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 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”
When I started this blog, this is how I began the page on About This Blog: I believe that it is only a matter of time before enterprise software consists of only four types of application: publishing, search, fulfilment and conversation. I believe that weaknesses and corruptions in our own thinking about digital rights and … Continue reading “Thinking further about syndication”
I’m sure there are better ways to decompose social networks, but in my simple mind, there are only a small number of fundamental components: directories and address books (you need to find the person or group you’re looking for) profiles and CVs and suchlike (there has to be some way of describing the person or … Continue reading “Wondering about status messages amongst other things”