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Jack Vinson has helpfully listed over 20 Knowledge Management blogs that he reads regularly. I already had about half of them on my sources list, I’ve now added Conniecto, How do you know that?, The Pragmatics of KM Equals Success, Knowledgeline, Mopsos, Myndsi, Networks, Complexity and Relatedness, …no straight lines…,; Reflexions, Scrapbook of My [...]
Shawn Callahan points to his own white paper Using Content To Create Connections Among People [PDF] that advocates (in a style accessible to the non-techie) the use of blogs, feeds and aggregators as a more flexible solution (compared with a grand “knowledge repository”) to sharing knowledge within a company and between a company and its [...]
Fascinating series of posts by Leslie Michael Orchard applying the principles of "small pieces loosely joined" to computing hardware and appliances.
New additions to the blogroll - Claire Chaundy and Michael Feldstein
A life where TiVo has always existed is a great example of how subsequent generations take for granted technology that was new and strange not long ago. [via
The Shifted Librarian]
This one from Curt Rosengren seemed worth a mention -
The perfectionist definition of "good enough" - it's a pattern I've seen in a few high-performing coaching clients too.
Clarke Ching points to a great article by Johanna Rothman on writing - especially the importance of knowing if you are an extravert!
Great article on the why of business collaboration from CIO.com. [via Tris Hussey]
Technorati Tags Organisations, Technology
Amy Gahran has started
documenting patterns of blog posts. 3 of 7 posted so far. I think this a type 2!
Blogging your bliss - Lesley Orchard gets it.
Technorati Tags Meta_Blogging
The physics of high heels
I've started collecting my ideas about integrating blog and wiki at
WikiBlogIntegration. Note to self to review what "Ton":http://www.zylstra.org/blog/ is "up to":http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/001390.html ...
I’ve added a “second wiki”:http://www.synesthesia.co.uk/blog/wiki/ for no particularly good reason other than I saw how the anonymous author of Weblog Tools Collection had “integrated”:http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/07/05/wordpress-12-wiki-integration/ [bliki]ErfurtWiki[/bliki] into Wordpress and decided I wanted one too! This one is just for me - a different sort of publishing space without the time-bound nature of the blog but closely [...]
Steph Booth gives a really clear explanation of Taking Collaborative Notes at BlogTalk
[via Chocolate and Vodka]
Technorati Tags Collaboration, collective_intelligence, Knowledge_Management
Lots of “Wordpress Modifications”:http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/2004/07/07/wordpress-modifications/fulltext/ from “Shelley”:http://weblog.burningbird.net/
Added a wiki page to capture ideas that aren’t yet ready to be articles [wiki]UnwrittenEntries[/wiki]
Technorati Tags Site_News
Added sidebar lists of Wiki Changes and deli.icio.us links using “CG-Feedread”:http://www.chait.net/index.php?p=85
Minor tweak to suppress feed titles see [wiki]BlogFeedReader[/wiki]
Technorati Tags Site_News
When movie chase scenes get it wrong - “The Reality of Running Away from Stuff”:http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/idris/Movie_Reviews/Reality_of_Running_Away.html [via "BoingBoing":http://www.boingboing.net/]
Added sidebar link for my “blogroll”:http://www.synesthesia.co.uk/blog/sources.php and “my del.icio.us linklist”:http://del.icio.us/synesthesia
Technorati Tags Site_News
Leslie Orchard is “automating”:wishlist.http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2004/06/16/wishofthemonthclub1 the process of buying himself things from his Amazon wishlist
“A Guide to Implementing the Theory of Constraints (TOC)”:http://www.dbrmfg.co.nz/Preface.htm [via "Frank Patrick":http://www.focusedperformance.com/blogger.html]
Technorati Tags Constraints
“GPS Drawing Gallery”:http://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery.htm [via "The Obvious?":http://theobvious.typepad.com/blog/2004/06/staggering_.html]
“Extreme Programming and the Economics of Flexibility”:http://www.favaro.net/john/home/publications/xpecon.pdf [PDF] via “Agile Business Coach”:http://abc.truemesh.com/
Technorati Tags Software_Development
“Knowledge Management in the Real World”:http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001946.php
Ming on “Dreaming”:http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001280/
Interesting roundup of “broadcatching”:http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/004274.html#more - the impact of web technologies such as RSS(Really Simple Syndication) on broadcasting
Day-by-day Da Vinci - read the pages of Leonardo Da Vinci's Notebooks by RSS, one at a time.
(Matt Webb via LibrarianInBlack)
Public beta of a new site that let's you find out your MP's voting record, what he/she has said in various debates etc.
Tim Bray on OpenOffice
Fortune.com - Why an MBA May Not Be Worth It
FreeMind - free Java-based mind mapping software
Technorati Tags Creativity_Tools
OpenOffice are starting on a
project management tool [via
Clarke Ching]
From “Management By Baseball”:http://cmdr-scott.blogspot.com/ a piece on the “Diseconomies of Scale”:http://cmdr-scott.blogspot.com/2004/05/new-york-mets-confrontthe-diseconomies.html [via "Jack Vinson":http://jackvinson.com/archives/2004/06/02/diseconomies_of_scale.html]
The Art of Getting Things Done
Xkey 2.0 USB key drive with a 32-bit processor inside
Showerstar - pointless but amusing
Oligopoly Watch on the economic pressures that are creating endless boring “Blockbuster” movies
Broadband killed the TV star
"Shirky: Nomic World: By the players, for the players":http://shirky.com/writings/nomic.html - drawing parallels between Nomic online games (where the rules can change) and real life societies [via "Adina Levin":http://alevin.com/weblog/archives/001406.html#001406]
infed . What is informal education, where does it happen and how does it fit in? [via Psybertron]
RSS2Outlook - the beginnings of a tool that will have lots of uses. [via Contentious]
My Brilliant Failure: Wikis In Classrooms Heather James’ experiences using wiki as a teaching adjunct.
