Slowly but surely, the market sentiment is changing in such a way that the emergence AND traction of an alternative to Facebook don’t look implausible anymore. And I don’t mean Twitter.

RT @InfoSecSherpa: “Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm: In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match…

We received a lot of requests to translate this article on mine. It’s now available in French (+ Italian and Spanish via local press) and Japanese:

“Automation against the #COVID19 crisis: 4 suggestions to get started”

https://t.co/MWWxDYH5ej

RT @EricTopol: June 26, 2000
20 year anniversary of this milestone in life science.
Some will argue the impact has not matched the proclama…

Dashboards for the sake of dashboards cannot help troubleshooting modern IT and only provide a false sense of security. They must be coupled with #automation so you move from admiring the problem to addressing the problem.

However, In an IT environment, anything close to a medium-to-large scale enterprise, the scale of infrastructure + the complexity of the application architectures + the speed of algorithmic executions make that approach completely unattainable.

Maybe 20 years ago, or today in a microscopic IT environment, you might hope that human operators look at the dashboards in front of them (20:1 ratio?) and manually react to all issues highlighted by meters in front of them.

Reading the Gartner Maverick Research “Dazzled by Dashboards — Better Management With Fewer Metrics”. A wonderful contrarian view by Neil Barton. For years I said that admiring the problem is useless if dashboards do nothing to address it. This research could be greatly expanded.

FB went from a monopolist in connecting the humankind, with almost 1/3 of the world’s population as userbase, to the path of disintegration. Without external disturbance.

Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers  – Popular Information https://t.co/sy7PSf2XoK

Plenty of reasons why you can’t see your product/industry being disrupted. One is that you like it so much that you overestimate how many people like it as much and you underestimate how many people are happy with the ever-improving “good enough”.