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Four pillars: The costs of “legacy”

March 23rd, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars , Uncategorized

Legacy costs come in many shapes and sizes, and the more I look at them, the more I realise how much of an albatross they can be. They really obscure people’s vision and can corrupt decision-making unless care is taken.

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Four pillars: Musings on tagging

March 23rd, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars , Uncategorized

[Before I begin, I have to declare something, almost as a conflict-of-interest. Some years ago, I was talking to the guys (at work) who were really committed to semantic web concepts, and promised them I would never set up a project called semantic web. There’s something about the interplay between emergence approaches and detailed structure [...]

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