Over the next 13 months, we’re going to have to endure yet another campaign season here in the States. Two primaries and then a long, drawn out general election. One way to deflect these attacks is through defensive SEO. It helps suppress concerted attacks by depressing negative search results while increasing positive ones. And I think it will be vital. Hopefully, others will listen.
Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, jumps all over the place for the entirety, almost in a “miscellaneous” way, author David Weinberger brings his point together nicely in the end. Weinberger starts his discussion off with a topic that is all around us; information and how it is sorted.
I read the Cluetrain Manifesto when it came out and have been a fan of David Weinberger ever since. David’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, explores an issue that is near and dear to my heart: the semantic web. My favorite podcast, Radio Open Source, had a show about the semantic web feature David Weinberger on emergent libraries, the semantic web, folksonomy, the wisdom of crowds, and the new nature of categorizing, finding, searching, reading, researching, and defining, based on the concept of “bottom up” categorization in the form of foksonomic tagging and attention data rather than “top down” taxonomic strict categorization by experts-as-gatekeepers. Read more…
No Comments » Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
I had been using Caucus software since 1993 when I joined the gang at Meta Systems and their virtual online community, The Meta Network. I co-taught the first accredited online high school course in creative writing, called Education for the Arts, and then joined Caucus Systems, a startup comprised of all the people I admired: Frank Burns, Scott Burns, Lisa King, etc.
It was there I met Tom Mandel. I just discovered that, while I was at Caucus, Tom penned a white paper, entitled, How Companies Think: Creating Collaborative Intelligence Online. How did I know? I have been bumping into the white paper being sourced. Awesome. Maybe Caucus Systems and Tom Mandel invented Web2.0 and Enterprise2.0 and not all the other also-rans. Bloody small world, isn’t it? Read more…
2 Comments » Posted on July 20th, 2007 by Chris Abraham
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