Category: Collective Web

Content management systems: short-lived satisfaction A recent Forrester Research report suggests the content management community is right to complain about today’s off-the-shelf software. Forrester’s blunt view: current content management systems are “immature”. Perhaps CMS should look at weblog systems?
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This Switch-article by Geri Wittig is interesting.
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The Power of Metadata: “Whether or not peer-to-peer fares any better than the Web, it certainly presents a new challenge for people concerned with describing and classifying information resources. Peer-to-peer provides a rich environment and a promising early stage for putting in place all we’ve learned about metadata over the past decade.”
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Fortune.com: Stewart Alsop writes “In the Internet Age, there may be no data more valuable than data about data.” Good introduction to metadata.

First Monday has a good article by Debbie Campbell: “Australia has recently released a new Web service for the discovery of its cultural heritage in pictures. The service, called PictureAustralia, was built using a combination of standard metadata, Z39.50 and XML. However, the most significant building block has been collaboration.”

ZDNet News: Netdocs: Microsoft’s .Net poster child? “According to sources, Netdocs is a single, integrated application that will include a full suite of functions, including e-mail, personal information management, document-authoring tools, digital-media management, and instant messaging.” Could be good, could be crap. Fortunately, there are other interests in Two-Way-Web development.
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In his latest Moving WebWord John S. Rhodes is upset that so many people claim they do usability but they really don’t ! Usability is about psychological research, data collection, and data analysis. It is not really about design, or marketing, or programming.

Today’s insight is a good one, I find. Let me repeat that: The Collective Web is what it’s all about! I am sure somebody has talked about the collective web before, but I haven’t searched thoroughly for whom. The collective web category will be used for gotzeblogs on stuff like P2P, syndication, collaborative web services, community networks, online communities of practice, and the like. I start with some general observations.
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Want metadata for your weblog? It now is possible to get an ISSN for Weblogs, that is an International Standard Serial Number for your Weblog. Your blog will then officially exist in the worldwide standardized encyclopedia of periodicals.
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