Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Fast Company – What Is a Curator in Chief?: „Machines may evolve, but they’ll never have a human sense of relevance. „As curator, I need „gut instinct“. As I’m scanning the web (with our tools), I sometimes find sources or articles that I think are valuable–even though they might not be a perfect match to…

Yee Lee – How Facebook Ships Code: „very engineering driven culture. ”product managers are essentially useless here.” is a quote from an engineer. engineers can modify specs mid-process, re-order work projects, and inject new feature ideas anytime. […] they really want engineers to publicly own products and be the main point of contact for the…

Barb Mosher at CMSWire – Poll Results: Usability is Top Digital Asset Management (DAM) Challenge: „We recently wrapped up a poll exploring our readership’s Digital Asset Management challenges. The question was: What’s your biggest Digital Asset Management challenge? The top response? Usability. Are you surprised? We discussed the poll results with a few DAM specialists,…

Andrew Stellman – Confessions of a jerk: „I perfected all of the programmer stonewalling tricks to get people to stop asking me questions: interrupting people with pedantic questions before they’d barely started getting to the point, sending people back with half-answers so I didn’t have to think through the question I was being asked, answering…

Seth Godin – In defense of RSS: „RSS is quiet and fast and professional and largely hype-free. Perhaps that’s why it’s not the flavor of the day.“

Dave Winer – What will become of Twitter?: „Twitter is a wonderful solution to many of the problems we had with RSS, most importantly, how to go from the impulse to subscribe to having actually subscribed. In Twitter it’s one click. In RSS, it’s an unpredictable number of complex clicks. That in a nutshell is…

Patrick McKenzie – Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff Nobody Teaches You: „Setting up a staging server should be easy. If it is not easy, you already have a problem in your infrastructure, you just don’t know it yet: you’ve cobbled together your production server over time, usually by manually SSHing…

Stijn Debrouwere – Looking for a co-conspirator: „Drupal and WordPress are perfectly fine for publishing to the web. What we want to build is a content hub for managing the gloriously messy editorial process. A content hub that loves structured data and semantic annotations. A launch pad for pushing content to any platform you can…

Anonymous guest post at Gia Lyons – An unhealthy obsession with organization: „I want everyone to think about the way they use documents today, your SharePoint sites, your shared drives with team project folder structures, your Atlassian Wikis. You’ve invested a lot of energy into finely crafting an organizational structure that will last a thousand…

Leala Abbott – The Analog-ists Revenge: How analog thinking can impact DAM: „Digital Asset Managers understand that every digital asset we choose comes with a cost (resources it will take to manage, upkeep, file formats, migrations etc), therefore we are extremely judicious with both what we keep (the assets) and how we keep it (the…