Month: July 2002

Knowledge Management. An interview with Robert Buckman of Buckman Labs in Singapore's Business Times [via Mohan Narendran's comment on John Robb's blog]: We found that over 90 per cent of the knowledge in the company was in the heads of our people and it was changing every minute of every day.  [E M E R… Continue reading Knowledge Management

TiVo Still Not Listening To Its Customers.  TiVo: Why It Gets No Gold Stars for Mandatory Ads “I largely ignored the first, frantic messages I received about the vexing 'gold star' problem–until it happened to me. One morning, a new entry magically appeared on my TiVo Central menu: 'Counting Crows Music & Interviews!' had materialized right… Continue reading TiVo Still Not Listening To Its Customers

Bug tracker. I always appreciate it when developers put their bug lists and feature requests on the web. I like it even better when you can add bug reports and make feature requests. I wanted to do the same thing—but I couldn’t find software I liked. They either didn’t run on LAMP systems, or (more… Continue reading Bug tracker

Men, women from same planet when looking for mate [Reuters Health eLine]

Minimalist Web Project. This is a collection of good-looking websites that are built with minimalism in mind, the idea of beauty through 'less is more.' I started this project June 27th, 2002 by posting a 'matchmaker' project on Kaliber 10000 and allowing people to submit all other sites. I started the list by posting 3… Continue reading Minimalist Web Project

According to this article The Disintermediation Blues On the sad state of online car- and mortgage-buying services “Back when the dot-com boom was peaking, there was a lot of talk about how online services would blow away their anachronistic bricks-and-mortar competitors. Some of that has happened. Amazon.com, for example, has played a key role in… Continue reading The Disintermediation Blues On the sad state of online car- and mortgage-buying services

I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself. In the June issue of Computers in Libraries, Michael Schuyler writes about “The Next Big Thing: Super-PDAs Do It All.” I like his description of where we're headed and I very much agree with it. “The first issue is that cellphones and PDAs and wireless are mergining into… Continue reading I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself

Peter Drayton has the scoop:  Sauron Sues. I practically died laughing: Frodo Baggins charged with war crimes. “Mount Doom: the Musical”, indeed! In related news Bilbo Baggins and the dwarves of the Lonely Mountains have been charged with killing an endangered dragon, and Mr. Baggins faces separate charges for his attempts to destroy the endangered spiders… Continue reading Sauron Sues

Faceted classification of information. Knowledge Management Connection summarizes/defines faceted classification. Given the significant difficulties in categorizing books, papers, and articles using traditional library classification techniques, it would seem next to impossible for humans to classify the small chunks of rapidly changing information that characterize information-intensive business environments. But it’s not. Library and information science professionals… Continue reading Faceted classification of information

After the Dot Bomb: Getting Information Retrieval Right. Lou is pointing to and discussing Marcia Bates' excellent article in First Monday. This is an excellent article for anyone involved in web development. I have often harped on this blog on the issue of looking at the library and information science literature, particularly when it comes… Continue reading After the Dot Bomb: Getting Information Retrieval Right