Roadkill on the information superhighway

[j4]

From a draft of Cambridge University's Information Strategy:

   "Information is a concept that encompasses all kinds of information".

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Information will eat itself!

[nja.livejournal.com]

Are they making a distinction between "Information" and "information"? If they are, is the "Information" in CUIS really Information or is it just information?

[j4.livejournal.com]

*head explodes*

Um. The first "Information" is at the beginning of a sentence, I don't know if its capital letter would have been there if it wasn't, IYSWIM.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

*snorf* - at least it's been spotted while only a draft

[j4.livejournal.com]

You're assuming that this means it will get changed somewhere along the line... :-/

(OTOH it's being written by manglers for manglers, so who cares? The people who actually do the work will just carry on getting things done.)

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Our definition of a 'significant decision' includes 'a decision likely to have a significant impact...'

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Information wants to be self-referential!