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Wednesday, February 26, 2003

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I have written here about creating knowledge, giving a list of goals in knowledge creation. A bit earlier I wrote about creating an environment that fosters personal interaction. Here is a drawing I made about the concept of creating knowledge:

I have been thinking about this thing since then, without reaching any clear conclusions. It seems that in the USA many are talking about the technology for knowledge management, whereas in Scandinavia the discussion focuses on the human resources.

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Usability and Open Source Software discusses the role of human-computer interaction experts in Open Source development: "Raymond (1998) proposed that 'given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow.' For seeing usability bugs, the traditional open source community may comprise the wrong kind of eyeballs." [Advogato]

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Column: Microsoft open source plot exposed: "The events of the past few months demonstrate that free software is being promoted by the richest and most-talented marketing organization on the planet: Microsoft." [InfoWorld: Top News]

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How to block spambots, ban spybots, and tell unwanted robots to go to hell: "I fight back against telemarketers who abuse my phone, and now I'm fighting back against robots who abuse my web site." [dive into mark > Sample the Web]

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Blogs @ Harvard: "I wonder if Ars counts as a "blog." If it does, then we're probably Harvard's oldest blog, and we're certainly its most popular. Ars was founded in the summer of 1998 by myself and three other fellow Harvard grad students (Caesar, Scott "Damage" Wasson, and Ator) along with two non-Harvard guys (Panders and Andy "Dr. Evil" Brown); two of us are still students here. So if we're a blog, then we may be Harvard's oldest and longest running one." [Ars Technica]

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Scripting News tells that UserLand is offering storage upgrades for Radio users: "Each Radio UserLand license comes with 40MB of storage space on Radio.Weblogs.Com. If you need more than 40MB of storage, you can purchase additional space in 50MB blocks for $39.95 at the UserLand store." Good! Some time ago I wrote about the matter of Radio storage space, when I had trouble fitting my data in the 40 MB. I managed by fine-tuning the weblog template.

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Windows Server 2003 Rights Management Software: "Microsoft announced last Friday the test release of its new Rights Management Software (RMS) for Windows Server 2003. The aim of the software is to give enterprises the ability to protect content. Limitations can be put on what can be done with a document, including the ability to restrict copying, printing, or e-mailing." [Google Technology News]

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"Phil Gyford has produced An introduction to weblog terms for weblog readers. It explains RSS, permalinking and trackback - some of the more commonly mentioned weblog-specific pieces of jargon." [Blog.org > t e c h n o c u l t u r e]

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The Scobleizer Weblog writes: "Ahh, my boss's boss asked the other day why weblogs are important. Well, if you write every week for two years, eventually folks start linking to you (according to Google, about 400 people point here). When you get linked to, you get higher and higher on Google. For instance, if you search Google for "NEC Tablet" do you find NEC's official Tablet Web site? Not yet. I bet that now that I linked to it, its Google rank will start to rise."

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The semantic web explained (without the agonizing pain): "A very neat, painless introduction to the Semantic Web (pdf), from Toronto-based Semaview." [thomas n. burg | randgänge]

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Double-crossed: "Rosalind Franklin never got proper credit for her revelation that the DNA molecule was a double helix. Would this happen to a woman scientist today?" [Google Technology News]

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Blogging Comes to Harvard: "America's oldest institution of higher learning has hopped on the Internet's hottest new trend, hiring software developer Dave Winer to help get students and faculty blogging." [Scripting News]

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How Linux Could Trump Unix: "The open source Linux OS has carved out a solid niche in the enterprise and is still gathering steam. In fact, if Unix vendors' recent moves are any indication, Linux' momentum has them worried. Can Linux dethrone Unix and become the server operating system of choice?" [osOpinion]