Knowledge Centrifuge. As we get closer to release I’ve found myself explaining what Paolo and I are doing with K-Collector, what the product is about. So far the best explanation I have come up with is: Realtime Knowledge ManagementWhat I’ve been trying to do is make the case that knowledge management and document management aren’t the same thing. Most knowledge…
Chandler and the New Desktop…
Chandler and the New Desktop. Technology Review (via WSJ) writes about Mitch “Chandler” Kapor’s “new, more intuitive computer interface puts all the information we need to manage our digital lives at our fingertips, no matter what form it’s in”: the software promises to put all related e-mail messages, spreadsheets, appointment records, addresses, blog entries, word-processing documents, digital photos, and what-have-you…
Citizen blogging [1]. Steve Outing…
Citizen blogging. Steve Outing documents an experiment in participatory journalism by Jeff Jarvis at Advance.net, which has introduced citizen bloggers at two of its local-news sites, MassLive.com and NJ.com. [Hypergene MediaBlog]
Five More Radical Things About…
Five More Radical Things About the Weblog Form in Journalism. NYU Press Critic, Jay Rosen, offers “Ten Radical Things About the Weblog Form in Journalism.” We add five more to his list. [Hypergene MediaBlog]
“The Hiring Tide Turns For…
“The Hiring Tide Turns For Corporate Librarians” [ResourceShelf]
Mapping the space [1].
Mapping the space. I was noodling around trying to organize “the space” in my head and put this picture together. The x axis is the “context”. IE low context is stuff like CD’s and books which don’t change, are worth approximately the same amount to most people and don’t have much timing or personal context. The far right is very…
When blogs get /really/ popular…
When blogs get really popular. While there are a hell of a lot of blogs and blog readers, blogs aren’t even close to being a mainstream phenomenon the way email is. It’ll happen. And here are some guesses (note: guesses) about what they’ll look like when they do: 1. The word “blog” will expand to cover any linkable posting (a…
Text Mining [1].
Text Mining. NYTimes writes: [Text-mining is] a technique that academics have been experimenting with for years but for which tools have only recently become commercially available. The prospect of rapidly scanning through reams of documents is stirring interest among researchers and analysts faced with more material than they can handle. To the uninitiated, it may seem that Google and other…
Unicode primer [1]. Joel-on-Software’s posted…
Unicode primer. Joel-on-Software’s posted a great primer on Unicode character sets. If developers all read this piece, I’d never get a bloody question-mark and a broken RSS feed when I pasted in a curly-quote or an accent-character. In this article I’ll fill you in on exactly what every working programmer should know. All that stuff about “plain text = ascii…
SAS targets media industry [1]….
SAS targets media industry. As the media sector weathers vast change, SAS Institute Inc. has launched a series of software-based initiatives for beleaguered industry executives. [InfoWorld: Top News]