Archive for the ‘Contextual Data’ Category
Competing in the Information Age
Competition drives all life on Earth. It is the invisible hand of markets and the engine of evolution. In our economic world, we see the traditional competition for jobs: Younger employees versed in new technologies forcing out workers with older skills, experienced employees competing with new graduates for fewer jobs, new technologies and services driving [...]
December 11, 2009
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Posted in: Cloud Computing, Content Strategist, Contextual Data, Information Age, Information management, Knowledge management, Mashups, technical communicator
The Myth of Single-Source Authoring
Single-source publishing is a zombie idea that revives itself periodically and refuses to stay dead. Its zombie supporters chant its purported benefits as a “write once, publish to many” promise and ploddingly follow it as their ultimate goal for mechanized authoring and machine translation. As an object-oriented writing methodology, it is as human as present-day [...]
November 18, 2009
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Tags: knowledge mashups, Linked data, single-sourc authoring, Single-source publications В· Posted in: Contextual Data, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Single-source publishing
Shotgun Communication
For many organizations, delivery of information about emerging products and services is undisciplined and chaotic. A mix of relevant, irrelevant, and erroneous content ends up scattered across the Web and overlaps from page to page, author to author, and medium to medium. With this shooting-from-the-hip delivery, information arrives as diffused and insulated content from the [...]
November 5, 2009
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Tags: Information management, knowlege management, Linked data В· Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data
Knowledge from the Cloud
Searching for relevant information on the Web is both breathtaking and exhausting. With a single phrase you can generate a list of thousands of references that overwhelm the human intellect. To get just the right information, Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Wolfram Alpha, and other search engines devise algorithms to answer each query based on their interpretation [...]
November 3, 2009
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Tags: cloud, Knowledge, Linked data, Web knowledge В· Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Information management, Knowledge, Semantic Web
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
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Tags: blogging, context, data, Facebook, Information, information confluence, Knowledge, social networks, Twitter В· Posted in: Contextual Data, Information, Knowledge, Semantic Data, Semantic Web