GigaOM has an interesting article about the impact of web 2.0 on network engineers. Namely, that the maturation of the internet has made the skills of a good network person a lot less important: I see the current state of the Internet as the ultimate success … You can deploy a wildly successful Web 2.0 application that serves millions [...]

In Information Science today two competing methods for indexing information: semantics and statistics. While this may not seem to have a lot to do with information quality, bear with me and I promise I will link them up (eventually). Both methods approximately the same job, that is to allow information to be read and manipulated by machines on a grand [...]

A lot of my recent work has been in real-time (actually near real-time) data warehousing. There are some real challenges for ETL andinformation quality when moving towards a real-time environment. Everything seems to become more dificult, and at times the constraints become almost unbearable to work with. You really, really, really need a real-time system in order to [...]