• 25Jan

    From ON Magazine: Tim Berners-Lee on the future of his invention

    About information, Cloud Computing, Information Management, Information Overload, Libraries, ON Magazine, Web@20 No Comments

    From ON Magazine, Number 4, 2009

    From the Web of Documents to the Web of Data:

    Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of his Invention

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  • 15Dec

    We Are All Librarians Now

    Digital Culture, IT management, Information Management No Comments

    Interesting discussion (podcast) between Roger Faxon, head of EMI Music Publishing and the Economist. Specifically interesting in the context of this blog is the comparison between our past collections of LPs/CDs and current music playlists.  In the past, we organized our music on a shelf, pre-packaged container by pre-packaged container.  Other than deciding (or not) on the specific physical location of a particular package (LP or CD), we did not have much to do with how our music was organized. Today, we are constantly organizing and re-organizing (or at least, have the tools to do that) our music library, consisting of a collection of digital tracks of music. Because these are basically pieces of digital information, they can also be organized within a larger library of all types of digital information. And of course, they can be linked and shared with other personal and communal libraries.

    We are all librarians now. We have direct knowledge of and experience in organizing information.

  • 08Jul

    Google vs. Microsoft

    Cloud Computing, IT management, Information Management No Comments

    Bill Gates once said, if memory serves, that Microsoft was the answer to the question “what if computing is free?” Yesterday, Google answered with its own question: “What if networking is free?”

  • 12Sep

    What color is your cloud?

    Cloud Computing, Information Management, Predictions No Comments

    In March 2008, EMC released IDC’s update to its digital universe forecast, available at www.emc.com/digital_universe. It turns out the digital universe is already bigger and growing faster than estimated last year and is projected to reach close to 1,800 billion gigabytes (1,800 exabytes) of information newly created in 2011. An important characteristic of this digital universe has not changed: 70% of the information in it is created by individuals, but organizations are responsible for the security, privacy, reliability, and compliance of 85% of the digital universe.

    IDC’s estimates help us size the cloud in “cloud computing,” the latest concept to ignite industry excitement, trepidation, and various strategic actions. As with other buzzwords, this one lacks a common definition and encapsulates many unrelated recent developments: a new way to deliver information technology as a service, “Web 2.0” tools, and new Web-based content aggregators.

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