The Semantic Weblog.. A first draft of my contribution to Sam Ruby‘s Well Formed Weblog wiki. 1 Summary Packages of structured data are becoming post components. [PhilWolff] 2 Description The virtue of blogs has been their simplicity. Each post only needs one field, and maybe a title and url. Not everyone is served well by this lowest common denominator. Sometimes…
RSS Power [1].
RSS Power. Tim Bray has been writing about RSS [1 2 3]. He gives some examples about how RSS can be leveraged for banking, sales tracking and weather, and also discusses the potential pitfalls. I have been writing for some time about how RSS could be a disruptive innovation going beyond blogs, with a specific focus on enterprise events. (See…
Tenzing’s Pricing for United Incorrectly…
Tenzing’s Pricing for United Incorrectly Reported. Alan Reiter gets clarification on United’s new JetConnect with Email service from Verizon Airfone via Tenzing: In fact, the press release explained the service incorrectly. It’s is $15.98 per flight, which include up to 2 kilobytes (2K) per email message. Each additional K per email message is another 10 cents, not overall. That is,…
Blogging for knowledge workers–think compound…
Blogging for knowledge workers–think compound interest and start tomorrow. Why PhDs should start blogging. Things New PhDs Should Start Doing [via Jos? Luis Orihuela] Keep a Research Diary Maintain an Electronic Bibliography Know Your Search Engines An Archiving System for Useful Info Learn The Composition of your Research Community Document Useful Learning Experiences Keep a Professional Home Page Maintain an Updated…
Creating an index of weblog…
Creating an index of weblog posts in Radio. Inspired by Rob Henerey’s suggestion, I’ve written a Radio script that displays an index of weblog posts for the main weblog or a category. Looking at the output of the scripts, I wish I had started writing post titles earlier than February. [Workbench]
BusinessWeek on Blogs [1]. BusinessWeek…
BusinessWeek on Blogs. BusinessWeek Online has just produced a special report on The Social Web, and the best article of the bunch is Jane Black’s piece on weblogs, titled, The Wild World of Open Source Media. Jane succinctly describes the thrall of blogging as well as its impact on the wider media world, using Salam Pax and the resignations at…
Google IPO Cash: Buy Out…
Google IPO Cash: Buy Out Moreover?. : So what would Google do with the money if it launches an IPO? The speculation continues: it may want to expand its Google News… [PaidContent.org]
CSS based Tabs (and simple…
CSS based Tabs (and simple too by gum). Tabs with CSS. Joshua Kaufman – CSS Tabs. How to create tabbed navigation with CSS. I really need to make a CSS category. [High Context] Excellent. I had just been wondering about this very thing this morning.[Curiouser and curiouser!]
The problem in publishing
The problem in publishing Anne Holland writes about the problem of finding good writers at ContentBlog: Everyone at the editorial roundtable I attended seemed to be focusing on how to get more from a tight editorial team when you can’t hire more people and the content bar is constantly rising. So when I said, “Oh my problem is hiring people…
Getting up to speed on…
Getting up to speed on wikis, part 2. Last Thursday’s post on wikis generated quite a bit of good feedback. Comments from a number of readers offered pointers to more wiki related materials. Doug Holton, a graduate student at Vanderbilt, offers these three wiki-specific entries from his blog (which looks to be a useful reference in general): Here are some…