Metacrap: When the sheet hits the fantasy

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Cory Doctorow is God. Well, by rights he should be given his insightful ’seven straw-men of the meta-utopia’ tenet.
By rights also, Doctorow should be up there with flaky luminaries like Tim Berners-Lee or the raft of other Social Media ‘Experts’ and ‘Cloud Consultant’ brigade of poseurs.
Despite the over-arching desire of organisations to mould, to [...]

Value-added taxa: from knowledge management to enterprise taxonomies

Posted by Paul Quigley 01 September 2009
When the SEO behemoth Google took the wraps off its new indexing for content application ‘Index Now‘ site search, the whole sphere of enterprise taxonomy and folksonomies is conjured as the role of knowledge management and context become ever more critical to effective content management strategies. Enterprises and organisations are [...]

Competition and choice: ECM goes from strength to strength as content goes on the move

Posted by Paul Quigley 01 September 2009
Whether it be proprietary enterprise, open source, MOSS SharePoint or Web 2.0 based, content management applications are becoming as diverse in platform as they are in areas of specialism. The latest addition to the ECM roster, featured in this week’s feature special, is content management’s version of SaaS – software-as-a-service, dubbed content-as-a-service, [...]