The articles and columns date back to 1995, and the content keeps coming. Watch
this space for more. I'll update it frequently as my publishing agreement allows. And in the meantime, check out my content management blog, the "cutting room floor" where I put in the details that can't fit into the columns or reviews.
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Software Reviews Index by Year
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| Office 2007 Review |
Printed in July 2007 by EContent Magazine. if you want to learn details of my findings, go to my blog. |
| StarOffice 8 Review |
Should you consider an open office suite? Check this review for some surprising answers. (Hint: it is a very good value). |
| Entrieva |
Need to tag your content? Check out Entrieva/Semio Tagger. You can even get real-time notification via cell or wired phones,
PDAs, or email. |
| Office 2003 - XML Word and InfoPath |
MS Office 2003, compared with Corel WordPerfect |
| Altova
Spy 5.0, Enterprise Edition |
Printed in EContent Magazine March,
2003 |
| FrameMaker
7 |
Printed in EContent Magazine October,
2002. |
| Arbortext's
Epic 4.2 DecisionMaker |
First in a new series of reviews
for EContent. Printed in the June 2002 issue of EContent. Embargoed until
early next year. In the meantime, go to www.econtentmag.com. |
| MGI
VideoWave 5 |
Review of this
popular prosumer package for developing digital video for delivery to web,
CD, or other media. November 2002. |
| RoboHelp
Office 9.1 Review |
Delivering knowledge
about your company or products, whether within your company or to clients
or others, is increasingly difficult. Product support and documentation
must be available 24/7, on an ever-increasing variety of platforms and the
Web, but at ever-decreasing costs. Online HELP is usually the solution.
Now there's a tool tailor-made for the task: RoboHelp Office 9.1. Printed
in the May 2001 issue of EMedia Magazine, just in time for the AIIM conference. |
| XMetaL 1.2 Review |
Printed in March
2000 issue of EMedia Professional. One reader's comment: "I was
thrilled to see your review of XMetal in this months issue of eMedia. Finally
a review of XML software from somebody that grasps what it is about!"
This issue also contains a companion column, "Making the Commitment
to XML." 3 months after I suggested a bundling of XML Authority with
XMetaL (in this review), it happened! |
| Acrobat 4.0 Review |
Printed in the September'99 issue.
If you'd like a brief streaming media demonstration of a new Acrobat
feature, table extracts, click here. Requires
the Real Player, preferably the latest G2 version. A bit jerky (since it
is designed for delivery to worst-case, 28.8 modems), but still gets the
Acrobat lesson across. |
| Acrobat 3.0 Review |
Software review of Adobe's Acrobat 3.0 suite
of PDF tools. This was an "Editor's Choice." Printed August
1999. |
| QuickFind Review |
Software review of SoftScape's
QuickFind content-based retrieval and viewing system printed Sept 1999.
Also an "Editor's Choice." |
| QuickTime 3.0 Review |
Software review
of Apple's QuickTime Professional version 3.0, printed August 1999. |
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Information Insider columns and industry commentaries,
in chronological order.
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Column Index by Year
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1995 Columns |
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| CD-ROM Help Desk Hurdle |
Information Insider column printed October 1995. |
| CD/Web Publishing
for Small Businesses |
Information Insider column printed December 1995. |
1996 Columns
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| Corporate Online/CD-Rom Publishing: Design and Technical Issues |
Information Insider column printed February 1996. |
| Lost
in HyperText? Map Your Information |
Information Insider column printed April 1996;
original lost but this facsimile is faithful to the text. More international
reader response than any other column to date! |
| Hope For the
SGML Savant is Near and Far Away |
Information Insider column printed June 1996. |
| SGML Refineries:
Distilling Docubases for CD-ROM/Online References |
August 1996 Information Insider column. |
| SGML Versus Acrobat:
Which to Use for CD-ROM/Online Publishing? |
October 1996 Information Insider
column. |
1997 Columns
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| Text Retrieval Trends and Predictions |
Information Insider column printed April 1997. |
| Searching for Meaning in Databases |
Information Insider column printed
December 1997. black and white scan to PDF. Describes the linguistic search
ability of what was then called Oracle's ConText, a retrieval system
integrated within Oracle's structured database system. Oracle has upgraded
ConText and given it a new name: Intermedia. |
1998 Columns
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| Here's Waldo: Content-Based Image Retrieval |
Information Insider column printed February 1998. |
| Special Librarians and Knowledge Management |
Information Insider column printed
April 1998; black and white scan to PDF. |
| XML:
The New Document Standard |
Information Insider column printed
June 1998. |
| Intranet
searching a light at the end of the tunnel |
EMedia article, June 1998. |
| Manage Your Metadata |
Information Insider column printed
