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September 2003 Archives
Mailbucket - email to RSS gateway
an open source email to RSS gateway read full post
Learning networks and learning communities
George Siemens in Canada posts some thoughts on collaborative network-based learning read full post
Where did KM as corporate memory go wrong?
Great piece about the failings of KM as corporate memory from Denham Grey read full post
How to hack an election (USA)
Metafilter story with good links about the Diebold electronic voting system scandal in the United States read full post
Gleaning, Exchanging and Vernacular Media
Review of MIT Press publication "New Media: 1740-1915", looking at the social effects of various 'new' media from history... read full post
Designing for Civil Society 2003 : papers and movies
Papers from the Designing for Civil Society Workshop at teh HCI2003 conference read full post
Denham Grey
"How do you slice and dice the many KM related technologies and tools?" read full post
Enterprise IA Roadmap
Louis Rosenfeld has developed an IA "roadmap" that describes which aspects of the enterprise's architecture should be developed and when. read full post
Red Herring swims again
Red Herring is back - trees everywhere are nervous... read full post
K-collector: topic matching
Paolo Valdemarin is pushing forward towards v1.0 with k-collector, and is testing a new feature: auto topic matching read full post
Collaborative proposal writing using simple Wiki software
Case study of collaborative proposal writing using simple socal software read full post
About the design of this site
A look at the benefits of CSS-based page code, as used on this website. read full post
Technical details of this web site
A technical overview of the inner workings of this website. read full post
Capacity building needs in local government
Some research on capacity building needs in local government from the ODPM read full post
Useful tools for Information Architecture projects
useful project tools and documents from AIFIA via IA? EH read full post
Supporting joined-up knowledge sharing
The NIMHE knowledge community was specified collaboratively with key mental health stakeholders and developed in accordance with Semantic Web principles. read full post
Conversations with Dina on knowledge sharing
Conversations with Dina is an interesting read read full post
Chris Heathcote at the Biennale
Pictures and links from the 2003 Venice Biennale read full post
Jeremy Allaire: thoughts on Maven Networks
Jeremy Allaire is raving about Maven Networks, who developed a new form of broadband video distribution that is only 10% as costly as streaming. read full post
Life by the river
Our local area has become a focus for medieval behaviour with the arrival of David Blaine's box, but there is much more than that to see and do here. read full post
Upcoming: a collaborative event calendar
a collaborative event calendar - some say 2nd generation social software read full post
Promoting collaboration using a project weblog
The LAWs National Project site uses weblog functionality to allow internal and external users to publish project materials and participate in focussed discussions. read full post
Supporting K-logging within a large organisation
Lucent Technologies' Information Specialist, Michael Angeles, believes blogging has evolved beyond "cool" and is moving quickly into the corporate world. In this presentation, Angeles will discuss who blogs, how and why. He will also discuss how Lucent is supporting bloggers and at the same time keeping close watch over the resulting growth of information on the Intranet. read full post
Combining taxonomy, classification & search
Knowledge experts now agree that, as Feldman puts it: "Taxonomy, classification and search need one another." Leading vendors including Autonomy, Convera, Inxight, Stratity and Verity are among those attempting to bring all the pieces together. read full post
e-government pioneers to be rewarded with cash
The government is set to reward local councils that make cutting edge use of technology with a cash bonus of £14m, it was announced yesterday. read full post
Skype - a 'phone system that works?
Kazaa co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have a new target: the telephone industry read full post
Aggregation as a core component of corporate intranets
Paolo: "The more I talk with real people working in real companies ..., the more convinced I am that a news aggregator is the ideal center for any Intranet." read full post
A distinguished visitor: Dr. Sami Angawi
We were delighted to enjoy the company of a distinguished guest Dr. Sami Angawi recently, who shared with us some details of his work with the Amar Centre for Architecture in Jeddah read full post
Glancing: an application by Matt Webb
"An application to allow ultra-simple, non-verbal communication amongst groups of friends online" read full post
CAB to highlight how government can improve e-services
CAB and SOCITM to combine forces as part of a review of the role of intermediaries in government e-service delivery read full post
Researching user needs among SMEs in London
Headshift worked with Business Link for London to provide strategic research and advice in support of the development and positioning of their online services for SMEs in the London region. read full post
"Latent" Social Software?
Clay Shirky suggests that Waypath Buzz Maker is part of a category of latent social software tools read full post
Sam Ruby provides an in-depth overview of RSS
Sam Ruby on RSS for multiple client types read full post
The tyranny of Structurelessness
Will Davies at iSociety sparks an interesting debate with DEMOS over a 1970's paper entitled the Tyranny of Structurelessness. Are flat non-hierarchical structures always a good thing? read full post
A bidding war for a blog ?!?
Xeni at Boing Boing is writes that the blogosphere (I think that's somewhere in New York) is all aflutter about alleged bidding wars for the services of Gawker editor Elizabeth Spiers and also about an imminent biz-blog venture from the... read full post
Leveraging specialist knowledge through simple online tools
Working in close partnership with a small specialist team to make their valuable knowledge available to a wider audience through interactive online applications read full post
Wikis: not an ugly duckling after all?
Matt Haughey hacks phpwiki to create a wiki that looks like a swan. read full post
Public net-works: Stephen Clift on participative public services
Stephen Clift: public net-works as an e-government approach read full post
Local news
The work of Dickens' great-great ganddaughter and David Blaine are both on display from tomorrow read full post
Like Seb, we are waiting for the Semantic Web to enter the real world
Towards the Semantic Web: the usability problem is a greater challenge than defining the details read full post
Fascinating discussion of complexity theory applied to software development
Can we apply the idea of devolved simple rules implied by complexity theory to the behaviour of programming teams? read full post
Controlled vocabulary primer
All about controlled vocabularies, dealing with synonyms and antonyms and faceted metadata read full post
Two books about observing users
Comparative review of two books that discuss how we observe users read full post
