TIME magazine's top 50 inventions of 2009
Last week's issue of TIME magazine included a list of the top inventions for 2009, which includes items that range from why-didn't-I-thhink-of-that useful to you've-got-to-be-kidding-me absurd. Compare and contrast a $20 artificial knee with a $144,000 custom puppy, and you see pretty quickly what I mean. A few of the inventions seemed relevant to SAS and sascom readers, so I thought I'd list them here.

Fighting crime with data mining
The recent article, Data-Driven Crime Fighting in Intelligent Enterprise reminded me of the feature we published in sascom earlier this year from Dr. Colleen McCue

George Jetson stops pushing the button
In September, I published a few posts from the Midwest SAS Users Group (MWSUG) conference, including coverage of presentations from SAS VP John Sall, SAS CIO

New emphasis for good old Balanced Scorecard?
Performance Management expert (and SAS product marketing manager) Gary Cokins blogs regularly here at SAS on the latest developments in enterprise performance management. We always look forward to his insights and interesting take. Just back from the Palladium (formerly Balanced Scorecard Initiative) 2

Communications’ innovation killers
“We’re acting as the post office for Netflix, so why don’t they pay us for movie delivery?” Think about that quote from a telecom industry exec for a minute. Netflix pays the post office to deliver DVDs to consumers. If the same movie reaches the consumer as streaming video over the Internet, Netflix doesn’t pay the communications service provider for the broadband connection. Executives of leading communications service providers claim this is not fair. Over barbeque at the CTO Telecom Summit