Month: December 2002

Building a Contribute-enabled Intranet by Mike Weiland; re: Contribute. [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]

Tales from a Cheap Motel II: A Librarian Gets His Wheels. – “I must say how entertaining it is for me to tell people that I’m a librarian, and watch with marvel how each one of them responds. While it’s true I’m not female and am far from getting a senior discount at International House… Continue reading Tales from a Cheap Motel II: A Librarian Gets His Wheels

Surviving Information Overload. – “Think about the sources you rely on to stay abreast of developments in your practice or fields of interest. You may receive new information in a variety of formats and styles. It may be formal or informal, confirmed or unverified. It may arrive in traditional print-based newsletters, magazines or newspapers, via… Continue reading Surviving Information Overload

New York Times – free registration required Going Electronic, Denver Reveals Long-Term Surveillance. The Denver police have gathered information on unsuspecting local activists since the 1950's, secretly storing what they learned on simple index cards in a huge cabinet at police headquarters. When the cabinet filled up recently, the police thought they had an easy… Continue reading New York Times

Plone 1.0 Release Candidate 1 ready!.  As Christmas draws closer, we are proud to announce the first Release Candidate for Plone. If we get positive feedback from this release and migrations are smooth – this will be 1.0! Get the latest Plone from “the plone.org download page”:http://plone.org/download and help us locate any remaining bugs. What is… Continue reading Plone 1.0 Release Candidate 1 ready!

One last feature item.  If we had a system like the one below, why not include the option to author e-mails as an outline?  It would make it easier to organize thoughts and annotate replies to e-mails received in outline form.   Imagine a lawyer or doctor working with a tool like this.  Drag and drop some outlined case… Continue reading one below

Also, why can't e-mail have a shortcuts feature (like Radio) or Activewords?  To include some contact info for a person, I should be able to type their name in double quotes and have it show up.  If I have a “canned” statement I would like to be able to type the name of that statement… Continue reading Radio

Hmm.  This makes me wish my e-mail system was a self-organizing outliner.  The biggest problem with Outlook is that it makes it difficult to categorize/archive mail and make rules.  Here's some of the attributes I would like to see: Top level nodes would develop around people or type (mail-list).  Contact info for people available via v-card would… Continue reading This

BC Vickery up for grabs. I Found a facsimile of Brian Campbell Vickery's Faceted Classification Schemes on Alibris. It would be truly excellent if someone could get the Vickery books (or excerpts of them) to be repro'd at a place that delivers. I just ordered a loan of this one from my corporate library. [ia/… Continue reading BC Vickery up for grabs

Diving more deeply into facets. How do you say faceted classification in Italiano? Classificazione/indicizzazione a faccette. One of the small facts I've culled out of the faceted classfication list. Discussion is heating up a little and Kathry La Barre is dropping science on us. The great advantage in having PhDs and doctoral students discussing on… Continue reading Diving more deeply into facets