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Big Data On A Crowded Train
Posted by Frank Rubino on 18 March 2014 07:43 PM

When a guy drags his overcoat across your sandwich, a crowded train is usually a bit overwhelming. However, I was recently riding a packed Acela from a customer’s site in Boston and had a good chat with my seatmate, who worked in a non-profit organization. Her job was to guide first-generation college-students through an unfamiliar landscape of academics and financial aid. “It’s hard for some of the families,” she said, “who might be supportive of their kid’s aspirations, but who don’t have the


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Start A New Business: Build An Accidental LMS
Posted by Frank Rubino on 12 February 2014 04:51 PM

Several of the MarkLogic Media customers I work with are creating Learning Management Systems (LMSs) this year, yet they are not actually in the Education Publishing business. They haven’t built their companies on Algebra I. No, they’ve been publishing manufacturing standards, or cookbooks, or management training manuals –information that demonstrably curious people (their subscribers) really want to learn about. For example, I might be a mattress manufacturer who wants to learn how to


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