Digital Asset Management

7 Steps to Metadata Utopia « Sentric Music’s Blog by sP. NOTE: this isn’t a post talking about if it’s worth sending CD’s, or sending links to yousendits or SoundClouds or FTPs or Rapidshares (which, might I add, is RUBBISH) or public Dropbox links (which I recommend) or just whacking MP3’s directly into emails etc. No, no, [...]

Utopia, Inc.: iData – Part 2 “How Data Creates Business Value”. The content in iTunes® is made up of binary bits and bytes – we like to call this data. It’s arranged in a certain way we like to call it music (complex data). These “objects” have certain characteristics or attributes, we like to capture [...]

Cyber Anthropology: A Unified View of Communities … – Lithosphere Community. The Social Networks inside Communities As we’ve learned, most of the strong relationships in our personal social network(a.k.a. personal network) were developed in communities that were once part of our lives. Figure 1 illustrates the dynamics of a person (hypothetically Bob, the red dot inFigure 1) [...]

An ontology of social media data for better privacy policies. Privacy continues to be an important topic surrounding social media systems. A big part of the problem is that virtually all of us have a difficult time thinking about what information about us is exposed and to whom and for how long. As UMBC colleague Zeynep [...]

Image via Wikipedia ABC The Drum Unleashed – Can computers really tell what we think?. “Julia Gillard was in my dream last night. It was quite bizarre.” One point for Julia. “Tony Abbott‘s laugh is a little bit terrifying, but at least he can laugh.” One point for Tony.This is how computers are determining whether our [...]

Everything is Miscellaneous | Democratized curation. JP Rangaswami has an excellent post about the democratizing of curation. He begins by quoting Eric Schmidt (found at 19:48 in this video): “…. the statistic that we have been using is between the dawn of civilisation and 2003, five exabytes of information were created. In the last two [...]

Most definitely off grid …. Back soon A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. Anais Nin

Your Workforce is Your Social Media Policy |. The democratization of knowledge is a real phenomenon — thanks to the internet. Your company should be playing on this field in a big way. You should be mining your entire workforce for content and promotion. Don’t close your employees off from social media, empower them to [...]

Everything is Miscellaneous | Twitter metadata and where standards come from. Matthew Ingram at Gigagom blogs about an upcoming Twitter feature called Twitter Annotations. Well, it’s not actually a feature. It’s the ability to attach metadata to a tweet. This is potentially great news, since it will give us a way to add context to tweets [...]

Community vs. Social Network – Lithosphere Community. Since 2008, “social media” has become a heavily-used buzz word in the corporate world. The question is “what is social media?” Many seem to equate social media to Facebook-liked social networking sites; others seem to think that they are blogs, the Twitter family of applications for micro-blogging, Flickr, YouTube, or similar type of content [...]