What Is SMART@znmeb?

SMART@znmeb is a Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit. SMART@znmeb is an appliance, available in five formats:

• VirtualBox Virtual Machine Image
• VMware Virtual Machine Image
• Disk Image / Bootable USB Drive
• Xen Virtual Machine Image
• Bootable LiveDVD with installer

What's In The Machine?

• The openSUSE 11.1 Linux operating system,
• The Gnome 2.24 desktop,
• The Mozilla Firefox 3.0 browser,

Now that some of the dust has settled in at least a few other parts of my quest, I thought I'd post a brief review of WebVisions 2009. This is an exciting time to be alive and connected to the Internet, and WebVisions typified that excitement for me.

Do you have data that you want to turn into information? Information that you want to turn into insight? Insights that you want to turn into recommendations? Is there a parrot on your shoulder saying, "ARR"? Or are you a programmer who wants to learn a new language?

The Call To Action

• http://savecubespacepdx.com/
• http://wikiwikimoney.com/SaveCubeSpace
• https://cubespace.tofinoauctions.com/rentparty09/
• #savecubespace

The Story

After a fair amount of waiting, the SUSE Studio project finally cleared the backlog of requests enough to give me a beta testing account. So I am now up and running! First impressions:

The web interface is a joy to use:

Just a brief post ... please join me at the live webcast of the Wolfram|Alpha launch. The URL is

http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/wolframalpha/

As you probably know, I am attending Open Source Bridge. As a performance engineer and capacity planner, I'd like to highlight some of the performance-related sessions.

• Web Server Shootout
• Speed Up That Library When You Can't C a Thing
• PHP - Architecting and Profiling for Performance
• Layers of Caching: Key to Scaling Your Website

As you may have heard, there was an incident in the Ruby on Rails ecosystem recently that drew attention from a number of Portlanders, including myself. Well, a few leaders stepped up to the plate and have formed Railsbridge.

Yesterday at Barcamp Portland, I mentioned in passing that there was a comprehensive open source mathematics package called Sage. I had a few people ask me for the link, but I think it deserves a bit more than just a link. But first, here's the link:

http://sagemath.org/

Sage is a collection of open source math packages, with a Python scripting framework, a notebook interface that can mix graphics and calculations, and even a web interface. Sage includes such major open source packages as R, Maxima, and the Gnu Scientific Library.

Over the years, I've experimented with a number of tools for mind mapping, and related concepts such as dialogue mapping. I can recommend the following resources.

Coaching and Training

• Apositiva
• Susan Dunn
• CogNexus Institute

Books