16 October 2002

Sighting: Visual Thesaurus VISUAL THESAURUS -- Visual Thesaurus takes a submitted search term and returns similar or associated words. According to OLDaily, Visual Thesaurus was created from ThinkMap, a general purpose visualization engine.

Where are we going? MISCHIEF MAKER -- Lousianna asks, "Where are we going and why am I in a hand basket?" And affirms the delight possible by randoming clicking around our Blog World. She reminds me I have to create my own list of 100 things about me.

Time-Wasting Newzoid Headline Generator NEWZOID -- Get your fill of wacky headlines from Newzoid's headline generator. Daniel Young has been generating false come-ons with this technology since 2001. You can even roll your own. Newzoid polls online news headlines and does a simple amalgamation, so you get things like "Finnish Police Took Dresses During Night Visit," "Iraqis Fighting Back In Playground," "VH1 Vogue Is Dense, Demanding," and "Ex-Taliban Official Questioning Safety Of Slower Loan Growth"

Time-Wasting Newzoid Headline Generator NEWZOID -- Get your fill of wacky headlines from Newzoid's headline generator. It's been generating false come-ons since 2001. Newzoid polls online news headlines and does a simple amalgation, so you get things like "Finnish Police Took Dresses During Night Visit," "Iraqis Fighting Back In Playground," "VH1 Vogue Is Dense, Demanding," and "Ex-Taliban Official Questioning Safety Of Slower Loan Growth"

Digesting Knowledge Mangement Technology AD Marwick -- It's worthwhile to read Matt Mower's musings as he digests knowledge management technology by AD Marwick. The book argues that knowledge includes both the experience and understanding of the people in the organisation and the information artifacts, such as documents and reports available within the organisation and in the world outside. But there's much more. Marwick is especially sensitive to tacit knowledge, saying "The key to knowledge creation lies in the mobilization and conversion of tacit knowledge."

Convert Your Brain Droppings Adam Curry -- It looks like Adam and other blogoholics will be able to convert their brain droppings to blog posts very soon with Dave Winer's outline2blog tool.

Tech Economy is Not Recovering REUTERS -- As Intel's CFO Andy Bryant tells it, the Tech Economy is not recovering. This fact has caused an nagging sore spot in the whole of the Irish economy.

Mixed Results for Motorola NEW YORK TIMES -- Mixed results in revenue and profit at Motorola. The company is still reeling by the bad Turkish debt, as that little drama continues unfolding in US District Court. Turkey -- the country where German firms routinely carry bribery fees as legitimate (and grant-adided) costs of doing business.

Earthlink Brings Blogging to New Users Dan Bricklin -- Earthlink will use Trellix software to provide ISP customers with blog-building materials in a move that means millions of new users will be exposed to blogging.

How to Fail in e-Business (Recording Industry Rules) Jack Kapica -- Kapica lists 10 rules of e-business failure, inspired by the recording industry's imaginative approach. "It's easy to fail in e-business; what's hard is failing magnificently. The Big Five music-recording companies have been transcendent in this respect. Their combined efforts have gone beyond killing their e-businesses and are close to destroying an entire industry."