Radio UserLand in Italian Starting today, we are distributing the Italian version of Radio. It took longer than expected to localize (have you ever noticed how much text there is in the help pages of Radio???), but now it's done. The great thing is that since the localization is done on a tool, we'll be able to keep it up-to-date with new Radio features (and to fix translation errors that we'll find). We are also providing hosting service under the blogs.it domain, running our own RCS. If you are an Italian blogger, you can download Radio in Italian now and try it for 30 days. You'll be up'n'bloggin in just a few minutes. Special thanks to Jake who helped us a lot trough all the process. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

» Congratulations eVectors!  I hope they do brisk business.

I'll have a lot more to say about the good folks @ eVectors in a couple of days.

How do corporations dessimate good practice?  How do they invent it?  Is this a leaky pipe that weblogs can fix?

When fear is in the air and the skies are grey, I really think it's about managing risk. Find projects where the costs of even small errors are huge. Klogs as cheap/fast/easy communication to capture lessons learned (making fewer mistakes) and to notice and escallate risks earlier (before they grow into problems).

» I think positioning klogs as corporate fire-alarms might be a good tactic in these times.  It's not how I wanted to position them.  It's a little close to the dark side but, hey, whatever works baby!

It seems to be accepted wisdom that corporations think poor internal communication is a problem that costs them money. It's less clear to me whether they are prepared to spend money to fix it.

[The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty]

» Mike's review of Tinerbox, Mind Map Pro and Inspiration is too long to repost here but is a fascinating insight into three interesting pieces of software.

I have been interested in Tinderbox for some time.  It was through Tinderbox that I got into weblogging in the first place and I wait with anticipation for the Window port to come out.