But blog comments and latterly, Twitter conversations, can be just incredible, and go on to form a patchwork of great information around a story – even creating new stories.
Matsuda's installation was a real-time data sculpture that presented London and its infrastructure as a giant paper lantern patchwork of fluctuating information.
There are several bottlenecks that need to be dealt with, ranging from the patchwork of hospital information systems, to the lack of a data-quality feedback loop back to the government.
Most real world cloud monitoring deployments are a patchwork of various data collection, analysis, reporting, automation and decision making software.
"In the US, this patchwork of some laws for medical information and different laws for financial data and a series of FTC rulings on online privacy, and some rules for e-mail, really doesn't serve anybody very well," Mr Dempsey added.
European-style privacy protection regulations have spread rapidly across the industrial world, with the United States as a major exception, and have transformed and led the global privacy debate, while the US has relied on a more laissez-faire mentality about protection of personal information and a patchwork of privacy guidelines.
We welcome the draft Freedom of Information Act commitments, which would help streamline and centralize a patchwork system that has long been overly complicated for both the public and government officials.
Technological advances have allowed companies like Affiliated Computer Services, a Dallas-based information technology concern, to weave a patchwork of solutions here and overseas.
A patchwork of several definitions ranging from electronic markets as agora 3 [31] to information systems [9] hampers respective research.
"Once a jewel of biomedical research," McKinnell said, "Europe today is a patchwork of price controls, formulary restrictions, product diversions, intentional gaps in patient information and mandated intrusions into the relationships between patients and their doctors".
