What is the Value of Your Information Archives?
So just what is the value of old content? Back in the day, we called content that had an immediate shelf-life perishable, while content that could endure was called evergreen. It's hard to get anyone...
View ArticleDrowning in Data: Unplugging to Think Again
Quite the week to rail against the machine and highlight the perils of being über plugged in. The New York Times introduced us to the Campbells, Brian and Brenda, with he so consumed by data that an...
View ArticleMy Dad & His iPad
On Sunday, my 81-year old dad became one of the 3 million+ iPad users out there. My 12-year old described grandpa's zeal and excitement as "'like a child at Christmas." Indeed, Dad has brought his new...
View ArticleMixing, Mashing XML into Content Derivatives
After much deliberation, I have changed jobs, moving from Nstein (now OpenText) to MarkLogic, a provider of “purpose-built databases for unstructured content,” which means we handle all that data that...
View ArticleAustralian sells 8500 iPad apps first month
Interesting news tidbit: The Australian, the Aussie national paper owned by News Limited, part of the Rupert Murdoch news dynasty, launched its iPad app this week. And while the paper pales in...
View ArticleNo Net Neutrality? The Ultimate Tax on Businesses & Society
Wanna watch conservative and libertarian eyes twitch: tell 'em we need more government oversight. No doubt they would point to the all-but-impotent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as yet...
View Article6 Things About Unstructured Content You Need to Know
Unstructured data. As a writer I hate that term. I remember the first time I heard reference to it: sitting in a meeting and technical people were talking about all the unstructured content that...
View Article'Human Metadata' Shapes Experiences
I haven't had a chance to read Guy Deutscher's book “Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages,” being published this month by Metropolitan Books, but I read a...
View ArticleThe Role of Journalism Within the Press
The decade-long introspection of “the future of publishing” has twisted pubishing executives into Gordian knots. “Information wants to be free,” “Content can not be free.” “The Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleEven 'Techies' May Just Not Get It
I’ve been involved in the technology world for over 15 years. And one thing I can say with certainty is there is no such thing as a technical person who “gets it all.” Technology, like any discipline,...
View ArticleBob Abel: The Father of the "Interactive Experience'
Robert “Bob” Abel is largely an unknown name in the world of interactivity. Which is unfortunate because he easily could be known as the Father of the Interactive Experience – and the originator of the...
View ArticleEditors Need to Work the Fry Station Too
Wonderful homage to editors by Greg Hadfield at TheMediaBrief.com -- with a bit of a tweak at the end. Hadfield praises the editors of past for being the "Manager of the football club," (if he were...
View ArticleMobile Ingenuity
From how to mobilize to how to monetize, mobile is the topic célèbre for this season's tradeshow circuit. While many of the first generation offerings are ho-hum, there is promise that more and better...
View ArticleDeal of the Day
Newspapers and city magazines ought to be kicking themselves (yet again). Several start-ups have emerged in the last 12 months rolling out dazzling deals of the day for savvy bargainistas. GroupOn and...
View ArticleYounger than a toddler & worth $6Billion???
Man, newspapers really should be kicking themselves. Just hours after I wrote about the Deal of the Day mavens, Google announces an astronomical bid of $5.3 billion for the upstart Groupon and another...
View ArticleLet's Start at the ... Very End!
Apps, apps, apps. I need a good appetizer recipe for a holiday party, so I will be turning to Epicurious, AllRecipies -- and maybe even download the new Mario Batali Cooks! to find something yummy. Why...
View ArticlePublisher as Software Developer
A zillion years ago I worked for CBS Software -- a publisher of interactive games. CBS, which owned stations, programming, magazines (the poor Ziff books) and textbooks -- saw nothing unusual about...
View ArticleNew York Times' Pay Wall
To pay wall or not to pay wall, that has been the question. Well the NYT did it -- they instituted the pay wall. (Paywall?? -- AP finally dropped the hyphen in email and the spaces in cellphone,...
View ArticleWhat Marketers Want
Before he was the Pariah of Hollywood, Mel Gipson starred as a chauvinistic ad executive who, after a lightening strike, could suddenly "hear"the secret thoughts of women. Of course he used this for...
View ArticleAetna: Rx for Engagement
"A retained member is not necessarily a happy member," says Melissa Jones, marketing manager for Aetna's New England regions, in addressing a Custom Content Council audience on why customer engagement...
View Article"Skip" Prichard on Publishing
Skip Prichard, CEO of Ingram's Content Group and a long-time executive in the publishing industry gave the keynote at eContent's Buying and Selling conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. Being an alum of...
View ArticleDigital Services & Goods Purchasing Trends
Pew Internet, a division of Pew Research, asked 1300 smartphone owners across the country whether or not they had purchased any of 16 different types of digital content. Here is the breakdown of what...
View ArticleLetting a Picture Tell the Story
A picture is worth a thousand words -- but did you know it could also represent one thousand pieces of content? Two years ago I wrote about Financial Time's (shortlived) Newssift, a business site that...
View ArticleAn XML Primer
Wow. I just did a "Bing" on "XML" and found 88,300,000 results. The third facet on the results page (with faceted search being the reason I prefer Bing) was "XML Definition." Nineteen million pages...
View ArticleThe Little (Search) Engine that Could
I'm guilty, and maybe many of us are, of taking search engines for granted. We expect that when we put in a search phrase -- we will get back what we want. And we can definitely identify bad search:...
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