Jim Stogdill

Jim Stogdill heads up O'Reilly's Radar and Strata businesses. A lifelong technology practitioner he's finding this media thing ridiculously fun. In a previous life he traveled the world with the U.S. Navy. Unfortunately from his vantage point it all looked like the inside of a submarine. He spends his free time hacking silver halides with decidedly low-tech gear. @jstogdill.

The industrial Internet from a startup perspective

3Scan is building an Internet-connected 3D microscope as a service

by | @jstogdill | +Jim Stogdill | December 27, 2012
I don’t remember when I first met Todd Huffman, but for the longest time I seemed to run into him in all kinds of odd places, but mostly in airport waiting areas as our nomadic paths intersected randomly and with surprising frequency. We don’t run into each other in airports anymore because Todd has settled in San Francisco to…
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Why isn’t social media more like real life?

You know the graph. Use it to provide a more human experience.

by | @jstogdill | +Jim Stogdill | December 20, 2012
I finally got around to looking at my personal network graph on Linkedin Labs the other day. It was a fun exercise and I got at least one interesting insight from it. Take a look at these two well defined and distinct clusters in my graph. These are my connections with the startup I worked for (blue) and the…
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Sorry I was laughing during your funeral

When contexts collide.

by | @jstogdill | +Jim Stogdill | October 31, 2012
Since the advent of Twitter I’ve often found myself laughing at funerals, crying at parties, and generally failing time and again to say the right thing. Twitter is so immediate, so of the moment, but it connects people across the globe who may be experiencing very different moments. This first struck me during the Arab Spring. Maybe I was just…
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Culture transmission is bi-directional

Makers: don't worry about what DARPA will do to you. Think about what you can do to DARPA.

by | @jstogdill | +Jim Stogdill | October 11, 2012
I read this piece in the New York Times the other day and have read it two or three more times since then. It dives into the controversy around DARPA’s involvement in hacker space funding. But frankly, every time I come across this controversy, I’m baffled. I usually associate this sort of government distrust with Tea Party-led Republicans. The…
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Welcome Jon Bruner to Radar

Jon brings his expertise in storytelling and data to O'Reilly.

by | @jstogdill | +Jim Stogdill | August 23, 2012
Where are my manners? Jon Bruner posted his first piece to Radar two weeks ago and I’m just now getting around to welcoming him. Jon joins our Radar team this month from Forbes where he covered the technology of data. I liked that he called…
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NBC #Fail

Choking the Olympic spirit for profit.

by | @jstogdill | +Jim Stogdill | July 28, 2012
I’m violating my first rule. I’m writing angry. But… I love the olympics. I love sport. And the olympics, still, despite it all, seem to me an incredible distillation of sport’s dedication, intensity, joy, humanity, and drama. Whether it’s the higher order game theory playing out in the biking peloton, the slowly evolving drama of the marathon, the sheer primal…
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Heavy data and architectural convergence

Data is getting heavier relative to the networks that carry it around the data center.

by | @jstogdill | +Jim Stogdill | July 9, 2012

Imagine a future where large clusters of like machines dynamically adapt between programming paradigms depending on a combination of the resident data and the required processing.

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Ten years of Foo Camp

Ten years of Foo Camp

The purpose of Foo Camp and a look at emerging themes from the latest gathering.

by | @jstogdill | +Jim Stogdill | June 27, 2012

We curate topic areas and interesting people, but Foo Camp is designed to be an idea collider. It's an intentional serendipity engine that works the seams in between.

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IPv6 day and the state of the edge

IPv6 day and the state of the edge

IP address scarcity added to the gravitational force of centralization.

by | @jstogdill | +Jim Stogdill | June 6, 2012

Will IPv6 give us back an open Internet? Or has address scarcity already set the course for gravitational determinism and continued centralization?

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Quantified me

Quantified me

Tracking health data to maintain awareness and intention.

by | @jstogdill | +Jim Stogdill | May 22, 2012

I'm trying to walk the line between obsessive tracking and an open ended approach to motivation.

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