Ron Lusk's Radio Weblog

Friday, July 12, 2002

Paul Holbrook's Radio Weblog
Paul's original RSS item was shortened, with no link to his own comments on klogging. He speaks of the discomfort in revealing one's klogging to others on a grand scale.

Shortly after I arrived, I started keeping a klog of my work. So far I've clued in the few people I've worked with so far to my klog, but as best as I can tell, they haven't paid much attention. I've been struggling with the question about when and how to let the larger project team know about my klog, but so far I've been reluctant to do so. Today I was in kick-off meeting for the large project I've been working on. Towards the end of the meeting, I was almost consumed with the desire to tell people about my klog, but I just couldn't bring myself to speak up. I've asked myself why that is, and the answer isn't straight-forward. I've only been at Tech for six weeks; higher-ed politics are notoriously complicated, and I don't know how people might react to the things I've written. A klog is by definition not politically correct; you say what you think, not what you believe others might want to hear.
[Paul Holbrook's Radio Weblog

5:13:44 PM

Short form of this: Congress has a website devoted to the DTDs used for XML-format Congressional documents.

Defining Your Taxes at Work. Okay, now that I have the attention Glenn Reynolds. Oh yes, and according Josh Claybourn - whomever Paul Musgrave deigns [Heal Your Church Web Site]

4:21:33 PM

URLs in comments
I encountered a brilliant idea (someone else's—I'll have to call him X—naturally) while viewing comments on a post somewhere. When the comment form requested X's URL, he entered the URL of a post discussing the item he commented on. In his comment, he said, “Click on my name for more of my views on this topic,” or the like. Bravo!
4:13:14 PM

Thanks to Column Two for passing this on (though I've seen it reposted elsewhere, too). I love the story of visiting the booth at the CMS conference with a client and witnessing this interchange:

The head Sales Guy started grilling my client: how many pages did the site have (in the thousands!), how many users updated it (almost ten!). You could hear the Sales Guy's mental cash register ringing up dollars signs as he went straight for the close: "And what are your editors using to update all those pages: Dreamweaver or Frontpage? Or maybe you built your own homegrown CMS?"
My faithful client didn't miss a beat. "Actually, have you heard of weblogs?" he asked the Sales Guy. You shoulda seen this guy's face fall - it was like he'd been hit by a truck. "Yeah," he admitted, "So you use blogging software?"
"Yeah pretty much," came the answer. "It pretty does most of what I need. There are a couple things you described that I could use, but I can't justify that sort of outlay when blogware hits most of my specs."
That was really my eureka moment: my first realization that content management was screwed.

Blogs as disruptive technology. John Hiler has written a solid article highlighting the impact that weblogs are starting to have on low-end content management [Column Two]
3:53:02 PM

Are we nothing more than dust in the wind?

Impermanence. As I sit at work typing vital stats on the umptieth illiterate housewife or sugar-cane worker, I cannot help but think about the lives passing briefly under my fingers. When the U.S. took over Puerto Rico, one of the unarguably... [Caveat Lector]

What is man that you are mindful of him,
The son of man that you care for him?
You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
And crowned him with glory and honor. (Psalm 8)

3:46:32 PM

Four Weblog Glossaries..

Lots of dictionaries on the net but these four cultivate weblog jargon.

Part of our blogging heritage.

[a klog apart] [Jim McGee: Blogging]
12:33:03 PM