Radio Free Blogistan: Best Practices Archives

I held out long after all the cool kids had given up on trackback but I haven’t gotten a useful one since Prentiss Riddle pinged me about SXSW panel proposals and a trackback spam attack today finally convinced me to turn it off for all the blogs hosted at Mediajunkie. Ironically,...

The How Not To Deal With Blogs: A Case Study entry by Carlo Longino at MobHappy provides a perfect object lesson in how to get on the bad side of bloggers when dealing with them straight would have been much smarter....

Frank Paynter at Sandhill Trek has been asking people this month how they blog. Cool people. Not me. Which is just as well, because I’d be tempted to make a joke (“very carefully”), or be all literal about software and processes (boring). I don’t think I have a good answer anyway....

I've been asleep at the wheel lately, but the recent Typepad outage should remind everyone to keep current backups of your site, both the data and the output if possible, whether you are self-hosting or relying on a service. Related: *michael parekh on IT*: ON TYPEPAD OUTAGES AND WEB 2.0 MORTALITY,...

J.D. Lasica posts about a conversation with BlogHer co-organizer about blog plagiarism, and cites a few examples of people plagiarizing newspaper ledes in their blog entries about BlogHer (New Media Musings: Plagiarism in the blogosphere). How lame! Also, where's the fun in that?...

Quoting from Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too? (plasticbag.org) I think it's time we faced the fact that Trackback is dead. We should state up front - the aspirations behind Trackback were admirable. We should reassert that we understand that there is a very real need to find mechanisms to...

In It’s Not Dangerous, Tim Bray extols the career benefits of blogging, primarily as a way to stay informed, establish expertise, and get noticed. p.s.: His curly quotes that are being rendered as (a-with-circumflex, Euro symbol, trademark TM)? in my browser? Whose fault is that?...

In gapingvoid: the death of metablogging, makes the usual points against navelgazing, rendering this weblog obsolete. I gather that metametablogging is still cool, though?...

Why? Because it should be all about making connections, hooking up with people like you in the online world, but most importantly, it should help you to hook up with people like you in the brick and mortar and hard as a rock offline world. Groupware Bad: That got me a...

Frank Paynter writes: I'm sure Adam Rifkin speaks for many of us when he says:Why does having a blog mean feeling perpetually behind? (Not just in having something to say, but in finding time to type it in, press POST, sending the bits over the 802.11, out the 10Base-T, through the...

Bastards put my own URL in one of their spam comments and in my haste I deleted some legitimate comments (posted by myself). Feelin's stupid. If I go to backups of my mysql database should I be able to resurrect the killed comments? I did manage to preserve the post IDs...

I wasn't kidding about wanting a intern to volunteer for spam-destruction. As a perk I will offer posting privileges to the front page of this blog to anyone (who is already a blogger) who volunteers for this all-important spam squelching mode. This requires both deleting spam and banning URLs daily but...

I declare this blog (Blogistan Editorial) a failure! How liberating to say so. Plus, it died, so we can dissect it without causing any further pain to the organism. My theory, it's a dry eddy off the mighty Mississipppi that is Radio Free Blogistan. We have a whole community out there...

Scott writes: I argued that it's silly to talk about blogs "killing" print - that we keep getting stuck in a loop every time a new news distribution technology comes along, asking, will this "kill" its predecessor? Radio didn't kill print, TV didn't kill radio, the Net didn't kill TV, and...

One of the POD guys waiting to get into a room to start their session: The last panel was on blogs and they don't want to get off the podium (POD = print on demand)...

First of all, the WOW party at Chevy's last evening was really fun. I met some cool people from NCI (the National Cancer Institute), part of the US government's department of Health and Human Services, who have developed a comprehensive set of web development best-practice guidelines that they will be distributing...

Attendance seems sparse today. I brushed up on browser compatability issues and learned a lot of useful tricks for optimizing graphics. I skipped a content-management session I was thinking of attending at the last minute. Going through the schedule, I see a lot of conflicts, so I'm glad I'll be able...

This is just a reminder that I'll be attending the Seybold 2003 conference in San Francisco all this week. I'm doing an hour on syndication on Tuesday afternoon, a half-hour intro to blogging on Thursday afternoon, and a 3.5-hour comprehensive weblogs tutorial on Friday afternoon. There's wi-fi at the conference, so...

Good (public) interview getting underway in the Well's Inkwell conference with Jesse James Garrett, author of The Elements of User Experience (New Riders, 2003), a book I've promised to review in this space and will get around to eventually, I promise! Garrett is a groundbreaker in the less-than-a-decade old discipline of...

