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Cross-references For Blog Posts!.  Wow – check out Matt Mower's blog Curiouser and Curiouser. He's hacked Radio to add a keywords field for posts. On his blog, the keywords appear at the end of each item and they link to related posts in an outline format that uses Marc Barrot's activeRenderer tool! I L-O-V-E this!… Continue reading Cross-references For Blog Posts!

Lay Leader Vows Justice  Calling the Catholic Church's handling of clergy sex abuse ''intolerable,'' Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, a tough-talking former prosecutor recently appointed to head a national board that will help oversee child-protection plans in dioceses nationwide, held out the possibility that top church officials could face criminal charges for their involvement in the… Continue reading Lay Leader Vows Justice

'Reinventing the Bazaar': Designing Markets. John McMillan, an economist, has high praise for both free markets and government regulations. By Barry Gewen. [New York Times: Books]

'Tuxedo Park': Basement Science Project. Jennet Conant's book explains how a wealthy inventor financed research that aided the Allied effort. By Alex Beam. [New York Times: Books]

How to build an RSS digital dashboard using Manila and Radio (a low tech approach).  The concept is simple.  In addition to getting new posts from news sites and other weblogs, RSS feeds can contain data from corporate systems.  Sales data, financial data, supply data, data from partner systems, etc.  Using this method, employees could get… Continue reading How to build an RSS digital dashboard using Manila and Radio (a low tech approach).  The concept is simple.  In addition to getting new posts from news sites and other weblogs, RSS feeds can contain data from corporate systems.  Sales data, financial data, supply data, data from partner systems, etc.  Using this method, employees could get up to the minute data from multiple applications on a single webpage — a personal digital dashboard.

So, for example, I could be a sales manager at a Fortune 500 company.  I want to track information available to me from multiple corporate applications, and I don't want to run the client software for each app on my desktop.  I only want the data.  So, in order to offer employees better access to data, the IT department is convinced to spend a couple of days to create granular RSS feeds for the main corporate apps (CRM, ERP, financial, etc.).  Here is what the feed could look like:

Sale:  Customer name:  Proctor and Gamble,  Date:  June 12, 2002, Amount:  $2.3 m,  Made by:  Tom Durst, E-mail: tdurst@widget.com

KnowledgeFarm.  Bottoms up knowledge management.  K-Logs…. >>>Knowledge management has been, up to now, largely a top-down enterprise. Driven by a concern that corporate knowledge repositories would quickly fill up with inaccurate, useless junk without rigid quality review, organizations have created small priesthoods of knowledge administrators responsible for virtually all authoring. Unfortunately, the result often has… Continue reading KnowledgeFarm

Jon Udell: Extreme design versus extreme programming. Quote: “Central to Cooper's methodology is the documentation and analysis of personas. These are carefully thought out representations of key actors (Lucy the sales rep, Bill the investor) that aim to capture the goals and motivation of these actors. From these you deduce what tasks they perform according… Continue reading Jon Udell: Extreme design versus extreme programming

Newspaper design: A return to simplicity. Mario Garcia's article on simplicity in newspaper design (and redesign) is nice. Simplicity tip: “When in doubt, review the rules of the minimalistic style of Bauhaus artists. Context, without excess, is the key.” [ia/ – news for information architects]

Column Two: KM & CMS blog. Step Two Designs, the firm in Australia whose whitepapers we have linked to occasionally, has started Column Two a new blog on knowledge management and content management systems. [ia/ – news for information architects]