a blog about information
Cloudy My thoughts are scattered and they’re Cloudy They have no borders, no boundaries They echo and they swell From Tolstoy to Tinker Bell Simon and Garfunkel, Cloudy Hugh has a great post on “the cloud” today. One that should make all of us think. As Tim O’Reilly tweeted, this is an important post. Monkchips‘ … Continue reading “From Tolstoy to Tinker Bell”
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: … Continue reading “Musing about lifestreams, subscribe-aggregation and publish-aggregation”
I’ve been reading quite a bit of Umair Haque this past year. He makes me think. Take his latest post, Saving Strategy from the Strategists. You don’t have to agree with everything he says, but the following excerpt shows where his head’s at: Perhaps the meaning of competitive advantage, when all the games have been … Continue reading “A sideways look at IT and IS strategy and VRM”
I’ve been learning a lot from the whole Twitter phenomenon. How, despite its frailties and weaknesses, it continues to attract followers. How, despite it being “down so ***damn long, that it looks like up to me” people continue to build Twitter ecosystem tools. And how it spawns an entire industry around the Fail Whale: the … Continue reading “Musing about Information and Long Tail and Publish-Subscribe”
I cannot be in Washington DC on the 23rd of this month. And as a result, I’m already looking forward to a webcast of something that’s happening at the Library of Congress that day. Yes, this is an unashamed advertisement. For someone I don’t know, have never met, and in whose business I have no … Continue reading “The people formerly known as “the audience””