Wednesday, March 20, 2002

Wait. Let me get this straight. In order to add a weblog to my "favorites" list, it has to have been updated in the last hour? What the.... What about a way to just add a weblog to my favorites? There must be a way. Undocumented, naturally. Sigh. 9:02:05 PM

Radio UI and me One of the problems I have with the Radio UI is that I haven't yet figured out the organizing principle behind it -- which means I tend to look for things in the wrong places. Or maybe I look for things in the right places, but that's not where they are! Anyway, I just found the "favorite weblogs" list (which does I know not what, but I'll get there). I think it's something I've been sort of looking for, but I'm not yet sure. 8:53:47 PM

Radio and RDF Tomorrow morning I present my proposal for a knowledge management and collaboration system based on Radio, Radio Community Server (RCS), and RDF (a Semantic Web technology). I think this has great potential. There are only a couple of key problems to solve, since Radio and RCS take care of everything else. The toughest problem is in the organizational behavior arena; how do you convince people to use blogging tools in a work environment? Years ago I was a consultant to large insurance companies, and some of what we did fell into the organizational behavior realm; it's not easy to get people to use new things, especially when you don't have the desire or ability to order them around. 8:26:42 PM

Behind the productivity curve I'm getting more comfortable with Radio, but I'm still not as productive in this environment as I am in either BBEdit or Blogger. I can't see ever even coming close to the amount of posting that some people are capable of. 8:21:54 PM

Technical Communication Darwin Awards From TecStandards comes the results of the latest Bad Manual Contest! This is great stuff. I've often wished that I had long ago started collecting all the terrible documention I've seen. My "favorite" is the set of graphics in the last honorable mention. Just like seeing the boom microphone in low-budget movie scene. 8:16:54 PM

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