April 18, 2003

To TiVo and beyond

I think it’s safe to assume that Brad Choate really-really likes his TiVo. However, he has made some interesting points about TiVo’s future uses:

“I also expect that weÂ’ll be using the TV for video e-mail and home-to-home video conferencing. ThatÂ’s a killer application waiting to happen. Something that would drive a market to broadband faster than Superman puts on his tights.”

April 17, 2003

Evolution of interfaces

Some good reads about the current state of web-based interfaces, keyboarding and where they all started…

(via Doc and Don)

April 16, 2003

AOL Spam Fighter, Spammer or Both?

Even though I applaud AOL’s recent Spam lawsuits, catbird points out the irony:

“As much as I detest spam, I am having trouble cheering for a company that sends me unsolicited CDs in expensive and non-biodegradable tin cases every month. Which is worse, email spam or polluting the earth with waste?”

April 16, 2003

Grassroots knowledge management

Well said from McGee’s Musings about blogs and KM:

“Knowledge work, on the other hand, depends on extracting maximum advantage out of the unique characteristics and experiences of each knowledge worker. Knowledge management, from this perspective, has to be a decentralized, grassroots, activity. If you accept that premise, the promise of weblogs in knowledge management becomes clearer. Weblogs operate on grassroots assumptions by design.”

April 15, 2003

Corporate blogs make personal connection

Doc is quoted in Crain’s B2B Marketing article about corporate weblogs:

“Weblog expert Searls said that companies of all stripes might do well to consider complementing their formal marketing messages with the more direct connection to customers that Weblogs can deliverÂ—with or without the endorsement of the marketing department.”

April 14, 2003

Google as a Knowledge Operating System

From Microdoc News:

“Google, a Knowledge Operating System (KOS) manages your knowledge activity on the Internet. Google, as a KOS, manages your requests for information, indexes your web pages, responds to applications you may be running on your computer that interface to it via the Google APIs, and integrates knowledge and information from millions of computers into a single large managed database.”

This seems to be a little excessive in that I don’t know if I’d want to give one company that much information about me, but the high-level idea is interesting.

April 14, 2003

Knowledge management and weblogs

Smarty enabled b2 mod

Cool! I found a b2 hack by Donncha O Caoimh that incorporates the Smarty template engine.

Just what I was looking for to speed up the responsiveness of this blog! Now, I just need to find some time to test and install it.

April 12, 2003

Seed or hydroseed

I need to seed my backyard, but I can’t decide between hydroseeding and pain old seeding. I’ve already factored out laying down sod, because according to this it appears that sod will be 50% more than hydroseeding.

However, what’s benefit over seeding? This Old House seems to favor hydroseeding, but it’s still unclear of the cost gap.

Hmm…

April 11, 2003

Blogging as Jazz

Lilia Efimova, Diana Mehta and Sebastian Fiedler have an interesting discussion going on about using the metaphor of a Jazz band to describe the interactions that take place in the blogshere.

Diana Mehta uses a quote from jazz musician Doug Little on her Ryze page in reference to improvisational “interactions”:

“What I play will inspire the drummer to play something. The drummer might inspire me to play something. The musicians listen to one another and make spontaneous decisions. The possibilities are endless. It is always within the form and it is always interconnected with each person but it is never the same.