Well, that took longer than expected. I'm still getting things re-configured and re-set up at ol' Open Publishing / ezone / x-everything industries, but most of the sites are at least now visible, and I may hope that we've cured the hacked-so-easily problem we had going there. In the meantime, off...

I'm bringing my server down for maintenance. You can only hack my home page so many times (three, to be exact) before I decide to do something about it. My sysadmin/friend/host Jeff Tiedrich will be updating our Linux install from an old Slackware version to a more recent Red Hat version...

I've been drawing wire frames (also called virtual blueprints) depicting schematically how a number of different page views and portlets and popup windows show look and function for a portal project, and I've been drawing these pictures in Visio. It's an old version of Visio (2000) and I'm running it on...

After a long pleasant period of using my Mac for pretty much all my work and play tasks, I've been involved in an IA project recently that required me to work in the Microsphere, in Windows 2000, with Office/Win software, using Visio to make diagrams instead of OmniGraffle or Illustrator. It...

Right now I'm working on two paying projects (amidst my more speculative and creative and fun stuffs), a book about the upcoming version of FrontPage, which I'm coauthoring, and an information architecture job, part of a requirements-gathering process for a corporate portal for a Fortune 500 client. OK, I'm also supposedly...

Chris Pirillo’s preaching the Word about RSS. Can he get an amen, somebody? [Note: This post is destined for RFB, but I don’t remember how I set up the email-to-blog system and I’m away from the desktop client where I have Radio set up and it’s behind a firewall on a...

All praises to the LazyWeb, David Galbraith has made a point I've been pussyfooting around for ages: on the web, the permalink's the thing (not the page). Pages are just framing devices for any number of items, each of which must be addressable individually. Not just addressable, but also indexable and...

What the world needs now... is a simple, open-source, free content management system: CMSimple is a simple content management system for smart maintainance of small commercial or private sites.It is simple - small - smart!And it's free! It is not only Open Source - it is Free Software licensed under the...

Well, I found a power outlet so I can work while waiting for my flight (first to Dallas, then to New Orleans), and I noticed a wireless signal. Turns out it's a fee service called wayport.net, so I paid the $6.95 for access till midnight, though I can only use it...

Every few years some new technological framework comes along to challenge Microsoft's dominance of the desktop. Since the advent of the Internet, Microsoft has managed to fight off Netscape (IE), Java (.Net), application service providers (Hotmail), remote process calls (SOAP), and U.S. antitrust law (Bush). OK, I'm waving my hands here....

Dave Pollard's been doing some heavy thinking on how best to use weblogs in the workplace, to enable employees to "publish their filing cabinets." He's got some useful diagrams illustrating the content architecture he recommends. Any blogger (or k-loggers) would recognize his scheme as a variation on the familiar weblog format...

Well, I don't know what was wrong with my DNS or Apache configuration, but whatever it was it seems to be working correctly now, thank Murphy. I've been getting some poignant messages from a friend in Iraqi Kurdistan. He and his family are headed from Erbil into the countryside to avoid,...

As of right now none of my web domains appear accessible, although I still seem to have FTP access to my Open Publishing server. I'm x-posting this to RFB's usernum address on the Salon community server (0001111). I'm depressed about the war. Working hard. Conference coming up. Lots to post about....

Silly me, I just realized I could connect to my remote web host directly as a server and then thumb through the site in the OS X interface. This should be obvious but I just put two and two together....

Steve Champeon took a moment out of his busy life to post this to webdesign-l today. Kinda cool: Here's a neat trick, for those of you using Safari. If you want to see the debug menu (which includes goodies like a DOM tree viewer and a "snippet viewer", which lets you...

Danny Ayers posted to the cmsblogapidev mailing list today in response to a question posted to the list: "Does anyone have strong opinions about databases here? if so, do they extend beyond uses for mysql?" His reply: I don't know about it being a strong opinion, but I believe in the...

Test post to new "knowhow" location (http://opublish.com/knowhow/)....

Just now finally got around to upgrading the version of Movable Type driving this X-POLLEN blog. Since I installed version 2.5 there was a 2.51 upgrade and possibly a 2.52, and then the recent more substantial release of 2.6, quickly followed by bugfixes 2.61 and 2.62. So I managed to avoid...

Every six months or so I go back to this Webmonkey article from 1997 on how to set up the .htaccess and .htpassword files on an Apache server to password-protect a directory. I'm posting it here because I needed to refer to it today and it belongs in the RFB web-design...

