Year: 2002

This is more than a bit goofy, and not nearly as voyeuristic as the “Am I hot or not“ site. But the same people who brought you the hot or not site bring you Blog: Hot or Not? I don’t really care about the rating I get (well, just a bit), but I was pleasantly…

From the August/September issue of Context Magazine comes the Seven Myths of Knowledge Management: If you look at how companies approach knowledge management, you can see that the problem is in the execution. Companies commonly make catastrophic mistakes by falling for one of these seven myths… [more]

Deep Linking Takes Another Blow, Wired – “Using a search engine to locate stories on newspapers’ sites violates European Union Database Directive law, according to a recent ruling by judges in Munich’s Upper Court.” [LLRX Newstand] For the life of me, I cannot understand how a rational court can find a hyperlink to be anything…

CNN.com: Rob Lowe to leave West Wing over salary dispute. Bummer.

Forgot to mention this last week when it ran in Internet World: Five Questions with Rick Klau.

No More JPEGs – ISO to Withdraw Image Standard, The Register – “The ISO standards body will take the unprecedented step of withdrawing the JPEG image format as a formal standard if Forgent Networks, a small Texan company, continues to demand royalties on a seventeen-year old patent.” [LLRX Newstand] Josh – looks like you’re not…

The BlogRoots authors are publishing their book on the Web, in its entirety. Chapter 8, Using Blogs in Business, is online now. Excellent. [Scripting News] The birth of a meme. I’ve now counted at least five separate sources of info on the blogs and business topic. And I got my copy of Information Week today…

Today’s Legal Headlines – here again, in outline format (with yesterday’s headlines collapsed). [Ernie the Attorney] Ernie’s doing good things with the Radio outliner and activeRenderer. See also his Copyright Outline. Like Ernie, I’m finding that the Outliner is a fantastic way to organize thoughts. I’m now using it in lieu of my Outlook Tasks…

Here’s a gem from former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold: “Software sucks because users demand it to.” [“Why Software is So Bad”, July/August Technology Review.] The article is a good read. But the ultimate conclusion is troubling: the author suggests that bad software is systemic in the industry, and that regulation is sure to follow. (To…

From the July/August issue of Technology Review: You’ve probably heard the Ford adage that a customer could have any color Model T he wanted as long as it was black. But have you ever wondered why the only choice was black? Because black was the fastest-drying paint.Great editorial by Michael Schrage about the nexus between…