Month: October 2003

RSS-Data and Feed Notifcation. Bryan Field-Elliot of PingID makes the connection between something like RSS-Data and the need for true pub/sub style infrastructure for RSS.  Like others, he's frustrated by the “pull” nature of subscribing to RSS data feeds. In a separate email, I pointed out to him that RSS 2.0 already provides functionality (in the… Continue reading RSS-Data and Feed Notifcation

Boston Globe: Spambusters. The low-level fighting between techies and spammers that followed Canter's original blast has erupted into a full-scale war. And the most interesting dimension of the battle against spam is the manifold brigade of warriors now assembled to fight it. [Tomalak's Realm]

Soft Skills for Information Architecture. “For people looking to transition from their present role to take on information architecture duties, or for those who currently have these duties and would like to continue to grow and improve, an excellent approach to the softer side of IA is to build on a solid foundation of IA… Continue reading Soft Skills for Information Architecture

The keyhole problem. Scott Meyers, author of the essential Effective C++, is working on a new book. This one is on the keyhole problem. In his words: The book explains how some kinds of constraints in software systems decrease the quality of those systems in many ways. It proposes practical steps programmers can take to… Continue reading The keyhole problem

Notes and Tips: Satellite Internet. Here's a link to details about the DW6000, plus some notes. [MacInTouch]

KM in Law Firms = Waiting for Godot. Gretta Rusanow in LLRX: “Law is a knowledge based profession. Knowledge management – the leveraging of your organization’s collective wisdom by creating systems and processes to support and facilitate the identification, capture, dissemination and use of your organization’s knowledge to meet your business objectives – should be… Continue reading KM in Law Firms = Waiting for Godot

myLaszlo. Check out myLaszlo.com. As well as showing off some examples, this is a way of getting free hosting for Laszlo applications written using the Laszlo Presentation Server's Developer Edition — which is also free. Some applications that people have already posted: A Tree View control, in less than 70 lines of code. The Laszlo… Continue reading myLaszlo

Does Intel Help Libraries, Too?. ” A friend tells me that Intel is giving away stuff to schools and that they still have allocation left in their 'Model School' program. So, here's a good way to get your school some modern equipment.” [The Scobleizer Weblog] *cough* libraries *cough* sigh One of the things I really… Continue reading Does Intel Help Libraries, Too?

InfoWorld: OneNote makes Tablet sing. Totally agreed. I'm a OneNote junkie now. I find myself using it more and more. Beth Goza showed me her OneNote system, though. If you ever meet her, ask her to show it to you. She's completely arranged her life in OneNote. She even was one of top winners in… Continue reading OneNote makes Tablet sing

Value Billing / Alternative Billing and Technology The current (Fall 2003) issue of Law Firm, Inc. magazine has a very good article about why law firms need to think harder about value billing. In Stop the Clock & Make More Money, Jeffrey Carr and Mark Wolf, respectively the general counsel and assistant general counsel of… Continue reading Value Billing / Alternative Billing and Technology