Author: fioritto

Is your email program the…

Is your email program the ultimate microcontent manager?. Lilia wrote: One of the questions from the audience was about number of technologies that one can cope. I share this concern given the number of communication/discussion tools I use. Everything becomes email, according to some theories. Usenet, for example, was blended into mail clients, treating the usenet post like an email message. Completely…

RSS from Amazon and BBC…

RSS from Amazon and BBC. Chris Pirillo points to 160+ Amazon feeds for everything one would need. Separately, BBC recently launched 60+ feeds for all the news you can ever think of. All the more reason to get yourself an Info Aggregator account![E M E R G I C . o r g]

Knowledge Management is In [1].

Knowledge Management is In. Richard Karlgaard (Forbes) has a collection of CEO quotes from the CEO summit. His conclusion: “Of surprise to me was how much these CEOs talked about knowledge management. In fact, this tenet was universal at the Microsoft CEO Summit: Smart companies will prosper; the rest will die. CEOs are happy to buy technology that makes their…

PHP/MySQL at washingtonpost.com [1].

PHP/MySQL at washingtonpost.com. Washingtonpost.com has selected a PHP/MySQL-based content-management system for its new entertainment calendar, according to news-technology company NewsEngin. Hooray for my favorite scripting language/database combination. It’s always nice to see PHP/MySQL getting props in high places. This is a Slashdot flame war ready to happen.[Holovaty.com]

NewsMonster Launches [1]. NewsMonster allows…

NewsMonster Launches. NewsMonster allows for the creation of a trust network of worthy bloggers which is managed by the user. NewsMonster then uses this network to build a popularity index of recent events and aggregated RSS content by reputation. NewsMonster observes decisions of users and publishes implicit certifications/reputes into the users online profile. These are then shared with other NewsMonster…

The Semantic Weblog. [1].

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]