Entries from July 2005

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

KM, Blogging, and Copyright, Oh My

It’s been a while since I wrote about Knowledge Management & Blogging. While trying BlogBridge, I noticed that it comes with a set of pointers to, among other things, some KM blogs.
Here are a couple that have interesting articles posted recently. Knowledge-at-work (see Sharing knowledge - do we know enough? for example), and APQC (including […]

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Names, Again

In an interesting turn, I was googling around about FireFly (because of one of the comments on Scott’s site, actually) but kept coming across refences to Serenity instead.
This resulted in more than just a bit of confusion on my part, not being a FireFly fan or having any clue what was going on. Dori to […]

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

What’s In A Name?

Oh Crikey. In December ‘02 Scott Hanselman realized that MSN Messenger 5.0 wasn’t an upgrade to Windows Messenger 4.7. No, it was a different product that did mostly the same thing. Was Microsoft changing the name and bringing out a new, improved product? No, they now had two instant messaging clients.
Now he finds that there’s […]

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Johnson on Video Games

“What is the current reigning technological paradigm — combined with both market and public-sector forces — doing to our minds?” Steven Johnson, who I heard interviewed on the radio this afternoon, tackles that in a book that I’m very much looking forward to reading: Everything Bad Is Good for You. I wrote a paper back […]

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

Drive Safely

Sept ‘03: “I’ve never seen Microsoft send patches out to everyone via e-mail… learn more about how you can help protect your computer.”
Mitch Tulloch: Is This Security Alert Really from Microsoft?
Of course, not every email that arrives in your inbox and purports to be from Microsoft is actually from Microsoft.
The bottom line is that owning […]

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

Jon Udell: The tacit dimension of tech support

…in which he actually does a great job of describing one of my strengths.
Sometimes it’s not what you know but what you can find out.

I’ve often said that “being an expert isn’t always about knowing the answer as much as it is about knowing where to find the answer.”
It’s a good article, one to which […]