Guardian Unlimited :: Why blogs could be bad for business
In this Guardian article Neil McIntosh points out that while companies might not be rushing out to embrace weblogging as a corporate interface to their customers that they would be well advised to utilize weblogging as an internal tool for Knowledge Management.
...In today's corporate culture, where knowledge is power, the information-sharing capabilities of weblogs may not be entirely welcome, writes Neil McIntosh. ... Could the weblog confessions of a businessperson really boost the bottom line? It's something I've been asking a lot since going to a conference on the subject this summer in Boston. Blogdom's biggest names turned up for the Jupiter-organised event, from the always-controversial Dave Winer of the Berkman Center at Harvard University, to everyone's favourite Microsoft employee (by dint of her blog), Beth Goza. ...
The notion that more than a few companies might relax their external relations strategies enough to allow weblog communication, willy-nilly, between staff members and the outside world, is absurd, no matter how many consultants insist such communication might actually have a beneficial effect on a company's image. ...
This, of course, all presumes weblogs are to be used as something that faces customers, employed in some rather vague corner of a company's marketing mix. But all this does not rule out using weblogs internally, in some kind of knowledge management effort, and it is in this field that they show some potential....
[there are eight blogging news stories in this post, including articles on Microsoft, Amazon, Indiana University, and Autodesk.]
Yahoo News :: Progressive Electronics Retailer Leverages Power of Blogs
...Dynamism, the leading U.S. retailer of next-generation electronics from Japan and around the globe, launched a daily Web log, AkibaLive, today. Harnessing the immediacy and interactivity of blogging, Dynamism.com developed AkibaLive.com to educate and entertain passionate technology users about the latest consumer electronics products from Japan and from around the globe. The site, updated 6-8 times a day, provides breaking tech/gadget news from Tokyo and around the globe, live moblogging (or mobile-blogging directly from a photo-enabled cell phone) from tech hotspots like Tokyo's Akiba district, expert product reviews, and shopping links for the most unattainable notebooks, phones, and other gadgets...
seattlepi.com Microsoft Blog :: A few favorites
...As this Microsoft weblog gets up and running, I thought it would be good to point to some of the other Web sites and weblogs that track the company. Many of them have been doing it for quite some time...
Mentioned in this article:
Watching Microsoft Like A Hawk, Watching Google Like A Hawk, Microsoft Monitor, Microsoft Watch, Microsoft Bloggers, Paul Thurrott's WinInfo, Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows, ActiveWin, Dan Gillmor's eJournal, Dan Gillmor's Silicon Valley Column, The Paul Wall, Microsoft PressPass, Chris Anderson, Chris Sells, John Porcaro, Mike Vernal, Joshua Allen, Beth Goza, Harry Pierson, Robert Scoble, Douglas Purdy, Sara Williams, Diane R, Eric Rudder, Eric Rudder Biography, Sun Bloggers, Simon Phipps, Ken Bereskin, Dave Hyatt, Buzz Andersen, Living Without Microsoft, NewsForge, CNET News.com, Corante, InformationWeek, Good Morning Silicon Valley, and eWEEK.
Computerworld :: Microsoft to lift lid on Longhorn at Professional Developers Conference
by Joris Evers
...Microsoft Corp. will share more details on the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) next month. However, the company likely will keep the new user interface, dubbed Aero, under wraps.
Aero may make a cameo appearance in the opening keynote address by Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, but it's not finished yet and likely won't be included in the pre-beta release of Longhorn that will be handed out to PDC attendees, according to sources familiar with Microsoft's PDC plans. Also, Aero is not on the calendar of sessions at the show.
Perhaps more important to developers is that Microsoft will give PDC attendees the scoop on Avalon, the little-talked-about engine underlying the Longhorn user interface. Microsoft has described the technology as "a brand new client platform for building smart, connected, media rich applications in Longhorn." Developers at the show will be told how to take advantage of Avalon in their applications. ...
A buzz around the event is being built up by PDC attendees and Microsoft employees who discuss the event in their weblogs. Microsoft's secrecy around many of the PDC topics has helped build expectations for a show packed with new technology...
USATODAY :: Amazon moves to front line of shaping 'Web services'
by Byron Acohido
...Over the past 16 months, Amazon has inspired about 30,000 developers to invent myriad ways to extend Amazon's visibility on the Web. "Amazon basically hired the entire world to create Web services for them," says Calin Uioreanu, a Romanian tech engineer who in his spare time runs several online stores he created to funnel sales to Amazon.
Programmers ranging from hobbyists to skilled professionals have found ways to tie everything from text in word processing documents, to raw MP3 music files, to entries in online journals, called Weblogs, to items for sale on Amazon's Web pages. The incentive: Amazon pays a 5% commission for any sale directed to its system...
IDS: IU Weblogs offer diverse opinions
By Alli Stolper
...Indiana University students, faculty and staff are allowed to publish a diverse amount of information on the University personal home page service, as long as it complies with the law and University policy.
But diverse doesn't begin to describe the 31,000 Web sites in the University's personal home directory.
The pages vary from business professor Eric Rasmusen's anti-homosexual opinions to sophomore Aubrey Dunnuck's fan art wallpaper of the Gilmore Girls.
Personal homepages are not reviewed by the University prior to posting. The University accepts no responsibility for the information published on the free Web pages.
Mark Bruhn, chief IT security and policy officer, said he receives complaints about material which looks as if it violates the law or University policy.
"If someone complains about something that they see on a personal page, and it's clearly illegal or against some IU policy, my office will tell the page owner to remove it," Bruhn said. In general, Bruhn said he does not have much trouble with controversial material on the pages...
Yahoo News :: Autodesk Enhances Subscription Offering with Web Support and e-Learning
...Autodesk Subscription customers will now be automatically qualified to participate in the AutoCAD beta program, giving them the power to help drive future product functionality. They will also benefit from exclusive webcasts and Web logs (blogs), a Web page made up of short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically. Webcasts will include a variety of topics and speakers and the initial blog will focus on AutoCAD, with other product blogs to follow...
Network Computing Asia :: Web Site Automation
Dr Seamus Phan
...If you are in a large organisation with thousands of pages of information that needs to be frequently updated or refreshed, it will be unwise to keep the Web site manually updated.
The running costs will add up and your Web site will soon be bleeding profusely. In this scenario, automation can remove most of the hassle of keeping your content up-to-date.
And why shouldn't you automate? In scenarios where you have little content and you can do with a Weblog (blog) or journal-like script instead, automation will be overkill. There are many nice Web sites, as well as enterprise micro-sites that benefit nicely from blogs instead of full automation.
If you can modularise your Web site into micro-sites and manage running journals or blogs, then you may not want to use more sophisticated Web site automation scripts, since they come with a hefty learning tag...
Charleston: The Post and Courier :: GOOD MORNING LOWCOUNTRY
...We like children and dogs. We are not cat people. We're not morning people, either. Don't call before 10. We like salt water and our favorite journey is the road home. We love to travel but hate airports. We love road trips but never take a map. We seldom make reservations. We like science, math, weather, blogs, world events, strange news, extreme sports and rock and roll. You can contact us if you have nothing better to do at gmlc@postandcourier.com...
...Transforming the face of psychiatry, Dr. Judith Orloff asserts that we are keepers of an innate intuitive intelligence so perceptive that it can tell us how to heal - and prevent - illness. Yet intuition and spirituality are the very aspects of our wisdom usually disenfranchised from traditional health care.
In response, Dr. Orloff advocates "a democracy of healing," wherein every aspect of our being is granted a vote in the search for total health. It is our birthright, both as health-care givers and health-care recipients, to reclaim our intuition, restore it to full standing in the medical realm and thereby carry medicine into the future. The field of medical intuition will also be an integral part of that future.
Dr. Orloff is accomplishing for psychiatry what physicians like Larry Dossey and Dean Ornish have done for mainstream medicine - she is proving that the links between physical health, mental well-being, and spiritual connectedness cannot be ignored. Affirming that intuition is the bond between these seemingly disparate areas of our lives, Dr. Orloff presents workshops and lectures at medical schools, hospitals, alternative health-care forums, and mainstream and experimental educational institutions - venues where she can offer hands-on, workable intuitive tools to medical practitioners, patients, everyday people.
In her work as a board-certified psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Orloff exhibits great courage in drawing upon her own intuitive abilities, evident to her since childhood. Her struggles acknowledging and then finally embracing her gift of heightened intuition are chronicled in Second Sight (Warner Books). Her second book, Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing: 5 Steps to Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Wellness (Times Books) explores the impact of her ideas in over fifteen years of psychiatric practice and by discussing patient profiles, she shows how breakthroughs are accomplished by awakening intuition: how intuition can heal our body, emotions, and sexuality, as well as helping us accept the transition from life to death. Her latest book Positive Energy takes a probing look at the inter-relationship between subtle energy, intuition, health, and behavior.
Dr. Orloff begins lectures and workshops by creating a bond of warmth, trust and intimacy with participants, within which they can hear and explore her ideas. Her sincerity, humor, and joy bring everyone in the audience with her - leaving everyone certain of their own intuitive abilities, as well as Dr. Orloff's contributions to a radically new kind of medicine...
[there are four blogging news stories in this post, all political.]
The New York Times :: The Role of the Delete Key in Blog
by Michael Falcone
...Is a blog still a blog if someone else edits it? A recent policy change at The Sacramento Bee has raised questions about whether taking an editor's pen to a Web log before it is published detracts from very nature of Web logs, or "blogs,'' as the online diaries are called.
Lurking uncertainty about what standards should be applied to Web logs written by journalists bubbled to the surface last week after The Bee's ombudsman made public a recent decision by editors to screen Web log entries of Daniel Weintraub, one of the newspaper's leading columnists, before they are posted on The Bee's Web site.
Other bloggers weighed in, many sharply criticizing the new regulations that the editors imposed on Mr. Weintraub's popular "California Insider" blog, widely considered required reading for recall election news...
MENAFN.COM - Middle East North Africa :: Knight Ridder Newspapers
By Dick Polman
... it's clear that the Web is changing the way national politics is conducted. Campaign aides talk incessantly about conquering the "blogosphere" _ the corner of cyberspace where "bloggers" write daily logs about politics. ("Blog derives from "Web log.) Some campaigns are even courting the best-known bloggers (and, by extension, their online audiences), much the way candidates in the FDR era went hat in hand to the cigar-chomping party bosses.
For any serious presidential candidate these days, it's de rigeur to have a top-notch techno-geek on staff. Ten years ago, bragging rights went to the candidate who hired the best TV ad-maker. But in campaign `08, the big hire could be the tekkie who creates the best candidate blog _ an online journal accessed by the citizenry...
