Posts with keyword: syndicate

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SOA Forum Wrap-up

Wed May 17 16:09:00 2006

Halley Suitt(click to enlarge) My laptop was giving me grief yesterday (I think it's a memory problem) so I didn't get to everything I was planning on writing up. For example, I went to Halley Suitt's talk at Syndicate in the afternoon. Halley is one of the early bloggers and a great writer. She writes Halley's Comment and is the CEO of Top Ten Sources. She's also a sometime contributor at IT Conversations, doing a show called Memory Lane (I'd like her to do more shows--hint, hint). The panel on SOA Governance went very well and we had some great
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Rocketboom

Tue May 16 15:56:00 2006

Amanda Congdon(click to enlarge) I went to Amanda Congdon's plenary session at the end of Syndicate. She's the host of Rocketboom, a videoblog that deals with serious and not so serious news. I've heard of Rocketboom, but hadn't seen it before. I enjoyed the clips she showed and will probably go have a look from time to time. They are getting 350,000 unique views per day and half that is international. There's only about 6 staff members, allowing the production timeline to move at a very quick pace. Syndicating video requires working with multiple formats: wmv (multiple versions), mov (multiple
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Dave Weinberger on Tagging

Tue May 16 11:40:00 2006

Syndicate, another IDG event, is happening at the same hotel on the same days. I had some time before my talk on digital identity, so I snuck up to the third floor to heard Dave Weinberger talk about tagging, a subject that near to my heart lately. What's the big fuss about? After all, aren't tags just keywords and metadata? Sure, but they're metadata written in ordinary language without a special vocabulary and are (usually) applied by the reader, rather than the writer. For some reason, people are more willing to tag other people's work than they are their
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