From GigaOM:

If 80 percent of new data created is going to be unstructured, where is all that data coming from? It’s coming from consumers’ activities online and it requires real-time processing, said Continuuity’s Todd Papaionnou at Structure:Data on Wednesday.

Papaionnou calls this unstructured data “digital exhaust,” everything consumers do on a daily basis — clicks, tweets, searches, Facebook posts. Companies can use it to offer more customized experiences for consumers online – content and deal targeting, advertising and sentiment analysis — but they have to process it first.

Let’s get something clear.
The words and images you find on this site are daily exhaust.
And they’re fucking structured.

How bout this.
At a recent demo of Windows 8, Microsoft’s tablet froze.
Ah, Microsoft. You never let me down. I can always count on you to let me down.
Now if you recall, Microsoft did not create a separate mobile OS like Apple did with iOS. Windows 8 was made for both desktops and tablets, so it’s only fitting they share all the bugs of the desktop world with their new tablets.
It’s only fair.

Reuters: Dell sees room to challenge Apple in tablets

Asked whether he envied Apple’s ability to produce such coveted objects, Felice [Dell’s chief commercial officer] said: “We come at the market in a different way … We are predominantly a company that has a great eye on the commercial customer who also wants to be a consumer.”

What the does that even mean?
If I were Dell I wouldtake the money they were going to use to produce an iPad competitor, and instead give the money back to Dell shareholders.
Couldn’t resist.

Black Hockey Jesus gets self-referential:

I want to pause here and clear a space to allow the post to become aware that, before now, it was merely a post about wanting to write a post; however, it just entered the quirky new realm of being meat-meta blogging, aware of itself as blogging about blogging about blogging and, if we had some really good pot, we could infinitely regress into an abyss of metalicousness where we might vomit or have an orgy or some other signifier that revealed us as bloggers on the fringe, man.

shoot&scribe on how Steve Jobs cracked the innovation code:

Apple’s growth has been astronomical because Steve Jobs has, in effect, solved the Innovator’s Dilemma. Apparently, during his hiatus at Next, he read the Innovator’s Dilemma and cited it as one of the most important books he ever read.

Essentially it turns around Apple’s complete willingness to destroy its own revenues. It built a phone that destroyed it’s major source of revenue, the iPod. It built Macbook Airs that have now disrupted another major source of revenue, their Macbook Pros. It built the iPad, which is already beginning to disrupt the Macbook itself.

If you dig innovation and disruption but haven’t read The Innovator’s Dilemma or know about Clayton Christensen, get on it.

Co.Design: Science Says Creativity And Dishonesty Go Hand-In-Hand

A recent article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology makes the claim that creativity walks hand in hand with loose ethics. Francesca Gino of Harvard University and Dan Ariely of Duke University conducted a series of experiments, in which they asked subjects to complete various ethically ambiguous tasks. The result: Not only do naturally creative people cheat more than uncreative people, subjects cajoled into thinking outside of the box become cheaters, too. This suggests that the creative process isn’t just tied to dishonest behavior; it actually enables it–troubling news at a time when the corporate world treats innovation as an impeachable moral good.

via my Instagram

Speaking of poetry and code, below is my favorite poem by e.e. cummings.

From Kristin at 37Signals:

one is part of a Ruby program and one is a contemporary poem.

Michael Loop on why hacking is important.
Read the whole thing, but this is great:

Reasonable people are often scared by the new. This is because reasonable people are not Barbarians and they are not hackers. They appreciate the predictable, profitable, and knowable world that comes with a well-defined process, and I would like to thank each and everyone of them because these people keep the trains running and on time. No one likes Barbarians because the Barbarian strategy is one at odds with civilization. By definition, a Barbarian, a hacker, is building on a strategy that is at odds with the majority.

It’s awesome.

Seems airlines might suck a little less soon.
Nick Bilton, writing for the NYTimes, says the F.A.A. is going to review their policies on gadgets:

When I called the F.A.A. last week to pester them about this regulation — citing experts and research that says these devices could not harm a plane — the F.A.A. responded differently than it usually does. Laura J. Brown, deputy assistant administrator for public affairs for the F.A.A., said that the agency has decided to take a “fresh look” at the use of personal electronics on planes.

About fucking time.
And for the record, I rarely put my iPhone into Airplane Mode when flying. So far I haven’t caused any flight disruptions.
If gadgets were truly interfering with flight equipment, airplanes would be outfitted with preventative measures to ensure objectors like me didn’t cause problems. Otherwise, how could they confidently take off without knowing the status of every single passenger’s gadgets?
I imagine if cellphones and other gadgets were truly interfering with airline equipment they would have developed something comparable to how speaker docks for iPhones are magnetically shielded to prevent mobile radio wave interference from being heard through the speakers.

via The Daily Beast

Artist Berndnaut Smilde makes indoor clouds with a thermostat, a humidifier, and a fog machine. Incredible.

via Technabob

I saw Sleep No More last summer on the recommendation from a coworker and my wife and I loved it.
Looks like something new is brewing, they just sent me a invite: