Defrag Blog

Here’s how you *know* that you’re “edgy”: you’re thinking about the future of RSS (and all of the funky, mashup, defrag-y things you can do), while people like Janet Lee Johnson are still busy doing the real work of getting enterprises to adopt what’s available *now*.

On a more serious note: Janet’s post is great because it points out the simple power of what we’re talking about, and the bottom line is this: productivity enabled by improved means of discovery and assembly. At the end of the day (in eric’s simple world), all technology in the enterprise is adopted for only two reasons: either it lowers cost, or it increases revenue. Productivity is, of course, a cousin to increasing revenue.

All of this new stuff that we’re talking about (as with all good innovation) is really about a new means of accomplishing one of those two things. And the “means” can be broadly thought of in terms of “discovery” or “assembly” — where discovery roughly equates to productivity-enhancement and assembly roughly equates to cost-lowering.

(sidenote: the Defrag advisory board uses wikis and shared docs — all with RSS — to work on content. And really, isn’t that better than passing around a word doc with “track changes” turned on?)