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Matthew’s Top 100 Unskippable Songs

January 22, 2009
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As I was mowing the lawn yesterday, listening to my iPod, I had a not so profound thought (I had plenty of time to think … the lawn is 60 acres). My 80G iPod is packed to the limit and when I play it on the random setting, I usually skip through half of the songs – not because I don’t like them but because it depends on what kind of mood I’m in. However, there are some songs that I just can’t skip. No matter how many times I listen to them or what kind of mood I’m in. The album and version are important – some songs are much better live some are much better as a cover by another artist. Some are great songs in the history of music, some are mostly unknown, and the rest are just plain corny. I’ll let you be the judge. Here is Matthew’s Top 100 Unskippable Songs:

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The Silly Simplicity of Future ECM

January 26, 2007
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My interest in ECM (enterprise content management) is purely based on the value it can deliver to the business. I think much progress has been made, but the focus is still very much on technology. I would start with your users and ask them what would make their lives easier – that would be my feature set. Some of the things business users often ask for seems impossible, but the basic theme I usually get is this: they want the system to handle the difficult, time consuming stuff and shift the complexity away from the human and put it onto the machine. To most users, this was the point of buying the system in the first place.

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