Irish government to appoint a CTO?
So the government published its paper: Knowledge Society Strategy: Technology Actions to Support the Smart Economy. There is already plenty of comment – on twitter, in the blogs, on the news and there will be more over the next few days. Comments ranging from ‘a lot of waffle’, ‘telling us what we already know’, ‘where’s [...]
Golf making most of web and social networking
I thought 3 made a brilliant job of promoting the Irish Open – using networks including facebook. However I think the opportunity to play a virtual round at Bethpage for the US open beats this. This is an example of the web adding significantly to the the user experience ie to the TV golf spectator [...]
Dangers of overdoing political social networking
The WashingNote had an interesting piece on 14 May referencing the use of the Web by the US Democrat party for election fundraising. Clearly in the last election the ability to raise small amounts of cash from lots of people put President Obama’s campaign way ahead. Seems they are at it again for the next [...]
Where are health costs headed?
Great presentation illustrating the trends in healthcare spending in the US – up to 2007. Includes one slide comparing with a number of other countries – including UK. Brought to my attention by @endamadden on twitter. Do we have similar information available for Ireland? Share on Facebook
Comparing Ireland and UK in these dark days
Interesting piece by Emmet Oliver in today’s Sunday Tribune – comparing the situation faced by Ireland and the UK. Times are tough (grim) on both sides of the Irish Sea. For us the massive devaluation of Sterling has been a killer – hitting our exports and producing this cross border shopping frenzy (further exacerbated by [...]
Learning from ‘the coach’
Short talk by famous US coach, John Wooden. Wooden outlines his own philosophy around teaching and coaching. Makes it all seem simple and straightforward – and tells it as a good storyteller. In these days of personal coaches, goal setting, emotional intelligence, Seven Habits…this guy makes a lot of sense. Brought to my attention by [...]
Is your Doctor (GP) using information technology?
Is your doctor still writing up manual cards to track your checkup visits? Is your doctor writing out prescriptions for you to take to the local pharmacy? When you attend a clinic for XRays, MRIs etc how are the records forwarded to you/ your GP? Huge investments being approved in the US to drive ePateint records/ [...]
Semantic web in Ireland
Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and then some!
Does anyone have the stomach for the required changes?
Technorati Tags: MIT The Quiet Coup – by MIT’s Professor Simon Johnson (Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund during 2007 and 2008) – does not make for comfortable reading. Johnson looks back to the last 18 months and questions the motivation for [...]
Damning assessment of Irish Economy
By Barry O'Gorman on March 21, 2009
Dan O’Brien (senior Editor & Economist, the Economist Intelligence unit) did not hold back in his call to action in his article in the Irish Times yesterday. O’Brien is a well known face to the Irish public – through his regular appearances on Prime Time. Clearly he is very fearful for the outlook for the [...]
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