Discovery – On Keeping an Eye Open At All Times

In my previous post, I spoke about Content Discovery and The Enterprise, specifically about the case of dealing with flows of information external to the company, of monitoring such flows for specific signals or “intelligence”. I spoke of the Gathering phase. I wanted to make a short addendum of sorts. I thought it would be interesting to note that when we talk about content “external” to the company, we are not constrained to mean only online “web content”. The sources of information can be of many kinds. Any medium is as good a starting-point as another. You could do the same thing you do with web content but with newspapers, magazines, the evening news if you wanted. That’s why I’m writing this short addendum, to make a few important things clear.

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