NewzCrawler as Aggregator. In making the switch from Radio to Movable Type, I needed to find a replacement for my News Aggregator. I tried several – including Amphetadesk and NewsGator – before deciding on NewzCrawler. Some of the key features that make NewzCrawler… [tins ::: Rick Klau’s weblog]
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Newsblaster and Agonist for News…
Newsblaster and Agonist for News. Besides Google News, there are a couple other sites to look at for news aggregations. Maciej Ceglowski has this to say about Newsblaster: Columbia has a news digest site they call Newsblaster which is the best I’ve ever seen. Each news category has a summary auto-synthesized out of a slew of articles that their crawler…
A Once And Present Innovator,…
A Once And Present Innovator, Still Pushing Buttons. The NY Times is running a nice profile of Dan Bricklin and the work he’s now doing as part of Interland (since they bought Trellix late last year). They portray him as a guy who is always looking to figure out how to make it easier for small business to adopt new…
Hartford Paper Tells Employee to…
Hartford Paper Tells Employee to Kill Blog. After losing his column, Denis Horgan decided to set up his own Web page. The Courant had another idea. Update: OJR’s Mark Glaser reports on the Courant and dealing with blogophobia. [Hypergene MediaBlog]
TECH TALK: Constructing the Memex:…
TECH TALK: Constructing the Memex: What?s Missing. In our daily quest for information, a few years ago in the early days of the Internet, we used to go to Yahoo, navigating through the multiple levels of its directory to reach the site(s) we wanted. As time passed, we started using search engines – first Altavista and Excite, and now Google,…
TECH TALK: Constructing the Memex:…
TECH TALK: Constructing the Memex: Imagine. We have our own memory and we have Google as our other memory. (We also have the option of the Yahoo and DMOZ directories.) Now imagine, if we could bridge the chasm between directories and search engines, making it much more customized to our likes and trails that we leave as we surf the…
Emerging Technologies Conference [1].
Emerging Technologies Conference. A list of downloadable presentation files is available. One of the sessions on social software by Clay Shirky has been widely blogged and discussed. Summarises Daniel Smith: What is it that makes a large, long lived group successful? Clay’s answer: “It Depends!” Some things are universally true: – cannot separate technical and social patterns/concerns – conversation can’t…
Backing up with rsync and…
Backing up with rsync and ssh. Mike Bombich has written a fine tutorial on remote administration/backup of OS X using rsync and ssh. The same principles can be applied to Windows and Linux as well. (241 words) [dive into mark]
knowledge work improvement – black…
knowledge work improvement – black box, white box, and deliverables. I’ve talked before about Peter Drucker’s recent thinking about how to improve the productivity of knowledge work. Productivity improvement is driven by a process of observing how work gets done and rethinking, redesigning, and tweaking the process so that fewer inputs and less effort go into producing the same quantity…
TypePad will lead CMS revolution…
TypePad will lead CMS revolution. Content Management Systems are becoming mass-market, according to this story by Ben Hammersley about TypePad after an exclusive peak: The features are remarkable: there is a very powerful, but extremely simple, template builder. Users can redesign their weblogs and create fully compliant XHTML pages, with out knowing what that last phrase means. There is a…