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Right then. Back to the blog.

Since we spoke last,  I have:

Given up my FUMSI editor job. Finished off my Open Uni Certificate in Contemporary Science. Passed the Requirements Engineering exam. Got an allotment and an extra chicken. Made croissants.

I’m particularly pleased with the croissants.

The November issue of FUMSI is out now and the Manage article this month is by Kate Simpson.

Kate’s article is Enterprise Information Architecture: A View From The Legal World

“Like many organisations, law firms have an odd relationship with information. They know information is really important, especially the really valuable stuff in people’s heads: knowledge. But there’s just so much of it. And because they know it’s important they are loathe to delete anything (just in case)…”

The other articles this month are:

• Share: Designing for the Social: Avoiding Anti-Social Networks by Miles Rochford
• Use: Free Data: Turning It into Something Worth Paying For by David Gudgin
• Find: Key to Research Success: Asking the Right Questions by Jane John

Our latest FUMSI manage article is by Silver Oliver and about the Semantic Web, which he introduces as follows:

“The goal of the Semantic Web is to enable people to share structured data on the Web as easily as they can share documents today.

 

‘The current Web is a Web of documents where documents (Web pages) are connected by embedded Hyperlinks (links). Thus when you click on one document, the result is a single step Web transversal to another document. This widely understood, and accepted, Web interaction pattern is facilitated by a resource locater called a Uniform Resource Locater (URL) and a messaging protocol known as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).’

 Deploying Linked Data

We all know how successful this has been as a model because of its openness and simplicity. The Semantic Web builds on the things that made this model successful for publishing documents, but instead uses it for the publishing of structured data.”

Read the whole article: How the Semantic Web Will Change Information Management: Three Predictions

The June issue of FUMSI is out:

Finding Competitive Information for Growing Companies »
Convenience Trumps Quality: How Digital Natives Use Information »
ISO Management Standards, Intranets and Information Architecture »
The EU: Closer Than You Thought! »

I’ve been rather immersed in commissioning articles for FUMSI recently.

The topics have been interesting stuff: ISO standards & IA, semantic web, knowledge management, web analytics, enterprise architecture and concept maps. That lot should keep us in good content for a few months.

If you’ve got any ideas that you’d like to write about and even see in dead-tree media then let me know. They can fit into any of the four FUMSI areas (find, use, manage and share), although I get more brownie points for Manage articles(!)

Martin‘s written a lovely (and practical) article on managing your RSS feeds for the March edition of FUMSI magazine. I’ve subscribed to some search results already!

The latest addition to the Onopoly stable is http://www.fumsi.com/

Whilst the shiny new homepage comes complete with rounded corners and bouncing navigation (a new one on me) I can’t help feeling it would have scored more 2.0 brownie points if it had been named Fumzi. That would have rather spoilt the acrostic though.

I will be corralling, herding and coaxing the Manage section so expect more from me on FUMSI.

The recent flurry of 10th birthdays experienced in the web world really shouldn’t be surprising given the internet baby boom of the late 90s. So in 2007 we’ve celebrated weblogs, Google.com (but not according to Google) and the 10th anniversary of bbc.co.uk.

Last December I wrapped up the year with the Freepint article Five Years of Information Architecture. This year for Freepint’s 10th anniversary I’ve contributed to A Decade of Find, Use, Manage, Share with Marcy Phelps, Tim Houghton and Jessica Lipnack.

I’m looking forward to lots more working with Marcy and all the lovely Freepint folk in the new year.