Year: 2002

Who Reads What and Why [The Car Talk Guys, via LISNews] The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country. The Washington Post is read by people who think they should run the country. USA Today is…

Turns out that not too many people like the Hollings bill that would mandate protection for the entertainment industry – or, better put, nobody likes it. Except maybe for Mr. Eisner and crowd. This is good news. (Thanks to Doc Searls who pointed out the mention on Scott Andrew’s site.)

Jim McGee at McGee’s Musings talks about the perils of “knowledge sharing” in his latest post. A largely unexplorted dimension in KM is that of visibility. I’ve written one initial stab at it in a piece looking at knowledge work as craft work.  I suspect the underlying fear in this debate is that of having…

Courtesy of NetMarketing, this article from Media Life Magazine suggests that the large, hard-to-miss ads on C|Net (called Interactive Messaging Units, or IMUs), are working. From the article: 60 percent said that the units were worth stopping their activities to view, and 49 percent said that they thought the units were the type of ad…

I just added a “Google Box” on my home page. Google just opened up access to its system via SOAP, so that now anytime Radio publishes my home page, it dynamically updates the search results on this page. Very cool. More info is available here at Userland’s page, and here at Google’s. Most unexpected result?…

With any luck, this item (in any XML aggregator) will contain just the first sentence – all other content will be included on the weblog itself (for those reading in an aggregator, follow the link to the full post for more info). The advantage to this is that anyone subscribing to my blog will see less content…

Testing.

Business 2.0 reports on concrete examples in the corporate world where KM is working. The author cites a number of examples of companies (Wal-Mart, G.E., Buckman Labs, and others) that use targeted KM efforts to further the business model. One quote: See the pattern? A clear business model — “business model” meaning “how we make…

Great article.

Anyone interested in seeing how weblogs and the law can get along needs to visit Denise’s site. Denise is an attorney at Crosby Heafey Roach & May, and maintains an excellent list of “blawgs” (wish I’d thought of the term!) along the right column of her page. It’s an excellent site. ( Thanks Ernie for…