Joel on Software - Advice for Computer Science College Students. Much of this advice goes as well for Computer and Software Engineering students. Note in particular his emphasis on coding skills and ability to express yourself. A big part of...

It came to me in conversation at the Northern Voice conference yesterday that a very simple way to understand the problems of personal/group/organizational Knowledge Management (KM) is through four pillars: Discovery, Use, Organization, and Sharing....

PRAXIS101: Attention: continuous, partial, or just diminished? is a personal account of the effects of information overload and diminished potential for attention....

In ongoing · Do Tags Work?, Tim Bray asks whether tagging systems such as Technorati or del.icio.us work? He suggested a simple piece of research that might find out......

In The architecture of intermediation, Jon Udell suggests that there might not have been the need to "clone" del.icio.us (see de.lirio.us) in order to be able to experiment with the structure and services. He suggests instead the with the proper...

On the weekend at TagCamp, I made a few points about the possibilities of del.icio.us and Flock for bootstrapping the development of rich, personal ontological models. In that framework, I made some unfounded criticisms of current del.icio.us practice that I...

In A social analysis of tagging, Rashmi Sinha makes a few interesting points about the transition from solitary to social with the tagging experience. I tend to agree with this, but I would like to point out a few things...

A simple, but important point about tagging. If a social tag is unattributed, then it is next to useless. Think of "I tag Obj with tag" as an assertion that Obj "means" tag to me (whatever tag means to me)....