Link Collection — July 15, 2012

• Magazine 2012 July – Best of Maine: Unsung Hikes from an AMC Trip Leader

  “A hiking guide for the Maine Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club, Carey Michael Kish has been exploring Maine’s forests and mountains for more than forty years. He is the editor of the AMC’s recently updated Maine Mountain Guide (amcstore.outdoors.org), beloved by hikers for its detailed no-nonsense trail descriptions and full-color topographical maps. Added to the tenth edition are more than two hundred trails that are either relatively new or often overlooked. We gave Kish, who loves them all, the tough task of recommending ten.”

  tags: maine amc

• Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it — Cloud Computing News

  Discusses technologies beyond Hadoop, in context of Google’s stack.

  “Most interesting to me, however, is that GMR [Google Map Reduce] no longer holds such prominence in the Google stack. Just as the enterprise is locking into MapReduce, Google seems to be moving past it.”

  tags: hadoop google gigaom

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