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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas
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Seasons Greetings
Happy Holidays
Blessed Ramadan
and "May God bless us, each and every one." – Tiny Tim.
May you be blessed in the coming year.
This blog is on hold at the moment. For those of you who know me, rest assured I will be back. Just not yet.
Swivel – youTube for Data for Visual Comparisons
Via Techcrunch, introducing swivel (new to me!)
the site allows users to upload data – any data – and display it to other users visually.
The site is currently down, most likely from the 144k techcrunch readers all clicking at the same time. But the promise of the site is strong:
But then the real fun begins. You and other users can then compare
that data to other data sets to find possible correlation (or lack
thereof). Compare gas prices to presidential approval ratings or UFO
sightings to iPod sales. Track your page views against weather reports
in Silicon Valley. See if something interesting occurs.And better yet, Swivel will be automatically comparing your data to
other data sets in the background, suggesting possible correlations to
you that you may never have noticed.
For those of you in the public relations field, anonymizing client data and looking for newsworthy trends (sales of pies predicts stock market!) seems like a good bet. Creativity and strategy. Go get ‘em!
The Goal of Business is to Make a Profit
Robert Scoble is an A List speaker in the tech community. Despite plenty of experience I am closer to X or Y in the alphabet. One awkward subject with any speaking gig is arranging payment for expenses. Most of us have a job. We work. Work takes time. So time spent traveling (the majority) and speaking (the minority of the time on any given trip) is time spent away from billable work. Asking if money is available to fund the trip is the right thing to do. So this post is unfortunate.
I also like Robert’s shout-out to Ayn Rand (he doesn’t say that, my interp) from Scoble’s post:
It’s my responsibility to make PodTech make a profit. IT IS MY
RESPONSIBILITY TO PUT AS FEW RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS ON MY BUSINESS AS
POSSIBLE. And, yes, if there is money available to cover my expenses it
IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO ASK FOR THEM!
Now, as someone running a business I would likely encourage Robert to be even more direct. The goal of business is "to make a profit." Not control expenses, although that is part of making a profit.
Profit enables you to hire PEOPLE. People are the force that does good. People need to eat. Therefore you should pay them. Therefore you must make a profit, hire good people, let good people make a positive impact on society.