Category: Best Practices

  • Your Resume as a Blog

    Krzysztof Kowalczyk (I love his motto: “Blog or you’ll be blogged.”) suggests that a focused, balanced blog (or k-log, or blog category, or RSS feed, etc.) could be used as a dynamic resume, one that will be much more impressive in retrospect than a dry recitation of skills in a tradition flat resume: Keep a…

  • Left-Brain Blogging

    The Raven talks about the impression he gets from a long blogroll: I don’t know about you, but when I visit a blog that has 395 navigation links running down the side I get a funny feeling. Is this clown trying to tell me, “Look at all my friends!” Or am I supposed to check…

  • Jeremy Zawodny Dreams of the Perfect RSS Aggregator

    He may be giving Radio’s aggregator short shrift, but Jeremy has done a good job of breaking down several approaches to RSS aggregation and providing his own wishlist: I’m on a quest to find the perfect RSS aggregator…. I’m thinking of a server-based process that can gather all the data and give it to me…

  • Log Everything

    I’m starting to wonder if there’s anything I shouldn’t be logging. So much of my personal knowledge management problems (read: disorganization) involve forgetting, losing track of, and worrying about issues as they come up an afterward until they are resolved. Sure, some things are private or proprietary. Not every log (blog, k-log, or any kind…

  • The Web Credibility Project: Guidelines – Stanford University

    Reading Spartaneity drew my attention back to Stanford’sWeb Credibility Project where you can read detailed explanations of and research behind these guidelines: Make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your site. Show that there’s a real organization behind your site. Showing that your web site is for a legitimate organization will…

  • Tweney Understanding Weblogs

    Dylan Tweney has summarized some of the recent thinking on weblogs (overlapping with many of the recent links posted here) in an article in which he also discusses realizing the personal knowledge-management benefits of keeping a weblog: In other words, I realized that a weblog could be a useful tool for personal knowledge management as…