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Monday, November 18, 2002

eCriteria- Quick, Simple, Cost-Effective Web Database Publishing 9:30:54 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Everyone's pointing to Gar's Tips on Sucks-Less Writing.. For a good reason. Blogging is mostly writing. Writing better, extracting suckiness from your craft, makes for better blogs. Do me a favor; slap me upside the head if you notice me straying to far from readable, useful, interesting, and fun writing.  Wham! [a klog apart] 9:26:44 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Data as a Narrative. we know taxonomies (like filesystems of folders in folder or strata and families of mime-types) are inadequate for organizing data; like the Bayesian spam filter, it only works when the data is sparce, and it falls apart when the diversity of real life comes into the game. We know this empirically because it's not the way the web works; it's important to note that the web is the first "knowledge management system" that was 100% unmanaged, allowed to evolve on it's own natural path of least resistance, and it's no accident, compared to any managed IT solution, the web is unfathomably successful. The Web proves it: the fundamental structures of our thinking is the association, not the taxonomy. Life is full of ad-hoc groupings and strange loops of relations and every day we are forced to fight our linear and coldly taxonomic desktop operating systems as we struggle to apply them to the fluid fuzziness of real life. The solution is not to be adding more cruft to these old desktop/filefolder metaphors. It's time we stepped back and started again, modelling the way we actually create and consume information. [Gary Murphy] Nice description of a common problem. Taxonomies never seem to work for me over time... It would be interesting to think up some new ways of organizing the "fluid fuzziness" of Weblog content. The chronological organization is nice but not very flexible over time. It doesn't allow the "ad-hoc groupings and strange loops of relations"... [Seblogging News] 8:12:40 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Ahhh.  Here is the answer to my status bar problems in IE.  Microsoft has made it possible for site scripts to countermand my preferences in the browser.  Funny that is was an ad for MSDN magazine that violated my browser prefrences and inserted the ad into the toobar. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 7:34:08 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

WSJ.  This is an interesting message to send Wall Street.   Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and several other firms paid $1.6 m each for failing to keep e-mails as was required by regulation.  In contrast, Merrill Lynch was hit with a $100 m settlement to atone for wrongdoing evidenced in e-mails that it kept. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 7:32:59 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

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