Month: March 2004

More Ideas for RSS from Library Catalogs. an RSS feed I want “I want to be able to view the books I have checked out placed on hold for all the libraries to which I belong. This would require some authentication, but I suspect that’s not a showstopper. As it stands now, to check the… Continue reading More Ideas for RSS from Library Catalogs

OnFolio. Jeremy Allaire just blogged a new product – called OnFolio. It helps you keep track of on-line blah blah blah.  I have a few questions first: If it's about on-line blah blah blah – then why do I have to download anything? Whatever happened to RIAs?  Whatever happened to the new generation of apps… Continue reading OnFolio

Cool knowledge worker app released: Onfolio. Remember when I was the Demo conference and said that my favorite demo was one that I couldn't talk about? Well, now I can! I've been using this app called “Onfolio” as I surf the Web and graze my RSS feeds. JJ Allaire (you might remember him, his company… Continue reading Cool knowledge worker app released: Onfolio

More on Onfolio — cool .NET client. So, what's Onfolio? First, the screen captures (here's a PNG, same thing as GIF — that's a screen capture of my browser Window on my Tablet PC — Onfolio is designed to work with IE only at this point, sorry). Onfolio is the most useful .NET client app… Continue reading More on Onfolio — cool .NET client

Trustworthy Messaging at Microsoft. Microsoft has published some information about their internal need for trustworthy messaging, and how they solved it. They needed to use email for transmitting business-sensitive data but was concerned about security and data privacy. Microsoft's internal IT group deployed a solution they called trustworthy messaging, offering both senders and recipients three… Continue reading Trustworthy Messaging at Microsoft

BMOC: RSS at CIL!. Weblogs and RSS are Hot Topics “The most striking observation from two days at the CIL conference is that THE hot topics of conversation are Weblogs and RSS. I can't tell you how many times I overheard people taking about blogging or asking questions about RSS. There were no fewer than… Continue reading BMOC: RSS at CIL!

Documentation dilemma. This week's InfoWorld column (“The documentation dilemma“) deals with the ever-present burden of documentation in IT. I think I found a way to deal with it, or at least stop worrying about it. If you feel guilty about the lack of traditional documentation in your IT organization, you shouldn’t — you might only… Continue reading Documentation dilemma

A nation of polarized readers. An article in today's New York Times features this Amazon-derived network map by social network analyst Valdis Krebs. It's another fascinating illustration of an idea that Krebs mentioned when I interviewed him for the O'Reilly Network in mid-2002: Given good pictures of social networks, what will we use them for?… Continue reading A nation of polarized readers