Professional, insightful response in the wake of Junior High bashing. It's unfortunate that the bashers feel that it's ok to make unsubstantiated claims based on research that was either non existent or worse than that of a grade school student using cliff notes at midnight on the night before a big project was due. Nicely done John.
I defy the "knockers" to respond with such a balanced, reasoned argument for their case(s). My icon name gives a clue to my thoughts about over-hyped marketing etc. yet here we have a top entrepreneur being criticised for something clearly he can claim not to have said or done.A big problem for people like John, is perhaps the actions or words of his followers and affiliates - all in the same camp so out comes that big tar brush. A great response that is deserving of a read - even if you're not interested in this particular debate - this is how to respond to your critics!
When you put a whole lot of data together that is related toone subject, it can be collected to yield information. In other words, (sets of data) + (collection of related data sets) = information. Let?s say I want to buy a car. I can collect a lot of data about makes of cars, performance ratings, prices and so on. Once I do that, I have a lot of information about cars and the auto market. Until I think about this collection of data - this information - and put it in context, it is ?dumb.? By that I mean it has no meaning. This is what we are flooded with every day. On the Internet, we can find lots and lots of information - dumb collections of data. Some of that information may be useful, and some of it may be accurate. But living in an ?information age? means we are flooded all the time with access to more information than we can possibly have time to put in context. We don?t have time to decide what it means, and it comes at us so fast! The amount of information available to anyone in the world today is absolutely staggering, given historical standards. It is truly, lierally mind-boggling.
faceyspaceyJul 20, 2008
I agree!
simplydJul 23, 2008
Professional, insightful response in the wake of Junior High bashing. It's unfortunate that the bashers feel that it's ok to make unsubstantiated claims based on research that was either non existent or worse than that of a grade school student using cliff notes at midnight on the night before a big project was due. Nicely done John.
wizzersaysJul 24, 2008
I defy the "knockers" to respond with such a balanced, reasoned argument for their case(s). My icon name gives a clue to my thoughts about over-hyped marketing etc. yet here we have a top entrepreneur being criticised for something clearly he can claim not to have said or done.A big problem for people like John, is perhaps the actions or words of his followers and affiliates - all in the same camp so out comes that big tar brush. A great response that is deserving of a read - even if you're not interested in this particular debate - this is how to respond to your critics!
phillipskinnerJul 25, 2008
When you put a whole lot of data together that is related toone subject, it can be collected to yield information. In other words, (sets of data) + (collection of related data sets) = information. Let?s say I want to buy a car. I can collect a lot of data about makes of cars, performance ratings, prices and so on. Once I do that, I have a lot of information about cars and the auto market. Until I think about this collection of data - this information - and put it in context, it is ?dumb.? By that I mean it has no meaning. This is what we are flooded with every day. On the Internet, we can find lots and lots of information - dumb collections of data. Some of that information may be useful, and some of it may be accurate. But living in an ?information age? means we are flooded all the time with access to more information than we can possibly have time to put in context. We don?t have time to decide what it means, and it comes at us so fast! The amount of information available to anyone in the world today is absolutely staggering, given historical standards. It is truly, lierally mind-boggling.