Contra Costa Times :: Bush campaign revs into higher gear
By David L. Greene Baltimore SUN
...Mindful of the success Howard Dean has enjoyed in raising money and rallying support over the Internet for his Democratic presidential drive, the Bush campaign has set up a Web site, www.georgewbush.com, that's cleverly designed to make it a cinch to donate money and other support. On the site, people are invited to give money, to call talk shows or write to newspapers in support of the president. (They can download suggested text.) They are also offered flashy campaign literature to post on their personal Web sites or blogs...
AP Wire :: Sharon Davis offers strength, solace to husband's campaign
by Beth Fouhy
...In an interview with The Associated Press, Sharon Davis said her goal is to acquaint California voters with the Gray Davis she has known for 25 years.
"I read profiles and I don't even recognize the person I'm reading about," she said. "The person I see when he comes home every night, or the person I see at the office. He's genuinely a good guy, a decent hardworking guy who's had some big challenges."
With her dimples and broad smile, Sharon Davis projects a warmth that seems genuine, unforced; she softens her husband's brittle edges. She spends her days traversing the state and delivering speeches, all the while "blogging" her campaign diary to his Web site. In the campaign's effort to humanize the governor, his wife is a powerful tool.
"I think she is able to convey a more personable side of Gray and their relationship," said Bruce Cain, a political scientist at University of California, Berkeley...
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The San Francisco Chronicle :: After IT, Silicon Valley must find new ways to stay on top
by John Shinal
...More than 60 percent of college students in China study engineering, while the figure at U.S. colleges is only 6 percent, according to Guardino of the Manufacturers' Group. Similarly, India has a pool of 17 million people with science and engineering degrees, said Vivek Paul, president and chief executive of Wipro Technologies. Still, even Paul, who works out of Wipro's Silicon Valley offices, said it's foolish to think that the region won't remain at the center of knowledge- based industries...
Business Report : Savannah :: Beaufort County Forecast: Economic Blue Skies To Stay
By Jason Harvey
...Greater Beaufort Chamber CEO Barnes told luncheon attendees that 2004 also would be an important year for recruiting knowledge-based industries to the Lowcountry. Study after study show that South Carolina needs to attract high-tech companies to diversify and solidify its economy, and Barnes thinks Beaufort County could be the perfect corridor for these kinds of companies...
Palladium-Item, Greater Richmond, Indiana :: Lack of education, crime can cost jobs
By Bernhardt Dotson
...There isn't a community in the world that doesn't have a poverty or education issue," said Jim Hizer, president and chief executive officer of the Economic Development Corporation of Wayne County. One of the things his organization does is identify and address obstacles to development, growth and retention. "It's the companies that you never hear about that mark you off the list," Hizer said. "What you try and do is reduce the number of factors that a company would use to not locate or relocate to your community." A typical industrial client is looking for a workforce that is eager to learn and gain new skills, regardless of their economic circumstances. This is an area where Richmond excels, Hizer said. He said society is moving toward a knowledge-based economy, thus, within the next 30 years, the opportunity for economic success would be related to skill and educational level. In such an economy, Hizer said, community economic success would depend more and more on the skill level of workers. "If our workers lack skills, an increasing number of economic development opportunities will pass us by," Hizer said...
HollandSentinel, MI :: Courting the creative class
by Robert Gold
...HAPPY IN HOLLAND: Mat Nguyen, co-founder of the computer company Worksighted, worked with a Holland Area Chamber of Commerce committee to look for ways to convince more young entrepreneurs like him to stay in Holland rather than move to metropolitan areas. ...
Instead of trying to lure manufacturers to set up shop in Holland, the city must keep creative people who will stay loyal to the region, said Chris Byrnes, who leaves his job as chamber president Tuesday. With manufacturers moving production to countries with cheaper labor costs like China, the emphasis need to change from attracting businesses to attracting people, Byrnes said. Byrnes, who will continue working with the chamber on the project after he leaves office, said the idea grew out of a chamber retreat last year with Richard Florida, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who wrote "The Rise of the Creative Class." Florida argues that knowledge-based workers, engineers, designers and artists are a driving economic force and that these people often stay in an area because of their cultural opportunities...
The Oregonian :: Out of reach
by Bill Graves and Steven Carter
...Oregon follows a national trend. Financial barriers keep half of college-ready low-income students from attending a university and one in five from attending any college at all, the national Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance reported last year.
The United States is reducing support for higher education at a time when the rest of the industrialized world is expanding investments to keep pace with a knowledge-based global economy. The United States once led the world in the proportion of youth it sent on to college. Now it is about average, with many countries such as South Korea, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom exceeding it...
Daily Local News: Chester County, PA :: Commissioner candidates open up about open space
by Betsy Gilliland
...Land preservation has dominated Chester County discourse since 1989 when more than 80 percent of voters approved an open space referendum. Apparently, little has changed in 14 years. According to a December poll, said Peter Hausmann, a commercial developer, leader of Chester County Citizens to Save Open Space and former Chester County Planning Commission chairman, more than 83 percent of likely voters still support candidates who endorse open space initiatives. "Open space isn't just an environmental issue," he said. "It's an economic issue in a knowledge-based economy."...
The Economic Times :: Amma's bash had its share of global celebrities
by Joe A Scaria
...Hotmail founder and co-chairman Navin Communications, Sabeer Bhatia said India ought to educate her citizens in moving from a knowledge-based system to an inquiry-based system while ensuring education for all. India should also learn to celebrate the successes that no one in the country seemed to appreciate, felt Gururaj Deshpande, global chairman of TiE. "Perhaps we are overlooking some of the mega success stories in the country. Get them on to the front page. That will encourage them and inspire other aspiring entrepreneurs," he said...
