March 27, 2003

Project Weblogging

Jon Udell on Publishing a project Weblog …

“If you’re managing an IT project, you are by definition a communication hub. Running a project Weblog is a great way to collect, organize, and publish the documents and discussions that are the lifeblood of the project and to shape these raw materials into a coherent narrative. The serial nature of the Weblog helps you make it the project’s newspaper of record. This kind of storytelling can become a powerful way to focus the attention of a group. The desire to listen to a compelling story and find out what happens next is a deep human instinct.”

March 26, 2003

Spam-Free Universal Inbox via MailBlocks

Allegedly for $10 per year, Mailblocks Eliminates Spam “and offers the powerful features you want in your web mail.”

According to Kevin it’s brought to you by Phil Goldman, who is one of the founders of WebTV.

March 25, 2003

Jabber with Intel Inside

Congrats go to Jermey and the Jabber gang …

Jabber gets $7.2 million from Intel

March 24, 2003

Study shows corporate structure found in email

Hewlett-Packard scientists found a company’s power and communication structure may be as simple as examining patterns of e-mail exchanges.

“Because [Email] can be captured and stored, many scientists are eyeing e-mail as a tool to quantify exchanges that in the past have taken place in hallways or meetings. The researchers in this study said e-mail flow could provide a window into the communications structure of an organization.”

March 23, 2003

Would you like paper or plastic?

Fast Company reports that, “The United States spends more on trash bags than 90 other countries spend on everything. In other words, the receptacles of our waste cost more than all of the goods consumed by nearly half of the world’s nations.” (via sysrick.com)

March 22, 2003

Robot vs Dog

Apparently a group of French Sony researchers thought it would be interesting to have the Aibo Dog Robot and a “REAL” Dog compete for a piece of raw meat.

What were they thinking?

Did they really expect different results?

March 21, 2003

Punk rock girl

Ha! My wife Catherine goes off on SuicideGirls.com

March 20, 2003

Defining .Net

From Business 2.0’s The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business

“One question might be, and I’ll be as direct as I can be about this, what is .Net? Unlike Windows, where you could say it’s a product, it sits in one place, it’s got a nice little box. In some senses, it’s a very good question.”
– Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, at a Microsoft .Net briefing day in July

“We don’t have the user-centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence — presence is the most trivial notion of context.”
– Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on the same topic at the same briefing

March 19, 2003

Will InfoPath have the same impact as Excel?

jasnell has an interesting observation: “If InfoPath does for XML and Web services what Excel did for Spreadsheets, bravo to Microsoft, good job.”

March 18, 2003

Semantic Blogging at HP

While reading the comments on Seb’s Towards structured blogging, I found a link to the following research going on at HP:

Semantic Blogging for Bibliographies: “The central idea is to apply ideas, techniques and tools from the semantic web and apply them to blogging.”