What they did not get was much useful information about how either Romney or Obama would govern.

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Supporters of tort reform say the justice handed out by U.S. courts is far too random for companies to derive much useful information from it.

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But spoiling the generals and boosting their egos was providing so much useful information that the British intelligence officers decided to carry on, and simply stopped telling Churchill about it.

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What is clear is that much useful information is being gleaned about how to deal with a disaster of this kind, which can be expected to happen again, and other kinds of spills, as the prospect of deep-water drilling for oil is realised.

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How much more useful information will additional hearings be able to glean?

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Much of the really useful information was hidden away in different systems around the world, and Dr Rosling found that even the biggest institutions were reluctant to share their findings.

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Though some people, like Ryan Tate of Wired, will likely want to share more because of Graph, because it just became a much more useful vehicle for searching for information about venues, restaurants, and vacation spots.

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You would think that real-time data on how many people are working and how much they are making is useful and important information in this these day and age?

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Surely, though, this search facility will be much more useful and commercially attractive if it offers users a one-stop shop - access to all the information in their social network and then in the wider web if that's not enough.

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