Category: User Experience

  • Blogs a half-baked KM solution?

    In Network Computing’s BuzzCut column, Mike DeMaria talks about blogs as an improvement over e-mail for project updating but as an imperfect solution, at best, for archiving and retrieving links: Until blog developers address the issues of archive classification and sorting, blogs can’t possibly live up to their potential.

  • Business blogs in the news again

    Enterpreneur.com publishes a light article called Who Let the Blogs Out?: With a blog, you can answer questions, post business updates, link to similar sites and receive commentary from users. A collaborative company blog could give your employees one place to go to keep up on business happenings, memos and announcements.

  • Turning data into information

    Charly Z also hepped me to Daniel Danilov’s Reflections, where he recently posted a think-piece about how blogs help impose a mental grid on raw data, part of the process the mind uses to turn that data into relevant information: Anyone who complains about blogs being a waste of space or anything of the sort…

  • New (to me) blog tool: Nucleus CMS

    Strangest of places department: Megan Morrone’s LJ blog talks about her move to Movable Type, and her comments there discuss this move as a trend, recapitulate the “it’s hard too install” meme (Megan’s last post is that she has MT up and running but hasn’t had time to customize the look and feel yet, so…

  • Contrarian view on corporate blogs from InformationWeek's Secret CIO

    (via Unsere Kleine Digitale Welt) InformationWeek warns CIO’s about the risks of blogging in the corporate sphere: If you think your staff spends inordinate amounts of time designing PowerPoint presentations now, just imagine what these would-be artists and authors will do to productivity when their creative powers are unleashed on the world of computerized diaries…

  • Allaire's New Blog

    Jeremy Allaire has joined “the ranks of what Jon Udell calls CXO Blogs” with a mixed personal and professional blog “about media, communications and applications over the Internet.” According to one of his first entries: Over the past six-months, like many other netizens, I’ve become addicted to browsing and subscribing to blogs. My company has…