Top Technology Developments in 2009

It was interesting to read Kathryn Greenhill's interpretation of 3 of the Top Technology Developments in 2009

These included -

The Semantic Web - a new name for linked data. It is about creating conceptual relationships between things found on the internet. Similar to the traditional library card catalog - have an item in hand, give it a unique identifier, describe it and have all descriptions in one place. Then allow people to navigate to the space.

Blogging - although it is here to stay people have discovered how hard blogs are to maintain and how hard it is to keep coming up with meaningful things to say. For me a wiki seems a more organised approach with perhaps a page for the blogging format of "New Technology - What's Out There??".

Word/tag clouds - very fashionable and a whole lot like concordances - one of the first types of indexes. Perhaps this is a way around organising the rambling blog. (Sorry fellow bloggers)

Bye for now,

Talk to you after the Online Conference...