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Quite a few people tagged me, but I felt it was reasonable to try the 5 Things thing out just once. And, amongst others, I tagged Ron Silliman. And Ron chose Jordan Davis as one of his 5.
Jordan has this to say, exercising his right by declining to pass the 5 Things on:
….forgive me for [...]

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When I write about search or syndication in the context of enterprise systems, I claim to have a modicum of knowledge.
I make no such claim about the music business.
Perhaps I should. In a strange way. I will probably learn more about information by telling myself I know as much about information as I do [...]

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I really enjoy a good “caper story” as made famous by Donald E Westlake’s Dortmunder series. In fact I like a healthy dose of comedy in everything I read; and where it isn’t there (as in much management and technical writing) I work on the assumption the comedy is subtler. Works for me. You should [...]

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A couple of days ago, I mentioned that the commonest question anyone ever asked me about Four Pillars was “What will it look like?” And  I answered “Like Netvibes“.
Today I’d like to explore this further, try and articulate my arguments more precisely. But before I do that, time for some disclosure:

I have NO shares [...]

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