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Blogroll Additions - KM blogs

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 [...]

Reinventing Radio

Tom Coates has posted the slides from Reinventing Radio: Enriching Broadcast with Social Software - the presentation given by him, Matt Webb, Paul Hammond and Matt Biddulph at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference

Connecting People With Content

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 [...]

Appliances as small pieces loosely joined

Fascinating series of posts by Leslie Michael Orchard applying the principles of "small pieces loosely joined" to computing hardware and appliances.

Blogroll additions

New additions to the blogroll - Claire Chaundy and Michael Feldstein

A life where Tivo has always existed

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]

The perfectionist definition of good enough

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.

Managing Product Development

Clarke Ching points to a great article by Johanna Rothman on writing - especially the importance of knowing if you are an extravert!

A Travel Guide To Collaboration

Great article on the why of business collaboration from CIO.com. [via Tris Hussey] Technorati Tags Organisations, Technology

Hints for revising

Some excellent hints for revising your writing from Brian Marick [via Clarke Ching]

SAP management blogs

Even SAP have blogs now.

Patterns of Blog Posts

Amy Gahran has started documenting patterns of blog posts. 3 of 7 posted so far. I think this a type 2!

Blogging your bliss

Blogging your bliss - Lesley Orchard gets it. Technorati Tags Meta_Blogging

The physics of high heels

The physics of high heels

Integrating blog and wiki

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 ...

What is The Plural of Wiki?

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 [...]

Tv tropes

TV Tropes Wiki

Collaborative Note-taking

Steph Booth gives a really clear explanation of Taking Collaborative Notes at BlogTalk [via Chocolate and Vodka] Technorati Tags Collaboration, collective_intelligence, Knowledge_Management

Wordpress Modifications

Lots of “Wordpress Modifications”:http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/2004/07/07/wordpress-modifications/fulltext/ from “Shelley”:http://weblog.burningbird.net/

Unwritten Entries

Added a wiki page to capture ideas that aren’t yet ready to be articles [wiki]UnwrittenEntries[/wiki] Technorati Tags Site_News

RSS sidebar

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

The Reality of Running Away from Stuff

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/]

Sources

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

Wish-of-the-Month Club

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 Theory of Constraints

“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

“GPS Drawing Gallery”:http://www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery.htm [via "The Obvious?":http://theobvious.typepad.com/blog/2004/06/staggering_.html]

Keeping Your Options Open

“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

“Knowledge Management in the Real World”:http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001946.php

Ming on Dreaming

Ming on “Dreaming”:http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001280/

Broadcatching Roundup

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

Da Vinci Notebooks

Day-by-day Da Vinci - read the pages of Leonardo Da Vinci's Notebooks by RSS, one at a time. (Matt Webb via LibrarianInBlack)

TheyWorkForYou

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.

OpenOffice

Tim Bray on OpenOffice

Why an MBA May Not Be Worth It

Fortune.com - Why an MBA May Not Be Worth It

FreeMind

FreeMind - free Java-based mind mapping software Technorati Tags Creativity_Tools

oopm

OpenOffice are starting on a project management tool [via Clarke Ching]

Diseconomies of Scale

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

The Art of Getting Things Done

Xkey

Xkey 2.0 USB key drive with a 32-bit processor inside

Showerstar

Showerstar - pointless but amusing

Blockbuster Conspiracy

Oligopoly Watch on the economic pressures that are creating endless boring “Blockbuster” movies

Broadband killed the TV star

Broadband killed the TV star

Shirky: Nomic World

"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]

introducing informal education

infed . What is informal education, where does it happen and how does it fit in? [via Psybertron]

Rss2Outlook

RSS2Outlook - the beginnings of a tool that will have lots of uses. [via Contentious]

My Brilliant Failure: Wikis In Classrooms | Kairosnews

My Brilliant Failure: Wikis In Classrooms Heather James’ experiences using wiki as a teaching adjunct.

