Engadget: Song Airlines' Linux-based distributed media system. [Scripting News]
Author: Vince Kimball
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 Yale Law School’s Avalon Project publishes on the Web historical documents from the fields of law, economics, politics, diplomacy and government.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]
Collection of IA related research
Collection of IA related research. Peter Morville spent some time in the library this summer looking for research related to information architecture. He just published a list of freely available papers, categorized by broad topics like navigation and search. Useful stuff, but heavy reading at times. [ia/ blogs]
Preparing for the Holiday Shopping Season
Useit.Com: Preparing for the Holiday Shopping Season. Many B2C sites make a disproportionate share of their profits in Q4. If the holiday shopping season is important to your company, the following seven last-chance tips can help you get your site in shape for the holidays while there's still time. [Tomalak's Realm]
Force alone can't beat terror, Rumsfeld says
Force alone can't beat terror, Rumsfeld says. WASHINGTON — Nearly three years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, US officials are uncertain whether efforts to combat terrorism are reducing the pool of recruits for militant groups or appealing to moderates in the Islamic world, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld acknowledged yesterday. [Boston Globe —… Continue reading Force alone can't beat terror, Rumsfeld says