Their names are What and Why When And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea, I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me, I give them all a rest.
Information Percolation Initiative
Harnessing awareness of Information Quality
Every person's convictions of the particular nature of all things 'real' (i.e. - reality) is entirely based on their previous experiences, combined with various information picked up along the way, either purposefully or not.
The delicate factor in the matter is the undeniable influence which the medium carrying such information has upon the way the information is presented and thus interpreted by us later.
Whether the medium is your local Tv station, or your best friend, when representing a particular event or concept (another way of saying 'deliver information') they do son within the limits of their own experiences and the information they've received...
The point of this rant being: keep in mind the true nature of any information and even better -- apply the metrics for information quality
Three multi-syllabled words in the title --- don’t be scared!
The purpose of this site is disperse the obscurities, clear the confusion and turn any apprihensions you might harbor regarding your ability to cope in the Information Age into silver bullets of assertive serenity.
INFORMATION PERCOLATION (short. – INFOPERC) – The process of deliberately sorting information according to predetermined criteria of value.
Information - Defined:
(Most simply yet properly put)
Information is -- the representation of events!
(whether those events be internal or outside of you - doesn't matter, the definition sticks)
Percolation - Defined
to filter a porous substance so as to extract better quality of it.The commonplace usage is when referring to the grinding of coffee, grain, or similar beans into a usable mass.
Linguistically it goes to follow that to percolate is to cause such a filtering condition, or in other words to instigate percolation