Summary: Microcontent in the form of sound bites, links and text extracts are the lingua franca of the Web. But the flipside is that context morphs very easily, so what

I came across an article in Computerworld that has some good advice on designing and building IT systems. The article is by Michael Hugos and he starts out by defining

Open-Media.org is an Open Source Media Project launched today by Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica. It's going to be like the Internet Archive, only for multimedia files. In fact Brewster

I recently wrote about a new kind of literacy, one in which Generation Y is more fluent than the rest of us. It is transforming the act of reading and

Jon Udell has kicked off a series of articles at O'Reilly Network on what he calls "hypermedia blogging": "The two-way Web unleashed by the blogging revolution is, and will remain,

I've started a new topic-focused weblog: eBookCulture.com. It's going to be exclusively on the topic of eBooks and the read/write culture that I think will develop around eBooks over the

As a follow-up to my Reliance post yesterday, which was on the subject of my dependence on web servers, I read something by Mitch Kapor this morning that resonates (even

Audio and video blogging seem to be hot topics currently. I myself have done two, pretty low-tech, audio blog posts. Both were readings of textual posts, one of a Read/Write

The thing about web technology - and computing in general - that continues to frustrate me, is that it forces me to rely on hardware and software that is