web assets

this is a post worth reading, from Scott Karp at Publish2:
Forget Platforms And Applications, Data Is The Real Asset On the Web

... and it kind of connects to the last link in the linkouts post of Oct 16 - which pitched data against documents.

this is a big thing to get my head round, but i guess a lot of it is common sense. and as a publisher, we should act to move in this direction... certainly in relation to the first post. the post above is talking in a more technical frame. however, we do have valuable data that we could benefit from allowing others to use - sensibly, of course.

for a small publisher this is an extreme challenge. as you have to fulfill pretty much every step along the way within a small group. this is certainly true for us. but as for most other advancements, the element of planning here is key. the almost impossible task of getting hold of good data is already taken care of.