Tuesday, August 27, 2002

Monday's Topics: Etiquette; Multi-Author; Navigation; e-Organization; e-Planning; Terminology. I need to move some of the longer posts to stories. I need to be nicer person when being critical of a behavior pattern and I see one person engaged in it. I need terminology coined for the phenomena of. Person A says X. Person B quotes it. Person C quotes it. Person D reads it but can't tell that it is Person A being quoted. When there are a whole string of people finding something interesting, who should be given credit and how? I believe that when a person's words are used, we must give credit to that person. I believe that if we found something interesting because of a post by someone, we must credit that person. But should we also try to credit all the people in between the original post, and the person we got it from? 1:18:42 AM

I visited [A QA Guy's Radio] because I am interested in the interrelationship between a company's ISO and its computer, because the ISO standards that I have seen seem to focus on the form of something on a computer, as opposed the the content, or how easily someone can manipulate it.  As far as ISO is concerned, the way to assure accuracy is to use the forms consistently, totally ignoring the computer security and corporate standards with respect to not spoofing data. Well, this guy is just like us computer geeks struggling to figure out how to effectively use technology, and along the way gain some insights. [A QA Guy's Radio]  QUOTE Are there some basic incompatibilities between testing and managing? As a tester, you go right for the weakest areas, trying to determine defects and faults. As a manager, you find out what each person is capable of, and build on strengths. You most certainly do not keep poking at the weak spots of your staff. How much of a problem is this dichotomy?   UNQUOTE [A QA Guy's Radio] [James Robertson], in Australia, has similar writings on general topic of software testing and design issues for Knowledge Management.  I ask what is the difference between Information Architects (IA) and Usability?  He asks why there are so few blogs on intranets, when there are an estimated 300,000 out there.  Well I think the reason is that weblogging and intranets have not really met each other yet in a big way, so there are tons of discussion groups about intranets, within the context of whatever software or Operating System is used to drive the intranet.  There is also the problem of finding another outfit to share how to with, that is not really in competition with your company.  The traditional way I have seen this done is through the local user groups associated with a particular type of computer system, so people get together from manufacturers, schools, banks, police, stores, public utility companies, and so forth, to discuss how to get the best value out of whatever computer system they all have in common, sometimes with tours of each other facilities to see the cool stuff they have implemented, and how it is done. 12:58:46 AM

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