects: Selected Articles
I’ve created this special compendium of posts that are relevant to planning and managing data related programs and projects. There are four groups:
NOAA’s Big Data Project Comes Into Focus
What’s different about this newly announced NOAA program is not just the potential “big data” scope of the program but the way in which private sector cloud vendors are involved as intermediaries not only to the public but also to potential data vendors and resellers.
When are collaboration “barriers” good for innovation?
I’ve seen too many instances of “bottom-up” or “middle out” innovation where groups of people got together, grabbed the tools at hand, and started working together without waiting for senior management or central IT to show the way.
“Google Glass Isn’t Dead It’s Just Resting”
I’m not a Google Glass User but even I can spot the shortcomings of Gene Marks’ Forbes online article How Google Screwed Up Google Glass.