Okay I've said it before, but barring major incident liveTopics should be released before the end of the week.  My current target is thursday since I move house on Friday and I'm not sure what my connectivity is after that.  Or, maybe that's not a good time to release... :)

Oh well, damn the torpedo's, full steam ahead!

I've had complaints about how long my weblog takes to load.

Looking at it there are a lot of extraneous bits that seemed like a good idea at the time but I don't want any more.  They're gone now.  Also I've cut down how many days posts live on the home page from 7 to 3. 

It seems faster now, although most of my posting is done using a 56K modem.  Nothing seems fast with that bandwidth!

Press release: "Today Amazon.com launched its first version of Amazon.com Web Services, a platform for creating innovative Web solutions and services designed specifically for developers and web site owners." [Scripting News]

» Cool.

I wrote a "bookcase" tool for Radio showing what I was reading & linking back to Amazon via my associates ID.  But it was such a pain getting things right that I never get around to updating my current book!

 

 

Technology Confined Collaboration?  increasingly, this is the story I'm told.  The folks at the big software companies would have you believe that software is always pristine and perfect, and that organizations and their staid cultures are the barriers to reaching collaborative nirvana.  Don't believe the hype.  When it comes to collaboration, technology (and more precisely, technology architecture) can doom the best laid plans around enterprise collaboration.  I've written about it here... [Michael Helfrich's Radio Weblog]

[Ron Lusk: Ron's K-Logs]

» Definitely:

"Collaboration is about people.  Collaboration needs technology frameworks that support adaptive, ad hoc interactions.  Adaptive from the sense of extending functionality on the fly and securely embracing new members on the fly.  Simply put, it's the swarming culture fused with adaptive technology."

and think that ad hoc interactions are the key.  As long as ad hoc implies that the technology works with the way you want to work now (rather than you fitting in with how the technology wants to work today!)