Year: 2002

Jim McGee’s post “Making people smarter isn’t the point“ got me thinking about a couple parallel threads going on in a number of blogs in the past week:Phil Windley points out that he has trouble pulling ideas out of people’s heads, and I respond that you wouldn’t always know which ideas to pull.Matt Mower and Lilia…

Thanks to Jason Kottke for pointing this out: Comedian is coming to a theater near you. The trailer is a riot.

I have grown to really like liveTopics. Converting from Radio’s categories to liveTopics has been cumbersome (as it matures, I imagine Matt might offer a conversion utility), but worth it. You can now browse a topical outline of all posts on this site here; it is now complete for July and August. I will periodically…

Ray Ozzie (co-founder of Lotus Notes, and currently behind the promising Groove) has encouraged his employees to use weblogs for KM, knowledge sharing, and – let’s face it – PR. I’m behind him on all three counts. He asked Groove’s counsel to come up with a corporate policy on blogs for employees. The resulting policy…

MSNBC.com: The Transportation Security Agency may stop asking ridiculous questions about your bags: “All passengers do not pose equal security threats,” Wascom said. “Why should we continue to ask these simple questions of everyone? We should be focusing on people who are higher security risks.”I have a suggestion. For whatever reason, I think I’m the…

Gnomedex is LIVE right now in Des Moines, Iowa – but thanks to the fine folks at PlayStream, we can bring you a real-time audio feed of the event (no matter where you live in the world)! Listen in Windows Media format live, with multiple archive formats available for download following the show, including QuickTime,…

I’m meeting later on today with one of our IT guys to try and pitch Radio as the preferred method of contributing content to our soon-to-be-re-released (!) intranet. We are a software company, but like most software companies I’ve been a part of, internal technology is not often a focus. We concentrate on technology for…

From Adam Curry’s weblog, a great review of a book about the history of the telephone. He equates the challenges faced by Bell to the weblog challenge. I think it’s broader than that, but the similarities in economic climate, business challenges, etc. are absolutely intriguing: I’ve been reading the History of the telephone, as written…

Digging Ideas Out of People’s Heads. Dave McNamee is doing a good job on his weblog of narrating his work and keeping his co-workers updated about where his head is at on any given day.  Good work Dave! I worry sometimes about the public expression of information that should be kept confidential, but I worry…

A Nation of Bloggers and Googling by E-Mail. The number of Weblogs now tops a half-million, by most estimates. So it’s no surprise that some bloggers, as the writers of these link-filled, diarylike sites are known, are carving some order out of chaos. By Pamela Licalzi O’connell. [New York Times: Technology] Nothing earth-shattering in this…