scale|free: Some notes on enterprise blogging - behind the firewall

First Enterprise IM, now Enterprise blogging. It's a huge issue - how enterprises manage their intranet, how workers communicate with one another and the outside world, how people develop and share information.

scale|free: Some notes on enterprise blogging - behind the firewall

ongoing · What Do Tags Mean?

Tim Bray's ongoing · What Do Tags Mean? - on tagging, RSS, Atom.

From Hieroglyphs to Xerox Glyphs

Now this is really cool. The article talks about research going on at Xerox PARC about 'Xerox Glyphs'. They're basically a series of forward and back slashes, and they've been described as 'barcodes on steroids'. They seem to have great potential, and think about it, they give a visual representation of zeros and ones.... Fascinating.

Jon Udell: Year of the enterprise Wiki

Here's an article about wikis and folksonomy together.

Folksonomy

My interest in social bookmarks has led me to a new technical term: folksonomy. Basically, taxonomy by a bunch of folks. Or, for the techies, "a practice of collaborative categorization using simple tags in a flat namespace". Wow, I haven't had this much fun with technical lingo since my college math days, when I translated a German article on "Non-Archimedian Vector Spaces"....

Anyhow, I'm not quite sure where my interest in this social software stuff is going, but it's quite interesting. Here are some more articles about the subject: Slashdot | Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr.

Slashdot | In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Updated

Interesting article about user interfaces: Slashdot | In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Updated