10 Mistakes Writers make
From an editorial consultant, easily fixed common writing problems
View ArticleSo we are artists after all
David Gelerntner on Beauty in Computing. David Gelerntner, a computer scientist at Yale, perhaps put it best when he said, "Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology...
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Split Views
Jeff Mesnil has create some great bookmarklets to split the view within a broswer. He does it by putting the current html document into a frameset! Pretty clever. Checkout the screenshot. [via Matt...
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Wiki vs SharePoint
Bebo is wondering about the difference between a Wiki and SharePoint. I am really into wiki. I have installed a wiki for our developers at work with great success. Nothing is easier and faster to...
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Hierarchical organisations are killing knowledge management
This is a a very powerful observation, namely, that organizations are structured to actively work against knowledge management and empowered peer interaction which is so critical to KM success. via...
View ArticleCVS-like Access to a Wiki
Offline access to a wiki is something that I've wrestled quite a bit. Its the part of being a RoadWarrior that makes wiki use difficult. To solve it, I have made use of a mirror of the wiki (that...
View ArticleOffline Wiki - Unintended Consequences
A quick follow up to my prior post. I have found it interesting that making a wiki offline seems to change how I use as well ... it feels less like interaction with the community for some reason. I...
View ArticleFaceted Navigation - Capture Facets with Furl
I found a reference to faceted navigation via a trackback to my post about Social Bookmarking with Furl. According to Web Design PatternsFaceted Navigation works sort of like this:The idea is to...
View ArticleWSJ: Altering How Employees Work Together
I understand that Kara Swisher has a great article at the WSJ ... is there a full text somewhere for those of us without a subscription?Kara Swisher, in this morning's Wall Street Journal, writes about...
View ArticleWikis Are Not Unstructured
This Post sparked some interesting comments about "problems" with the implementation of Wikis. Here is one I hear all the time:The total lack of structure annoys me to no end. Maybe the people who...
View ArticleBrain Hacks - One for the Reading List
Matt is writing a book code named Brain Hacks for the O'Reilly Hack series that looks very interesting. Here is the quick summary:100 practical and understandable probes into the design quirks of the...
View ArticleThe Decline of Hierarchies from Sun's CEO
Jonathon Swartz points to this summary and copy of the the latest column (via Robert Paterson) from David Kirkpatrick which captures some of the panel interaction from from Fortune's Brainstorm...
View ArticleSome Python Aspect Oriented Programming Links
Python Aspect Oriented Links:Lightweight Python AOP This introduces a Python module which implements one essential concept in Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)... The aspects module provides a function...
View ArticleAdd The Wisdom of Crowds to your Reading List
Sounds like a another great book for the reading list. From How To Save The World: James Surowiecki's remarkable book The Wisdom of Crowdshas caused me to re-think many of my ideas, and one of those...
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TWiki has a new look!
The folks over at Twiki.org have implemented some much needed changes to the default skin for their industrial strength wiki software. Here is a quick screen shot.Nice work guys!
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