My friend Dilip sent me a link to a very nice piece: If Content is King … Context is Kingdom ..
Really interesting piece.
I think Neil Clammons is right on target when he says
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Interesting that right now there’s a special issue about “Integration of Context and Content for Multimedia Management” in IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, vol. 11, no. 2, Feb 2009
Thanks for pointing this out. This is a good issue.
I love content and how it flows. When writing we know that text is not the only way to communicate. We now embed videos, slideshows, consumer polls and other types of widgets.
People once thought that video would be the only way, but my preference is text and image.
By the way, I did a case study with Google “taken out of context”, which gave my thoughts back in 2004. Now we have google coming out with the new “cloud” system to kill the pc forever!
This is especially meaningful to anyone who routinely attempts to create content with context that will appeal and attract others. Providing the proper context within your content is what makes it rich and something of value, as well as a challenge to the writer.