Archive for the ‘Mashups’ Category

The DocMashup

One valuable instance of a Knowledge Mashup is the concept of a documentation mashup, or DocMashup—a name that brevity and convention demands. Basically, this type of knowledge mashup serves as an aggregation of content from all resource types near and far for a product or service, including the importing and updating of the traditional static [...]

February 17, 2010 Posted in: Content Strategist, DocMashup, Information, Information management, Knowledge management, Mashups, documentation mashup, knowledge mashup, technical communicator One Comment

The Knowledge Mashup

It’s the world according to YOU. It’s about you getting the information you want want when you want it. It’s about accessing content from open and collaborative sources, then filtering and focusing that content to meet unique documentation, training, and other educational needs. It’s personalized, real-time information delivered directly to your computer devices. That’s the [...]

February 5, 2010 Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information Age, Knowledge management, Mashups, Semantic Web, Single-source publishing No Comments

The Mashstream Projects

Building Cloud Computing and Communication Tools and Processes
by Michael Hiatt @ Mashstream.com
At Mashstream.com, we are taking it to the virtual streets. We are joining the egalitarian revolution of open web protocols, open cloud development practices, open data streaming, open information sharing, and open global markets. Now is the time to take the theoretical ideas of [...]

January 30, 2010 Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Data, Semantic Web One Comment

A New Year in the Information Age

Hope everyone had a happy new year and fine holiday season all across the world. Like many where I reside, I have been away from business and spending time with family while over-celebrating in this traditional party season of the west. But those are just good memories now (except for that episode where I missed [...]

January 4, 2010 Posted in: Enlightenment, Information Age, Mashups, Post industrial age, Real-Time Web, protocol society, technical communicator One Comment

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 Posted in: Cloud Computing, Content Strategist, Contextual Data, Information Age, Information management, Knowledge management, Mashups, technical communicator 7 Comments

Evolving as a Content Strategist

The Age of Information is here. The economic, political, and global landscape is changing quickly. As web programmers and information developers (or those with shared skills), we search for a way to survive and prosper. We know that we need to recreate ourselves to be self-sustaining, innovative, and adaptable. We fight fears of corporate downsizing [...]

November 30, 2009 Posted in: Cloud Computing, Content Strategist, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups 9 Comments

Meshing Information and Mashing Functionality

Linked Data and Mashups rely on open standards to integrate information and furnish collaborative features, but differ on their uses and the intricacies of combining disparate data and features to build new functionality from cloud resources. Both provide emerging standards to provide content and shared applications for readers/users from existing Web resources coupled with proprietary [...]

November 24, 2009 Tags: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web, single-source authoring Posted in: Cloud Computing, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Ontologies, Semantic Web 2 Comments

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 Tags: knowledge mashups, Linked data, single-sourc authoring, Single-source publications Posted in: Contextual Data, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups, Single-source publishing 25 Comments

About Mashups and Linked Data

In the past few postings, I presented some of the problems in managing information for corporate products and services using legacy authoring and publishing processes combined with new Web 2.0 communication practices. Take a look at these postings to get a clear view of where I’m coming from:
Shotgun Communication: Haphazard information distribution from disparate and [...]

November 16, 2009 Tags: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web Posted in: Linked data, Mashups, Semantic Web 10 Comments