Rough Drafts

WordSpy uncovers such useful neologisms as metrosexual and corporate anorexia. A new word every day, with definitions and a serious attempt to discover the word’s earliest usage. It’s scholarly and fun!

My latest column for Business 2.0 talks about the risks of leaving laptop data without a backup. You do back up your laptop regularly, don’t you? Sure you do. (This is a little late making it onto my blog, but hey, I was busy celebrating my birthday.)

Data Extinction: “Paper documents last for hundreds of years, but more and more of what matters to us is digitally produced, and we can

Jeremy Allaire, cofounder of Allaire and now a Macromedia executive, gives a glimpse of what his company is working on: Client-side tools, based on Flash, that enable real-time collaboration. His demo is a little obscure but seems to be a tool for real-time collaborative database design — i.e. two o

The EFF has new bumper stickers for all you consumer rights / fair use activists out there, with slogans such as “Fair Use Has A Posse” and “MP3 Is Not A Crime.” Nice. (thanks, BoingBoing)

Ray Ozzie: We need to prepare for, and to embrace a whole new generation of system and application software that leverages our computers and networks specifically and tangibly to increase our interpersonal productivity and agility.

One difference between this recession and the last one: This time, it’s ordinary workers who are getting the ax, while the bosses’ jobs are protected. “American workers making less than $50,000 per year have seen their chances of being downsized increase 43 percent in the last two years,” says a pre

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