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  • 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…

  • EFF Needs a WP guru

    “The EFF Legal Team is seeking a volunteer legal secretary or other advanced Microsoft Word user to give us an in-house training. We’re hoping someone can help us better use styles, templates, captions, line numbering, tables of contents, tables of authorities, footnotes and other features of Word that are regularly used in litigation.  Alternately, we’d…

  • Treo 300 details at FCC

    I’m in the hunt for a new cell phone, and will likely pick up the Treo 270. I like the idea that I can finally ditch my Palm and cell phone and carry just one device around… and the prospect of getting at least the important e-mails routed to the device is pretty tantalizing. But…

  • More on blogs and business relationships

    This is a timely companion to my earlier post today about blogs and business relationships: Weblog as the interface to a person. Time for people. Paolo Valdemarin: Time for people. “Time for anonymous companies is over, we have all had enough, it really looks like it’s time for people, time for weblogs.” [Jake’s Radio ‘Blog]Also…