The PaperRound over at Tuppenceworth has stirred up a hornet’s nest of phlegm and brimstone from at least two sources – the Indo article by Niall Byrne that I mentioned previously and a mysterious comment from ‘Soontobe’ on the Tuppenceworth Blog. The team over at Tupp’worth may take issue with my view that the Paper …
Bertie Ahern has waded into the fray on the Electoral Register issue. Some of his comments are, in my personal experience, bizarre. For example, he says “There are still some people who did not answer the door when people called“. I was working from home the day the people called. During the day. When normally my …
Simon over at Tuppenceworth is getting a bee in his bonnet about the standard of Irish journalism. I have to agree. I am a Director of publicity for an international association for Information Quality professionals. Over the past year I have submitted a number of commentaries on issues such as the Electoral Register. Not ONCE …
the DOB Blog has been on an unintended hiatus in recent months. This was due to a total breakdown in customer service from the american company that I had registered my old domain (www.obriend.com – rip) through. I have had this new domain (obriend.info) for a couple of months, but haven’t had the time to …
Following on from Michel Neylon’s on-going battle with Amazon, it looks like the illness has begun to affect Expedia (who may need to buy an atlas from Amazon). A colleague of mine just tried to book a hotel room in London for a weekend away. She got her itinerary number and had confirmed availability and …
….ye wha’? There has been a lot written in relation to the electoral register and other matters about using information from other sources to improve the quality of information that you have or to create a new set of information. This makes sense, other people may already have done much of the work for you …
Propogation of information errors and the risks of using surrogate sources Read More »
The Irish Independent, the Irish Times and Silicon Republic have all carried coverage over the last days about TalkTalk, the CarphoneWarehouse fixed line subsidiary’s operation in Ireland (recently acquired from Tele2). According to Silicon Republic: “ Talk Talk has been ordered by the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) and the Data Protection Commissioner to make a …
The real cost to business of poor quality Information Read More »
http://www.progressivedemocrats.ie/press_room/1812/ Senator Minihan makes a good deal of sense in his speech to the Seanad (Irish Senate, second house of our executive). His is the closest I have seen in the debates and coverage thus far to an apolitical statement of purpose. Also, he has touched on a number of potential root causes for the …
Something’s wrong – I find myself agreeing (in general) with a PD Read More »
I heard about this piece of bother on RTE Radio 1 news today. Apparently a Fianna Fail TD is up in arms that people who had been renting a phone handset from eircom and subsequently bought a new one and didn’t return the rented phone or alert eircom that they were no longer using it …
Phone company not employing psychic dog – shock! Read More »
I previously looked at the issue of the Electoral Register forms – the first point in the information chain that feeds the electoral register. On a whim this morning, I printed a copy out – my intention being to take a closer look at the structure of the form and its layout to see if …