a blog about information
The diagram above is from an article headlined “The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You” which appeared in Wired about a year ago. Go read the original, the diagram is interactive and instructive. Why instructive? After all, doesn’t everyone in the blogosphere know about ping servers, … Continue reading “Musing about enterprise information and flow”
I am sometimes bemused by life. Confused even. Over the last few months it has become ever more fashionable to bash social networks in general, and Facebook in particular; the king is dead, long live the new king, blah blah. Just a few months ago, you couldn’t walk around without bumping into a Facebook conference, … Continue reading “Why I still use Facebook, and other musings on social networks”
I’ve been blogging for a while now, and I’ve been delighted with the response. I average around a thousand RSS reader-based subscribers (according to Feedburner), tend to have around 300 unique IP addresses visit me daily (according to ClustrMaps) and get around 7 comments a post. [The IP addresses sometimes understate what is happening, given … Continue reading “Does the blogosphere have a January Effect? And a welcome to new readers”
There have been a number of comments on my recent posts re Twitter and the Enterprise; I thought it would be worth while spending a little time answering them in some detail. First, let’s take a look at the questions: How can a system that uses messages restricted to no more than 140 characters be … Continue reading “Thinking about Push and Pull and Twitter in the Enterprise”
It’s been one of those truly lazy days, so I think I’ll start seriously sideways. Twitter. Hmmm. The first time that I can remember coming across the word “twitter” was when I was reading Wordsworth as a boy. [Yes, I know, I have been Confused a looong time]. Here’s the first stanza of the poem … Continue reading “A sideways look at Twitter in the Enterprise”