A wiki is a cute concept still hunting for proper application. Sure, it has a rocking video, poster child and its fun to say "wiki" three times in rapid succession, but is it really satisfying any organisational (business or informal) need?
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The US SEC (our JSE equivalent) announced on Tuesday that the format for financial statements to the regulator, Edgar, will be superseded by a format that has more in common with the social media tools today's users have come to enjoy.
You ha...
A year ago saw me trying to explain microblogging (when the Twitter Fail Whale was but a guppy), after having got the blogging presentation finally right. The Twenty20 Cricket World Cup was the rage, and I simply joined the dots: Twenty20 cricket is ...
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The web is not about technology, it’s about communication. Yet, in the ultimate schema of things, it becomes evident to the end-user only via HTML and clever client-side jinks. Despite our clever plans, middleware, and thousands of hours of social ...
I have this credibility problem with cartoons where, when they regularly reach behind their heads/into their coats, they tend to whip out gadgets/weaponry that outweigh them and flaunt Newton One to Three.
For storylines, its weak. But for concep...
I'm grateful for search engines, but I still find it hard to accept living with Dead Text. Letters and figures on a screen. Not able to be mined, found, unlocked, extrapolated into meaning. What irks me in particular is tables of figures, especially ...
Derek works mainly with listed companies, improving online communication to publics. This involves internets, intranets and branded lanyards. Web 2 is, in his opinion, only sense-making when being shoe-horned into Enterprise 2.
The web: "It Is What It is".
