Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Brent Simmons – Waffle on Social Media: “My blog’s older than Twitter and Facebook, and it will outlive them. […] The things that will last on the internet are not owned. Plain old websites, blogs, RSS, irc, email.”

It must be terrible to shop for a Digital Asset Management system. While the Web empowers cheap smartphone, fashion or book buyers – with independent coverage from press and bloggers, and customer reviews on Amazon – it’s not very helpful when you’re planning to spend tens (or hundreds) of thousands on DAM software and need…

Picturepark CEO Ramon Forster – Diving Head-first into a Suicide Sale: “The other vendor in the bid is known for promising everything you ever want to hear, including substantial discounts, just to land on the short list. I admit that for a fraction of time I questioned whether our principle to be „honest at all…

Ralph Windsor – Transforming DAM From A Product To Service-Oriented Delivery Model: “[People] like to think in terms of products. Buying a software system confers an illusion of commitment to doing something about the problem, […], by contrast, strategy and planning implies having to give up more of everyone’s precious time and taking some ownership…

I’ve been working as a software developer since leaving university, but that hadn’t been my plan: I had set out to be an information professional. My German university degree is called “Diplom-Dokumentar (FH)”, later renamed to Information Management – equivalent to a bachelor in Library and Information Sciences. (Here’s my diploma thesis.) As a student,…

In Reinventing Digital Asset Management, David Diamond writes about the miserable state of integration between DAM software and the places we want to use our digital assets – “our apps and anywhere else we happen to be — Google plus, a Disqus comments thread, Facebook, Twitter, etc.” Integration with native applications like Photoshop and InDesign…

David Diamond – Reinventing Digital Asset Management: “No matter how pretty the UI, a DAM remains a place people must go to get what they need. We place digital assets in a repository that is almost certainly not where we are when we actually need those assets. […] We want digital asset access, not from…

I keep coming back to Eric Steven Raymond’s 2003 Basics of the Unix Philosophy: “Rule of Modularity: Write simple parts connected by clean interfaces. Rule of Clarity: Clarity is better than cleverness. Rule of Composition: Design programs to be connected to other programs. Rule of Separation: Separate policy from mechanism; separate interfaces from engines. Rule…