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A rose by any other name may smell as sweet but data masquerading as information stinks! Child’s Play (part 2)How kids teach themselves to use PCs. Here are some inspirational views and an object lesson in the art of presenting by the late Randy Pausch 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. Information is the power domain of peopleWe seem to have Freedom of Information Laws and a Freedom from Information culture. Today’s Financial Times technology briefing heralds the advent of a new search engine: Cuil which boasts to have indexed three times as many web pages as Google. Must be worth a look ,I thought, so I tried a bit of ego surfing and was quickly but completely underwhelmed by cuil.com. One ping to rule them all?I sometimes wonder if anyone has bothered to research Tolkien puns on the web. There may already be learned tomes aplenty on just that topic, or there may be precious few, my precious. I digress. The ping in question is, of course, ping.fm – “a simple service that allows you to post to multiple social [...] Even after fifty years of Information Technology, ours is still a relatively immature business function that continues to create more and more management opportunities; without exploiting the perceived wisdom and body of best practice, a heritage generally available to other more mature professions. |
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