Jon Udell: InfoWorldJon's InfoWorld articlesThe semantic web, digital identity, and Internet governance- December 7, 2004 Consider Eliyon, a company that's gathered public information about more than 22 million people to support sales, recruiting, and other applications. As it turns out, I am several of those people. In addition to my current title, InfoWorld Test Center lead analyst, I show up as executive editor of Byte Magazine and contributor to Linux Magazine. And while those were once accurate descriptions of me, I have never been a member of Blue Titan's board of advisors, and I am not the inventor of...http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/infoworld/2004/12/07.html#a1128 Tales from the data-entry trenches- December 2, 2004 When a family member underwent a series of minor medical procedures recently, I got a front-row view of the hospital's data entry systems. As I'm sure is also true elsewhere, it wasn't a pretty picture. The ordeal begins at the registration desk where, no matter how many visits you've made recently -- perhaps even on the same day! -- you're required to "verify your information." It's always bugged me to listen to someone read off, from a screen, such facts as date of birth, address, employer,..http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/categories/infoworld/2004/12/02.html#a1125 |