Why am I always the last to know? Dan Gillmor reports that Google is buying Pyra. In the short term, the main effect will be greater stability for Blogspot users. Over at his blog, Dan is also collecting commentary from bloggers about this move. Most seem to think it's a good...

There are still so many blogs and sites pointing to this site's old address, that I thought I'd add an automatic refresh-to-the-new address (after 10 seconds to get oriented and then again quickly disoriented) to the template for the old-school page....

A new build of Apple's beta browser, Safari, is out. (Dive into) Mark has the scoop: Safari build 60 is out. Many things are fixed. Some things are not yet fixed. I have re-tested all of my Safari CSS hacks and found no differences between build 51 and build 60; specifically,...

Speaking of jumping to conclusion, MSNBC has retracted its original interpretation of the Osama tape as saying that bin Laden encouraged the overthrow of Saddam. Apparently, while Ba'ath socialists are infidels, it's OK to stand with them to fight against the U.S.Meanwhile, the invaluable Mark Kleiman tries to sort out the...

Test of metaxian trackback egopendium, Take 2. Apologies for the duplicate post. I will remove these if this works: If this works, then metaxian will include a reference to this post. ... If it doesn't, I will learn more about how to ping a site with TrackBack automatically, won't I? Or...

How hard would it be to automatically post every URL I hit in one browser to a specific category? I could go back and expand on anything that deserved comment and promote it to the mainpage, but I'd also have a running log of positively everywhere I'd been. One for the...

Dean Allen announces that he is almost ready to release Textpattern, his long-promised web writing tool (or, if you prefer, CMS). While I'm afraid it will not enable me to write as well as he does (his predictions for 2003 are microstorytelling at its finest), Textpattern offers a feature set that...

I'm so out of it. After returning from a week and a half in New York I'm still reading The Gawker but without that same sense of immediacy (not that it matters where you are when you read about New York, and not that that prevents me from reading the Times,...

FCC Chairman Michael Powell does an about-face on spectrum reform at the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program University of Colorado at Boulder. (via Dave Hughes in the Well's Inkvue conference in the Smart Mobs topic)...

The globe thing is played out....

Lexonomy has published A Taxonomy Primer. Taxonomies are the organizational schemes used to sort the data presented through the information architecture. (via xBlog)...

Elizabeth Spiers writes For Marketing Junkies: Rick, Robert, Olivier, John, and Steve just started a collaborative Internet marketing blog. I'm not sure what that is, but I'm keen to find out....

Rod Kratochwill read my posts about setting up a Google search for your blog when you don't command the entire domain name yourself. I had mentioned that my solution does put the site:blogs.salon.com and inurl:0001111 queries in the text box on the results page, which could confuse the user or even...

I've never been that happy with my blogrolling.com blogrolls. The service is easy enough. Too easy, in a sense, in that it's undermined my motivation to learn more about the best ways to present links and directory information in this weblog context. Also, it relies on Javascript, which makes the links...

Thanks to a tip from Rebecca Blood, I read the article by Anil Dash in his cool new magazine. He writes about MS SharePoint Team Services and its "list" feature, which incorporates most or all of the functionality of weblogs for an intranet environment. I remember when the portal brand of...

The fact that that metalinker stuff never worked and was causing error messages in IE6/Win browsers like a piece of toilet paper stuck to my shoe, and the fact that I still haven't been able to get a TrackBack ping-based metablog working, or RSS monkey installed, for that matter. I'm not...

Whew! It appears that the move over last night was successful, except in the sense that many people will start missing new posts as they continue to look at or poll the old address. Suddenly I need to learn about the RSS feed redirection stuff Dave was posting about last week....

Well, the non-blog-related categories have now been redirected via FTP to various branded locations, so it's time to start posting new entries to radiofreeblogistan.com. I've just switched the streaming over to FTP, so this post should automatically stream to the new location (and not to the old one). Next, I have...

From my literary agency comes this announcement: The 13th Annual Waterside Publishing Conference will be held April 10, 11, & 12, 2003 in Berkeley, CA. For more information or to register please log onto: http://www.waterside.com/conference.html. We hope to see you there!...

Sébastien Paquet has written an article about the rise of personal knowledge publishing....

Dylan Tweney hails The Death of the $1 Million Software Package in his latest Business 2.0 column: Back in the late 1990s, a software salesman could look you in the eye and say with a straight face that his company's enterprise system would cost you $1 million. Mercifully, those days are...

