tech.memeorandum is an aggregator of blog posts and links covering the latest in what I'm calling Consumer Information Technology (or Consumer IT): Informaiton technology in the hands of the masses, or at least the emerging masses, interested in comsuming information (via search engine results, read-blogs, RSS readers, listened-podcasts) and communicating information (via written-blogs, produced-podcasts, RSS syndication). I haven't quite gotten on the Memeorandom bandwagon yet, as I haven't added it to my RSS reading list, but it's good for a tech read when the whim hits (and it's political side is a good skim also).
I specifically differentiate Consumer IT from Corporate IT, in that it seems like a lot of the blogging world covered by Memeorandum is still very focused on the act of producing and consuming of information for and about blogging and related issues (pinging, blog search, podcasting) as opposed to the analysis of technology and process used to run businesses (ERP systems, governance, business process, enterprise architecture). This may just be because the blogging (and it's offshoots) means of knowledge sharing and knowledge finding is still in it's infancy.
But there are signs of this beginning to change as even Memeorandum was covering BlogWrite for CEOs' Debbie Weil covering McDonald's blogging COOs and
Posted by outlawv at October 18, 2005 05:47 AM