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Cobranding. In the New Architect article, “Joint Venture”, Adaptive Path's Jeffrey Veen discusses how to co-brand services successfully on the web. Well-executed partnerships can make your site's offerings both more complete and more competitive. Just remember that new content or services will only attract users if they are complementary to your current offerings and are… Continue reading Cobranding

HBR article on social networks. Harvard Business Review has an [article in their June issue] about Social Network Analysis and how to tap into the power of informal knowledge & action creation in a company. This is an important field of study for us to keep up with, because it provides a new context for… Continue reading HBR article on social networks

Harnessing Social Networks in Libraries.  Watch Marylaine's Ex Libris site for a new column about utilizing social networks in libraries called “Who You Know Still Counts.” Here's an excerpt: “I've been reading a couple of books which I may tell you more about in subsequent issues,* and though one is about  information entrepreneurship and the… Continue reading Harnessing Social Networks in Libraries

Theologians call for wider debateIn the shadow of the priest sex abuse crisis, members of the world's largest association of Catholic theologians, yesterday called on the Catholic Church to re-explore its power structure, its priesthood, and its teachings about sexuality. [Boston.com] Probably the best article I've seen on the wider issues stemming from the current… Continue reading Theologians call for wider debate

Political News from Wired News – Do Dots Connect to Police State? Adding more fuel to critics decrying the administration's centralization of power, President Bush proposes a cabinet-level domestic security office. [ … ] The FBI and the CIA would not be replaced by the new agency, but some of their operations would be given… Continue reading Wired News

New Yorker.   Interview with Barry Diller.  Very smart guy. Question:  And what about Internet connectivity? Do you see it through the cable wire, or the telephone wire, or some other wire? Diller:  I think it's going to come from lots of places. I think that, from what I have seen, cable-modem penetration is growing, is efficient,… Continue reading New Yorker

The Self-Checkout: Lots of Swiping, No Stealing ” 'Most of the systems are similar and use a recorded voice and visual cues on a touch-screen monitor to guide shoppers through the process. At the bagging end, most use scales that can detect attempts to steal unscanned merchandise. Behind the scenes, each self-checkout station works with… Continue reading The Self-Checkout: Lots of Swiping, No Stealing

Time.  Computer automation, recessions, and white collar work.  The new economy rush towards productivity continues. >>>But until now there has been no holistic approach to networks — just efforts to make storage or servers more efficient on their own, Horn says. And though the recession has shrunk technology budgets, financial constraints often encourage this kind of enhancement… Continue reading Time

CNet.  Internet music distribution entrepreneurs should give it up.   They should focus on becomming an independent label with a lean cost structure.  I agree.  This should have been the model for MP3.com (or at least it was when they started out). >>>As anyone who has spent any time with a major will tell you, these are… Continue reading CNet

J R R Tolkien was an information architect. Gerry McGovern on Tolkien as an IA. Information architecture is concerned with the organization and layout of content. It is a discipline that has evolved over centuries, finding its roots in writing and printing. J R R Tolkien was a master information architect. He created complex genealogical… Continue reading J R R Tolkien was an information architect