I'm downloading pMachine today and I'm going to see if it's really as easy to install as they say. It seems clear that pMachine is positioning itself as a competitor to Movable Type (it has import scripts for MT and GreyMatter), angling for those who prefer PHP over perl. The implied...

Mediasavvy says the future of content management is open source (after attending the Open Source Content Management Conference, that is): As the computer industry moves in the direction of selling services, instead of hardware and software, open source begins to look like a great way to improve the value you deliver...

I was rereading http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/network/2002/03/08/cory_google.html by Cory Doctorow (after following Scott Rosenberg's link to Andrew Googman on the death of metatags. As I mentioned in Scott's comments, it's keyword metatags that have the least efficacy and the most potential for gaming of indexers, although I agree with another commenter who suggested that...

Would this give blogs street cred?: Marketing Magazine. Jim Carroll. Corporate weblogs. It likely won't be too long before we see an official Harley-Davidson blog that features ongoing commentary, news and updates from an "evangelist" within the Harley organization. Featured within the main Harley-Davidson site, the effort will emerge as a powerful...

Google loves blogs. Blogs loves Google. But is there trouble in paradise? When items slip of the front page of most blogs, there is an anecdotal two- to three-week delay before archived items are reindexed. As Dylan Tweney points out this is an artifact of the fact that Google's basic unit...

The site search feature of Google's free custom search offering works by default only for sites whose addresses are root-level URLs (so, for example, you can use it out-of-the-box to search jrobb.userland.com or blogs.salon.com but not blogs.salon.com/0001111/). With the help of Ian Landsman and a few other readers over the weekend,...

Have I mentioned lately that I love the Internet? Cast a question on the waters and the answer (or an answer) generally comes back within 24 hours. Ian Landsman sent me a solution in the comments to my previous post. I'd paste the code in here but even when escaped out...

Catching up with Zeldman sent me off in six different directions, of course, but I especially enjoyed reading Web architecture | XML zone : The Web's future: XHTML 2.0 at IBM's developerWorks site. The proposed changes to HTML (I mean XHTML) sounds like steps in the right direction (ditching presentational tags,...

Web addresses were never supposed to be human-readable. The fundamental hyperlinking concept of the Web is intended to mask the underlying Internet protocols and commands required to retrieve data. But the reality is that we see, store, type, copy, and paste URLs all the time (or else the "dotcom" meme would...

Dylan Tweney's latest Business 2.0 column advises businesses to steer carefully between the six-figure CMS overkill solutions that thrived during the dotcom boom and the other end of the spectrum, reinventing the CMS wheel yourself in-house. I've been doing content management-related consulting for the last five years and there's a big...

In Network Computing's BuzzCut column, Mike DeMaria talks about blogs as an improvement over e-mail for project updating but as an imperfect solution, at best, for archiving and retrieving links: Until blog developers address the issues of archive classification and sorting, blogs can't possibly live up to their potential....

Enterpreneur.com publishes a light article called Who Let the Blogs Out?: With a blog, you can answer questions, post business updates, link to similar sites and receive commentary from users. A collaborative company blog could give your employees one place to go to keep up on business happenings, memos and announcements....

Charly Z also hepped me to Daniel Danilov's Reflections, where he recently posted a think-piece about how blogs help impose a mental grid on raw data, part of the process the mind uses to turn that data into relevant information: Anyone who complains about blogs being a waste of space or...

Strangest of places department: Megan Morrone's LJ blog talks about her move to Movable Type, and her comments there discuss this move as a trend, recapitulate the "it's hard too install" meme (Megan's last post is that she has MT up and running but hasn't had time to customize the look...

(via Unsere Kleine Digitale Welt) InformationWeek warns CIO's about the risks of blogging in the corporate sphere: If you think your staff spends inordinate amounts of time designing PowerPoint presentations now, just imagine what these would-be artists and authors will do to productivity when their creative powers are unleashed on the...

Jeremy Allaire has joined "the ranks of what Jon Udell calls CXO Blogs" with a mixed personal and professional blog "about media, communications and applications over the Internet." According to one of his first entries: Over the past six-months, like many other netizens, I've become addicted to browsing and subscribing to...

From explodedlibrarian.info (via Research News: The Virtual Chase) come two good blog-related links: On the Net's The Blog Realm about blogs as a source of information for librarians, and as a content-management solution.(Basic stuff for any experienced blogger but good introa and a reminder that this stuff still requires explaining on...

