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Which 95%? Web governance for universities

Submitted by Åke Johansson on December 4, 2007 - 02:13

Just back from the Gilbane conference in Boston where I talked to Adriaan Bloem of Radagio and CMS Watch on the problems of web governance for universities which Adrian just wrote about.

And what about those 95% you ask? Well, universities pioneered the web and their very decentralized web sites have since grown organically, many now containing hundreds of thousands of pages, if not millions. 95% of which could probably be deleted without anyone ever missing them -- but which 95%?

If you ask me, Adriaan also has the best definition of Web 2.0 so far. But I'll let him tell you that one himself.

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