Month: March 2003

What's in a topic map?. In our last extension of the XMLMap we closed with a discussion of ontologies and topic maps, both concepts for expressing semantics of resources. This installment tries to explain topic maps with examples taken from our daily lives. By Michael Classen. 0319 [WebReference News]

Open Source in the Corporate Environment – Practical Issues. Many companies are considering using Open Source software. What are the practical questions you must consider. I found a couple of good articles. [DennisKennedy.blog]

OK, David Coursey, is someone I respect. Here's his “five forces that will shape mobile tech.” [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Adding Searching to the Blog: Chad Fowler (www.chadfowler.com) got me interested in searching when he published an article on Latent Semantic Indexing (here). Between us we dinged around with the simple part (building the vectors and calculating cosine differences between articles). The interesting part, using Singular Value Decomposition to cluster articles into What’s Related groups… Continue reading Adding Searching to the Blog

Six Reasons why InfoPath is DOA: Although he hasn’t yet used it, Richard Tallnet has posted an article, “Six Reasons why InfoPath is DOA“. They are all very valid reasons. I have a post to make later on the subject, but Richard is dead on with his take, this is not a tool for developers… Continue reading Six Reasons why InfoPath is DOA

LibraryLookup Bookmarklet Helper pt.2. The Bookmarklet Helper has finally been packaged up and made available. It requires Cocoon though I think it could easily be used with AxKit. It is an interesting exercise in stylesheets, they are really what ties everything together. One possibility for handling different ISBNs for multiple editions of a work is… Continue reading LibraryLookup Bookmarklet Helper pt.2

McGee's Musings – flaws in knowledge management with weblogs. Quote: “While I agree that the current generation of weblog tools have some serious limits in terms of search and user interface, I disagree with his contention about where the problems lie in knowledge management systems. In the organizations where I've struggled to make knowledge management… Continue reading McGee's Musings – flaws in knowledge management with weblogs

Sharing Knowledge – First Steps?. Some interesting thoughts on weblogs, knowledge management, and the need for the process of KM to start with the individual first… [Erehwon Notebook]

A stirring speech.  We cannot base our military strategy on the assumption that Saddam is weak and at the same time justify pre-emptive action on the claim that he is a threat.From Robin Cook's resignation speech in the UK House of Commons yesterday. Here's the full text. I recommend you watch the video (RealAudio). It's… Continue reading A stirring speech

On the war. I've been avoiding making a direct post about my opinion on the upcoming Iraq war because I've felt it's been so muddled and unclear. I've been spending a tremendous amount of time thinking about it, and reading as much as I can. Since megnut serves not only as a space for me… Continue reading On the war