{"id":1212,"date":"2010-11-27T06:53:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T11:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2019-10-27T06:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T10:53:57","slug":"someone-was-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2010\/11\/27\/someone-was-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone was listening!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s &#8220;mere&#8221; egosurfing, and then there&#8217;s the flat out narcissism of having a constant google search running for mentions of your name. I indulge in the latter, and it turns up a rare gem, along with a crap-heap of doppelgangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zycko.com\/news\/800254970-File_structure_can_simplify_life_sciences_data\">This one<\/a> refers to a webcast that I did for Bio-IT World a few weeks ago. He summarizes my point, perhaps, more clearly than I made it in the first place:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>It was Chris Dwan, the latter of the two who suggested structural and descriptive file systems as a means of keeping data in order, along with effective lines of open communication and annual audits of information to determine what must be retained and what can be removed.<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, by &#8220;structural and descriptive file systems,&#8221; I meant &#8220;that horrible naming convention we came up with on a whiteboard that one time:&#8221; It usually looks like this: YYYY\/MM\/DD\/TECH-MACHINE-SAMPLE-COMMENT. Sometimes it looks like this: LAB\/PROJECT\/YYYY\/MM\/DD\/TECH-MACHINE-SAMPLE-COMMENT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, back to my point: Somebody was listening! Usually those webex sessions feel like I&#8217;m talking into a bottle, putting the cork in it, and tossing it into the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s &#8220;mere&#8221; egosurfing, and then there&#8217;s the flat out narcissism of having a constant google search running for mentions of your name. I indulge in the latter, and it turns up a rare gem, along with a crap-heap of doppelgangers. This one refers to a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","category-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}