As any visitor will quickly confirm, this blog is a little difficult to classify. On the one hand, it is clearly not given to providing short snippets of news from my world. On the other hand, it is not particularly limited in the topics it addresses. I suspect that as a result I am breaking the two cardinal rules of blogging. But I feel no compulsion to change the tack I have been taking. My posts tend to be "inquiries" that dig into various topics. There are some thematic links emerging and at times these are pushed along by substantive comments from visitors. Perhaps someday I will be able to bring together the various threads to see what they mean.
Now one of the consequences of this approach and style is that the blog posts are less temporal than is often the case with blogs. By this, I mean that an inquiry composed two years ago can be as relevant today (or perhaps as infuriating) for someone interested in a given topic as one written yesterday.
After a couple of years, I began to emphasize a series of posts under the category of xContent which was one way to refer to the general domain of open content strategies (management, publishing, exchanging...). This is the field where a substantial measure of my professional time is spent and fortunately it is also an area I find intrinsically interesting. There are even times when I like to think that it is a domain that is important in that open content (or extensible and exchangable content - hence xContent) may be one of the missing ingredients that will contribute to the next generation of technology, and economic, innovation.
Given the foregoing, I am going to introduce a Table of Contents for this blog so that people can quickly survey past posts. I have flagged (with the @ designator) posts that we might call "editor's picks" or recommended starting points (although I suspect these designations will change occasionally).
A Table of Contents for this Blog
- Architecting Information and Engineering Content
- Seven Steps to Intelligent Content
- The Challenge of Managing Intelligent Content
- The Emergence of Intelligent Content @
- The Seven Professional Arts @
- Parliamentary Reform
- Engineering Innovation - The 787 Takes Flight @
- Talking about Content
- Experience and Education @
- The Death of the Trade Show (as we know it)
- Education that Works
- Content in the Wild
- Connecting with Content
- Structured Information Systems
- Managing Information @
- On the Management of Content
- The Truth about Content @
- The Trials and Tribulations of Content Management
- The Curious Case of Business Analysis
- Unity of Purpose
- Person of the Millennium
- Institutional Dissociation
- The Flying Island of Organizational Consultants
- Tinsel and the Tree
- The Strength of Diversity @
- The Barnaclization of Systems @
- The Order of Business
- Popular History at its Best
- KM Uncertainty Principle @
- Renegade Learning
- Knowing and Doing
- Object Process Methodology
- Modeling with Stickmen
- An Unlikely Leadership Framework @
- Giving Aristotle his Due
- Custom Textbooks Gone Bad
- Fear of Language
- Knowledge Preservation
- The Great KM Divide @
- Derivative History
- Mastering Information Through the Ages
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