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Four Pillars: Paying for burial and later for exhumation

July 10th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Four pillars

Of late there’s been more kerfuffle about security implications of The Semantic Web and of Web 2.0. And it makes me wonder.
We spend a lot of money making sure information is buried under at least six foot of concrete, flying a variety of flags of convenience: Privacy; Confidentiality; Secrecy; Competitive Advantage…..
We spend a lot of [...]

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Four Pillars: More on Preparing for Generation M

July 10th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Four pillars

I’ve been poring over a recent presentation given by Lee Rainie, founding director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, entitled The New Media Ecology and How It Will Affect Work And Learning. You can follow a link to the pdf here.
I quote from its coda:
I think it is safe to say that those [...]

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