First Monday: After the Dot-Bomb…

First Monday: After the Dot-Bomb. Described below are some “pet peeves,” some problem areas identified in the design of Web information retrieval to date. These problems are accompanied by suggested solutions, or, at least, directions to go in to develop solutions for the next round of Web information retrieval development. [Tomalak’s Realm]

Connecting technology systems and systems-thinking…

Connecting technology systems and systems-thinking. Self-herding Cats. From Michael Helfrich’s weblog: Technology Confined Collaboration? Collaboration is about people. Collaboration needs technology frameworks that support adaptive, ad hoc interactions. Adaptive from the sense of extending functionality on the fly and securely embracing new members on the fly. Simply put, it’s the swarming culture fused with adaptive technology. [High Context] Also from…

Top down endorsement for klogging….

Top down endorsement for klogging.. The Utah State CIO made this Offer to Utah State IT Employees. I believe that the 900 or so IT employees of the State of Utah would benefit from speaking and listening to each other more. I think we need groups of specialists inside various departments to communicate with others in their specialty and without.  Consequently, I’d…

Web Services in Financial Services…

Web Services in Financial Services. A Gartner Report’s conclusions: – Web services won’t trigger a major disruption in financial services over the next two years. The impact will be more long-term. – Web services will enable business process outsourcing. [E M E R G I C . o r g]

NewsViews Tool for Radio Userland,…

NewsViews Tool for Radio Userland, v.0.3. (SOURCE:John Robb’s Radio Weblog)-Need to check this one out!This is a Radio Userland tool to group aggregated news by Categories. A news aggregator is “software that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page.” [Scripting…