Winer prunes blog and plants a tree. Dave Winer’s transformation of Scripting News from a weblog to a directory makes more sense if you look at his categories page and an example category such as the one devoted to Howard Dean. Apparently, the new slogan of Scripting News is “plant a tree.” I don’t know if I like the idea…
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Paid Subscription Blogging, Part 2…
Paid Subscription Blogging, Part 2. The second part of our article examining the feasibility of paid subscription blogging was published today by JupiterMedia’s ClickZ.com. It also features the opinions of Hylton Jolliffe of Corante, Steve Outing of the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits, Henry Copeland of Pressflex and BlogAds, and Nick Denton of Gawker, Gizmodo, and the recently launched Fleshbot. The…
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR PERSONAL…
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT. In a recent post I argued that IT and Knowledge Management (KM) should merge into a combined TechKnowledgy department that would, in addition to the traditional responsibilities for managing the financial, HR and sales systems and technical hardware of the organization, take on these two important new responsibilities focused on the individual ‘knowledge…
Idea management [1]. “Most Knowledge…
Idea management. “Most Knowledge Management work deals with the organization and structure of information, which, when done well, helps improve productivity and reduces rework and mistakes. A company’s future, though, is determined by creativity and innovation, and harnessing the resourcefulness of people… [Knowledge-at-work]
Learning templates for organising content…
Learning templates for organising content. I’ve just come across Denham Grey’s Information Gathering Template post. I’m not sure how I missed it before, I’m subscribed to Denham’s feed. Anyhow it’s really interesting.What he’s done is to publish his informal framework for categorizing information when doing research. It goes like this: People Places Problems Promises Principles Patterns Products Please read Denham’s…
The issue is user created…
The issue is user created context. “What I think may be relevant today is that new tools (weblogs, wikis, etc) are pushing forward along the dimension of context management instead of content. Perhaps what we are building with weblogs, RSS, and the rest is the infrastructure for personalizing and managing context on a new scale. “[McGee’s Musings]
Why Charging For Newspaper Content…
Why Charging For Newspaper Content Online Doesn’t Make Sense. One of the arguments that shows up here repeatedly is on the backwardness of local newspapers charging for online content. There are a number of reasons why it’s a bad idea – from the level of taking yourself out of the online discussion and believing that walled garden content can survive…
BUSINESS 2.0: BEST NEW TECHNOLOGIES…
BUSINESS 2.0: BEST NEW TECHNOLOGIES. (expertise finder from Entopia’s Social Networks Analyzer)The November edition of Business 2.0 (only available on-line to subscribers) has selected Social Networking Applications as the Technology of the Year. Mentioned in the survey are Ryze, LinkedIn, Friendster, Zero Degrees, Tribe.net, Spoke Connect, and Visible Path. The magazine should be commended for this insightful choice, but they…
Internet Librarian: 30 Search Tips…
Internet Librarian: 30 Search Tips in 40 Minutes. Mary Ellen Bates on tips for searching effectively. These are her tips, not mine. My comments, when I have them, are parenthetical. I almost hate to share these, because these are the kind of tips that let people like me come across as an ?angel of information mercy? to the people who…
Andrew Grumet’s new [1] Weblog…
Andrew Grumet’s new Weblog Outliner for Movable Type. [Scripting News]