Year: 2002

  • Negroponte on WiFi

    EE Times: MIT prof critiques Europe’s wireless efforts. The “big deal” Negroponte was keen to stress was that the emerging world of ad-hoc, peer-to-peer wireless networks will lead to a world of intelligent devices that will in fact serve as a network. “For years, we have been saying we can get the intelligence from the…

  • The Blogroll Works

    Played with activeRenderer last night to make the blogroll behave. Check out the results – I’m pretty happy with the end result. (If you’re reading this in a news aggregator, just visit the home page. If you aren’t sure what a news aggregator is, it’s safe to assume you’re reading this on the web site…

  • Broadcast or Broadband? You Be The Judge…

    Whoa, Will: Casting Pearls Among Swine. Listen closely because this is very simple. Call your CATV provider. Ask for the Internet access without television package. Buy this Buy this or this Buy this The problem now becomes>off the computer and on to your television, which sits in the same room as your couch. By which…

  • Touching a Nerve

    From this month’s issue of Context Magazine: Kentucky riflemen in Daniel Boone’s day said they knew they hit their target on hunting trips when they heard a squawk from the bushes where the game was hiding. Executives trying to find the right target market should look for that same kind of sudden outburst from customers.…

  • The Contender

    I’m traveling tonight, and just checked into the hotel. The Contender is on HBO, and I’d forgotten just how good it is. Performances are just remarkable – Gary Oldman as the hawkish conservative out for blood, Sam Elliot as the abrasive chief of staff, Christian Slater as the naive first-term congressman. But it’s the leads…

  • Using Active Renderer to Manage a Blogroll

    I think I’ve finally found the answer I’ve been looking for. The challenge: to create a visually appealing, functional collection of links to other blogs on the right-hand column of this site. Commonly referred to as a “blogroll”, the collection of links is a good way to show visitors where else they can go for…

  • Blogs and Business Value

    Information Week (John Foley):  Are you blogging yet.  Weblogs could have business value. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog] More fodder for the business value of blogs – a good thread from last week with input from John, Terry and me.

  • Active Renderer is Too Easy

    Yet another minor enhancement to the site that I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I just installed Marc Barrot’s Active Renderer plug-in. It’s going to allow me to do a bunch of nice user interface things on the site (including fixing the blogroll on the home page), but initially the biggest change is…

  • It’s Knowledge Sharing – not Knowledge Management

    Here’s a perfect example of how weblogs can create shared knoweldge: John Robb posts to his site about the State of Utah’s CIO asking his employees to start contributing to a K-log. Mohan Narendran adds a comment to John’s post, pointing him to the Singapore Business Times article interviewing Robert Buckman of Buckman Labs. Rajesh…

  • The Downside of KM?

    Some cold water on the blogs as KM solution: Given a choice people tend not to communicate. Some don’t want to share, some feel threatened or diminished by sharing, some fail to understand that most things lose meaning unless they have adequate context, some enjoy a feeling of superiority by talking about their work in…