Tuppenceworth have started doing ‘Tag Clouds’ to visualise the frequency of words etc in political manifestos and speeches in the run up to the Irish General Election. Ho-hum I thought… wouldn’t it be interesting to do the same on the emerging commercial Information Quality Blogs (and perhaps other commentary in the area – it works …
Daylight Savings time starts in the US on the 11th of March – that’s next week. DST doesn’t start in Ireland or the UK until the 25th of March. The US change comes about under an Energy Protection Act passed last year. Microsoft are warning people in the US that their PCs won’t automatically update …
Two quick nuggets on IQ in Ireland… Firstly, the IQ Network are reporting that we have had a Court ruling that may have implications for Information Quality… we’ll track them and keep you posted. Secondly… The electoral register is still snafu’d despite the efforts of the Minister for the Environment. Again, expect to see more …
Oh good grief, Hendrix is probably spinning in his grave… Simon over at Tuppenceworth has announced he’s been invited to take part in Leviathan this Thursday. This is a nice ‘attaboy’ for the gang at Tuppenceworth from David McWilliams et al. Or else it is a trap given the number of journos who’ll be in …
OK. In an attempt to make this interesting to the kids, I’m ripping off Jimi Hendrix lyrics. The Sunday Business Post reported over the weekend that up to 170,000 people may have been taken of the Electoral Register in error. Apparently politicians of all hues are trading war stories of bungled clean ups on the …
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 …
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 …
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