Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Democratic National Committee weblog with RSS feeds. kickass weblog. The Democratic National Committee has a kickass weblog.  [Scripting News] with RSS feeds as well. [McGee's Musings] 7:44:24 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Sharing Mixes of Non-RIAA Songs. "Open Studios has initiated a project it calls, SONG STORM. The web site will be based on the theme of a running contest, with ever-increasing prize values, as traffic increases. Contestants will submit their favorite non-RIAA playlists (one or two hours) and win a prize. The playlists will serve to feed established webcasters and college radio stations, as well as encourage the startup of new webcasters. There will be playlists that utilize free downloads from artists' websites, along with providing downloading for those songs licensed with the Creative Commons. Launch date is still in limbo, but should occur shortly. Will keep you posted. In the meantime, should anyone have an interest in coming on board to join our core group developing this project, we'd enjoy hearing from you. Contact me at: tompoe@studioforrecording.org. It should be a lot of fun." Is there an online catalog that will start collecting all of these songs and letting users search or browse them by genre? I see a niche popping up.... [The Shifted Librarian] 7:43:57 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Defending the RIAA Position. Cary Sherman defends the RIAA's tactics in a USA Today editorial. Please allow me to boil it down to its... [Blogcritics] 7:43:32 PM  comment []  Trackback []     If you resolutely insist on using Microsoft products, this can't be beat... Microsoft Office 2003 Standard for Students and Teachers 87.94. Amazon.com - Microsoft Office 2003 Standard for Students and Teachers 87.94 After Rebate. Amazon has Microsoft Office XP Standard for Students and Teachers selling for $124.99 with a $50 rebate (exp. 9/30/03) making your cost $74.99 with free shipping and no taxes for most.  Purchase this product before November 30 and Microsoft will upgrade you to the new Microsoft Office 2003 Standard for Students and Teacher for the cost of shipping ($12.95).  You must surrender a copy of your reciept and your box top or manual's title page from the XP version along with this form and your payment.  Amazon is currently asking $134.99 for Microsoft Office 2003 Standard for Students and Teachers on pre-order so the upgrade route vie XP is much cheaper.  [More Stuff 4 Less Bargain Blog] 7:32:13 PM  comment []  Trackback []     The battle against ignorance never ends...why are people so threatened by literature? What is so small about them that they object to it without reading it? My Dad was right. I'm surrounded by idiots. SciFi Classics Challenged. From the Rio Grande Valley of Texas comes word of challenges to Huxley and Heinlein. Apparently, Huxley's Brave New World... [Blogcritics] 7:30:33 PM  comment []  Trackback []     New Free Service to Analyze Your BlogTraffic!. Last month I highlighted Dan Grigsby's code that notifies you via AIM when someone visits a specific post on your blog. It was interesting to continually get notifications throughout the day, but now Dan has updated that code to let you get the AIM name of the visitor if they provide it. While this is mostly just interesting on my personal site, this could be *very* interesting on my intranet and extranet. Instant messaging integration is going to get very interesting over the next few years. In terms of traffic patterns, though, Dan is also offering a new free service called Lumberjack. "There are a number of really good web access log traffic analysis programs out there. Programs like Webalizer, Analog and WebTrends provide great traffic analysis, tell you how people got to your site (i.e., referrer tracking), what they do when they're there, what OS and browser they use, and so on. These programs run on most any operating system. These are hard-core traffic analysis tools. The problem is that these programs require webserver access logs, and these logs are generally not available to bloggers unless they run their own webserver. This service solves this problem by creating access logs formatted identically to those found of webservers. Generate an HTML fragment using the form below, then paste this fragment into your blog entries. Each time someone visits one of these pages a log entry will be added to a logfile stored on this server. You can come here and download the logs whenever you like. Run these logs through any analysis program that supports the 'Combined Log' format (used by most Apache servers)." I'll try it out when I have a moment to add the code to my posts, but this highlights a point I make in my presentations about blogging - that a lot of the interesting innovation we're seeing on the web is coming from the blogosphere. Something about the combination of the collective and the personal is pushing the envelope. [The Shifted Librarian] 2:02:04 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Klogging case study: Blogging in Corporate America.. via Roland Tanglao: Michael Angeles presentation on Lucent Technologies' intranet blogging at a Usability Professionals Association meeting. Download presentation slides with notes, PDF. (5 MB) While he doesn't reveal number of intranet bloggers (my obsession) he describes the range of tools, categories of users, and the nature of blogging. Michael, an experienced blogger in his own right (see IAslash, urlgreyhot) also shows deep understanding of how blogs fit into his enterprise's IT architecture. Creating blogfodder via RSS from corporate databases. Providing tools for search and discovery. Supporting knowledge workers and communities of practice. If you're coming to my BloggerCon Sunday session on workplace blogging, this should be on your reading list. [a klog apart] 2:01:02 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Smoked url in Oakland's Chinatown.. There is something delightful about living in a time where little corner bakeries in Oakland's Chinatown have web site address printed on their street awnings. How else would I have known that Sum Yee Pastry delivers DimSumOnline? Q. If American Jews go out for Chinese food on Christmas, where do Chinese Americans go on Rosh Hashana? [a klog apart] [a klog apart] 2:00:02 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Mower musings: 5 blognet justifications.. Matt Mower skyped me in my early morning hours. Blame errors or recollection on being awake all night. Speaking from theory, what might be some core business cases for intranet blognets? Project communication.  Team blogs. Project aggregators and RSS feeds. Individual blogs. Blog your thinking as you scope the project. Blog flash reports. Meeting minutes. Task notes. Use a blog-to-email gateway for stakeholder communications. Socialize new project members faster and more completely. Create better after action reports. Projects often fail due to poor communication. Blogs aren't a magic pill, but they are a fast and cheap way to produce more and better communication. More, because blogs lower some of the barriers to communication and create personal and peer reinforcement for sharing. Better, because blognets' social nature also improves the quality and context of those communications. The PMBOK describes a basic project communication; you can live it with blognets. Scale social network from small to medium, medium to large When your workforce can fit in your neighborhood Starbucks, everyone knows each other. Blognets help you scale that experience. Do you plan for growth? Foster blognets to smooth the way, to preserve values and culture, to reinforce the informal organization that gets things done. Cross stovepipes Marketing doesn't talk to engineering? Raise two blognets. Expose them to each other with discovery tools. Not only are you getting blogging's baseline benefits, hidden processes and thinking see daylight, and you can improve the quality of dialog. Due diligence Merging with another department or company? Buying one in the next few years? Selling your company? Start your blognets now. Help appraisers value your org's social capital. Reveal the power of your informal networks, your workforce's individual and collective knowledge and capacity. You're buying one of two apparently identical firms, but one has a healthy blognet. Which has lower risk? Which gives you an added factor to consider, reinforcing management's claims? Transition and Continuity Management Your chiefs adopt a new strategy. The new direction calls for changing the workforce over 2-3 years. Layoffs. Mergers. Retraining. Recruiting. Retirement. For the chiefs, blognets shorten new hire learning curves. Help two organizations merge their informal social networks faster and with less struggle. For individuals, blognets strengthen your personal brand (good or bad, but stronger) and improve your marketability within the enterprise. And I haven't even evoked tying blogs to your enterprise systems and processes. [a klog apart]   [a klog apart] 1:59:16 AM  comment []  Trackback []

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