Blogs Bubble Into Business. Great in-depth article in Computerworld on how enterprise weblogs are being adopted…. [Ross Mayfield’s Weblog]
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My Yahoo Beta Tests RSS…
My Yahoo Beta Tests RSS Feeds. Everyone is buzzing about the fact that Yahoo is beta testing the addition of any RSS feed to it’s My Yahoo portal, a move that may signal an inroad to the mainstream. I didn’t want to comment on this until I had a chance to play with it; today I had that chance. Here…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Search: What…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Search: What Others Say. Before we go ahead, here are a few quotes from various publications which give an overview of the action in the Search space: Business Week: ?Google has decided that its customers should gather information through inputs of text search terms by using more or less the same simple interface to search for news,…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Search: What…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Search: What Other Say (Part 2). Wired News: ?As wonderful as Internet search engines are, they have a pretty big flaw. They often deliver too much information, and a lot of it isn’t quite what we’re looking for. Who really bothers to read the dozens of pages of results that Google generates? Some intriguing technologies are getting…
Analyst Best Practices #4: Working…
Analyst Best Practices #4: Working in Distributed Teams. Jeff Nichols over at Pervasive Computing has been running an excellent series of posts about good practices for analysts / consultants that are great guides. As a Road Warrior Consultant / Analysis I am finding them very helpful. Here are links to the first set in the series: Analyst Best Practices 1…
Analyst Best Practices #5: Requirements…
Analyst Best Practices #5: Requirements. Jeff Nichols continues his series on Analyst Best Practices with this post about gathering requirements. A set of good general guidance about how do project requirements. His last practice, though, I think is dangerous. Stay objective. Don’t inject your opinion into the business and user requirements process. Let users and stakeholders tell you what’s needed,…
Agile Knowledge Management [1].
Agile Knowledge Management. Denham Gray over at Knowledge-at-work has this interesting post about extreme knowledge and its roots in extreme programming methods. One connection perhaps not mentioned is that XP is part of a general movement in software development away from large, lumbering and inflexible processes to more human focused, light processes. This has coallesced into a statement that values:…
Analyst Best Practices #6: Doing…
Analyst Best Practices #6: Doing the Work. Here is an excellent addition to any analyst’s or consultant’s toolbox, again from Jeff Nichols. First it is all about scope. I wish I had learned this sooner in my career. I now spend far more time managing an engagement’s scope both upfront and as it progresses than I have done before and…
A Case Made Against RSS…
A Case Made Against RSS. When newspapers began publishing online editions, they failed to remember why their newsprint editions need Circulation departments. Imagine if your local newspaper didn’t deliver copies to homes, offices, or newsstands, that the publisher assumed anyone who wanted to read a copy would remember to go to the newspaper’s location and retrieve each copy page by…
Jeremy Zawodny has [1] notes…
Jeremy Zawodny has notes on the introduction of My.Yahoo’s RSS support. [Scripting News]