[Sigia-l] data as information?

[Alexander Johannesen]

Moi said:
> > What IA's?

Boniface Lau <boniface_lau at compuserve.com> wrote:
> I was referring to IAs as a group, not specific individuals.

My point was that this sort of generalisation is dangerous and should
be avoided. Since we can't even agree on what IA's *are*, we shouldn't
make assumptions on what they all *do*. :)

> > How do "they" do that?
> 
> They do that by being unable to pragmatically distinguish information
> from data. Therefore their claim that they can architect information,
> which is not data, is a hype.

Well, if I tell you that I don't do that, then what? What if Troy
don't? And maybe not Jeff? Why are you saying that IA's as a group
does this when you have absolutely no basis for saying that? It really
baffles me. Even the line between data and information alone is so
blurry that you can't say we do X or Y.


Alex
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