More on topic maps. For those of us who are still struggling to get a firm grasp on topic maps (and I’m definitely in [Column Two]
William Safire: Blog [1]. (SOURCE:Scripting…
William Safire: Blog. (SOURCE:Scripting News)-Cool. The idea is spreading!Blog is a shortening of Web log. It is a Web site belonging to some average but opinionated Joe or Josie who keeps what used to be called a ”commonplace book” — a collection of clippings, musings and other things like journal entries that strike one’s fancy or titillate one’s curiosity. What…
The Blogroll Works [1].
The Blogroll Works. Played with activeRenderer last night to make the blogroll behave. Check out the results – I’m pretty happy with the end result. (If you’re reading this in a news aggregator, just visit the home page. If you aren’t sure what a news aggregator is, it’s safe to assume you’re reading this on the web site itself. Look…
Smart mobs [1].
Smart mobs. Rheingold on Smart Mobs. Amazing article by Howard Rheingold on “smart mobs.” The big battle coming over the future of smart mobs concerns media cartels and government agencies are seeking to reimpose the regime of the broadcast era in which the customers of technology will be deprived of the power to create and left only with the power…
Design for knowledge work [1].
Design for knowledge work. Designs for Working. Quote: “But when employees sit chained to their desks, quietly and industriously going about their business, an office is not functioning as it should. That’s because innovation–the heart of the knowledge economy–is fundamentally social. Ideas arise as much out of casual conversations as they do out of formal meetings. More precisely, as one…
David Watson: Moving to Klogs…
David Watson: Moving to Klogs will require massive culture shift and integration into existing tools. This is true! But organizations that bite the bullet and introduce klogs and the “annotation culture” and take the corresponding pain sooner rather than later will have a competitive advantage.But are organizations ready to swallow this bitter pill on a large scale? I don’t think…
Chapter 8 of BlogRoot -…
Chapter 8 of BlogRoot – Using Blogs in Business. (SOURCE:Scripting News)-An excellent summary of how to use a blog in business! This chapter alone makes the book worth buying.Where are the benefits of using K-Logs in the enterprise? Where does the potential lie? Lots of benefits emerge. Here are a few: * Better documentation of process-shorter audit cycles. * An…
Web Services Adoption Timeline [1]….
Web Services Adoption Timeline. From a white paper by IDC on “IBM and the Strategic Potential of Web Services”: 2002: Within the Firewall – simplified application integration – increased developer productivity 2004: Contained External Users – simplified business partner connectivity – richer application functionality – subscription-based services 2006: Fully Dynamic Search and Use – [E M E R G I…
Knowledge workers, information workers [1]….
Knowledge workers, information workers. Microsoft’s rechristening of the “knowledge worker” as an “information worker” — which has been the Jeff Raikes message for a few months now — keeps surfacing from a corner of my mind at odd moments. At the Fusion event in LA, Raikes suggested that “knowledge worker” is an elitist term, and positioned “information worker” as, basically,…
Poynter.org – Knowledge Management Weblogs…
Poynter.org – Knowledge Management Weblogs. (SOURCE:Scripting News)-Klogs preserve tacit knowledge: the useful and essential stuff that everybody needs to know but is somehow never documented.K-logs typically are internal weblogs for organizations, usually accessible via a corporate intranet. The basic concept is that a company might have multiple k-logs for various departments, as well as a corporate-wide k-log. In each department,…