TheStar.com :: Premier's 'links' to Martin flop: Poll
...Martin stressed the need for Canada to exploit the "knowledge-based" economy of the future - a line that is familiar to those who have been listening to McGuinty sing the praises of a highly-educated and skilled workforce as the true road to prosperity.
Speaking to the Star's editorial board on Friday, McGuinty was asked about the confusion among some voters between the federal and provincial Liberals and acknowledged that some of the votes his party receives in Thursday's election may be from people who think they are voting for Martin.
"I won't look a gift horse in the mouth," McGuinty joked, saying he is aware that some people do make that mistake, but stressing that he has campaigned hard on provincial issues and is confident that most Ontario voters are well aware of both him and his platform...
Times of Oman :: GOIC predicts 30pc growth in AGCC IT sector next year
...The GOIC secretary-general said some of the Gulf states had surpassed the international rates that measured the progress in communication, while some were endeavouring to catch up.
"To that effect, GOIC on many occasions, had called for taking the initiative to bridge the digital gap. The priorities of the Gulf states at this stage are to complete the infrastructure, promulgate necessary legalisation, transfer and localisation of technology, establish knowledge-based industries, etc. The priorities also include the launch of e-governments in the AGCC, in addition to attracting foreign investment after preparing the inductive environment," he added...
The Financial Express :: Economic Diplomacy Post-Cancun
...We need to develop a bit of a give-and-take approach in our negotiations with major countries rather than get locked into rigid ideological positions that could easily happen if India is posited into leadership role in the new-found G-21.
Secondly, we must look for expansion of regional trade, as most other countries are doing. India is held back in this by the hostility of Pakistan and Bangladesh. We should, as a first step, unilaterally free trade with our neighbouring countries (with appropriate rules of origin put in place), so that it would put pressure on the neighbours to reciprocate. In any case, it would help to create trading and manufacturing interest groups that should help to undermine political hostility to India in those countries.
Thirdly, we should be more proactive in identifying areas where foreign investment can be brought into the country without damaging our national interest. A litmus test is whether it is adding to our export capacity in knowledge-based industries, with strong vertical downstream linkages in the Indian economy. Investments of this kind cannot be easily shifted abroad, as they are human-capital based. By making such investments, other nations will acquire a strong interest in the security of India, and the prosperity of this country.
Fourthly, we should actively seek out trade and technological collaboration opportunities with other major Third World countries, such as China, South Africa, Egypt and Brazil. India is already building a reputation for knowledge based industries - information technology and pharmaceuticals. We should build on this reputation...
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csmonitor.com :: The changing face of dot.comraderie
By Marie Ewald and Teresa Mendez
Friendster ...can be addictive. A former Friendster's life was overtaken that way. Lured in by Friendster's new format, "Terboted" was soon trolling the site nonstop. "I simply couldn't get enough of this node network that had actual living breathing friends of mine in it," he recounts in an online blog.
Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor of interactive telecommunications at New York University, compares some users' obsessions with collecting Friendsters to a high school popularity contest spun out of control. Once stripped of real-world restrictions like time and space, he explains, participation in online communities can "quickly accelerate beyond the realm of human behavior."
But unlike a word processor, social software constantly adapts to its users, professor Shirky says. A few entrepreneurial Friendsters have even taken to auctioning their networks on eBay, guaranteeing the buyer an instant social circle.
Tribe is trying to reconcile the technology with the sociology. Unlike Friendster's, Tribe's users can adjust the size of the community they're looking through, so someone looking for a loan can restrict the search to close friends, and someone searching for a couch could hunt through their extended network...
The Financial Express :: Economic Diplomacy Post-Cancun
...We need to develop a bit of a give-and-take approach in our negotiations with major countries rather than get locked into rigid ideological positions that could easily happen if India is posited into leadership role in the new-found G-21.
Secondly, we must look for expansion of regional trade, as most other countries are doing. India is held back in this by the hostility of Pakistan and Bangladesh. We should, as a first step, unilaterally free trade with our neighbouring countries (with appropriate rules of origin put in place), so that it would put pressure on the neighbours to reciprocate. In any case, it would help to create trading and manufacturing interest groups that should help to undermine political hostility to India in those countries.
Thirdly, we should be more proactive in identifying areas where foreign investment can be brought into the country without damaging our national interest. A litmus test is whether it is adding to our export capacity in knowledge-based industries, with strong vertical downstream linkages in the Indian economy. Investments of this kind cannot be easily shifted abroad, as they are human-capital based. By making such investments, other nations will acquire a strong interest in the security of India, and the prosperity of this country.
Fourthly, we should actively seek out trade and technological collaboration opportunities with other major Third World countries, such as China, South Africa, Egypt and Brazil. India is already building a reputation for knowledge based industries - information technology and pharmaceuticals. We should build on this reputation...
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The Globe and Mail :: In a world with no borders, the best-connected nation is king
by Ken Wiwa
...Last week's outing of Mers Kutt came as a reminder that in the borderless world being fashioned by the designs of the knowledge economy, some old Canadian habits persist.
As reported in this newspaper, Mr. Kutt was revealed in a recent issue of the Annals of the History of Computing as the inventor of the personal computer. As a result, Canadians are now officially recognized as the inventor of the telephone, the cellphone and the personal computer -- all of which should make Canada some kind of big brother in the world of innovation. But, as Mr. Kutt pointed out: "In Canada, we don't really look for big acknowledgments unless they sort of come your way."...
Gulf Daily News :: Traders invited to chart new course
...COCHIN, India: Indian President A P J Abdul Kalam yesterday invited top business leaders to help lay down the road map for the country to become a developed nation by 2020.
Addressing more than 100 senior business heads at a CEO Summit in this southern Indian city, Kalam said the blueprint would require a renewed focus on agriculture, power, education and healthcare, and information technology.
"Self-reliance in critical technologies and other areas will also need a (boost). These areas are closely interlinked and lead to food, economic and social security and employment generation." Kalam, who arrived in Cochin to attend the birthday of Indian mystic Mata Amritanandamayai, known as Amma (mother) or the "Hugging Saint", said transforming India's predominantly rural areas into a "knowledge society" was the key to rapid growth...
..."Making sure that Canadians have the skills and knowledge required for today's knowledge-based economy and the economy of the future is a national challenge," said the Honourable Jane Stewart, Minister of Human Resources Development. "The Government of Canada's contribution to CAETO, to develop the articulation reports, demonstrates a commitment to working collectively to address national skills issues."...
Canada NewsWire :: Government of Canada funds literacy project in Moncton
...The National Literacy Secretariat works in partnership with provincial and territorial governments, business, labour and the volunteer community. The goal of these partnerships is to increase public awareness of literacy, help people share information, improve access to literacy programs, develop learning materials and advance research on literacy.
This project supports the Government of Canada's Innovation Strategy and more specifically Knowledge Matters, a policy paper that addresses the national challenge of ensuring that Canadians possess the skills and knowledge required to fully participate in the knowledge-based economy...
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MERIA :: CYBERDISSENT: The Internet in Revolutionary Iran
By Babak Rahimi
...Along with a growing internationally acclaimed film industry and an increase in demand for satellite dishes, the internet has become an important medium for interacting with the rest of the world, and this interaction has helped spur several changes in Iranian society. For instance, the rise of "coffee-nets," voice chats that have become an inexpensive way for the young to converse online, challenge the Islamic government and its oppressive imposition of moral guidelines for the separation of the sexes in everyday public places.(17) Another related phenomenon is the 20,000 active internet sites and weblogs (or blogs)--online journals where cyber-diarists meet to chat about the latest news in their personal lives, politics, or sports and enable young Iranians to express themselves freely and anonymously on various subjects.(18) Probing the freedom provided by the internet, internet users--especially women--are finding in blogs an alternative medium for expression that is denied to them in real public spaces.(19) The famous case of a former prostitute's weblog, detailing the underworld life of Iranian society, demonstrates how Iranians are defying the strict moral code imposed by the Islamic government. Such unabashed online diaries offer a rare glimpse into the frustrated lives of Iranian youth who have grown up under strict Islamic laws.(20) In short, the new generation has built online communities where couples meet to chat, young men dress as they wish and young women go uncovered without being harassed...
Macworld UK :: Apple's new .Mac gifts entice users
...Apple has added three new exclusive gifts to entice .Mac members in the US. Apple UK has been unable to confirm whether all the latest offerings will extend to .Mac subscribers in the UK. Joining the .Mac offering are a free copy of the iBlog weblog software (available to UK), a free VersionTracker Plus subscription and a US$30 discount on SmartDisk hard drives purchased through the US Apple Store...
OJR article: Red Herring Is Back With New Owner, New Editor ... and New Mission Too
by Mark Glaser
..."People don't realize that when we started Business 2.0 -- about the same time as the Standard started -- times weren't that robust," Daly said. "An economic downturn is a great time to start a publication. People are more rational, grounded. Investors are more realistic." He said the new Herring would continue in some ways as its old self, an ideas-based publication with a focus on venture capital news. He said there wouldn't be Weblogs on the site initially, though he's open to adding them in the future...
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Waterford News & Star :: R&D is the key to the future
...FURTHER investment in education is necessary to ensure Ireland's economic survival, the attendance was told at a conference addressed by leading Irish academics and industry leaders in Dungarvan on Monday.
The conference entitled "The Knowledge Economy - Working, Creating, Innovating" was the last in the series of five conferences hosted WIT across the South East to stimulate debate about issues of national and regional significance and to encourage improved partnerships between key policy and decision makers in the region. The Dungarvan conference identified key factors and issues relating to the knowledge economy and its implications for modern work practices in organisations within the South East and throughout Ireland...
...The new Western Economic Partnership Agreements respond to the 2002 Speech from the Throne commitment that "the government will target its regional development activities to better meet the needs of the knowledge economy and address the distinct challenges of Canada's urban, rural and northern communities." Funding for this initiative was provided for in the February 2003 federal budget...
The Times of India :: Being effective the Covey way
...For all those business managers who think success is a function of corporate wizardry, here's a revelation from Steven Covey, author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The road to high-product quality is paved by individuals who are not only competent, but whose lives are centered on enduring timeless principles.
Information-age organisations functioning in a knowledge economy cannot afford to overlook the mutual importance of technical and social competencies. Organisational and technological successes can no longer be achieved without awareness for improved ways of working. Serious consideration needs to be given to relationship between doing quality work and having strong character. For Covey, both are crucial to building enduring organizations, developing high-trust relationships, and maintaining a strong work culture...
Telegraph News :: How university was turned into a Disney-style adventure
...Lectures, libraries and laboratories are over-crowded, teaching is too perfunctory, contact with lecturers too slight and the quality of courses too variable. At the same time the Government has allowed a rigorous and informative quality assurance system to be junked, with the result that choosing a course is becoming like sticking a tail on a donkey while blindfolded.