“Social Origins of Good Ideas”:http://web.mit.edu/sorensen/www/SOGI.pdf (PDF) via “Phil Jones”:http://www.nooranch.com/synaesmedia/wiki/wiki.cgi?HomePage in earlier “comment”:http://www.synesthesia.co.uk/blog/archives/2004/05/10/unpredictable-emergence-of-learning/#comment-148
This is very very funny, and deeply scary at the same time! (these people have nukes!)
Technorati Tags Humour
Executing JavaScript on page load Elegant cross-browser method from Simon Willison
Textism: Tools: Textile Interactive tester for Textile
Conversational Blogging Dina Mehta writes her blog as if it was spoken and contrasts Ming’s similar view with Dave Pollard.
Make Your Partner Look Good Applying the lessons of improv comedy to business change.
In celebration of the greasy spoon
Advice by Esther Derby on how to focus on what's important
In this excerpt from the new book A Bias for Action, Heike Bruch and the late Sumantra Ghoshal look at a work hazard that managers often confront.
WikidPad - wiki notebook/outliner for windows
Good summary of this group process for establishing priorities
A new study shows learning how to juggle can actually change the structure of the brain in adults and increase areas involved in thought and processing.
Watching Alone: Social Capital and Public Service Broadcasting - a report by economist Martin Brookes sponsored by BBC and The Work Foundation
...or why we should lay off 'best practice' in KM. PDF of 2003 paper by Dave Snowden
Tony Goodson on how indulging in 'tinkering about' somehow primes him for 'Butterfly Moments' that change his world.
'common pitfalls that can keep you you from reaching your perfect new job.'
The importance of looking beyond skills and competencies in recruitment.
Can absence make a team grow stronger? Erik van Bekkum comments on HBR article about teams that work better from a distance.
Virtual Audio Cable is a Windows multimedia driver allowing you to transfer audio (wave) streams from one application to another.
Mark Pilgrim is doing interesting things with Atom feeds and XSL to make feeds look good in a browser...
DNS Stuff: DNS tools, WHOIS, tracert, ping, and other network tools.
Tristan Louis has worked out how many computers Google has by reverse-engineering their IPO
Keith Ray points to document by Thoughtworks
Commentary by MonkeyX on Clay Shirky's 'Situated Software' essay
George Por offers an online experiment to explore the factors contributing to the growth of collective intelligence
Dale Pike identifies seven useful scenarios for weblogs in a professional knowledge context
Article from Psychology Today looking at the thought processes that stimulate creativity.
Tom Coates has found a new way of categorising people - the dwarf/elf and pirate/ninja axes...
Notes and slides from Michael Angeles' presentation to Computers in Libraries conference about 'Supporting enterprise knowledge management with weblogs: A weblog services roadmap'
Sometimes a cosmetic change can be the innovation that makes a product catch fire.
Spike Hall adds Instant Messaging to his structured process for knowledge workers...
PHP and MySQL: How to collect referrer data
Tracking entry referrers with PHP in MT
Jay Cross says 'Ultimately, you're responsible for the life you lead. It's up to you to learn what you need to succeed. That makes you responsible for your own knowledge management, learning architecture, instructional design and evaluation.'
Useful article [PDF] on defending PHP sites from Cross-Site Request Forgeries and Cross-Site Scripting attacks
Within most corporations, taking ownership of an intranet is an unglamorous, exhausting, and thankless job for a new intranet manager. Many corporate intranets lack thoughtful, focused, and disciplined design and are often extremely large and unwieldy. Fixing these intranets can seem an impossible and futile task.
Content management systems suck. Or so you would think from the strife heard from analysts and practitioners alike.
MTCodeBeautifier is a plugin for Movable Type that provides syntax highlighting and code beautification (indenting, etc.) on input for a variety of programming languages.
Self-taught scientist Steve Grand built his own intelligent android. Now he's seeking intelligent life among the newsreaders, television producers and yoghurt advertisers who label things as 'science'
This article explores the ways you can position footers using web standards, although the same techniques may be used to vertically position other elements.
Perl script to turn ordinary markup into entity-coded XHTML markup
The W3C�s CSS validation service has changed the way it interprets CSS authoring practices. Many sites that were designed valid no longer validate.
Mike Gross, Chief Technology Officer at Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc., reveals the five ways your conversion engine can get broken when converting MS Word documents to XML.
“Project Rhythms”:http://www.jrothman.com/weblog/archive/2004_02_01_mpdarchive.html#107581894680764235
What are definition lists? When are they appropriate? And how to style them to look like tables, image galleries, calendar of events and more.
Bloxpert is a formatting plugin designed to overcome the limitations of Movable Type's "convert breaks" option.
Stripping The Bull Out Of Business. A consulting jargon fighter from Deloitte
Fixing <abbr> in IE without code
Pat Holt says 'Like many editorial consultants, I've been concerned about the amount of time I've been spending on easy fixes that the author shouldn't have to pay for.'
With no guarantees to its accuracy, here you can download a list of UK postcode area codes and their grid coordinates.
Persistent login cookies are the cookies that are stored with your browser when you click the �remember me� button on the login form [...] The following recipe for persistent cookies requires no crypto more powerful than a good random number generator.
Internet Explorer 6 for Windows is a sore spot for many users of CSS. Besides its countless rendering problems, it has the annoying habit of causing background-image styled elements to flicker when moused over. This article will cover a few things I've found that will eliminate that flicker.
Tim Bray: This is the first in a series of essays on a simple but important question: Which new technologies will make it, and which will fail?
Perfect for people with zero-volume heads!