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

So this was interesting.  I was coming up the highway.  In the distance, there looked like there was a large tractor-trailer hea...

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

How do these things keep happening to us? We lost a high-tech Hellfire air-to- ground missile, accidentally sending it to Cuba , likely ...

G-d, I remember as a kid in school having to memorize everything for every class--that was the humdrum life for a schoolchild. Vocabular...

I liked this explanation (not verbatim) by Dr. Jim Chen of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. - Data: This is an alpha...

While the Internet, with all its information, is constantly changing with updates and new information, what is great to know is that it i...

First there was Wikipedia and now there is Quora . On January 15, 2011, Wikipedia celebrated it's 10 year birthday, and according to B...

At first I admit it, I didn't really get Google; I mean what is this G-o-o-g-l-e and the shtick about "doing search"...

Twitter is a crazy thing --little blue birdie...tweet, tweet, tweet. Why do we even do it (tweet)? Here are the " 4 Stages o...

With IBM's Watson beating the pants off Jennings and Rutter in Jeopardy, a lot of people want to know can computers can really thi...

Love this concept on Civic Commons that was presented at the Gov 2.0 Summit (2010) and is now becoming a reality. Presented by Bryan Sivak...

Check out this great video on Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) put out by MicroStrategy (Note: this is not an endorsement of any particula...

Forget waiters and waitresses, the new Japanese Hajime Robot restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand invested almost $1 million on 4 robotic wait...

There is the old saying that rings true to basic leadership: “Keep it Simple Stupid,” (or KISS) yet for various reasons people and organiz...

Every day as leaders, we are called upon to make decisions—some more important than others—but all having impacts on the organization and it...

Well this is interesting to write: a blog about blogging ;-) Blogs are becoming a great new tool for enterprise communications and an ...

User-centric Enterprise architecture is about capturing, processing, organizing, and effectively presenting business and technology informat...

Enterprise architecture plays an important role in corporate knowledge management. EA captures, analyzes, catalogues, and serves up informat...

E nterprise architecture is a major contributor to knowledge management. EA documents and communicates the baseline, target, and transition ...