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How to cite this column?
icm2re [I Changed my Mind Reviewing Everything ISSN 2059-688X (Online)]. By Brunella Longo.
Full-text accessible at http://www.icm2re.com/

• 6.12 | December 2017: If this is a landlord
  About public consultations and the home buying and selling process in 21st Century Britain
  [...] If the property market has to be functional to people needs, rights and interests, then landlords and tenants should not be used like checkers in a legal casino [...]
• 6.11 | November 2017: There is no fire brigade for the Internet!
  About the need for a DIY approach to cyber-security
  [...] there is always a big picture in your own context that does not necessarily work for others: you should take it into account if you aim at a better understanding of the security risks and the wider context impacting your own internet sphere and infrastructure. [...]
• 6.10 | October 2017: The map is not the territory, or... is it?
  About the long and winding road of Web Accessibility
  [...] I hope the example shows the extreme difficulties that lie beneath the cognitive accessibility roadmap, full of abstract and subtle aspects of structure and information design together with other more technical, organisational, socio-economic and political potholes, and ethical traps [...]
• 6.9 | September 2017: How to make a Top Ten
  Turning information into communications success
  [...] we all can act in a certain network as relay stations, replicating what we have found or what we have been given as the best possible canned answer to a frequent or recurrent question, adding our ideas and elaborations or obtaining new combinations [...]
• 6.8 | August 2017: I am not the lady next to me
  About the challenges of datafication
  [...] the distinction between one data unit and its possible copies, instances, manifestations etc. etc. ensures that inference rules do not go out of control in any possible automated process, service or system while designing new applications or writing new machine learning algorithms - but it also true the distinction is important to prevent we apply laws and regulations without thinking, in a pretty “ticking the boxes†mode that is compliance in nominal terms only [...]
• 6.7 | July 2017: The printers' job
  Every little helps with assured computing
  [...] The "wizards" in Microsoft operating systems have created expectations of rapidity and precision that are totally inconsistent with their actual function and functioning [...]
• 6.6 | June 2017: Otzi the iceman and the secrets of rankings
  About the credibility of search engines’ results
  [...] we still do not have devised and implemented controls to measure the reliability and the credibility of what we find online in standard ways, that is the true point of the whole “fake news†debate: how both humans and algorithms should approach quality assessment of information is still a matter of art and not science
• 6.5 | May 2017: Patient education and the Little Shop of Horrors
  About healthy choices in a data cacophony
  [...] If I am seriously concerned about something, and I find the online advice too much abundant and confusing I usually end up borrowing a book at my local library just to reassure myself I am not playing any little citizen science game with my own health and I have understood some basic concepts right. [...]
• 6.4 | April 2017: Decluttering machine learning through accuracy
  About changing perceptions and achieving global consensus on data quality
  [...] Where does the accuracy issue stand within professional bodies of knowledge, best practices, guidelines inspired by the SFIA framework or within computer science or engineering curricula all over the world? At global or industry level we still have to cross the Rubicon and recognise that accuracy and quality are two different things. Let’s add accuracy as a core competence for our information age, together with autonomy, business skills, influence, complexity. [...]
• 6.3 | March 2017: Every journey matters: opportunism and consumer rights in swarm intelligence
  About design, integration and standards for AI
  [...] In this article I consider some possible basic initiatives that both practitioners and researchers could undertake to prepare themselves while waiting for the P7000 standard, and independently from both other standards (such as the SFIA framework I will talk about in the next icm2re issue) and their formal educational background, in order to achieve this basic goal. [...]
• 6.2 | February 2017: No bit for blame: the OxCheek and SmartAss story
  About contractual terms and risks of algorithmic extortions
  [...] we built up the first layer of a common culture of working together, thanks and through automated operations. At the centre of the SmartAss system there was an aggressive and exceptionally efficient new way to automate inventory management and stock rotation but OxCheek’s people did not possibly need all that perfection [...]
• 6.1 | January 2017: Save the Safest. Sonia’s discoveries on data falsification
  A process engineering case study
  […] This is an article about an underestimated and often, when rarely acknowledged, understated problem in information and data management that I believe is pivotal for change across different industries and sectors: how to save the identity of professionals from data falsification - in this instance the identity of gas safety engineers […]