Executive blogging issues.. Robert Scoble wrote: I keep asking executives “when you gonna start a weblog?” But, quite consistently get an answer of “way too busy.” I asked Sanjay and Dan’l that about a week ago. They both ran down what their schedules look like. Nearly every minute of every day is scheduled. Dan’l told me he often is traveling…
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Bayesian Aggregator [1]. In a…
Bayesian Aggregator. In a comment, Kevin Jordan writes: 348North News is a normal aggregator in much of the way you think of it. However, it allows me to identify keywords or themes that it puts together into phrases ? and then matches up the phrases with like articles. Like a cross between Google News and Daypop (but that makes it…
Data Emergence [1].
Data Emergence. Robin Good has a fascinating post on personal knowledge mapping, with a goal “to define, draft and invent tools and approaches that would facilitate a tacit knowledge creation/sharing mechanisms while not adding extra layers of work and responsibility to every knowledge worker in the organization.” A quote from Snell: Any Web site should become nothing more than a…
Turning mind into matter [1]….
Turning mind into matter. Thomas Davenport and H. James Wilson have written an article on business and technology innovation. To quote: Any technology executive who wants to advance a slate of emerging technologies should become very familiar with ways to foster new business and… [Column Two]
New Wiki Implelementation Struggles -…
New Wiki Implelementation Struggles – To structure or not?. I am working on an implementation of several wikis. One is my personal wiki which runs on my laptop. I’ve often written about it here. Things are by and large going very well. I am also involved in my team’s implementation of a wiki. So far, the biggest struggle has been…
Status reports in the knowledge…
Status reports in the knowledge based enterprise. Status Reports 2.0. At a start-up, there are two organizational inflection points which drastically change communication within the organization. The first change occurs around fifty or so people — this is the moment when, if you’re an early employee, that you first see… [Rands In Repose] Some nice reflections on the potential for…
From status report to discovery…
From status report to discovery tool. Weblogs as status reports – It can work but the barrier is cultural not technological. (SOURCE:Rands In Repose: Status Reports 2.0 via McGee’s Musings)- We’ve tried over the last 2 years to replace status reports with blogs at a e-commerce company I do consulting for. Success has been mixed. Even though most of the…
Working with Bayesian categorizers [1].
Working with Bayesian categorizers. There’s been some discussion in the blog world about using a Bayesian categorizer to enable a person to discriminate along various interest/non-interest axes. I took a run at this recently and, although my experiments haven’t been wildly successful, I want to report them because I think the idea may have merit. [Full story: O’Reilly Network: Working…
Using Twiki as a PIM
http://www.pycs.net/users/0000177/categories/blogtools/ For example, I have to keep track of client contact data, status reports, assorted documents and comments while I work at a client site. It was quick to setup a customer list page, create the customer page, add a link to an engagement list, status reports, etc. You can easily create page templates for creating more structured content like…
RSS Portlet, served rare. [1].
RSS Portlet, served rare.. I want to put my program in your program. Really, I want users of your program to use some of my user interface. You, know, kinda like a rectangle of stuff on MyYahoo!. That’s what portlets are for, packaging up what gets shared and how. Documentum and Plumtree and friends set up the Portlet Open Source Trading site…