About 8 years ago, I was presenting to a group of faculty and Deans at RRC about how we should approach content management. Back "in those days" folders on a hard drive still ruled organization approaches to managing content. Google was still emerging...tags and folksonomies didn't yet exist explicitly. I was asked how we should best organize our resources when content was developing so quickly. I stated that we should "throw everything into our containers and apply intelligence at the point of search". I still think that's the main way to manage information. For example, I have a variety of blogs, use different tagging services, contribute to different website, etc. It's impossible to manage those resources at the point of creation. What's the solution? Well, I came across an interesting tool recently called Lijit - here's my profile. You simply add your various spaces of content creation and sharing (flickr, del.icoi.us, stumpleupon, blogs, furl, digg and so on), and then search across your entire network with one search query. While the service isn't anything revolutionary, it is the model that we will need to rely on in our climate of "abundance of abundance".
Posted by gsiemens at October 14, 2007 12:29 PM | TrackBack