Rough draft poem: Document what art thou?

I am the Data Container, Disseminator, and Canvas.
I came to be when the cognitive skills of mankind deemed oral history 
inadequate.
I am transcendent, I take many forms, but my core purpose is constant - 
Container, Disseminator, and Canvas.
I am dexterous, I can be blank, partitioned horizontally, horizontally 
and vertically, and if you get me excited and I'll show you fractals.
I am accessible in a number of ways, across a plethora of media.
I am loose, so you can access my content too.
I am loose in a cool way, so you can refer to me independent of my content.
I am cool in a loose way, so you can refer to my content independent of me.
I am even cool and loose enough to let you figure out stuff from my 
content including how its totally distinct from me.
But...
I am possessive about my coolness, so all Containment, Dissemination, 
and Canvas requirements must first call upon me, wherever I might be.
So...
If you postulate about my demise or irrelevance across any medium, I 
will punish you with confusion!
Remember...
I just told you who I am, when something tells you what it is, and it is 
as powerful as I, best you believe it :-)

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Regards,

Kingsley Idehen	
President&  CEO
OpenLink Software
Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen

Received on Thursday, 11 November 2010 16:50:22 UTC