Self immolation is a rare, some may say mythical event.  Yet in the world of content management it is more common than you might think. For example, I witnessed three major ECM Suite vendors burst into flames of their own earlier this year during a week of day-long demos for a large customer.

Trends: Some lessons out of ECM vendor demo hell.

The Argo Project, as the network calls it, will help the stations expand coverage by creating “content verticals,” a new-media term for an ongoing online offering devoted to a particular subject.

Think of Planet Money — the NPR.org feature that persistently examines the mysteries of the global economic meltdown. Imagine how Boston’s WBUR could apply that reporting depth and doggedness to health-care reform stories on its CommonHealth blog, or what Triple A pioneer WXPN could do on the Philadelphia music scene, or how Oregon Public Broadcasting could clarify environmental policy.

Proposals for a digital content repository shared by public TV and pubradio are “not only possible but absolutely where we should be aiming,” Kinsey Wilson said.

NPR’s Argo Project plans to increase ‘vertical’ news production | Reclaim the Media.

The blogosophere has at least four Fields medallists (the Nobel of math), three Nobelists, and many more luminaries. The New York Times can keep its Pulitzer Prizes [....] The result is that the people who add the most value to information are no longer the people who do production and distribution. Instead, it’s the technology people, the programmers.

via Michael Nielsen.