Month: October 2001

Introducing MovableType. There's a new content management system for the masses in town, named Movabletype. WriteTheWeb asked its founders to explain what they're up to. [WriteTheWeb]

The TAO of Topic Maps. Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources… [xBlog: Visual thinking linking | XPLANE]

Knowledge management and desktop Weblogs.  The biggest trend in business right now is the move to find ways to more effectively manage knowledge workers through knowledge management.  This is akin to what Taylor did to improve the poductivity of the manufacturing workers but applied to knowledge workers.  Surveys claim that over 50% of businesses will take steps to buy… Continue reading Taylor

Vivisimo.  A new search engine that autogenerates categories in an outline format for your keywords.   Nice. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

InfoWorld – Securing privacy. As medical professionals move their daily practices further and further into the electronic world, so too has the mandate grown to protect the privacy of patient information. U.S. government regulations such as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) hold health care facilities responsible for bringing legacy IT systems into stringent… Continue reading InfoWorld

Web Performance Tip: “Try to not to use more than one JavaScript include, and make sure it's calling a fast server. For whatever reason, browsers have a hard time with JavaScript includes. Nothing drags down site performance like pages with multiple includes.” [inessential.com]

Categories and metacontent.  A great way to increase the quality of flow is self-categorization of content by authors.  Keyword searches are fine, but they often miss items that are on topic but don't contain the keyword.  Radio has the ability to enable authors to attach articles to categories and create category specific Weblogs.  Unfortunately, there… Continue reading Categories and metacontent.  A great way to increase the quality of flow is self-categorization of content by authors.  Keyword searches are fine, but they often miss items that are on topic but don't contain the keyword.  Radio has the ability to enable authors to attach articles to categories and create category specific Weblogs.  Unfortunately, there isn't a single categorization system available for people to use. 

I tried to develop a system of self-categorized content for a research system I built at my last job.  The idea was to have analysts publish Weblogs and categorize the entries based on a corporate corpus of metacontent.  Customers would have the option of subscribing to the specific category flows that pertained to them.  Although I didn't get it finished while there, the idea would be very easy to implement using either Manila and Radio or Radio by itself. 

The same idea could apply to news organizations.  Weblogs with self categorization would vastly improve the reading experience.  It is also a more elegant solution that blunt tools like Moreover

Crypto-Gram: The Attacks. Bruce Schneier. Rarely do you see an attack that changes the world's conception of attack, as these terrorist attacks changed the world's conception of what a terrorist attack can do. Nothing they did was novel, yet the attack was completely new. And our conception of defense must change as well. [Tomalak's Realm]

Ask Tog: The Airport Experience. Like most interface issues, it would appear at first glance that the users of the system must necessarily accept significant inconvenience. Like most interface issues, a deeper analysis shows little, if any, inconvenience is really necessary. [Tomalak's Realm]