agreed. journalism has great potential as a discipline. the weakness is that the media that journalists work for, can usually be bought by rich people who want to use the media for political purposes. we don't have a good answer to that yet.
And then journalistic integrity was used for a short time so we knew articles were true. And then that went all out the window. All we need to do is maintain the concept of journalistic integrity for the internet.
journalism helped, but a newspaper could be bought at any time (murdoch, sky, fox anyone?) so trusting journalists was hit and miss for the novice. in practice we made our own judgements on which media we trusted and tended to bookmark that as our trusted source. even when reading our most trusted writer, we still need to read critically. that's my point: we should never look for the one true new source, or technical fixes; we need to have the skills to read and absorb all news critically.
Misinformation has been a problem since before humans could talk. The ancient Romans and Greeks were masters of oratory, persuasion and 'fake news'. Propaganda. Fascists, Trumps, Orwell. Technologies and Media channels will come and go. What to do?
Stop complaining about the channel du jour, and learn to think clearly all by yourself. That way, if someone charming tells you to put your head in the oven, you will work out for yourself not to! It's liberating. If you don't know where to start, try reading Plato or Aristotle, or here's an excellent book: 'The Art of Thinking Clearly', by Rolf Dobelli. Or just read. Then ponder, analyze, think. But don't absorb information mindlessly and then say 'The author misled me'. You don't do it with ads, do you? Look at information as a an input, source, not as an automatic truth.
an enterprise architect is violently different from a sysadmin. think skyscraper architect vs a particular carpenter on the building. an architect deals in patterns, modelling and a 5 year plan that is more aligned with business goals than with technology implementations. an EA has absolutely no need to login to production systems, and even if he were able to do, it would be evidence that no security architecture is in place. operations login to production systems, no one else. as you say, "I have been involved in a constant struggle with the core IT group over how to best run the operations.". you are seeking an operational management role, not an EA role.very different animals.
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agreed. journalism has great potential as a discipline. the weakness is that the media that journalists work for, can usually be bought by rich people who want to use the media for political purposes. we don't have a good answer to that yet.
And then journalistic integrity was used for a short time so we knew articles were true. And then that went all out the window. All we need to do is maintain the concept of journalistic integrity for the internet.
journalism helped, but a newspaper could be bought at any time (murdoch, sky, fox anyone?) so trusting journalists was hit and miss for the novice. in practice we made our own judgements on which media we trusted and tended to bookmark that as our trusted source. even when reading our most trusted writer, we still need to read critically. that's my point: we should never look for the one true new source, or technical fixes; we need to have the skills to read and absorb all news critically.
Misinformation has been a problem since before humans could talk. The ancient Romans and Greeks were masters of oratory, persuasion and 'fake news'. Propaganda. Fascists, Trumps, Orwell. Technologies and Media channels will come and go. What to do? Stop complaining about the channel du jour, and learn to think clearly all by yourself. That way, if someone charming tells you to put your head in the oven, you will work out for yourself not to! It's liberating. If you don't know where to start, try reading Plato or Aristotle, or here's an excellent book: 'The Art of Thinking Clearly', by Rolf Dobelli. Or just read. Then ponder, analyze, think. But don't absorb information mindlessly and then say 'The author misled me'. You don't do it with ads, do you? Look at information as a an input, source, not as an automatic truth.
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agreed, it's also the muslim view, and that of many other long term civilizations.
an enterprise architect is violently different from a sysadmin. think skyscraper architect vs a particular carpenter on the building. an architect deals in patterns, modelling and a 5 year plan that is more aligned with business goals than with technology implementations. an EA has absolutely no need to login to production systems, and even if he were able to do, it would be evidence that no security architecture is in place. operations login to production systems, no one else. as you say, "I have been involved in a constant struggle with the core IT group over how to best run the operations.". you are seeking an operational management role, not an EA role.very different animals.
Hi, This one sees a small software development company in Africa take the next step: www.busylab.com/jobs/ It is a longer term gig with accommodation and spending money included. Its a combination of mentor, hands on senior and process improvement.