Krzysztof Kowalczyk (I love his motto: "Blog or you'll be blogged.") suggests that a focused, balanced blog (or k-log, or blog category, or RSS feed, etc.) could be used as a dynamic resume, one that will be much more impressive in retrospect than a dry recitation of skills in a tradition...

The Raven talks about the impression he gets from a long blogroll: I don't know about you, but when I visit a blog that has 395 navigation links running down the side I get a funny feeling. Is this clown trying to tell me, "Look at all my friends!" Or am...

He may be giving Radio's aggregator short shrift, but Jeremy has done a good job of breaking down several approaches to RSS aggregation and providing his own wishlist: I'm on a quest to find the perfect RSS aggregator.... I'm thinking of a server-based process that can gather all the data and...

I'm starting to wonder if there's anything I shouldn't be logging. So much of my personal knowledge management problems (read: disorganization) involve forgetting, losing track of, and worrying about issues as they come up an afterward until they are resolved. Sure, some things are private or proprietary. Not every log (blog,...

Reading Spartaneity drew my attention back to Stanford'sWeb Credibility Project where you can read detailed explanations of and research behind these guidelines: Make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your site. Show that there's a real organization behind your site. Showing that your web site is for...

Dylan Tweney has summarized some of the recent thinking on weblogs (overlapping with many of the recent links posted here) in an article in which he also discusses realizing the personal knowledge-management benefits of keeping a weblog: In other words, I realized that a weblog could be a useful tool for...

Rereading Bricklin's Aug 12 article on small business blogging, I realized that his first example is a pretty close fit for the intangibles I get from doing this blog: One type of small business is the "consultant". This covers a wide range of areas, from engineers, to marketers, to event planners,...

Swimming upstream via my referrer log I landed at which led me to his recent article on corporate blogging for Business 2.0: That doesn't mean business blogs should be bland and corporate in tone. In fact, especially for customer-oriented weblogs, it's better if they aren't. Trellix co-founder Dan Bricklin suggests that...

Believe it or not, I'm still sorting out what I've learned about Traction Software, sifting and trying to digest what I've learned. Traction was heavily influenced by Doug Engelbart and his ideas about through journaling: Our Journal system was conceived by this author in about 1966. I wanted an underlying operational...

I should have known I'd get sucked in. I remember reading Jon's columns as he continually documented what he was learning about web servers, content managemenet, database-backed websites, and so on. From the link mentioned in my previous entry I've now read Udell's review of Radio 8 and a three-part article...

John Udell wrote a good overview of RSS Aggregators in a May 27 column in Byte, the seminal, now-online-only computer magazine (the only such magazine I ever paid to subscribe to): No single person will be completely authoritative in any one area, but that won't matter ... in fact, it's better...

A kuro5hin post I noticed in my aggregator (The future of blog: The scaling barrier) brings up an interesting point: will blogs scale? Blogs have a scaling problem. Kinda like clubs. The good crowd moves in and they become these perfect little places for some time. And then too many people...

(Via A Blog Doesn't Need a Clever Name [via Scripting News]) Ray Ozzie is working through some of the legal issues surrounding employee weblogs at Groove networks....

Curiouser and curiouser! has pulled together a variety of sources on the topic of using k-logs to avoid choking project managers' email queues:Reuters: Managers drowning in e-mail.A huge volume of business e-mails is generated from workers reporting progress to project managers, Nickerson said. <<< There is an answer to this: post...

Ask and ye shall receive. Now I have to admit my failure of reading comprehension, as I did not grok from Dave's explanation a week ago that the Multi-Author Weblog tool has exactly the feature I wished for in my previous entry. Mark Paschal, ever helpful, commented thusly: Autoposting from feeds...

In the interests of offering one-stop shopping, I figure I should cross-post here pretty much anything I blog anywhere else (as always, by category). Frankly, though, it's tedious to cut-and-paste or even post through the aggregator (plus my LiveJournal's RSS feed is headlines-only). I wonder if it might be possible to...

Brad Choate point to the technical colophon of a site called A Touch of Hope, for a description of how to use blogging software (in this case Movable Type) as a full-service backend CMS for multiple users... with a little tweaking....

I was having a hell of a time getting design changes to propagate out to my categories. It turned out that in the early days of this blog when I Was experimenting with many of the canned themes and giving each category its own design, these choices decoupled the categories from...

(Via blogroot/blogpopuli.blog) KMpings is a collection of Knowledge Management TrackBack pings. The site offers instructions on how to ping it with or without Movable Type. This should be a good one-stop shopping info source regarding knowledge management....

