http://www.clueful.com.au/blog/ The incoherent ramblings of someone who spends way too much time thinking about content management. en-us 2006-11-05T22:08:11+00:00 http://www.clueful.com.au/blog/archives/2006/11/innovating_our.html I'm lucky enough to be involved with the BBC Innovation Labs, run by Matt Locke and the BBC Creative R&D team (er I think they're still called that?) The Labs are basically a way to involve the new media "indie"... Innovation brendan 2006-11-05T22:08:11+00:00 http://www.clueful.com.au/blog/archives/2005/04/fame_of_sorts.html Heh -- last night I discovered that Yahoo My NewsML modules to power their news.yahoo.com site. The NewsML and NITF modules, the ones I haven't updated in over three years, are running on dozens of machines and their news site... Syndication brendan 2005-04-07T22:26:50+00:00 http://www.clueful.com.au/blog/archives/2004/10/economist_on_si.html This week's Economist has a special on designing for simplicity. It's described in terms a business manager can understand, with a few strained metaphors such as the journey of a byte from disk to user, but the point it raises... Service Oriented Architecture brendan 2004-10-31T23:46:51+00:00 http://www.clueful.com.au/blog/archives/2004/10/update_to_rdf_d_1.html RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements Somehow I feel the combined smarts of the W3C should be able to come up with more exciting use cases than finding the top 10 movies which also had soundtracks that came top... Semantic Web brendan 2004-10-31T22:52:03+00:00 http://www.clueful.com.au/blog/archives/2004/10/events_ml.html Something I hadn't noticed before... IPTC EventsML Working Group. Right now "The project scope is limited to the definition of an information interchange standard for newsworthy event information", but I'm sure they will expand the scope eventually to handle other... Information Markup Standards brendan 2004-10-29T11:36:21+00:00 http://www.clueful.com.au/blog/archives/2004/10/publishing_our.html In the BBC English Regions web CMS I've been involved with building, we have six controlled vocabularies for descriptive metadata (location, name, subject, audience, BBC brand, time period), and we manage about 85,000 terms in those CVs. We sourced some... Metadata brendan 2004-10-28T15:14:48+00:00 http://www.clueful.com.au/blog/archives/2004/10/thoughts_on_a_b.html After seeing some cool newsy metadataey things recently like aaronland's New York Times widgets and Stef's BBC News wikipedia thing, and talking to Tom L about some of his grand ideas, I've been thinking more about where the BBC should... BBC brendan 2004-10-24T23:37:04+00:00 http://www.clueful.com.au/blog/archives/2004/10/cm_professional.html After about six months in gestation by a group of Content Management gurus and me, CM Professionals - The Content Management Community of Practice was launched in September. We hope it to be a place where the sort of people... CMS Best Practice brendan 2004-10-24T22:07:39+00:00 http://www.clueful.com.au/blog/archives/2004/07/graf_review_on.html The Graf review on the BBC's online offering was finally released today, after 18 months of development. So what does it have to say about content management at the BBC? Some interesting points... (Just notes-to-self for now, I'll come back... BBC brendan 2004-07-06T00:48:20+00:00 http://www.clueful.com.au/blog/archives/2004/07/welcome.html Hello and welcome to what is currently called "Brendan's Braindump" -- Brendan Quinn's thoughts about the world of content management systems, the techniques of teasing these systems into doing something that's actually useful to human beings, and generally the practice... About This Blog brendan 2004-07-04T23:07:14+00:00