This week’s Twitter digest from TheContentGuy.

This week’s twitter digest from TheContentGuy.

It’s been four months since I started working to integrate Twitter and other tech into my website to create timely links to industry news and topics of interest. Back in May, I posted a list of next steps for enhancing the news feed and weekly digest, improving the look and feel, and extending status updates to other outlets. Here’s where things stand today.

[webcast] [search] Earley SharePoint JumpStart 4: 6/25 12:30ET “SharePoint IA vs. The Real World” Register: http://ping.fm/DMseU #spjs

[semantics] Michael Dunn: “Semantics is the marriage of aboutness, findability, and monetization.” #semtech09
[semantics] Huffington Post A/B tests headlines to improve findability #semtech09
[semantics] Dave McComb: gist – an upper ontology for business that is easy #semtech09
[semantics] Siri virtual assistant on iPhone is the coolest thing I’ve seen in years! #semtech09
[semantics] Tom Gruber: showing Siri, a virtual [...]

Tagging isn’t new – it’s been around for a dog’s age in internet years. But in the past few years some fresh ideas and tools have reinvigorated the social tagging world. These new approaches include an attempt to improve findability through a bit of structure and control. While the idea of adding control to folksonomy seems like going against the whole selling point of social tagging (flexibility, openness), it is bringing the tagging to a new level, making it more viable for practical use in enterprises.

I’ve been looking for some time for a way to simplify how I repost headlines from news sources and blogs, so that I can aggregate them into my own “digest” page of items of interest to share with my readers, network, and followers. 
Several things were important to me about how to do this:

I wanted to [...]

I posted earlier today at Not Otherwise Categorized… about the announcement last month of OASIS’s new standard for the Unstructured Information Management Architecture, Version 1.0.  Read all about it here:  OASIS Approves UIMA – the first standard for accessing Unstructured Information