The only response to all this from the Government is to insist that a "knowledge-based economy" requires an almost infinite number of graduates and that most future expansion will be in cheaper two-year, vocationally-related "foundation degrees" taught largely in further education colleges.
Perhaps in the end affordability will be the key. The more costly university becomes, the more realistic students may be about whether Disney-style mass higher education has anything worthwhile to offer them...
Botswana Daily News :: Ministry committed to improve living standards
...Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology is committed to improving Batswana's living standards by turning Botswana into an information and knowledge-based economy, says the ministry's permanent secretary Marianne Nganunu.
Nganunu told BOPA that to achieve this goal and improve living standards her ministry would harness technology and material resources in a sustainable manner. Three new departments of Telecommunications and Postal Services, Science, Research and Technology Development and Information Technology Services have been established in this regard.
She said research, science and technology policies were formulated in an effort to develop regulations and guidelines for research, science and technology...
TheStraitsTimes :: WTO impasse to top agenda of Apec summit
...Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said Thailand steered a series of Apec meetings this year to serve the government's economic strategies for local benefit, linking its policies with international cooperation.
The government's strategies match the sub-theme of the Apec meeting, which is to focus on a knowledge-based economy, promoting human security, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and implementation of development pledges agreed in previous meetings.
The government will champion information technology, SMEs and the 'One Tambon, One Product' schemes. Tambon refers to a sub-district in Thailand...
...Whether your interest lies in high-fidelity loudspeakers based on plasma technology, a 40-euro scanning tunnelling microscope with applications in nanotechnology, or using genetic engineering to determine intracellular pH, you need look no further than the three first-prize winners of this year's EU contest for young scientists. Yesterday in Budapest the European Commission awarded the prize to two young Germans and a Hungarian researcher. But contestants from several other countries (the Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, Russia and Switzerland) won second an third prizes in areas as diverse as computing, biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics. ...
As part of the EU's Science and Society programme, the aim of this annual event is to encourage young people to pursue their interest in science and embark on scientific careers. In today's knowledge-based society, it is vital for the future of Europe's that we continue to build a dynamic European research community. And that means it is also essential that young scientists such as those at the EU contest turn their interests into careers...
Europa: Rapid :: First European Youth Week "Youth IN Action" (29 September to 5 October)
...The European Commission, the European Parliament and the EU Member States joined forces in April 2000 to set up the YOUTH Community action programme, the aim being to meet the needs of young people (of 15 to 25 years of age) and youth leaders by providing financial aid for their projects, along with information, training and partnership opportunities throughout Europe and beyond. Since its launch, the Youth programme has provided funding for some 40 000 projects and provided mobility facilities for some 400 000 young people. Its aim is to help create a "knowledge-based Europe" and a European cooperation structure for developing youth policy, based on non-formal education. It encourages lifelong learning and training and the development of skills which will boost active citizenship...
Salle de Presse des Institutions européennes :: Japan will benefit from the enlarged Union
SPEECH/03/431 by Günter Verheugen, Membre of the European Commission
...Japan is a major political and economic partner of the European Union. It is the Union's second largest trading partner. Together, we account for some 40% of world GDP and almost 30% of world trade. We have a common responsibility to make a substantial contribution to global governance in the world. ...
The implementation of the Lisbon Strategy. At the Lisbon Summit in 2000, the Union set itself the objective of becoming the most competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy in the world by 2010, capable of sustained economic growth and better employment. Much has already been achieved by opening up energy markets, modernising competition policy and putting in place an integrated Europe-wide financial market. But the Union will need to intensify the pace of reform and to advance the Lisbon agenda of social, economic and environmental renewal...
And with a tidbit for my knowledge newsbytes...
(Thanks for this tip goes to Rafat Ali and his PaidContent NewsWire.)
RED HERRING | The Business of Technology | The invisible secretary
SRI explores the idea of a thinking computer - for soldiers.
...SRI International is using a $22 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop new technology that could replace people with machines. In this case, the carbon-based forms in danger are secretaries.
Like any living, breathing American secretary, this digital creation has to understand English, answer the phone, schedule meetings, and reply to email. (No running out for Krispy Kremes just yet.) The assistant, much like a school child, is expected to learn over time and pass exams each year. ...
"It's the largest artificial intelligence project every funded by DARPA," says Mr. Cheyer. "We are going to bring together about 150 of the world's top artificial intelligence experts here to create a software system that will make fewer errors, be more flexible, and have the ability to learn," he says. "It's a really different way of working." SRI hopes to integrate a number of different AI programs including an email assistant, a scheduling assistant, a Web master assistant, and a space-planning assistant, into a sort of Microsoft Office-like suite of intelligent applications. ...
Language is one of the toughest pieces of the puzzle. "One reason language is difficult is the enormous amount of common sense reasoning behind a sentence," says Mr. Cheyer, "as well as social cues such as intonation. There is simply too much information." ...
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The New York Times :: For the World's A B C's, He Makes 1's and 0's
By Michael Erard
...MICHAEL EVERSON, a 40-year-old typographer who lives in Dublin, considers himself blessed because he has found his life's work: to be an alphabetician to all the peoples of the world. Mr. Everson's largest project to date - a contribution to a new version of Unicode 4.0, an international standard for computerizing text - is cementing his reputation. ... He keeps a photo of a stone inscribed with ogham, an ancient Irish alphabet that looks like hash marks, in a silver frame. ... It is because of Unicode that bloggers can muse in Arabic and domain names can exist in Chinese, or that National Security Agency analysts can scour the Internet for reports on the latest threats in East African newspapers. "Because of Unicode," Mr. McGowan said, "you can plunk down a vanilla off-the-shelf computer into a cafe anywhere in the world and have any user in any language walk up to it and use it for accessing the Web."...