August 1998; black and white scan to PDF. |
| Electronic Publishing and the Y2K Problem |
Information Insider column printed
October 1998. |
| Something to Protect: Secure Acrobat Publishing |
Information Insider column printed
December 1998. |
1999 Columns
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| Electronic Publishing Forecasts |
Information Insider column printed January 1999. |
| Visualizing XML |
Information Insider column printed March 1999. |
| Authoring XML |
Information Insider column printed May 1999. |
| Next-Generation
Searching: Looking For the Right Stuff |
Information Insider column printed
July 1999. |
| Manage Your Media: Back to the Future |
Information Insider column printed
September 1999. Combines document management issues with a trip to Ireland
and the Book of Kells. |
| Why
Bother with XML? |
Devil's Advocate
question, printed November 1999; answered in January 2000 column. |
2000 Columns
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| Why Bother with XML? Here's Why! |
The Devil gets his due. Printed January 2000. |
| Making the Commitment to XML |
Who says the "XML Family" can't have a little fun? March,
2000,
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| ePublishing in a Post Monopoly World |
I use Windows but I don't worship
at the altar of Microsoft. Here's why. The W3C liked this enough to
include it in its PRESS listing for 2000. May, 2000. |
| New
Millenium Search Systems: Does X Mark the Spot? |
Annual search system column, with
special emphasis on XML. July, 2000. |
| ECommerce Dilemma: Controlling What You Sell. |
Digital Rights Management: It's
on everybody's mind. September,2000. |
| Browser
Wars: Now It's e-Books. |
Are we seeing a replay with e-Books
of the web browser wars of yesteryear? November, 2000. |
| Oh
What a Tangled Web We Weave |
A peek into the Web's future, and
an interview with XML evangelist Simon Phipps at XML World 2000 in Boston. |
| XML
Starter Toolkit |
Want to start building your XML skills?
You need XML tools. Here are some suggestions about how to start building
your toolkit. December, 2000. |
2001 Columns
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| XML Does Rich Media |
XML... it isn't just for text anymore. March, 2001 |
ECommerce
and Knowledge Management: No Longer the Odd Couple
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Knowledge management and ecommerce
were never total strangers. What is new is that you are
beginning to see this couple nearly everywhere, sometimes in the unlikeliest
products. Printed in the May 2001 issue of EMedia Magazine, just in time
for the AIIM conference. |
| Please
Keep Your Ticket: Protecting Content and Property |
Digital Rights Management and e-publications.Things
were simpler before the advent of "digital." Printed in the July
2001 issue of EMedia Magazine. |
| XML
Publishing Across the Lifecycle |
How is XML publishing like building
a house? What questions should you consider before committing to XML publishing?
Printed in the October 2001 issue of EContent Magazine. |
| SMIL,
Streaming Media... |
Printed in the September 2001 issue
of EMedia Magazine. |
| XML
Buyer's Guide 2001 |
Printed in the December 2001 issue
of EMedia Magazine. |
| Tracking
Acrobat - Charting a Path to the Future |
All about Acrobat 5 and tracking
to divine Adobe's future directions. Printed in the November 2001 issue
of EMedia Magazine. |
2002 Columns
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| Visualizing Web Data |
Although the Web is inherently visual, its data
presentation techniques today are frequently superficial: lists of search results with rows of icons to indicate relevance, or eye-candy animations. See what Tim Bray (co-inventor of XML) is doing to fix that. Printed in the February 2002 issue of EMedia Magazine. |
| Adobe
DVD News Commentary |
When Adobe acquired DVD technology,
here's what they may have been planning. Printed in the March 2002 issue
of EMedia Magazine. |
FEAR
of flying? or the MAIL?
TRY the web conferencing CURE |
Since 9/11, Whether physical travel
or physical mail, we’ve grown suspicious about physical travel and
physical mail, and come to depend increasingly on the Web. See web conferencing
alternatives. Printed in the March 2002 issue of EMedia Magazine. |
the
ROI of RMM: rich MEDIA
management meets ECOMMERCE |
Profitable ideas for managing your
rich media. Printed in the May 2002 issue of EMedia Magazine. |
rich
MEDIA makeovers: vendor
SUCCESS stories |
July 2002 issue of EMedia Magazine.
Final "Insider" column for EMedia. Column now moving to EContent,
as part of a repositioning of both magazines. This
resulted from Information Technology, Inc.(ITI)'s acquisition of Online
Inc, announced at the May 2002 KMWorld conference. |
| XMetal
Commentary |
Commentary on the acquisition of
SoftQuad XMetaL by Corel. Printed in the June issue of EContent. |
| Rich
Media Knowledge Strategies |
September 2002 issue of EContent
Magazine. |
| Content-Centric
XML: Where We've Been, Where We're Going in 2003 |
November 2002 issue of EContent Magazine. |
2003 Columns
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| Searching for KM |
January 2003 issue of EContent Magazine. |
| Keys
to KM: Finding Information |
March 2003 issue of EContent Magazine. |
| EDocs:
Signed, Sealed and Delivered |
May 2003 issue of EContent Magazine.
