Knowledge work and productivity. I’m rereading one of those classic Peter Drucker articles that make everything seem so straightforward and obvious. This one is from the Winter 1999 issue of the California Management Review and is titled “Knowledge-Worker Productivity: The Biggest Challenge.” (CMR, V.41, #2, Winter 1999, pp79-94) If it is typical Drucker, the rest of the world will start…
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BostonWorks – Software Engineer Jobs…
BostonWorks – Software Engineer Jobs “Software Engineer Job Listings from BostonWorks and The Boston Globe.” [Recently approved feeds from Syndic8.com] This is a great idea. I hope to make our Career Central databases of library-related jobs in the Chicagoland area available via RSS at some point. Ideally, you’d be able to subscribe to a feed of new listings for public…
Blogs are conversations [1].
Blogs are conversations. Joi: A Cluetrain Moment. This combination of Google and blogs may create an opinion management and cluetrain manifesto sort of human conversation about products in a much less centralized method than some of the earlier models like epinions. Dig Marc’s comments on Joi’s blog (scroll down).[The Doc Searls Weblog]
Journalizing Journalism [1].
Journalizing Journalism. Chris Gulker: In my mind, the rise of Weblogs parallels events in the 16th Century when one of the first networks – reliable postal service – appeared. Shortly after people like Locke and Galileo and Descartes began writing each other about their discoveries, and then scientific academies formed, where these letters would be read aloud to others who…
Oreilly.net [1]. Andy Oram in…
Oreilly.net. Andy Oram in Oreilly.net: Media is Ripe for a Convergence of a Different Sort. Good thoughts here. [JD’s New Media Musings]
Jeremy Zawodny reviews AmphetaDesk [1]…
Jeremy Zawodny reviews AmphetaDesk for Linux Magazine: “Unlike many of the ‘headline grabbing’ tools you’ll find by searching Freshmeat, and contrary to it’s description, AmphetaDesk is a server process (written in Perl) that you interact with using your favorite Web browser.” [Workbench]
Microsoft Watch has compiled a…
Microsoft Watch has compiled a list of present and past Microsoft employees who publish weblogs. Because I think it’s inevitable that Microsoft will offer weblog publishing software, I was curious to see what these publishers use. There are a bunch of Radio weblogs — At the Core, Better Living Through Software, DouglasP, InkBlog, Peter Drayton, SimpleGeek, and Y.B. Normal —…
Weblogs vs. Websites [1].
Weblogs vs. Websites. My good friend Erik Heels went live with his Radio-powered site last week. Part of this is an experiment to see whether weblogs deliver greater ROI than a traditional website (his “traditional” site is a database-powered website that is at heels.com). Keep an eye on this. Erik’s analysis is always detailed and his conclusions often surprising.[tins :::…
When to switch blogging tools?…
When to switch blogging tools?. I’ve been reading about a few bloggers moving off of manila or Radio. Here’s the basic formula for when to switch. When you add up the: Current value of my blogging tool Expected value of the stream of improvements to my blogging tool Cost of switching And find it is less than the: Current value…
RSS Aggregators [1]. Greg Notess…
RSS Aggregators. Greg Notess writing in InfoToday provides an excellent overview of RSS and News Readers. ” For those who like to skim many of these frequently updated sources, a better approach is to find something that summarizes the new content, presents it in a compact format, combines multiple sources in one interface, and provides links to the full content…