Social Origins of Good Ideas

“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

overhaulin

This is very very funny, and deeply scary at the same time! (these people have nukes!) Technorati Tags Humour

Executing JavaScript on page load

Executing JavaScript on page load Elegant cross-browser method from Simon Willison

Textism: Tools: Textile

Textism: Tools: Textile Interactive tester for Textile

Conversational Blogging

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

Make Your Partner Look Good Applying the lessons of improv comedy to business change.

eggbaconchipsandbeans

In celebration of the greasy spoon

Setting Clear Priorities

Advice by Esther Derby on how to focus on what's important

The Trap of Overwhelming Demands

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

WikidPad - wiki notebook/outliner for windows

The KJ-technique

Good summary of this group process for establishing priorities

Juggling Boosts Brain Power

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

Watching Alone: Social Capital and Public Service Broadcasting - a report by economist Martin Brookes sponsored by BBC and The Work Foundation

Managing for Serendipity

...or why we should lay off 'best practice' in KM. PDF of 2003 paper by Dave Snowden

Butterfly Moments and Bricolage

Tony Goodson on how indulging in 'tinkering about' somehow primes him for 'Butterfly Moments' that change his world.

Ten Pitfalls Keeping You From Your Career Goals

'common pitfalls that can keep you you from reaching your perfect new job.'

Hire talent and passion over skill and experience

The importance of looking beyond skills and competencies in recruitment.

Can absence make a team grow stronger

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

Virtual Audio Cable is a Windows multimedia driver allowing you to transfer audio (wave) streams from one application to another.

User-friendly feeds

Mark Pilgrim is doing interesting things with Atom feeds and XSL to make feeds look good in a browser...

DNS Stuff

DNS Stuff: DNS tools, WHOIS, tracert, ping, and other network tools.

How many Google machines

Tristan Louis has worked out how many computers Google has by reverse-engineering their IPO

XP on a Large Project

Keith Ray points to document by Thoughtworks

Situated Software

Commentary by MonkeyX on Clay Shirky's 'Situated Software' essay

The Emergence of CI

George Por offers an online experiment to explore the factors contributing to the growth of collective intelligence

Weblog Scenarios

Dale Pike identifies seven useful scenarios for weblogs in a professional knowledge context

Riding the White Moment

Article from Psychology Today looking at the thought processes that stimulate creativity.

From pirate dwarves to ninja elves…

Tom Coates has found a new way of categorising people - the dwarf/elf and pirate/ninja axes...

Supporting enterprise KM with weblogs

Notes and slides from Michael Angeles' presentation to Computers in Libraries conference about 'Supporting enterprise knowledge management with weblogs: A weblog services roadmap'

Disruptive Incrementalism

Sometimes a cosmetic change can be the innovation that makes a product catch fire.

Instant Messages in Knowledge-Making

Spike Hall adds Instant Messaging to his structured process for knowledge workers...

PHP and MySQL: How to collect referrer data

PHP and MySQL: How to collect referrer data

Tracking entry referrers with PHP in MT

Tracking entry referrers with PHP in MT

Personal Intellectual Capital

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.'

Foiling Cross Site Attacks

Useful article [PDF] on defending PHP sites from Cross-Site Request Forgeries and Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Value-Driven Intranet Design

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.

Managing the Complexity of Content Management

Content management systems suck. Or so you would think from the strife heard from analysts and practitioners alike.

MTCodeBeautifier

MTCodeBeautifier is a plugin for Movable Type that provides syntax highlighting and code beautification (indenting, etc.) on input for a variety of programming languages.

I’m sorry, has your brain broken?

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'

Exploring Footers

This article explores the ways you can position footers using web standards, although the same techniques may be used to vertically position other elements.

SimpleCode

Perl script to turn ordinary markup into entity-coded XHTML markup

CSS Validator Changes the Rules

The W3C�s CSS validation service has changed the way it interprets CSS authoring practices. Many sites that were designed valid no longer validate.

When Word-to-XML Conversions Get Nasty

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

“Project Rhythms”:http://www.jrothman.com/weblog/archive/2004_02_01_mpdarchive.html#107581894680764235

Definition lists - misused or misunderstood?

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

Bloxpert is a formatting plugin designed to overcome the limitations of Movable Type's "convert breaks" option.

Bullfighter

Stripping The Bull Out Of Business. A consulting jargon fighter from Deloitte

abbr-cadabra

Fixing <abbr> in IE without code

Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See

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.'

Finding grid coordinates from UK Postcode

With no guarantees to its accuracy, here you can download a list of UK postcode area codes and their grid coordinates.

Persistent Login Cookie Best Practice

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.

Minimizing Flickering CSS Background Images in IE6

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.

Technology Predictor Success Matrix

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?

Klein Bottle Hats

Perfect for people with zero-volume heads!

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