Archive for July, 2002
July 16, 2002
Google Has KMpings Results Now
David Watson wrote about his irritation at Google autoforwarding when you get no search results for a particular word and google thinks you spelled it incorrectly. He used ‘kmping’ as an example. Google always wants to change kmping to camping.
At least now there are some entries in Google for it! No more auto-forward. The actual KMpings page is not yet in the results, oddly enough, but I suppose it will get in there eventually. I guess most people are linking to people talking about KMpings rather than linking to KMpings itself. Meta-popularity or something.
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July 15, 2002
A TrackBack-enabled Thesaurus
The Shifted Librarian musings about TrackBack:
And could you build a master database of these things and organize them by category? Kind of make a Social Sciences Citation Index for your site? Something like that would be extremely useful within the Illinois libraries blogosphere I want to implement.
Absolutely! That is exactly what KMpings provides a proof-of-concept for.
For example, take a thesaurus or other controlled vocabulary and a fresh MovableType blog.
Add a category to the blog for each entry of the thesaurus. Enable TrackBack pings for each category as you create them. Create an index page for each category that displays the pings sent to it.
Other MovableType users may now set up their categories to ping specific terms in the thesaurus blog thus adding relevant posts to a list of recent entries on that topic.
So, the capability is there. However, most thesaurii have dozens to hundreds of terms which quickly becomes unmanagable with the current MT interfaces. A more robust management interface is needed to scale up to a full blown thesaurus categorization for blogs posts. Since MT supports MySQL databases now, a thesaurus management interface to MT can be developed separately.
Other software, such as Radio, have to implement the ability for Radio categories to TB ping other sites for this to work. We’ll get there.
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July 15, 2002
Self-herding Cats
From Michael Helfrich’s weblog: Technology Confined Collaboration?
Collaboration is about people. Collaboration needs technology frameworks that support adaptive, ad hoc interactions. Adaptive from the sense of extending functionality on the fly and securely embracing new members on the fly. Simply put, it’s the swarming culture fused with adaptive technology.
Good article from a Groove VP. It reminds me of the famous commercial for a consulting firm that featured cowboys herding thousands of cats across the plains. The joke there is that cats are independent minded beings and are not very receptive to centralized herding control. The other joke is that the consulting firm claimed they could do the herding for you.
Decentralized collaborative software such as Groove and weblogs allow knowledge worker cats to do their own herding. They really won’t be herded any other way.
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July 14, 2002
KMPings Bookmarklet Generator
I have created a KMpings Bookmarklet Generator for those users whose software doesn’t support TrackBack yet. This allows anyone to ping an entry to KMpings no matter what software they are using.
I adapted the bookmarklet generated by Movable Type and hit the ping script directly from the bookmarklet. Kind of an ugly little hack but it works! Let me know if you have any feedback about the tool.
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July 14, 2002
Who Will It Be?
From Scripting News:
Good morning weblog fans. I got a few emails overnight about a project John, Jake and Lawrence are doing with a famous publication while I’m reading books and watching movies, walking and recuperating. Murphy-willing we’ll be hosting thousands of weblogs under a new brand quite soon.
My guess as to the mystery publisher: Salon. Hosting a bunch of independent and opinionated weblogs seems to fit their style.
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July 11, 2002
Listening to the City
Listening to the City volunteer appeal
Cliff Figallo is looking for 30 volunteer hosts to assist in a NYC community event gathering citizen feedback on how to redevelop the World Trade Center site. Are you an experienced online host with time on your hands? If so, this looks like a worthy volunteer opportunity.
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July 11, 2002
A Blogging Health Care Community of Practice
WWPP is what looks like a health care provider community of practice blog network. They are using Radio and RCS to coordinate it.
I came across this site because their combined blogs dominated the weblogs.com top 100 list last time I cruised through there.
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July 11, 2002
Blogware as Disruptive Tech
Via Terry Frazier’s weblog: Blogs as Disruptive Tech - How weblogs are flying under the radar of the Content Management Giants
This piece is definitely worth a read.
Increasingly, there’s only a thin layer of functionality separating blogware from low-end Content Management solutions. Features like:
* Basic Workflow, so administrators can approve content and templates
* Permission Levels, so you can easily separate content editors from template designers
* Update Histories, so you can track whose updating what (and when)
* Multiple Types of Data, so you can do more than just post blogs (e.g. post Press Releases or Job Listings)A blogging software company that adds those functionalities to basic blogware could start to eat away at Content Management market share on the low-end. It’s already starting to happen with corporate weblogs: knowledge management blogs, corporate communications blog, and marketing blogs are all making a splash in the marketplace without much participation from the low to mid-end content management systems.
I think it represents the growth of more diverse tools to meet the diverse needs that have always been there. Why buy a $100k hammer if you have $0.02 nails?
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July 10, 2002
Radio TB Ping Development
Ron Lusk is working on a script for setting up TB pings in Radio:
I’ve posted a message to the Radio Userland discussion group asking where to hook into the system so I can ping KMPings once for each entry.
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July 10, 2002
It is the technology. And the people.
From McGee’s Musings:
KM as a technology issue
What if knowledge management actually is a technology problem?
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This perspective suggests that technology’s primary organizational contribution to knowledge management is in establishing a uniform infrastructure and contributing to a consistent language and terminology environment.
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To me K-Logs represent the most interesting recent effort to address this need with a simple solution available right now. They offer a starting point that a knowledge worker can understand and build from.
The catch-22 I keep finding myself in is trying to encourage the grass-roots development of KM tools and sharing while simultaneously crafting an organized taxonomy for our klog network. Too much top-down planning and structure will stifle the creativity of klogs during the start-up phase. Yet not enough structural planning will eventually lead to chaos as the network grows.
Anyone worked this out yet?
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