A Frog in the Valley (a French weblog) links to a post about a new glasshaus book on content management systems: Book Excerpt: Content Management Systems The case in favor of Content Management is argued in this excerpt from the glasshaus title, "Content Management Systems." Included are discussions defining what CMS...

In Business 2.0, Rafe Needleman writes about a "dashboard" product to help VCs monitor the status of their investments: Dotcom flameout notwithstanding, the need for this product is greater than ever. Venture firms still have billions of dollars invested in technology startups, and there are a lot of people worrying about...

Caveat Lector posts some preliminary musings about XHTML2. The old typographer in me is most thrilled by the concept of continued paragraphs. Believe me, it's almost as exciting as discovering a working em-dash character....

It just clicked for me. Many facets just snapped together into focus. One, explaining why I post in so many different blogs (channels, brands), that almost promiscuous thrill of starting a new blog at the drop of a hat. Another, some recent conversations with business people who understand blogging and are...

Would it be possible to put check boxes next to my navigator links and have them drive CSS logic to hide entries that are only associated with unchecked categories? Would this be something like the Jakob/Zeldman buttons for switching from serif to sans-serif? I think I may need to ask a...

Back when I started talking about business applications of (or lessons from) blogging, Mike Masnick sent me an interesting message about Techdirt.com, a multi-author (slashcode) technology/business news blog that's been running continuously since 1997 (that is, since before the word blog was coined). One interesting thing is that Mike and his...

Not working on Windows most of the time lately, I haven't had a chance to try TopStyle yet. I wish they'd port it to OS X! Anyway, I went from some blog to the Eatonweb portal and then through the TopStyle text ad where, after reading press-release type information about using...

Nick Denton takes Traction to task for the buzzword bingo in their press release: Oh no, the corporate wordmanglers have got hold of blogging. "Traction is a leader in next generation Enterprise Weblog software, delivering interoperable, inexpensive, rapidly deployable, open and easy to use tools for groups and teams to communicate,...

Thanks to Ken Dow for the link. In this article John Foley looks at blogging as a professional tool, especially from the journalist's perspective: As a journalist with more than 15 years' experience myself, I'm more excited by the prospect of blogging than threatened by it. So, my business is in...

Per Scriptingnews, here's a discussion of the integration of Blogger with Trellix, a step toward folding the blog model into more full-fledged content management system solutions....

Also from plasticbag.org, a twist on the anti-webtool attitudes you sometimes see from hardcore or longstanding hand-coders. Tom Coates makes the point that the tools used to make work easier or to enable shortcuts are not responsible for the lousy design that may result. At worst, shortcuts facilitate laziness and open...

Following my referer log to McGee's Musings on klogs, I stumbled across yet another blog tool—Traction—this one specifically aimed at the enterprise market. I haven't investigated the feature set and pricing yet, and I'm curious about how it might differ from ordinary blog software. I was just talking to a business...

In a column (Blogs are HUGE) at the Macromedia site, Ed Krimen discussed the way they are using blogs to promote their products: While most of the feedback about the blogs has been positive, there has been some concerned feedback, especially from the blogging community. Companies like Macromedia don't normally use...

Blunt Force Trauma cites this Seattle Times article on corporate blogging....

Rick Klau links to thedownsideofknowledgemanagement.com, regarding the hurdles involved in using blogs for KM (or "knowledge sharing"), adding: In any event, I like the recognition that there's more to KM than just software - that unless someone is committed, responsible and incented to make the thing work, it will be hard...

Michael Helfrich of Groove Networks recounts a telling exchange with a client from his days at the Lotus/IBM Knowledge Management project: "You mean that one of my supply chain people could share our schedule data with a supplier?" he asked. "Sure, but they could do that with email, or the phone...

For several years now I've been slowly spec'ing out an ideal personal publishing platform for posting a peck of pickled peppers.... Uh, sorry. No, actually I mean a system with a well designed content database at the core and a great deal of flexibility both in how to submit content (client,...

Say, does Radio offer any link management features? I realize that the blog model says that only the latest or most-linked-to sites are of interest, but it seems that categorizing these links (beyond simply the category/channels built into Radio) might be worthwhile. For one thing, I could tell if I had...

The growing idea that businesses and other enterprises can benefit from using blogs to categorize relevant external links or contextualize and prioritize their own knowledge stores continues to show up in media such as this (don't laugh) WorldCom article....