Keith and I, the two IT Architects at UW-Madison, are getting ready for a planning session for our work. We are also getting ready to hire a third IT Architect. This has started me thinking about the big picture of “what we do”. I came up with the following chart last [...]

IT Conversations: Clay Shirky - Ontology is Overrated
Clay Shirky gave a presentation at ETech titled Ontology is Overrated. You can listen to the presentation at the link above (ITConversations).
Highlights [with my expansions in square brackets]:
(1) Ontologies are left over from times when we had to file objects on shelves. This is no longer [...]