While reading a entry ‘ECM is Fun’ by Carl @ TakingAim, I came across Wordle “a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide”. It was quite intriguing, so I ended up creating word cloud using Wordle for my blog as well. It was amazing to see your creativity printed out in a entirely new format. Here was the result:

This made me think about how content authors may feel when they see their content being re-purposed in myriad ways, sometime totally unpredictable. Would they feel proud or frustrated? What about me? I think I will be proud most of the time, probably except when the primary context itself is unrecognizable or spun-around. I create the content with a base context and if you remove that context, its meaning is lost.

There is always a first time, and this would be my first to write a blog. I was thinking about ECM as a topic, but decided against it. I would have lot more opportunity to do so in my future blog entries.

Today, I just want to say Hi and explain how you could gleam something positive from these blog entries. I have been working in Web world since I got my first Job (12 years ago) and last 8 years, I have been working with Vignette’s ECM  products. I have seen Web world change over this period of time, to the extents that I wonder how I did my tasks without the help of current tools (I am sure some of you would understand that sentiment).

Well, enough of my talk, time to stop it here and start planning about my next topic, which would be ECM related, I promise.