Posts in: Information management
- On Content Strategy and Curation
- When a site launches, your audience arrives to learn more about what you know most about. It’s critical to create a content experience with purpose, that is consistent and contextual. This helps to assert your brand’s authority, establishes relationships with your audience, and secures a return visit based on your content’s value. The content strategist-as-curator [...] [8 Dec 2009]
- danah boyd on limited attention and information streams
- boyd posted notes from her Web2.0 talk, “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media” As networked technologies proliferate around the world, we can assume that there is a channel of distribution available to everyone and between everyone. In theory, anyone could get content to anyone else. With the barriers to [...] [18 Nov 2009]
- “Continuous partial attention” and “email apnea” from the CBC’s “Spark” podcast
- The CBC’s Spark podcast is one of my regular listens. One recent episode featured an interview with Linda Stone, a longtime tech thought leader. She coined the term continuous partial attention, to describe our new way of multi-tasking and always-on communications. Now Stone has coined a new phrase: e-mail apnea. Stone first described e-mail apnea [...] [8 Nov 2009]
- Hunch.com: a review after 60 minutes of tinkering
- Earlier today, I received an email from Caterina Fake, team inviting me to check out her latest web venture. Fake, as you probably know, was a founding member of the photo-sharing community Flickr. Flickr was sold to Yahoo! in 2005 and last summer Fake left Yahoo!, presumably to start her Next Big Thing. Well that [...] [28 Mar 2009]
- Review: The online mind map smackdown
- Mind mapping may just be the next wave of online applications. Advanced JavaScript libraries and Flash are enabling web-based mind map applications that are almost as robust as their off-line counterparts (such as Freemind). [2 Jul 2007]
- Is Google evil?
- It owns online search. It almost owns online contextual advertising. It offers ass-kickingly good web-based e-mail and other online applications. And now, Google wants to organize your life. From the Financial Times article: Google’s ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when [...] [23 May 2007]
- Video of the day: Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
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- Better e-mail writing
- UPDATED TO ADD A LINK: It’s all about me: Why e-mails are so easily misunderstood E-mail is a wonderful tool when used effectively. But it can be a maddening experience when it is not. Here are some tips to help ensure that you aren’t driving your friends and co-workers batty with your messages. Write a [...] [15 May 2006]
- Top 1000 Public schools: Newsweek misses an opportunity
- The magazine released its list of the Top 1,000 Public Schools in America. The complete list is available online. But as I was scrolling through the list, I wondered “How many of these schools are in Georgia?” The answer? I don’t know because I stopped looking after the third page. Now what could Newsweek have [...] [3 May 2006]
- Structured blogging
- I mentioned this briefly in the Atlanta PHP May meeting post. Structured blogging is an intiative to provide a standard format for blogging about particular forms of content. The idea is to make it easier to share particular bits of microcontent by publishing it in a consistent form. The Structured Blogging team has developed plugins [...] [1 May 2006]