2012 – what a year!

The New Florence blog set a blistering pace during 2012 – it will end year with 750+ posts. Each one of the posts makes you go “wow”, and very tough to play favorites but I scanned the titles to come up with a few that will remind us of 2012 years from now.

5 categories– The London Olympics, The Presidential Race, the Industry events I was part of, Mobile devices/apps/pays, and Advanced Analytics/Big Data - contributed over 150 posts to the blog. The first 5 entries below represent (only) one from each of those categories. The others represent either the end of an era (as with the Space Shuttle), the start of a new one (as with Japan diversifying  its energy policy after the tsunami and Facebook’s IPO ) or some that just stood out like the use of plastic bottles as bulbs in slums around the world or Israel’s missile shield during the altercation with Hamas.

• The biomechanics of Usain Bolt
• The education of Jim Messina
• A majestic afternoon on San Francisco Bay
• The feature which launched a thousand projects
• Internet of Things + Big Data + Future of Work = Massive savings
• Israel’s “Iron Dome”
• Japan’s energy shock therapy
• The 747 SCA (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft)
• The neuroscience of Bob Dylan’s genius
• Turning a plastic bottle into a bulb
• “The Hacker Way”

Enjoy these or feel free to peruse my bi-weekly summary posts and come up with your own list. With 750 to choose from you can make your own scrapbook of 2012 memories.