The Washington Dispatch :: Leading Recall Journalist Muzzled
Exclusive commentary by Garth Eisenbeis
Sacramento Bee columnist Daniel Weintraub is the proprietor of an excellent weblog covering the California recall called the California Insider. On Sunday the editorial board of the Bee smacked Weintraub because he drew the ire of the Legislature's (Democrat) Latino Caucus with one of his entries from September 1st referring to recall candidate Cruz Bustamante's ties to MEChA.
The Bee had been on the cutting edge of print journalism by offering a blog to readers allowing a free-flow of ideas outside of the print arena; a real-time e-paper, if you will. It is apparent that the Bee's formerly successful experiment has been shelved to satisfy Leftist politicians and an influential special interest group in Sacramento. Bee ombudsman Tony Marcano, late of the New York Times (hint, hint), wrote, "Since these incidents came to light, The Bee has instituted some reforms. Weintraub's blog now goes to the editorial page editor or his deputy before it's posted on sacbee.com. Editors will not be allowed to write items for the Web without another editor's review."...
KRT Wire :: Professor's university blog attracts controversy
BY Maureen Ryan, Chicago Tribune
...Rasmusen's blog resides on the server of Indiana University, where he is a professor in the business school. His posted musings on whether homosexuals should be allowed to be teachers, pastors or other kinds of "moral exemplars" have caused a major campus uproar in the past few weeks...
O'Reilly Network :: Back to the Memex [Sep. 25, 2003]
by Ethan Cerami
...I recently got a chance to reread Vannever Bush's 1945 Atlantic Monthly article, As We May Think. If you haven't ever read it, it is well worth the read, and still quite thought provoking. You can also check out a biography of Vannever Bush at Wired magazine -- Wired calls him the "Godfather" of the Internet.
In his article, Bush describes a machine called the "Memex." Here's how he describes it:
A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.
Bush then goes on to describe a machine which is remarkably like the World Wide Web, as it exists today. For example, he describes "trails" between documents (think hyperlinks), indexes of trails (think Google), and publication of trails with commentary (think Blogs)...
Tony Perkins reflects on his first 8 months running a super blog—or whatever you want to call it.
...Now that I have had a little experience dealing with these kind of digs, let me say a few things to set the record straight:
1. I have finally learned what a blog is. (Thank you Dave Winer!) It is an amateur author who posts a regular diary on his own site that is unedited, spontaneous, and generally comments on and links to other blog sites. I think the key attribute is the establishment of an individual voice that provides an alternative to traditional media.
2. While AO is built using "blogging" software, it is not a blog in a pure sense. AO is really a combination of professional editorials, reporting and interviews. The difference is that we use our blogging software set-up to encourage participation...
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XML.com :: Marking Up Bureaucracy [Sep. 24, 2003]
...Because the government comes into citizen's lives in so many ways, and because, on the whole, United States citizens have only limited Internet access, the deployment of XML technologies for G2C is the hardest to pin down. According to Mark Frautschi, a consultant specializing in knowledge management for government, some of the most promising work is emerging from places like the Universal Access Expedition Working Group. Started over two years ago without a set agenda, the group has been exploring "ways to live with section 508 of the Americans With Disabilities Act," which requires that web sites be completely accessible to users with special needs...
internetnews.com :: Army to Shell Out $500 Million for IT
By Clint Boulton
...Dell (Quote, Chart) and rivals HP (Quote, Chart), GTSI (Quote, Chart) and Lockheed Martin have scored a bid to provide hardware, software and services for the U.S. Army to the tune of $500 million, the latest in a series of large contract wins for systems vendors.
Through the ITES contract, which is a key part of the high-profile Army Knowledge Management transformation plan geared to move the Army's knowledge base to the Internet, the Army plans to buy servers, workstations, desktops, notebooks, storage systems, networking equipment, operating systems and commercial software applications, peripherals, and related services...
IT-Analysis.com :: Vignette takes up the last pure-play collaboration player
...Intraspect is a privately held company with about 180 employees that started trading in Europe in 2000. Intraspect software benefits from years of research at Stanford and elsewhere in knowledge sharing, knowledge acquisition, collaboration and human-computer interaction. Intraspect's 200 customers include the Bank of America, Barclays Global Investors, BearingPoint, Cadence, GE Capital, Hill & Knowlton, J.P. Morgan Chase, LSI Logic, Ogilvy, Sun Microsystems and Reed Elsevier. ... The acquisition of Intraspect takes Vignette a lot closer to the holy grail of content and collaboration vendors: to create a Smart Enterprise Suite containing an integrated set of content management and collaboration functions. Digital Asset Management is probably the last piece of the puzzle that is still missing but Vignette has a lot of cash left...
...The service features the latest news, in-depth feature articles and a fortnightly e-bulletin. It also hosts a press desk and a calendar of forthcoming events. IST Results is geared primarily towards researchers, investors, technology transfer experts and support organisations across Europe.
