A Personal Approach to KM. The web has always been about content, but in the early days, it was also about understanding the technology that allowed you to publish to the web/intranet. These days the technology is no longer a barrier. We have more tools at our disposal than ever before to help us easily… Continue reading A Personal Approach to KM

Do You Know What You Don't Know – The Information Audit. During the normal course of business, librarians typically get a good feel for the needs of their patrons. After all, they work directly with attorneys, paralegals and staff day in and day out. That could result in some complacency; we don't know it all,… Continue reading Do You Know What You Don't Know – The Information Audit

Forbes' 150 cheap places to live rich. Forbes advises freelancers who internet telecommute to buy a home in a cheap area of the U.S. to reduce their costs while still pulling in a big city salary. Surviving as a freelance knowledge worker–where you sell your time–is extremely tough in high-priced joints like New York, California… Continue reading Forbes' 150 cheap places to live rich

Happy 230th Birthday, America! We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from… Continue reading Untitled

Leslie Burger Initiates Year of Transformation.  I still need to do a write-up of my thoughts from last week's ALA Conference, but Leslie Burger was kind enough to share with me her inauguration speech. While I enjoyed her wit and passion throughout the entire talk, I've excerpted below the piece that really resonated with me.… Continue reading Leslie Burger Initiates Year of Transformation

Ruby == Concise Network Programming. DevX.com has published a great article by Mark Watson entitled “Ruby Programming Language Enables Concise Network Programming“. Mark gives quick rationales and examples for: a simple (not an exaggeration) Web server from scratch in 12 lines of code a basic WEBrick server a simple REST server with pure sockety madness… Continue reading Ruby == Concise Network Programming

The disease of giants. One last excerpt from Edward Hall’s “Beyond Culture.” Here he riffs on how things keep getting bigger despite evidence humans actually thrive in the opposite sort of environment. In small schools, students participated more, it meant more to them, they were more tolerant of others, they formed closers, more lasting relationships,… Continue reading The disease of giants

Load ActiveX Controls on Vista Without Administrator Privileges. This seems like a bad idea to me: Microsoft is adding a brand-new feature to Windows Vista to allow businesses to load ActiveX controls on systems running without admin privileges. The new feature, called ActiveX Installer Service, will be fitted into the next public release of Vista… Continue reading Load ActiveX Controls on Vista Without Administrator Privileges

Nursing homes seen deficient on basic care. Tens of thousands of nursing home residents must be sent to the hospital each year because of a breakdown in basic medical care at the facilities, specialists say, a scenario that exposes frail elderly people to unnecessary trauma and illness. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

Anyone want an installer for Typo?. If I’ve learned anything from Typo, it’s that Rails apps are a serious pain for first-time users to install. Here’s what it takes to get Typo (or any open-source Rails app) up and running on a random Unix box today: You need a working database, like MySQL or PostgreSQL.… Continue reading Anyone want an installer for Typo?