mt courseware update. I?m chugging along on the MT as courseware. It?s forcing me to brush off my rusty SQL skills, learn more about MT plugins, and really think about organization of information. All good things. I struggled for a while with the calendars, because I wanted them to link not to a specific entry (which is the default in…
Google Launches A News Alerts…
Google Launches A News Alerts “Beta” at Google Labs [ResourceShelf]
David Pollard [1] over at…
David Pollard over at Salonblogs has built some nice K-Logs demos. Here is a large jpg (view full screen to read the labels) of the elements that go into the display of a K-Log. Here is a mock-up of an employee K-Log. [John Robb’s Weblog]
Got some time? Check out…
Got some time? Check out ELL’s social software reading list. [Steven’s Notebook]
[1] Newsgator [2] 1.3 (an…
Newsgator 1.3 (an RSS news aggregator) is out. Nice Microsoft Outlook integration and support for newsgroups (an area of declining interest). It does require that you download .Net (20 Mb). I suspect the next step with Newsgator is to add publishing to a weblog via e-mail (Manila, Blogger, and MT). Despite what people say about MS Word, the primary text editor people use…
Yahoo, Dotcoms Outpace Traditional Giants…
Yahoo, Dotcoms Outpace Traditional Giants in Info Market. : Cut through the PR etc, and this has some interesting results: Yahoo and other more nimble upstarts are beating the traditional giants of information content industry at their own game, according to the new research by Outsell. Upstarts like… [PaidContent.org]
Jake reports [1] that Trackback…
Jake reports that Trackback for Radio is now released. [Scripting News]
Klognets give faster payback than…
Klognets give faster payback than tradtional Intranet portals. John Robb asks: Can blogs can replace portals? If so, what are the relative costs, benefits, ROI? His answers (and I concur): Yes for everything except “adding a web front end to business apps” Blogs look better: Costs: $142 vs. $807 per desktop (Costs 82% less) Benefits: $1,658 vs. $1,886 per desktop…
The Blogging Process. [1].
The Blogging Process.. Dave Pollard decomposes a day in the life of an active blogger. Very focused. Much more than this flowchart. I’m going to read it twice. While the act of posting is trivial, the other behaviors surrounding it are not. This is a great improvement over similar work written in 2001. [a klog apart]
Machine Blogging: Microsoft SharePoint to…
Machine Blogging: Microsoft SharePoint to intranet RSS.. The folks at NewsGator share a case study. Triple Point Technology has transformed the way they share information within the enterprise. From critical build and release notifications, to internal publishing and collaboration, publishing via RSS has dramatically changed their information landscape. Michael Sippey summarizes: It’s not really about weblogs at all, rather it’s about how…