Sunday, March 23, 2003

O'Reilly Pushing Founder's Copyright System [Slashdot] 11:16:59 AM    comment []

The conversational enterprise. Bottom-up vs. top-down taxonomy is an old, ongoing KM struggle. But the emerging architecture of business process automation may help us cut that Gordian knot. XML documents, produced and consumed by Web services but also by people running a new generation of XML-savvy applications, will be the currency of the information economy. Richly structured, easily captured, and embedded in well-defined business contexts, they'll be a godsend for tools that mine knowledge from documents. Full story at InfoWorld.com Here's Edwin Khodabakchian's take on InfoPath, an example of the kind of "XML-savvy application" I had in mind: Infopath is a kind of Blog++: the manipulated data is rich and structured (expense report, travel request, hotel reservation, employee review), meaning that when the data is published back to the server can be processed by an array of services, processes, agents. [Collaxa's Take] Exactly. Collaboration tools have to move heaven and earth to mine knowledge and infer social networks from email traffic. While it is notionally private, many email exchanges -- "here's the revised version with the changes we discussed" -- are really semi-public in scope. The same holds true for many voice interactions. ... [Jon's Radio] 11:16:03 AM    comment []

Wired.  A Texas congressman wants to make P2P users felons.  Can we make being a stupid congressman a felony too? [ John Robb's Radio Weblog ] 11:05:38 AM    comment []