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Content Reuse and The Problem of Narrative Flow
The other day, we got a question from someone: could text content be effectively managed down to the individual paragraph level? This has come up before from clients trying to avoid duplicating content, but, in the end, it was always determined that the benefits of the few scenarios where it would help were outweighed by [...]
ALA on Content Modeling
Content Modeling: A Master Skill: Rachel Lovinger did a really nice job on this content modeling article over at ALA earlier in the year. I like how she breaks it down into three sub-competencies. The assembly model:The way content creators will put individual content items together to make webpages, campaigns, documents, or other content products. [...]
My New ASUS UX31
I finally bought a new laptop last week. I had been working off a Dell Studio XPS 16 for almost three years. When I purchased the Dell, my biggest concern was performance and size – I essentially wanted a desktop replacement, and I got it. The “big Dell” (as I’ve come to call it) was [...]
e-books: Cover Anonymity
Romance Books Are Hot in the E-Reading Market: This is an article about romance novels as e-books, which incidentally raises an interesting point: with an e-book, no one can see what you’re reading. There’s some interesting social impact to this, I think. Sarah Wendell, blogger and co-author of “Beyond Heaving Bosoms,” is passionate about romance [...]
Why Laptops are More than the Sum of Their Specs
I’m beginning to wonder why I ever bought a laptop over the Internet. I’m actually on my second laptop from Dell. I don’t think I’ll do this again. The laptop performs great, and has been really stable (calm down, Mac fanboys). But what I’ve learned is that you have a fairly close ergonomic relationship to [...]
Cleve Gibbons Series on Content Modeling
Content Modelling: It’s kind of eerie how similar this series of posts is to my presentation. Especially the third one, where he talks about the reasons to model content. This guy and I are seriously on the same wave-length. Below sea level is where the content lives. The more complex the site and/or the amount [...]
Foxconn
Foxconn: Just because their name is on it, doesn’t mean they actually make it. In fact, it’s likely they don’t make it – Foxconn does. Among other things, Foxconn produces the Mac mini, the iPod and the iPhone for Apple Inc.; Intel-branded motherboards for Intel Corp.; various orders for American computer retailers Dell, Inc. and [...]
Windows Cloud
‘Windows Cloud’ to descend this month, says Ballmer: Interesting. “We need a new operating system designed for the cloud and we will introduce one in about four weeks, we’ll even have a name to give you by then. But let’s just call it for the purposes of today ‘Windows Cloud’,” said Ballmer. […] Ballmer also [...]
Radically Transparent
I was probably the wrong audience for this book, but that doesn’t make it any less good for someone else. “Radically Transparent” is about two things: (1) becoming all Web 2.0-ish with blogs, social networks, etc., and (2) managing your online reputation, or that of your company. Given that I work in this environment every [...]