Rough Drafts

In response to my estimate of the number of weblogs, a reader drew my attention to opendiary.com (nearly 3,800 users) and freeopendiary.com. The reader says the latter has half a million users, but I can’t find any information on the site to substantiate that. Any ideas if this is true? If so, it’s

Steve Outing recently wrote about how journalists can use weblogs for knowledge management.

Just found this interesting article from ELearning post (May 2001) on how blogs, combined with storytelling, can function as knowledge management tools. It quotes amply from David Weinberger’s “Knowledge Narratives” piece and covers a lot of ground in its attempt to weave together blogs and narrativ

My move to Movable Type is complete. Just imported all of my Blogger entries (but only published the ones from 2002), and shifted files around so that my MT blog is now the main weblog on my site. The Blogger weblog is still live, however, and it’s available here. I’m not sure how or whether […]

I got Movable Type up and running last week. The initial installation took about an hour; it went especially smoothly thanks to MT’s detailed, blow-by-blow instructions — the best I’ve seen yet for any CGI program I’ve installed. Since then I’ve been tweaking the configuration, poking around the sys

Stereotypical librarians — would the field be better off with a hipper image? Interesting links & discussion. “Libraries are the last bastion of freedom,” writes one commentator.

Spent the Labor Day weekend camping at Salt Point, on the Sonoma county coast, with my family, including the in-laws. Woke up Saturday morning to a world of fog, the tall pines towering above us in the grey light, everything quiet and still. It stayed foggy until midafternoon. We walked up and down

Why you should fall to your knees and worship a librarian.

Spacewar! Fanatic life and symbolic death among the computer bums. “Ready or not, computers are coming to the people.” by Stewart Brand —Rolling Stone, December 7, 1972.

MouseSite: featuring video clips from Engelbart’s famous 1968 demo, in which he showed off the mouse, a graphical interface, WYSIWYG editing, shared-screen remote collaboration, hyperlinks, and lots more.

BT loses hyperlink patent case.

Just found this interview with Userland’s John Robb that explains pretty clearly and succinctly the benefits of knowledge management weblogs, or, as Robb refers to them, k-logs.