Those who know what I do, probably also know that I am looking at data quality, its technology, its market, its usage, etc. And so I can’t help it but notice those situations when data quality has gone wrong. Particularly when it involves me personally. The latest screw-up is from my telecoms provider…
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I think I understand now why kids get hooked on MySpace. As soon as they build up a decent network of friends (and I hope these are “real” friends, not some 55-year-old freaks pretending to be 12) there is a sense of addiction to find out what’s happening within the circle of friends: who met [...]

I’m going to speak at our conference in Sao Paulo next week, so will spend a few hours in the air during the next couple of days. But I didn’t think that it would be that quick from Brazil to Germany, and at the same time take forever for the short hop to Hamburg. According [...]

Just talked to someone who was looking for advice on their mission statement. Not for the company, mind you, but for their department, which was the data warehousing department! Wow, I thought, never heard of individual missions that would go that deep into an organization. Since I find mission statements (and particularly the huge amount [...]

OK, I know I haven’t been very active on this blog in the recent past. Quite a few have complained that the last post is months old, and I really don’t have many excuses, other than that things were really busy over here lately. I wish I could say that I’ve been watching television most [...]

Just returned from our Business Intelligence Summit in London, the biggest and the best ever, according to the attendees. And while I felt exhausted and brain-drained every evening, I believe I still can largely remember what I said during the countless meetings with clients, vendors, and members of the press. That’s why I was kinda [...]

I just booked my first flight with Ryanair. In January, I’ll be going to London for a day, so I was looking for an inexpensive trip there and back, preferably from Hamburg. Easyjet doesn’t fly from here to London, DBA and HLX both depart from here but don’t go to London, so I ended up [...]

I was just invited to join a Virtual Cocktail Party, as Jeff Pulver puts it. Through a number of referrals, I eventually got my invitation from my former META Group colleague Dave Yockelson. (Thanks, Dave, glad to have you back in the analyst rounds.) The idea of blog-tagging is, to ask 5 bloggers to [...]

What’s with all the 2.0-ishness that everybody jumps on as if their life depends on it? Maybe it’s all Tim O’Reilly’s fault, since he created this Web 2.0 buzz, although a 2.0 moniker has been around for years, such as in Business 2.0. More recently, companies on my radar also start to use the term [...]