Autor: Tim Strehle

I’m an idealist who loves to daydream. For example – what would I do if I were a manager? I work as a “lead software architect”, a fancy title that means I’m still just a developer. (Which has its pros and cons.) Here’s the entirely theoretical lessons I learned from watching others manage, and reading…

Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming: “We all – adults and children, writers and readers – have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the…

Stefan Tilkov – On Monoliths: “When a project is started, there is an assumption that it’s the goal of a project to create a single system. This typically goes unquestioned, even though the people or person coming up with the project boundaries often don’t decide this consciously. […] In my view, the most important thing…

Dave Ginsberg at Elegant Workflow – Interview with Chad Beer – Director, Digital Assets and Rights Management at American Express Publishing, and Part 2: “I think search interfaces can be really, really klunky for something that should be so easy to drill down into, especially if you compare search on DAM systems to search on…

Seth Gottlieb – CMS Adoption. Think Vertical, Not Horizontal.: “High vertical adoption means using advanced features of the platform. […] Most of those flashy features that you see in a software demo are hardly used and the problem is getting worse, not better. […] I can’t tell you how many customer references I have talked…

Naresh Sarwan – Can Current DAM Platforms Survive the Maturity Phase?: “With a few notable exceptions, many DAM vendors have an almost limitless capacity for misplaced arrogance. They have incorrectly interpreted increased demand as a sign of improving customer satisfaction. This is a loud and clear message to vendors: just because you are selling well…

Paul Watson – Hack 70,000 UGC videos from the Storyful archive at MediaHackDay: “The value of one of the biggest assets that publishing houses hold, their content archives, has yet to be unlocked. […] What stories happening now have precursors in our archive? […] Finding new ways to search, tag, link, package and push data…

Texte und Bilder, die Redaktionen von extern zugeliefert bekommen – hauptsächlich von Nachrichten- und Bildagenturen – werden digital und meist mit guten Metadaten angeliefert. Der Weg in die Produktionssysteme des Verlags erfordert aber oft zu viel Handarbeit, und es gehen Metadaten dabei verloren. Das liegt daran, dass die Software im Verlag technische Beschränkungen hat oder…