*Zoe Indexes RSS Feeds.* The…

Zoe Indexes RSS Feeds. The latest release of Zoe now scans, and indexes, RSS feeds. I pointed it at my subscriptions file from Radio and Zoe consumed the whole thing without any problem. I would like to see a couple of minor issues cleared up with Zoe’s implementation of aggregator features. First, I would really like to be able to…

Mystified by weblog jargon? Try…

Mystified by weblog jargon? Try this! “Phil Gyford has produced An introduction to weblog terms for weblog readers. It explains RSS, permalinking and trackback – some of the more commonly mentioned weblog-specific pieces of jargon.” [Blog.org][The Shifted Librarian]

TECH TALK: RSS, Blogs and…

TECH TALK: RSS, Blogs and Beyond: RSS and News Readers (Part 2). JD Lasica has more on RSS and News Readers: Instead of the hunt and peck of Web surfing, you can download or buy a small program that turns your computer into a voracious media hub, letting you snag headlines and news updates as if you were commanding the…

Intel is making a Mesh…

Intel is making a Mesh Move. From ZDNet: Because each node on a mesh network only has to make contact with its immediate neighbor and not a distant base station, it can transmit at a very low power; frequencies used by one node can be reused by another only a short distance away. “The physics of wireless networks means that…

*Smart consumer advice for managing…

Smart consumer advice for managing Wi-Fi security: A brief intelligent piece (quoting our favorite Wi-Fi pundit, Nigel Ballard, of course) on using Wi-Fi without giving up your secrets. Although VPNs are beyond consumers today, I wouldn’t be surprised to see tunneled services become more prevalent in the near future.[80211b News]

We all do knowledge work…

We all do knowledge work. We’re all knowledge workers now. Here is a question: How do you bring knowledge management to people who do not see knowledge as part of their job? For example the workers in a process plant.  There is knowledge all around them and embedded in the work that they do.  How, in practical terms, to do…