Month: January 2004

Borders' Page-Turning Holidays. The bookseller's holidays were cheerful. [The Motley Fool]

Update: DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.7.5. The personal knowledge base and content manager adds an “append” service for adding a selection to the most recent note, column views that support outlining, and many other changes. [MacInTouch]

Moving pictures. I wanted to demonstrate the SpamBayes plug-in for the school, and I realized I ought to try the screen-capture feature of the free Windows Media Encoder 9. The results were stunning. I set up a new session, pointed it at Outlook's main window, and began encoding. Then I talked through a demonstration of… Continue reading Moving pictures

FogBUGZ for Unix and Macintosh.  Whoo hoo! There's nothing better than shipping a new product.  Fog Creek Software is proud to announce: FogBUGZ for Unix and FogBUGZ for Macintosh.  [Joel on Software]

FeedDemon and well-formed Atom feeds, Part II. Last night I stated my position on well-formed Atom feeds, but I'm not sure I did a good job of explaining myself. The point here isn't that I'm trying to save myself time by requiring well-formed Atom feeds – I've already written a forgiving RSS parser which could… Continue reading FeedDemon and well-formed Atom feeds, Part II

FeedDemon and well-formed Atom feeds. NetNewsWire creator Brent Simmons recently announced that NetNewsWire's future support for Atom will require Atom feeds to be well-formed. Some people aren't too happy about this, claiming that he's applying a double standard that will make Atom appear less useful than RSS. So, I'll add to the stink by stating… Continue reading FeedDemon and well-formed Atom feeds

BlueDragon 6.1 Beta 2. New Atlanta just announced that BlueDragon 6.1 Beta 2 is now available. According to some of the discussions on various mailing lists, this version is supposed to be able to run Mach II applications so I'll be trying that out… [An Architect's View]

Guns, Germs and Software. A networked strategy can defeat epidemics — if the world will let it. Wired magazine's Bruce Sterling outlines the new plan for viral containment. [Wired News]

Assessing Outside Counsel – Asking about Knowledge Management.  The Fall 2003 issue of Chief Legal Executive magazine has an interesting article by the managing partner of Arnold & Porter, The Inside Story on the Outside Firm. James J. Sandman discusses five key questions clients should ask their firms. One of the five is what KM… Continue reading Assessing Outside Counsel – Asking about Knowledge Management