August, 2008 | TroubleShooter

The web: the next 5000 days (Kevin Kelly)

Latest Government data fiasco

There has been more broughaha this week about the latest embarrassing loss of highly sensitive UK Government data (prisoner and convicted persons data), which was blithely downloaded (unencrypted) to a USB memory stick by a PA contractor and then misplaced/ lost.

Home Office Minister Tony McNulty was promptly trotted out to expiate departmental responsibility for this latest evidence of READ MORE

Bonfire Fuel up to $3.4 trillion

Computing reports Gartner estimates that the worldwide market for IT in 2008 will be $3.4 trillion, up by 7% on the figures for 2007. I guess that makes the size of the Trillion Dollar Bonfire almost $2 trillion (per year) of disappointment and cost; based on 50 to 60% of investments failing to achieve their intended returns. Tweet

Randy Pausch – the last lecture

Here are some inspirational views and an object lesson in the art of presenting by the late Randy Pausch

Technology blamed for poor reading performance

A significant proportion (c40%) of teenage boys in the UK apparently have very low levels of reading ability. A commentator on Radio 4’s Today programme attributed this poor performance to the tendency of teenage boys to develop their basic reading ability through using technology (text messaging, computer games etc.) instead of reading books. Tweet