After my Dave Snowden grokking last week, I’ve been reading up on storytelling in KM. Bill Ives has some fantastic reading on this subject and I intend to read Steve Denning too. I was thinking this morning about how people have different niches and specialist talents. For example, I’m a better writer than I am a programmer or designer. And there…
Last night I proclaimed we’re in a Content Renaissance and this morning, what do I stumble across but a bunch of articles saying the very same thing! It’s either a case of ‘great minds think alike’, or there really is a content renaissance happening. 🙂 For example, Robert Scoble wrote a rah-rah article about “the content-creation trend that’s…
Is it just me, or is CONTENT making a comeback on the Web? I’ve been reading a lot of
the Web 2.0 blogging and I sense,
even from across the other side of the world, that the Web is entering another bubble of
optimism. Frankly, I wish I was over in America soaking it up. I’ve been thinking of a
plan to bring that to fruition… I want to write a…
This post could be sub-titled “Grokking Dave Snowden”, because that’s how I felt after
reading this PDF file from AOK
(Association of Knowledgework). The PDF features extracts from a proposed AOK book entitled Stars Of The
New Order: What They’re Telling Business Leaders. The chapter that got my attention
was chapter 13: Third Generation…
I love this extract from a Web 2.0 workshop about Enterprise social software, as blogged by Denise Howell:
Ross Mayfield (SocialText) and Michael Pusateri (Disney) are discussing using SocialText (and blogs and wikis in general) in business. Michael works for the television/ABC arm of Disney, and they’re using SocialText. He has a great point: how…
People have been talking recently about all the different buckets they drop
their content into. Especially in this world of decentralized web services we
live in today (Internet as
Platform and all that…). We have a wide variety of specialist content
services to choose from – e.g. Flickr and del.icio.us.
It’s all microcontent and so long as we…
I’ve been reading up on Yahoo!’s decision to add RSS feeds to the mix of content they provide on the My Yahoo! portal. The decision for them is all about enhancing their strategy for users to put all their Web content “in one place” – their place. It’s the same old Portal strategy that was so popular on the Web in the mid-90’s, but which very few…
Slashdot pointed to a new Tim Berners-Lee interview about the Semantic Web. While on face value it’s YASWI by Sir Tim (Yet Another Semantic Web Interview), there are some great quotes in this one. e.g.
When asked if the Semantic Web is just a way to automate things that a human would do, Sir Tim replied:
“This is more like giving you a program…
Douglas Coupland returns to form big-time with
this sensitive and soulful book, Hey
Nostradamus!. Before I get to the review, I’ll go over my
background as a long-time Coupland fan – because it’s especially relevant to my
thoughts on Hey Nostradamus!. I discovered him during the 90’s and he was one of
the quintessential writers of that milieu…
I’ve mentioned that September is Month of Mobility at Read/Write Web, but I haven’t posted about it as much as I wanted to. Why? It’s because the mobile world is mostly new to me, which means I’ve had to batch process a whole bunch of information about it over the past few weeks.
Frankly I’ve been so absorbed in the PC Web over the years, that…
I’ve been mucking around with my CSS over the past few days. Gone are the vertical grey lines and greeny colour scheme. I’ve kept the pacific green colour in the site title though, as a keepsake of the old style. Plus that colour is sort of identified with me now and my favicon uses it.
It’s all about the whitespace and I’ve tried to make that…
Today I had a meeting with a large multinational content and document management vendor (who shall remain nameless). I was struck by how many times they used the word “collaboration” to describe their current software. Collaboration is also a trendy word in the world of social software. But the difference is that social software folks use…
Excellent response to my light-hearted Friday post Suggested baby names for bloggers. The comments are still open if you want to add your suggestions. As for me, I have the following names lined up should I need them:
Foaf Http 201 Alist MacManus (if it’s a boy)
Note: I think ‘Foaf’ could be the new ‘Frank’… and his school mates could…
Warning: This post is frivolous and NOT topic-focused! May the blogosphere have mercy on me. So here are those baby names…
Girls:
Bloggia
Blerta
Post
Ping (could work as a boys name too)
Dot
Blogatha
Rebecca
Aggie
Boys:
Blogbert
Atom
Alist
Zeldman
Pilgrim
Blog-Blog (i.e. like Jon-Jon)
Permalink
Dave
Any other suggestions?
There’s an interesting meme doing the rounds about using pens as a metaphor for
weblogs. Of course I can’t resist adding my 2 cents when it comes to that topic
🙂 Lilia began with a
post that explored the ‘weblog as a pen’ metaphor in relation to how weblogs serve
many purposes – like pens do. This was as a reaction to the ‘weblog as genre…
The ITU (International Telecommunication Union) has just released a report entitled The Portable Internet. From the press release:
“A new set of advanced wireless technologies now promises to bring affordable, high-speed Internet connectivity to the masses. This set of technologies, and the market opportunity they create, has been termed the…
In my post about internet-based mobility earlier this week, I mentioned that the hype around mobile devices we endured during the 90’s and early 21st century is finally being realized in 2004. Mobile phone market penetration is running at 70% where I live, up from 10% in the mid-90’s. Other devices such as PDA’s, the iPod and the Tablet are also…
UPDATE: I HAVE NO MORE GMAIL INVITES, SO DON’T EMAIL ME ABOUT IT.
It’s about time I published my strategy for my new topic-focused blog, eBook Culture. Although upon reading Erik
Benson’s post tonight about getting on and building something rather than “talking
about it but never building it”, I now feel a bit guilty about writing yet another grand
plan instead of getting my hands dirty with implementation…
September is the Month of Mobility at Read/Write Web, I’ve decided. This month
I’m going to explore the intersection between the Web and mobile devices. Principally
mobile phones and PDA’s, although there’s also a trend of convergence of those two
devices into “smart phones”. And let’s not forget new ground-breaking devices such as the
iPod, the…
