"We have access to too much information." I'm sure that if I'd said that 100 years ago I would have been considered a little odd, and if I had said it to Copernicus, Da Vinci or Galileo they would thought it extremely bizarre perhaps even considering me a little mad.
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
26 January 2010
Take as an example the problems facing head teachers when the decision has been made to close the school, something which is proving to be a quite common occurance in the current weather conditions. This decision isn't normally made until the morning of the day concerned, and at that point there isn't a lot of time to get the message to the parents. It seems that radio stations become the primary tool for getting the message out to the parents, although quite often a message is also put on the school web site. This puts the onus on the recipients to listen to the radio or browse to the web site, a potentially hit and miss scenario as there is no guarantee that the parents will be listening to a radio or able to browse the web. Which is much the same as if an email were to be sent, as the parent would have to know that they need to check their email at that time - which isn't something on most peoples minds at that time of the day, certainly in those conditions.
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
11 January 2010
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