Fasten Your Seat Belts….. Roll Up Displays in 2005? “Cambridge Display Technology group has acquired its rival Opsys, fusing the two companies together in the hopes that flexible, rollable TV and computing displays might see the light of day by 2005. As we’ve reported before, Organic LEDs will be the Next Big Thing? in flat panel displays, and Kodak, IBM,…
What Software Do Cable Installers…
What Software Do Cable Installers Place on Your PC? [Slashdot]
My favorite gift is the…
My favorite gift is the wine club Robin renewed for me – we’d belonged when we were living in California, but let it lapse when we came to Illinois. Knowing that each month we’ll get two bottles of wine from around the world is fun – and they are consistently outstanding wines. K&L Wine Merchants are the guys we use;…
A New Company Tries to…
A New Company Tries to Sort the Web’s Chaos. Grokker software, which is intended to allow personal-computer users to visually make sense of collections of thousands or hundreds of thousands of text documents, is creating a buzz. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]
Tales of CMS woe [1]….
Tales of CMS woe. Kelly Lakas writes about the challenges of obtaining support for commercial content management systems. This tale of woe covers not one, but two vendors, and highlights the issues facing many projects. To quote: While Support can be a difficult issue… [Column Two]
Justifying knowledge management ROI in…
Justifying knowledge management ROI in law firms. Kingsley Martin writes a comprehensive article on measuring the return on KM, in the context of law firms. He works through a range of calculation methods, and discusses both hard and soft benefits. For example: The benefits of KM can… [Column Two]
Google and Weblogs: best hope…
Google and Weblogs: best hope for KM. … [Jon Udell: InfoWorld]
Blogging in the classroom, Part…
Blogging in the classroom, Part 4. Plugging into the conversations. While weblogs might be a personal publishing phenomenon, k-logs exist within a network of ongoing conversations. Elsewhere, I’ve argued that one of the the values of k-logs is to help make the craft of knowledge work more visible. Entering the world of blogging and k-logging can be an overwhelming…
Have you seen Fetchserver.com [1].
Have you seen Fetchserver.com. Fetch delivers on the enterprise streaming side of klogging. Server pulls SQL data from sources, on schedule, outputs RSS feeds. Clients grab feeds, scroll news in a task bar UI. Note the variable query frequency: pulled more often for rapidly changing data, presented more prominently for more important data. Why isn’t this database bridge part of Radio or…
Knowledge Management Critique [1]. The…
Knowledge Management Critique. The nonsense of ‘knowledge management’ is the title of a paper by T.D. Wilson. It “examines critically the origins and… [E M E R G I C . o r g]