Archive for October, 2009

The Fog of Information

Information overload leads to a specious information

October 26, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Information management, Knowledge, Mashups  2 Comments

The Information Confluence

Listening last week to National Public Radio (NPR) in the U.S., I heard an author of a new book extol the almost supernatural advantages of blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and the rewards of Web 2.0 social networks. The new online access to the information frontier. It was all pretty compelling stuff. The author was an inveterate [...]

October 22, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Knowledge, Semantic Data, Semantic Web  3 Comments

The real-time Web, the veracity of data, and social graphs

ReadWriteWeb has published a very interesting article where they point out that the real-time Web is “a new form of communication” that has increased “the velocity of information within the Web data system by an order of magnitude.” This phenomenon, they point out, “is not unlike how stock and options trading has been conducted for [...]

October 14, 2009   Posted in: Lifestreaming, Real-Time Web  No Comments