Craig’s Musings

This week has seen REST experts Roy Fielding and Sam Ruby comment on CMIS. As someone directly involved in CMIS, I wanted to acknowledge both Roy’s remarks and Sam’s remarks, which follow onto Roy’s.
The standards effort based in OASIS that is CMIS is indeed just getting started, as Sam notes. There is a lot of [...]

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I apologize for the short notice, but I will be presenting a webinar on Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) this Thursday. Registration is still open: http://www.emc.com/events/2008/q3/09-18-08-cmis-launch.htm. I hope that you can not only listen to the presentation but also participate actively in the Q&A portion.
If you cannot participate but are still interested in CMIS, I [...]

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I am excited to (finally) say that EMC, IBM and Microsoft have announced the creation of a jointly developed interface specification called Content Management Interoperability Services, or CMIS. This is important news for the industry as CMIS uses web services to provide greater interoperability across multiple Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories.
The current draft specification will [...]

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I finished reading Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google back in June, but am just now getting to blogging my thoughts on this book. Something about shipping software…
Carr carefully recounts how the electrical industry evolved, and focused on the personalities of early central players such as Thomas [...]

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During a recent Charlie Rose interview with Peter Chernin, the subject of media formats came up, which reminded me of an earlier question I raised, “What is the natural unit of written collaboration?” When I mused upon this question it was in the context of documents and written content. I hadn’t really thought about so-called [...]

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