Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Just wanted to share something I heard and liked about data and information: "Everything is a record, record, record in a table, ta...

So I heard this interesting perspective on information and data analytics... Basically, it comes down to this:  "Most organizatio...

Here are six reasons why Twitter bests Facebook and we ain't seen nothing yet: - Unadulterated News & Messaging   Twitter is wh...

We're so close yet so far...that's my feeling as I grow ever impatient with the pace of technological progress.  We have cloud...

What beauties these purple flowers are? Tall on the thin green stem.  And then ballooning and budding out into these futuristic spheri...

It all started with the Staples "Easy" button that says robotically when pressed, "That was easy!"  Then came the...

There is a definite rhythm to our lives.  And by analyzing the peak times of Google search terms, we can get a good picture of what i...

So apparently data mining can be used for all sorts of research... In the New York Times today, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz tries his ha...

What information do you get at this NYC booth...how to sew on a button?  Or maybe this is why they call it "Big Data"? ;-)...

This was a funny sign in a local medical facility.  Printed: "Labcorp is no longer in this building." Followed by in handw...

So the new Apple Watch promises to monitor our every virtual health status as technology and person blend to become one.   However, th...

There is a review online for nearly everything...from sources such as Amazon to Yelp, Angie's List, IMDb, and more.  But what you ...

You've experienced it firsthand, innovation is slowing down (and yes, it's quite disappointing!).   Do you feel compelled to...

This was funny photo my wife and I took in a medical practitioner's office.  Above the floodlights, was a picture of these staring e...

So I'm not the biggest fan of Disney theme parks -- maybe that is not a popular thing to write. But to me, the rides alternate bet...

Farhad Manjoo had a good piece in the Wall Street Journal on the Forever Internet vs. the Erasable Internet. The question he raises is ...

Gordon Crovitz wrote about Big Data in the  Wall Street Journal (25 March 2013) this week. He cites from a book called "Big Data: ...

This video from NOVA is an amazing display of the surveillance capabilities we have at our disposal. ARGUS-IS Stands for Automated Rea...

One of the things that I love about the Intelligence Community (IC) is that they think future and they think big.  Noah Schactman in  ...

I am not talking about socialism or totalitarianism, but about computers and artificial intelligence. For a long time, we have see...