..."The next time you are in a situation where a publication count, or a
citation number, or an impact factor is brought in as a measure of quality,
raise an objection. Let people know how easily these can be, and are being,
manipulated. We need to look at the papers themselves, the nature of the
citations, and the quality of the journals."
Aspen Institute report asks, "Does Big Data represent an
evolution of knowledge, or is more actually less when it comes to
information on such scales?"" Big Data and Health Care", "How Should Big Data Abuses Be Addressed?" and "Business and Social Implications of Big Data". (via the Scout Report)
From the O'REilly Open Source conference (July 2009), featuring Simon Wardley of Canonical, Ltd. "cloud computing is a natural progression of industry maturity for IT ...whether your revenue can be enhanced by making your offerings available through cloud computing. "
"potential to dramatically accelerate a broad disruption in the mobile phone market where the balance of power shifts from carriers and retailers to device, software, and applications providers."