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.
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We seem to have Freedom of Information Laws and a Freedom from Information culture. Information is created by people attributing meaning to data, within context and perspective; thus root data can easily spawn an infinite variety of information, due to the divergence and complexity of the people and attributed meanings employed in the information creation process. Nevertheless, despite the Continue reading article » 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. The search results show that cuil is about as Continue reading article » 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 networks with a single Continue reading article » 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. As a result, we are all prone to make mistakes and business decisions that we later regret, Continue reading article » |
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