Newton’s Return: A Hit and…

Newton’s Return: A Hit and a Myth. A pair of consumer behaviorists is studying the Newton community as a case study of a ‘brand community.’ They are particularly interested in the recurrent rumor of the Newton’s return. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

Notification of instant outlining [1]…

Notification of instant outlining over instant messaging is now available.  This is a big deal.  Instant outlines require rapid delivery in order to live up to the name instant.  That is easily possible using an RCS and Radio in a permissive environment (on a LAN for example) via publication/subscription built into UserLand’s tools.  It gets difficult on the open Internet were everyone is behind…

Site update: more topics added…

Site update: more topics added. I have grown to really like liveTopics. Converting from Radio’s categories to liveTopics has been cumbersome (as it matures, I imagine Matt might offer a conversion utility), but worth it. You can now browse a topical outline of all posts on this site here; it is now complete for July and August. I will periodically…

Weblogs are Critical to KM…

Weblogs are Critical to KM Success. Jim McGee’s post “Making people smarter isn’t the point” got me thinking about a couple parallel threads going on in a number of blogs in the past week: Phil Windley points out that he has trouble pulling ideas out of people’s heads, and I respond that you wouldn’t always know which ideas to pull. Matt…

Boxes and Arrows: The indie…

Boxes and Arrows: The indie life: Talking with Louis Rosenfeld. Perhaps an important way to broadly promote ourselves is to associate the frustrations of personal information management with solutions that emanate from this new field of information architecture. If everyone realizes they have IA problems, they’ll value IA experts all the more. [Tomalak’s Realm]