Year: 2004
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Is everything content?
MacMerc, a site I loosely follow via their feed, pointed me to the Content Management Comparison Tool at CMS Matrix. And then I see Richard point to a comparison of hosted blogging platforms. Content management (what a phrase) in the air. The hard part remains creation, regardless of the tool or platform. But it’s true…
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Between prototype and shipping
Talking with a colleague today about when GPS-enabled digital cameras will be the norm (did someone say metadata?), and he said something to the effect of they are beyond prototypes, but not quite shipping here in the U.S. He couldn’t find the words for that state of the production process. I said: Japan. Those new…
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Parsing isn’t the hard part
David Berlind wrote “What’s wrong with RSS is also what’s right with it for his ZDNet commentary this morning. He takes the time to skip past the tumultuous (to developers) history, without papering over the differences. Well done. More important, though, he doesn’t get caught in that rat-hole of an argument. The most interesting part,…
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There is a home for weblogs
Toto, we’re home. That’s the weblogs category in the main Yahoo directory, courtesy of Jeremy Zawodny. He’s right… I didn’t know that existed and I’m obviously too lazy to check before posting. I don’t mind the differences Jeremy points out between the My Yahoo mini-directory and the main directory, as I expect that if it…
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Publishing and hiding
Bob Wyman of PubSub on the Yahoo FeedMesh group comes out with this epigram: It is very difficult to publish and hide at the same time. It’s not quite poetic, but it feels pithy, at least. The context? He’s explaining why syndication is less full of unwanted messages than, say, e-mail, because tracking the world…
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Knowing your customer
How to Sell a Candidate to a Porsche-Driving, Leno-Loving Nascar Fan is a NYTimes article looking, after the fact, at the data which drove the media decisions for the campaigns, especially the Republican campaign. The entire article, in a phrase: “Democrats watch more television than Republicans.” Yes, there is a bit more than that, with…
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Classification fun: where does your weblog belong?
In responding to my notes about topicality, Jeremy Zawodny wrote Weblog topics, blogger micro-brands, and weblog classification. I think all three themes are interesting, but the first and the last grab me enough to continue. Note: I agree with the blogger micro-brand comment Jeremy makes, but the word brand conjures a vision of The Brand…
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Track the ripples in the pond
Blogging about blogging is still interesting to many, confirming my point that we are still early, early, early in the adoption curve. Yes, the web accelerates the diffusion of innovation (years instead of decades), but we’re not there yet. Remember: very few people move at the speed of technology. Because I don’t have comments enabled,…
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Adoption matters
So, Michael Schrage has written his last column for MIT’s Technology Review. Wonder what the politics behind that decision were, given the new editor, Jason Pontin, formerly of Red Herring? Anyway, he goes out on a high note, I think, with Innovation Diffusion. Simply put: innovation isn’t what innovators do; it’s what customers, clients, and…
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Run to the Far Side, abbreviated
On Sunday, I earned my long-sleeved Gary Larsen T-shirt by running the annual Run to the Far Side road race in Golden Gate Park. Brisk, even chilly, for San Francisco, but no rain and the course runs three blocks from home, so the family came out to yell at/for me as I went by. This…