Thanks to Ingo Rammer for a micro-tip about using Radio more effectively: ".. all the aggregator posts for which I don't have the time to read them (at the instant I see them) get posted to a "must read" category that's not upstreamed."  Personal knowledge management.

(Note to self. To Do #8,471. Find time to document this for beginners.)

  feedback:   8:34:58 AM    

November, 2000: How Userland's Frontier Can Revolutionize Content Management in DominoPower magazine. Great stuff. Hey, I wrote it after all.

"Philosophically, UserLand argues that much corporate work, both "intra" and "inter," is journalistic in type and benefits from the same feature set as traditional publications. I agree one hundred percent. Corporate teams produce memoranda (drafts), reports (articles), and presentations (features) as frequently, if not more so, than publications deliver content. Just like publications, corporate teams serve targeted "reader" communities, both inside and outside the corporation.

Regrettably, many content management systems are recapitulating the user-unfriendly "feature-creap" path. This is the disease that sunk many desktop applications before the "crudeness" of the Internet threatened to blow them away by freeing users to make a mess--a liberated, creative, profitable, productive mess. For instance, a Notes installation often requires a phalanx of specialists and months of training.

While UserLand's Frontier is quite sophisticated (don't mistake elegance for limitation), its developers communicate a passion for setting users free to do their own jobs without having to turn into computer jockeys. Isn't that IT's real mission?"

It wasn't a technical article but was aimed at IT decision-makers - the kind I met over the years in consulting, including some consulting for IBM and, later, Lotus. Knowledge management, despite what the gurus claim, must take place as a "a liberated, creative, profitable, productive mess" because that is how human beings learn and transmit their knowledge to one another.

(Yes, I'm willing to tell that to corporate folks for huge sums of upfront per-diem money .... they have to spend big bucks for their managers to take anything seriously.)

  feedback:   8:11:07 AM    

Tested some relative link incantations yesterday. Most worked. A few didn't, namely those related to categories. More email to Jake. When he finishes instant outlining (hah), I expect to hear back from him.  feedback:   7:55:07 AM    

Blasts from the recent past? I'm rewriting and picturizing my Radio Install Guide. When done, I may also package as a downloadable .pdf booklet for raw newbies.

Bad humor is being incorporated wherever possible. You try writing this stuff and see if you don't fall off the wagon too. My favorite is the one-line witticism, ohm. I warn you, it's like finding Waldo.

What Is Radio Userland? and Keeping Two Browser Windows Open also updated.

  feedback:   7:52:27 AM    

Two more voices: the Shifted Librarian and the first non-Radio blog, Detail & Pattern.  feedback:   7:42:34 AM