Heuristics for online communities of practice. Mark Notess and Josh Plaskoff have written an article outlining some preliminary heuristics for online communities of practice. These have been drawn from a range of academic articles, and cover: Support for ideation and the evaluation of brainstormed alternative Structured... [Column Two]
11:05:46 AM
Internet Stokes Anti-War Movement. The peace rallies staged across the United States over the weekend are a testimony to the Internet's power as an organizing tool, observers say. It's the first time a large anti-war movement has sprung up before the actual war. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
10:55:29 AM
Had a long chat with Jupiter's Matthew Berk this morning. He is the senior analyst that set up the weblog effort (although he doesn't have a weblog yet) at Jupiter. He'll probably make the switch to an enterprise weblog product like Manila soon.
We talked mostly about the content management market and how you don't need to spend tens of thousands of $$ to build a modern, full featured, easy to manage, dynamic Web site. Manila provides almost everything you need out of the box and is a system that can scale to hundreds of thousands of pageviews a day (good enough for 99.99% of all Web sites). [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
10:53:55 AM
Here's a nice article on RSS and its different formats from Mark Pilgrim. It gives an example of how to parse and work with RSS in Python. [Tom's Blog]
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