January 31, 2005
Good solid practical information about blogging behind the firewall.
What People Post
-News stories in our industry and about our company.
-Status of various test and performance clusters. So, instead of having to send out emails or answer phones all the time, you can say, “just subscribe to the performance cluster weblog. It’s always up-to-date with performance test status.”
-Brain-storming about strategy, feature sets, and process.
-Sharing customer visit/phone call notes.
-The “I exist” posts. Like I said, a lot of people just post one initial, “I’m here!” post and then disappear.
-Soliciting ideas/help. For example, one person recently posted the age old question, “when should I use wikis vs. weblogs?”
-Off-topic posts, like pictures of stars (the space ones, not the Hollywood types) or what the frozen burgers in the freezer look and taste like.
Cot�’s Weblog – Enterprise Blogging in Practice, Notes
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January 31, 2005
This is a great article that clearly explains why the power or zipf distribution means that the blogoshphere can (already) be divided into three.
- Firstly the small number of stars These are the ones that are always talk about business models and telling us how they have an authentic voice – but these are the ones that are becoming mainstream media.
- Secondly there are a moderate number of bloggers with a moderate number of readers. These are the stars of small niches. Eg Vertical niches.
- Lastly there are the masses that no one is really interested in. Although they might get their 15 mins of fame, their blog is simply a conversation with their friends. These are the guys using MSN spaces!
Weblogs, and Inequality
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January 27, 2005
Paul Graham : Speech for a High School Graduation
What You’ll Wish You’d Known
I came across this in The Slacker Manager blog. Another essay from Paul Graham who I posted about earlier this month. the essay/speech contains a lot of gems, but I singled out his comments about curiosity:
… Kids are curious, but the curiosity I mean has a different shape from kid curiosity. Kid curiosity is broad and shallow; they ask why at random about everything. In most adults this curiosity dries up entirely. It has to: you can’t get anything done if you’re always asking why about everything. But in ambitious adults, instead of drying up, curiosity becomes narrow and deep. The mud flat morphs into a well.
Curiosity turns work into play…
Trick is to turn the play into money, eh?
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January 27, 2005
Think ahead a few decades. All the texts, audio and video produced and archived on the web with latitude and longditude gathered as a matter of course.
I can visit the old family house and my reader brings me up all the ghosts of the past, memories of now dead ancestors. All interwoven into the museum of the physical house. Of course I could travel in virtual space. Hopefully I’m in the Caribean, so I teleport to the old family home. I recognize it from the satellite images and as I come in to land the current occupants present their video avatars. But I’m not interested in them, I’m going backwards in time…
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Check out locational based searching in this article:
Scientific American: Seeking Better Web Searches
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January 21, 2005
A blueprint for a deployable disaster relief system using standard shipping containers.”Michael Donaldson’s thesis describes how field hospitals, workshops, shelters, schools, barracks, security units and even offices can be packed into the standardized containers. As he says, �I was looking at something that can help with the re-building of social infrastructure such as hospitals and schools after war or disaster…There needs to be something that takes over after disaster response teams such as the UN or military leave � which is typically about 30 days.�
I love these modular ideas. Makes us feel that we can build like in Lego. Prefabricated houses: cheap, quick easy to move. However a metal container is hot in summer and cold in winter – the reality might be very unpleasant.
See Blog on Container Architecture
My Source Disaster Relief in a Box from WorldChanging.com
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