Author: fioritto

More on Google’s Atom bomb

  More information on Google’s support for Atom and abandonment of RSS: One post on Blogger Blog, an independent site devoted to the software, indicates that the only syndication format available to “standard Blogger users” is Atom. Everybody else can choose RSS or Atom, but not both. In a subsequent post, a Google employee indicates that “legacy support” will continue…

Google’s RSS support questioned

  Dwight Shih asks a good question: For a company whose motto is don’t be evil, Google’s drop of RSS support is quite troubling. Atom is both an API and a format. I could understand a move to the Atom API. I could even understand a migration to the Atom format. But I just don’t understand the need to drop…

Disney Enterprise Weblogs and Wikis

  Mike Pusateri, Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman at Disney shares their enterprise blogging initative. Its very similar to the experience we have had with Socialtext, without the integration of blog and wiki with enterprise requirements in mind. The focus on blogging for project communication instead of just individual expression is spot on. Using RSS for content distribution Using RSS…

Documentation & knowledge

  A oft repeated question / assertion in KM is the link between explicit documentation and knowledge. The point I’m trying to make, is documentation alone does not = knowledge. To retain knowledge against attrition you have to have a community that can appreciate the context, understand the issues, talk the language, adopt the assumptions, share the tricks, interpret and…

Intrapreneurship [1].

Intrapreneurship. A new beautfully designed blog by Seed Capital Partners, The Weekly Read, has an interview with | George Kassabgi, BEA VP (from May 2003). Among other things, George talks about Intraneurship (entrepreneurship within an existing organisation): 1. The intrapreneur lives by his or her optimism. The innovator is like the explorer. Ernest Shackleton in his diary listed the 5…

RSS: RIP 2004 [1]. Dave…

RSS: RIP 2004. Dave has found a great example of the future of RSS.  It is going the way of instant messaging.  Closed systems that break unification efforts.  The only way to fight this is to keep using desktop aggregators.  However, I don’t think they will last as personal portals pick up steam in this area (myYahoo, AOL, MSN, and Google). …

A search engine for sounds…

A search engine for sounds. SearchEngineWatch.com: Ever wonder what a kookaburra sounds like? Want to use the Roadrunner’s “beep beep” as your “you’ve got mail” sound? FindSounds can help you find these and hundreds of other sound files on the web. FindSounds is a specialized… [JD’s New Media Musings]