Blogarithms
Weblogs for business: Corporate anarchy or stealth knowlege management? (by Doug Kaye)
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Weblog Changes. To correspond with changes in my writing and consulting work, I'm making some changes to my weblogs. RSS subscribers should take particular note.
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I've stopped posting to Blog the Organization. We just couldn't generate enough interest among publishers for a book about weblogs for business. Perhaps in a year or two.
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The Internet Content Delivery will be merged into Web Hosting Strategies. There will be no new posts to the former.
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Web Services Strategies is an all-new weblog on (you guessed it) IT strategies for the implementation of Web services.
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And finally, I've killed Blogarithms, the "combo" weblog that includes all the posts from all of my separate weblogs.
You can catch details on my weblog index page.
Posted Friday, February 22, 2002 11:57:34 PM  [comment ()]
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Blog the Organization: Shelved. My agent has spent a few months pitching "Blog the Organization" to publishers, and he's received no more than a lukewarm response. A few months ago I switched from an "All About Weblogs" approach to one that emphasized "Weblogs for Business." The latter generated a bit more interest, but still not enough. And it wasn't as though the publishers were ignorant. We encountered some that had a clear understanding of weblogs. Ultimately, I think the publishers are right, and that there isn't a sufficient market to justify the effort.
FWIW, there are now three weblog-related titles in the works from other authors and publishers. I'm particularly looking forward to The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog
by Rebecca Blood, one of the best weblog authors. Rebecca is also writing the introduction to Perseus Publishing's We've Got Blog: How Weblogs are Changing Our Culture, also due out in June. For those /. fans among you, check out Running Weblogs with Slash by Dave Krieger and Chromatic, due out "any day now" from O'Reilly.
Although I'll no longer be posting to this site or to my Blog the Organization weblog, I'll keep the discussion forum active so long as the folks at weblogger.com leave it up.
Posted Sunday, February 03, 2002 11:30:09 PM [comment ()]
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Blogrolling. I just updated my own list of favorie weblogs: Doc Searls with healthy doses of technolgy, philosophy and anarchy. bOingbOing is great. But how does Cory Doctorow find all those things? JOHO the Blog, but David Weinberger needs an RSS feed. :-) Notes from the Field and Postcards from the Revolution are terrific resources for IT managers. Scripting News by Dave Winer. Weblogs, content syndication and whatever happens to be on Uncle Dave's mind at the moment. Adam Curry, who's so much more than that blonde MTV guy. Totally. John Robb writes about K-Logs, weblogs as stealth knowledge management. Dan Gilmor's eJournal. Dan's the technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. What Dan thinks even before it's fit to print. missingmatter because there's so much cool stuff out there that I wish I understood. Glenn Fleishman's "hope, inspiration, and bafflement." Hey...you gotta read it
for that description alone.
WebServices.org helps me keep up to date on this fast-changing topic. AvWeb, AVSIG and PlaneNews to keep up-to-date with aviation.
Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:30:00 PM [comment ()]
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Radio UserLand 8.0. For the past few months I've been using beta releases of Radio as my principal weblog reading and authoring tools. UserLand is about to ship Radio with a single-user price of $39.95. The company made a last-minute decision to call it 8.0 as opposed to 7.1, and there's no question it's a major revision. The product is great.
I recently installed Radio for a client to use as an intranet/collaboration tool, and I realized how difficult it is to explain what Radio really is. There's so much behind the curtain because it's based on UserLand's older Frontier and Manila content management products. In some ways there's more functionality in Radio than in Manila that costs $899. For instance, Radio includes a complete desktop server and a fully-automated content publishing system. I even got sucked into Radio's awesome development environment and built my own add-on Tool called news2mail. (It's the first real code I've written in at least five years.)
The beta process was fascinating. The developers (and there aren't many of them) were extremely responsive to feedback from the testers. It wasn't at all unusual to suggest an improvement at 2am and download the enhancment an hour later. That's due in no small part to Radio's automated update capability. Although they had to stop adding goodies to ship 8.0, the product will continue to improve continuously.
I won't attempt to further describe here what Radio does. Rather, I suggest you download the 30-day free trial. Even if you don't keep it, you'll learn how far the world of weblogs and RSS have come, and you'll get an idea of where they're going. [Discuss]
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:41:15 PM [comment ()]
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Robb'd in Person. John Robb, President and COO of UserLand Software, was in town, and I had the chance to meet him over Chinese food in Palo Alto. If you're not already on the list, you ought to subscribe to his K-Logs (Knowledge Logs) mailing list. It's not an open discussion list. Rather, it's a moderated list that John keeps tightly focused on his thoughts. Some people have been pissed off by this, but if you understand it going in, I think you'll get a lot out of John's superb insights into weblogs as a viral knowledge-management tool. John was also President and COO of Gómez, and his experiences there account for a lot of his current thinking. We're thinking of collaborating in one form or another--just not sure how quite yet. Check out his weblog, too. [discuss]
Posted Saturday, January 05, 2002 7:22:49 PM [comment ()]
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SPAM vs. spam. Over on the Cluetrain mailing list, folks have been discussing legal issues of individual expression within an organization, and the impact of lawyers. Then David Weinberger found a good example of readable English written--we've got to believe--by clued lawyers. Where? Under the heading SPAM Corporate Info, of course. [discuss]
Posted Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:43:39 PM [comment ()]
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Patent Challenge to RDF and RSS. RDF under Patent attack. Julian Bond writes, "A number of people in the Syndication arena such as O'Reilly and Syndic8 are under patent attack for writing code that parses or uses RDF. Excuse me while I scream and shout and rage and bang my head against the wall. A brief reading of the patents concerned suggests that it's so broad as to be useable against anyone or anything that parses XML." [Source: drop.org - community plumbing]
Posted Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:12:45 AM [comment ()]
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