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Musing about lifestreams, subscribe-aggregation and publish-aggregation

July 20th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Four pillars , Publishing, Social software, VRM

For years I’ve been watching the way people aggregate and summarise what they do, and how they make such aggregations available to others. In the old days we used to call these chronological aggregations diaries, and we’ve had many famous diarists over the centuries.
Some part of me is deeply enmeshed in an oral tradition: as [...]

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A Sunday stroll about design and professions and all that jazz

July 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Four pillars

For years, I’ve been told that people in IT are obsessed with “the technology” without really understanding “the business”. This has been good for some people, with the creation of a hybrid role ["Don't worry, Superman is here; I'm a normal person who speaks geekish as well, and I will save the world for you"].
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