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Found an old post recording a conversation I had with Todd Burdin, one of my co-workers years ago. 3:50:29 PM 
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My boss has told me of theories that this is the way Asia could destroy Western civilization: just publish all the intellectual property you can. Asian Piracy the Real Threat. This Salon.com treatise on Chinese piracy points out how serious and pervasive the problem is. [Blunt Force Trauma] 2:38:41 PM
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Terry suggests that those whose deeds are evil will not want to walk in the light, where their deeds are exposed. (Well, that's how a Greater than Terry put it.) But he's right, there may be those who don't dare think out loud about their work, in any persisting medium. Can K-Logs Improve Corporate Integrity. Jim McGee on whether or not the process of klogging could expose fundamental problems in business before thay become Enron-like disasters, and whether this quality makes it more or less likely they will take root. [Blunt Force Trauma] 2:37:26 PM
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Terry Frazier's indirect response to my highlight of The TAO of Topic Maps. I'm from neither the UK nor Western Europe, but the non-linear resonates with me. Indexing the Universe. I've long been a curious tester of non-linear thinking tools -- mindmapping, concept maps, etc, and have an off-again/on-again relationship with tools such as MindManager and Personal Brain. [Blunt Force Trauma] 2:35:32 PM
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Good pro and con points here: uplifting for the unknowns; constant pinging for the well-knowns. Why TrackBack -- Mower Responds. Yesterday I asked for more info on TrackBack, and some explanation of just how it aided in KM and klog scenarios. [Blunt Force Trauma] 2:31:34 PM
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“Inches” is way too optimistic, I'm afraid. It looks like what I need is a table to track what postings have pinged KMPings (first-cut, OK? maybe someday it could be generalized, but this sounds like a Dave Winer-level feature) so I only ping once per posting. To generalize this to something like “interpret the news feed to see if there is a trackback link and ping the TB target once upon posting” will take time I don't have. But it sure sounds interesting.... Trackback for Radio inches closer. Radio TB Ping Development. 12:56:13 PM
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One Idea May Hide Another. NPR reported this week on the death of Kenneth Koch, a founder of the New York School of poetry. They replayed part of a Jim Lehrer interview with Koch, in which Koch explained a poem of his titled "One Train May Hide Another", a reference to a sign in the Kenyan desert that puzzled him. (Listen to the NPR piece for a complete explanation.) I'm not much of a poetry connoisseur, but the poem really struck me. It focuses on the situations in which something more obvious obscures something more significant. For me, it's the line 'one idea may hide another' that simply rings true. The conclusion to the poem is elegant and powerful - I'm certain this will stay with me for life:
I'm sorry I didn't know of or appreciate the works of Kenneth Koch while he was alive. But I'm thankful to have found the poem. R.I.P., Kenneth. [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]12:31:20 PM
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RadioExpress. RadioExpress. Mike Krus's first Radio Userland "extension". I wanted to be able to blog things I found around the web without having to copy/paste from that page to the R8 edit form. Blogger has a cool bookmarklet to do that. ManilaExpress also does that for Manila.
However, R8's default form editor does not support receiving default text via external forms. So I changed it and repackaged it in the form of a new R8 page. It comes with it's own bookmarklet which you can easily install in your navigator's toolbar. [WWPP] |
