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WebCM for the masses
Some quotes on the theme of content management (CM)...Gerry McGovern: "The Web may have been the almost exclusive domain of techies. Today, it is increasingly the domain of communicators."Bill Gates:...
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Supporting the two-way web (and Dave too)
I've been following all the hullaballoo about the Echo Project. Unfortunately there's been more flaming than at a dragons convention. But one of the few calm voices amongst all the hot air is Jon...
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Blogroll funk
One thing that is definitely "funky" is the blogroll in Radio Userland. I updated my blogroll.opml file last night but - no matter what trickery I do - the changes won't publish. That is...
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RSS and Echo
Jon Udell on RSS: "It's about a new way of communicating, one that's defined by personal publishing and subscribing, and that empowers writers and readers as never before."Amen to that,...
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C List blogger checks his stats
I admit it. I regularly check my stats at Technorati and Blogshares, plus I do some search engine checks now and then. Everyone does it. I have to say I'm...
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Internet Explorer.NET
In my recent articles I've explored the concept of the Universal Canvas, a term made popular by Microsoft when it launched .NET in 2000. But things just got interesting, with the news...
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Learn by writing
Mark Pilgrim: "I take in a lot of raw data, synthesize it, and spit it back out in ways that many people can understand."Mark Pilgrim and Neil Deakin are two very...
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Save the Web
Dave Winer posts a link to a DaveNet from 2 years ago:"If it were not possible to read my words without annotation, we'd have to invent a medium that allowed that....
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Apple and the Universal Canvas
Micah Alpern asked via my Comments form: "Wasn't this term [universal canvas] first popularized by Apple with their failed OpenDoc program?" Only one way to find out and that's pay...
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The Universal Canvas System
Last night I wrote about the Universal Canvas. Today in my RSS newsreader, what should appear but a great post from Steve Gillmor on the same topic. Of course being...
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Universal Canvas – In the Beginning…
I've become very interested in the "Universal Canvas", a term popularized by Microsoft and subsequently analyzed by Jon Udell. First of all, here are two definitions of the Universal Canvas:a)...
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Adaptability
Asterisk: "...the one thing every Web professional needs, regardless of their main job function, be that IA, Design, Development, what-have-you is adaptability. You know, the ability to wing it."In New...
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Triangulation
RWW Word of the Day: triangulationDave Winer (via Denise Howell's weblog): "...Question about journalism always having to be the sophisticated big stuff? Dave says know (sic), importance of triangulation, getting...
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Generalists and Specialists in harmony
Ever listen to The Velvet Underground's 9 minute live version of 'What goes on', from their 1969 Live album Volume 1? The first couple of minutes feature Lou Reed singing...
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Rich XML writing tools
I read with interest Jon Udell's OSCOM keynote slides. The main subject is how to write the web "in a rich way" - and by "rich" he means semantic. Udell...
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Lightweight browsers
I've installed the W3C web browser/editor, Amaya, onto my PC. I've only just begun to test it. But with all this talk about Microsoft abandoning its IE browser, it may...
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IE is dead – long live Longhorn
A hot topic in the blogging world recently has been: is Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser dead? Ironically, most of the good stuff to read has been via "Comments" forms - ie readers...
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How to implement ENT into your Radio RSS feed
After a few late nights, I've successfully implemented Easy News Topics (ENT) tags to my Radio Userland RSS feed. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. It...