Arnold Columns for February 2011
January 31, 2011
The ArnoldIT.com team has completed Stephen E Arnold’s for-fee columns for February 2011. These articles will run any time between mid-February 2011 and the end of April 2011. Print publications have longer production processes. Online versions of the columns may appear at different intervals.
This months’ topics by journal, tabloid, or online magazine are:
- For Enterprise Technology Management, the column talks about Google and its compound documents. Quite a search and retrieval challenge brewing we think. We don’t have an answer to searching compound documents when legal discovery kicks in, but we raise some questions for US readers or no US companies with offices in the USA.
- For Information Today, this month’s column takes a look at discovery services that have moved from the Department of Defense to a library near you. Our focus is on EBSCO, a giant in the commercial database and information services world. Librarians will like this write up.
- For KMWorld, the column talks about the semantic challenges of the new content types. We highlight Expert System, an Italian outfit with some nifty semantic technology.
- For Searcher Magazine, we took our 1999 essay about Internet video, critiqued it and identified our errors. Then we looked at what seems to be the trajectory of today’s Internet video options. The question we answer, “Is Internet video viable yet?” Yes, we discuss Google TV. Wow, what a product.
- For Smart Business Network, “Groupon: The Social Coupon Revolution.” The write up describes Groupon.com, mentions Living Social, and references Google’s forthcoming social coupon service, Google Offers. The column explains what businesses are more likely to succeed with social coupons and which are more likely to achieve unsatisfactory results.
I am not sure what happened to Information World Review. I have written for them for a year or more, and this go around was my second. Emails have gone unanswered. I am sitting on my SAP column about TREX and Project Argo, but I have published a snippet of the Argo infor4mation because it was so darned interesting to us.
I have a feature on its way to Online Magazine. I do a write up about open source search and content processing every eight weeks. When that goes off at the end of February, we will include in the column round up for March 1, 2011.
Remember: the stuff in the blogs Beyond Search and IntelTrax is provided free of charge. The for fee columns involve “real work”. We can’t reproduce the content of these write ups in the blog. Every couple of years, I did up versions of the for fee articles and post them on ArnoldIT.com. If you want the information in these for fee columns, you will have to buy a subscription to the publication or Web site. Don’t ask us for copies. We just tell everyone, “No.”
Furthermore, keep in mind that the info on the blogs and the supporting Search Wizards Speak is marketing oriented. (It still is the largest, no cost collection of first person explanations of important topics in search and retrieval available today.) That means ads, puffery, baloney, and recycled vendor information. We are not running blogs in quite the way the “real” journalists and “real” consultants do. We know ephemera because we produce it.
The for-fee columns involve work, fact checking, vendor review, and other processes that don’t get within 100 meters of the free blog content. Oh, dear PR “wizards”, if you contact us hoping to plant your clients’ news stories, we now contact the client directly and inform the client to tell the PR “wizard” to quit annoying us. Geese can be frisky, especially when semi retired and 66 years old.
Stephen E Arnold, January 31, 2011
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