Here’s a story I wrote about “The first and last time I tried stand up comedy”.
Month: January 2003
Cool stuff coming from IBM:
IBM Learning Management System (LMS)
The season for learning [KMWorld]
IBM announces the IBM Learning Management System.
Technology of the Year: Publish/Subscribe
Technology of the Year: Publish/Subscribe. A new breed of middleware vendors brought pub/sub messaging down to the desktop. With Kenamea and KnowNow, you can subscribe a spreadsheet cell to a topic that’s managed out in the cloud. An event published to that topic — such as an inventory update — automatically updates the spreadsheet. It’s true that you could do this kind of thing a decade ago, using NetDDE (Network Dynamic Data Exchange) on your Windows for Workgroups LAN. But pub/sub at Internet scale is far more compelling. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] … [Jon’s Radio]
Mozilla tool
Blog from AIM?
Check out this thread from the Scripting News. I didn’t know you could make Radio blog posts from AIM. That sounds handy. The thread talks about different things people are doing or might want to do with regard to integrating AIM and Radio.
The value of storytelling
References on the value of storytelling in an org at McGee’s Musings. Chris K., a guy that used to work at Nav once talked about the value of storytelling. I got the gist but never dug deeper. These books might be a good start.
Five biggest mistakes in CMS selection. Lisa Welchman has written an article on the five biggest mistakes in CMS selection[Column Two]
Switching news aggregators. I’ve been using AmphetaDesk for a while now, but I’ve finally made the switch across to another system. While AmphetaDesk has many desirable features, what was crippling me was the inability to mark items as “read”. When you are reading… [Column Two]
I’ve pretty much abandoned AmphetaDesk in favor of Radio’s aggregator. But, for internal folks who aren’t ready to maintain their own blog may want to use it or the other aggregator recommended within this post to aggregate blog feeds and other news sources.
Opera 7
Opera 7 Released. Opera Software today unleashed the final Opera 7 for Windows, complete with a smaller overall code size and an additional feature for the final release. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]