Paul Quigley

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Cory Doctorow is God. Well, by rights he should be given his insightful ’seven straw-men of the meta-utopia’ tenet.
By rights also, Doctorow should be up there with flaky luminaries like Tim Berners-Lee or the raft of other Social Media ‘Experts’ and ‘Cloud Consultant’ brigade of poseurs.
Despite the over-arching desire of organisations to mould, to [...]

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Now that the European Consti^H^H^HLisbon Treaty document has been ‘rafified’ by Ireland’s Fine Fael potentate Brian ‘Biffo’ Cowen, the big ineffectual fellow from Offaly can rest easy in his bed that this was one piece of ‘document management’ that would make Old Nick Machiavelli wet his pants with glee.
Shame then that Czech intellectual [...]

Ankle-deep in rain, shivering and sneezing, norovirus and Swine Flu 2.0 on the way, could it get any worse?

It could. And yet while the above external variables are all out of our direct control, there are those we have direct control over yet we neglect at our peril.

Hence a word to the wise: only this very week, after two years of stalwart service 24/7, my trusty laptop (no names, no pack drill) died due to what appeared to be a shorted out 5v pin on the USB chip – which in its death throes, greedily took all the vital data thereon down with it into Dante’s digital inferno.

Posted by Paul Quigley 01 September 2009
In an age where the wisdom of true transparency and accountability have become the general consensus, it beggars belief that in the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, the Combined Code on Corporate Governance, Transparency Directive etc. etc., the list goes on and on, that any divergence from compliance should be [...]

Posted by Paul Quigley 01 September 2009
Whether it be proprietary enterprise, open source, MOSS SharePoint or Web 2.0 based, content management applications are becoming as diverse in platform as they are in areas of specialism. The latest addition to the ECM roster, featured in this week’s feature special, is content management’s version of SaaS – software-as-a-service, dubbed content-as-a-service, [...]

Posted by Paul Quigley on August 28, 2009
Once upon a time it was all so simple. Wasn’t it? Content was just, well, content. The guts of documents, files, records, stuff which had content and was worth keeping.
Now, it’s all changed. Not only has the whole ‘content is king’ thing changed beyond all recognition since the digitalisation [...]

Next time the auditors come round, or even the nice man from HMRC wanting to check your paperwork, just mention the words ‘routine destruction’ and with a knowing nod and wink, they’ll be gone, no questions asked. No names, no pack drill. Precedence, in law, is a strong basis for many legal decisions, so my [...]