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  Knowledge Management in the Real World

  Knowledge Management is a term that many people dislike, myself included. Firstly it's a misnomer - you can't "manage", at an organization or corporate level, something as subjective and contextual...

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  A Theory of Synchronicity for the Web

  In my previous post, Stasis and Synchronicity, I scratched the surface of something that's been bothering me recently. I've been sensing a degree of stasis in the blogging world, not...

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  Stasis and Synchronicity

  Jeffrey Zeldman wrote today about Glassdog's transformation from an "experimental narrative powerhouse" to a mere blog. Under the provocative title The saddest music in the world, Zeldman's piece was a...

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  Govt takes up publishing standard

  That's the title of my second NZ Computerworld article, which is in this week's edition (pg 16). Here's a PDF copy of it. It's also available in HTML format on...

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  Checking out the IRC world

  I recently downloaded the mIRC client and have been checking out the Freenode IRC network. The few times I've logged in there haven't been many people about - mainly because...

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  Fixed a couple of CSS bugs

  This is a boring post about fixing a couple of tedious Internet Explorer CSS bugs. But I want to record it for my own records and for future Google searchers.1)...

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  Weblogs as Avatars: some thoughts

  I'm in a stage right now where there are lots of details that I'm juggling in my life, both in the real world and my weblog world. My job is...

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  Auto-pinging Topic Exchange

  Now you tell me! There is in fact a way to automatically ping Topic Exchange from within Movable Type. Thanks to an old Ben Hammersley post, I found out that...

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  Topic Navigation Live

  Topic navigation is up and running on Read/Write Web, including cross-posting to both K-Collector and Topic Exchange. You'll notice on the main menu, it now lists internal topics (or categories...

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  Topics: Automatic for the People

  Matt Mower's written a great explanation of how the K-Collector aggregation process works. KC is a very clever system and I'm pleased to hear it doesn't actually require the KC...

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  More on Topic-Sharing Community

  There's already been a great response to my post last night (see the comments to previous entry). Greg suggested his aggregator Blogdigger could be included in this - I agree!...

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  Proposed Solution for ENT Topic-Sharing Community

  A few weeks ago I suggested merging Topic Exchange and K-Collector together, or at least bring the two sets of functionality closer together. I figure I'll take a leaf out...

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  RSS in New Zealand E-Government

  This is an article I've submitted to Computerworld NZ. I interviewed Ferry Hendrikx of the NZ E-Government Unit for this. Note that the target audience is mainstream IT people, so...

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  Reaching for the Golden Ring (or Getting Paid)

  All this hullaballoo about Movable Type's new licensing structure is just another example of one of the Web's enduring issues: how to make money on the Web when users are...

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  Duplicating Link and Guid

  I don't want to wade into an RSS syntax debate, but I came across a practical example of why to duplicate the Guid and Link elements in your RSS 2.0...

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  Pop Quiz: Comments

  More tinkering. Last night I made the header and footer fixed width, evened up the right-hand column's width in relation to the left column, added more white space to the...

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  MT Migration – The How and the CSS

  Yesterday I explained why I moved my blog from Radio Userland and today I'm going to explain how I did it. I'll also talk a bit about my new CSS...

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  Why I moved from Radio Userland to Movable Type

  My transition to Movable Type is mostly complete now, at least in terms of migrating content from Radio Userland and getting my new CSS design to a position of relative...

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  Running on MT

  Pardon my dust, I'm in the process of moving my weblog from Radio Userland to Movable Type. Also, as you can see, I've done a re-design. There are still a...

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  Taxi Driver Strategies

  I've just arrived back from a business trip in Melbourne, Australia. I'm creating a strategy for and managing the implementation of a new Intranet site. While I was over in...