Latest and greatest ways to secure electronic documents. |
| Content-centric
XML: Coming soon to an Intranet near you. |
July 2003 issue of EContent Magazine.
NewsML. |
| Publishing
Equations? Do the Math(ML) |
September 2003 issue of EContent
Magazine. All about MathML vendors. |
| Acrobat
Scores Again in a Changing Game |
Printed in the November 2003 issue
of EContent Magazine. Describes Acrobat 6 and some XSLT alternatives. |
| Content -- New Respect and Support |
Content --especially XML content-- is no longer the Rodney Dangerfield of information systems. And vendors are taking notice and providing new eContent products. |
2004 Columns
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| Searching for ROI |
Does Enterprise Search Pay? What's the business case for enterprise search systems? Here are some approaches. |
| MathML |
Publishing Equations? Do the Math(ML) |
| Developing a Taste for XML Alphabet Soup |
Confused by the array of XML standards? Here's some help. |
| Does Your Website Need HELP? |
Think web site FAQs are all you need? Think again. |
| Don't File in Triplicate |
Use eForms. |
| Playing with Taxonomies |
Loosen up your taxonomies and get user buy-in. |
2005 Columns
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| Transparent XML |
Read my thoughts about XML after a half hour one-on-one interview, at the XML 2004 Conference, with Jean Jean Paoli, Microsoft's Director of XML Architecture. |
| To Search or Not to Search - That is the Query |
Ready for desktop search? Look before you commit. |
| I'm Adobe and I'll Be Your Server |
One billion readers and
players is a very large installed base of votes for the new
Adobe–Macromedia team. Adobe Forms can give you a short-cut to XML delivery too. |
| Question What You Read - With XQuery |
OK, you're overwhelmed with the number of XML standards, each of which promises to transform the way you manage your content. Well adoption (and learning) rates are still low, but XQuery is one you might want to get familiar with - even if you have no XML content as yet! |
| 2006 Columns |
Is this really the year of the Clash of the Titans - Microsoft against everybody else? That and records management are key themes in 2006. |
| Clash of the Titans |
Microsoft's Office Suite provides about 25% of its total revenues, and that is a very tempting target for others. Add the trend towards "open source" (read OpenOffice and StarOffice) to the mix, and the fight could be an interesting one indeed. |
| Success has a Thousand Litigants |
You've heard the expression, success has a thousand fathers. Our patent system is faced with a paternity problem. |
| Keep and Use Your Content Forever |
Tall order? Mike Wash of the Government Printing Office has laid the foundation to make this possible. |
| Future-Proof your Records |
This column discusses office records -- any document that you must preserve for a stated period and then eventually destroy. If your record retention period is a very long time --forever?-- then this article is for you. |
| Content 2.0: Titans and Lilliputians |
Is there a Content 2.0 lesson to draw from the story of Gulliver? |
| 2007 Columns |
Content 2.0, the underpinnings of Web 2.0, emerges. |
| Acrobat 8 and Content 2.0 |
Like its web counterpart, Content 2.0 is emerging in rapid fit and starts. There will be an evolution of electronic formats (and
extinctions). Who will be next? |
| XBRL and Human Nature |
What's holding up adoption of XBRL in the US? Is there more to XBRL than just "tagging"? |
| Office Suite Strategies |
How do you choose between the currently most widely used office suite and the ISO standard? |
| XML - Everybody's Doing It |
The world's two major office suites now both are based on XML. One does a better job of it than the other, but both offer opportunities for exploiting our office documents. |
| Content 2.0 Converges |
You've heard of Web 2.0. Well there is a parallel document universe, and I call it Content 2.0. |
2008 Columns |
How green are your documents? Energy and content management issues converge. |
| It Ain't Easy Being Green |
We've felt it in our bones - energy issues will affect everything, including our content lifecycle. This is the first column in a series dealing with green document issues. |
| Can Records Management Save the World? |
No, but it can help. Here's how. |
| Can Your Search System Keep You Out of Jail? |
Can search systems keep you out of jail? At this point, you’d probably settle for keeping yourself out of the archive vault nights and weekends when that inevitable e-discovery request arrives. |
| News to Go: Paper or Digital? |
The Wall Street Journal, XBRL, and thoughts about taking your documents with you on a Mobile Internet Device. |
| 2009 Columns |
Building Content Bridges - What the emerging CMIS specification could mean for your ECM systems. |
| It's Taxonomy Time |
Feeling overwhelmed by all that information? Lots of us are. |
| Still Searching for eReaders |
Is there an eReader that meets a kind of "Turing Test" for books - you can't (or nearly cannot) tell the difference between it and a book? I'm searching but may be coming close. |
| Word and 401(k)s |
What do these two topics have in common? XML. |
| Justifying eDiscovery Systems |
It's a bit late to get the eDiscovery religion after your enterprise is sued. Want to be proactive? |
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