Less. Here: No. 17 is the entire website for the hottest design firm in New York City. That's the whole site. And they're turning away business. Hmmmmm. What would happen if you did better work and less marketing?… [Seth's Blog]
Month: September 2004
To be influential you need to be authoritative, not religious
To be influential you need to be authoritative, not religious. JR Conlin writes me a note: “Influencers use weird crap. They use Macs and Linux, Mozilla, and other eminently hackable systems. They don’t generally run Windows and IE.” Problem is, I'm in the business of working with influencers, and I don't find this to be… Continue reading To be influential you need to be authoritative, not religious
Search Engine Basics v.1.0
Search Engine Basics v.1.0. As a web developer, it's important to know how search engines work. While the details are complex, we'll look into the basics of crawler-based search engines (this involves a certain amount of speculation as the exact calculations are a closely guarded secret). By Lee Underwood. [WebReference News]
Song Airlines' Linux-based distributed media system
Engadget: Song Airlines' Linux-based distributed media system. [Scripting News]
Today's five-star site: Avalon Project
Today's five-star site: Avalon Project. Yale Law School’s Avalon Project publishes on the Web historical documents from the fields of law, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Materials span ancient Greece to contemporary times, and include such pre-Eighteenth Century documents as the Athenian Constitution by Aristotle, the Code of Hammurabi and the Magna Carta. Documents are… Continue reading Today's five-star site: Avalon Project
Touch points
Touch points. Some notes around strategies for yellowpages that may help. I have found the IAWiki to be a useful resource. Related concepts you may wish to visit are expertise mapping, taxonomy and ontology. The key issues here as I see them are: * getting all users to buy-in on central domain categories and issues,… Continue reading Touch points
Learning From Accidents and a Terrorist Attack
Learning From Accidents and a Terrorist Attack. My essay “Software That Lasts 200 Years” has proven very popular. It discusses software industry structure that could be helpful for a particular type of software. It also suggests learning from other areas of engineering to find principles to follow when creating long-term software. I've just finished another… Continue reading Learning From Accidents and a Terrorist Attack
Knowledge lost
Knowledge lost. The loss of knowledge and ways to mitigate this disruption is a key KM topic and practice. Here are some thoughts after reading “Lost knowledge” a new book by David DeLong, 2004. Demographics Clearly we are at the start of the baby-boomer exit from the active workforce – a subtle demographics driver, whose… Continue reading Knowledge lost
Soup-to-Nuts Spam and Virus Protection for SMBs
Soup-to-Nuts Spam and Virus Protection for SMBs. One comprehensive program, no IT required and 24/7 tech support–Trend Micro makes it easy for SMBs to avoid spam and viruses. [Datamation Product News]
Bush Backs Budget Authority for New Intelligence Post
Bush Backs Budget Authority for New Intelligence Post. President Bush shifted his stance today on how much power a new national intelligence director should have. By DAVID STOUT. [The New York Times > Home Page]