The Commission's IST programme covers converging information processing, communications and media technologies and their applications in areas such as e-commerce, education, intelligent transport and knowledge management. The underlying goal of the programme is the improvement of citizens' lives, both at home and in the workplace...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: CA Helps Junior Achievement Empower Kids to Succeed
...Junior Achievement, the world's largest organization dedicated to educating young people about economics and business, has focused on consolidating a complex information infrastructure across 149 offices nationwide to improve knowledge management, mine existing data for actionable information, and streamline administrative processes -- such as arranging instructional opportunities for students and tracking fundraising activities. CA's solutions were selected for their ability to put information into action, and because of JA's longstanding relationship with CA...
...The Department of Trade and Industry's principal aim is to work with business, employees and consumers to drive up UK competitiveness and productivity to deliver prosperity for all. One of its central objectives is to make the most of the UK's science, engineering and technology skills and resources. The DTI is also dedicated to maximising the contribution of the science and technology fields to the UK's economic development -- and the quality of our lives. It is responsible both for UK Science Policy (through the Office of Science and Technology), and for promoting the development and use of technology by industry. Through the UK Biotechnology Portal, the DTI, in close conjunction with its partners, will extend this remit by pooling UK public sector knowledge about biotechnology in one easily accessible web
portal...
ebizQ :: Suntail Beams About Signing Of Morgan Crucible Company
...Corporate portal requirements vary from company to company, but consistently the decision to invest financial and human resources is connected to productivity, bottom lines and meeting business objectives.
To this end, Suntail says it has designed the solution using openFabric to meet the following requirements from Morgan:
Knowledge management including sharing, archiving and storage of divisional and enterprise wide documents.
Collaboration in real-time or near real time, with auditing, archiving and versioning.
Information sharing in open interactive forums and in private limited access user areas...
Business Wire :: Legal Research Center Introduces Customized Knowledge Management Advisory Services
..."Legal knowledge is the last buried treasure for law firms and corporate law departments wanting to cut costs and increase productivity," said Jim Seidl, president of Minneapolis-based Legal Research Center (LRC). "Recent studies have revealed that 60 percent of legal professionals spend at least an hour a day duplicating work that someone else in their law firm or departments has already completed. By delivering improved access to previously created workproduct, legal KM is the magic bullet to increased efficiency, reduced redundancy and measurable cost savings."
According to Seidl, LRC set out to create a "best-in-class" team of legal KM advisors who could collectively assess, design and deploy customized enterprise-wide KM programs to improve their clients' bottom lines. LRC's team of legal KM specialists include: Jonathan Bellis, partner in charge of the Law Firm & Law Department Services Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers; Ron Friedmann, president of Prism Legal Consulting; and George Tziahanas, LRC's vice president of KM Services. Tziahanas recently authored a White Paper, "Legal Knowledge Management: A Holistic Model," which can be downloaded for free at Legal Research Center...
Yahoo | PR NewsWire :: Baker & McKenzie purchases global license for Hummingbird DM(TM) 5.1
...TORONTO, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Hummingbird Ltd. (NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM), the world-leading developer of enterprise information management systems (EIMS), today announced that global law firm Baker & McKenzie has purchased 8,500 seats of Hummingbird DM(TM) 5.1, the advanced document and content management technology of Hummingbird Enterprise(TM). A technologically advanced law firm, it is Baker & McKenzie's objective to equip their legal teams with the tools to better communicate and share the collective knowledge and best practices of the firm, improving their ability to deliver efficient, world-class global legal services...
valdis krebs' inflow
mapping knowledge creation
weaving well-formed webs...
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©2003 judith meskill
This morning I received a comment on my Notable Judiths - Judith Donath post of 31 August 2003 from Valdis Krebs [whom I met virtually in Jerry Ash's AOK: Star Series with Patti Anklam.]
I then did a search on my personal "k-loggers" blogroll [which I have built in the last three months since I began my "Knowledge Notes" weblog] utilizing "Blogs I Read" [courtesy of Micah Alpern] and found the following references to Valdis:
individual posts:
Danah Boyd's connected selves: Mapping and honing our interconnections,
Jack Vinson's Blogs and the Tipping Point,
Jim McGee's Social Network Mapping and Blogs,
Joy London's Social Network Analysis,
Lilia Efimova's Blogger social network mapping,
Peter Merholz's Interview with social network researcher Valdis Krebs, and
Richard Gayle's Political Patterns on the WWW,
multiple posts:
James Robertson's Column Two,
Jon Udell's Radio, and
Julian Elve's Synesthesia,
and a preponderance of posts:
Patti Anklam's Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness,
Phil Wolff's a klog apart,
Ross Mayfield's [old Radio] Weblog,
Sebastien Paquet's Open Research, and
Stephen Dulaney's Blogging Alone.
And this is just in my small corner of the blogging universe. When "googled" Valdis Krebs returns 2,350 hits. [See his article for HR.com on What's Your Google Number]. Maybe Valdis Krebs doesn't need a weblog after all? (^:
Cameras Watching Students, Especially in Biloxi
By Sam Dillon
Now here's a scary story. I can sense a reality TV program in the making. When our classrooms become on par with Wal-Mart for security surveillance, what's next?
...BILOXI, Miss. - A digital camera hangs over every classroom here, silently recording students' and teachers' every move. The surveillance system is at the leading edge of a trend to outfit public schools with the same cameras used in Wal-Marts to catch thieves. ...
"Putting cameras on children trains them to believe that being watched every minute of the day is O.K., that Big Brother is O.K.," said Steve Lilienthal, a director at the conservative Free Congress Foundation, based in Washington. "They should be teaching them to behave not because a camera is on them, but because it's the right thing to do."...
Computer Business Review :: Intelligence pool
...The saying 'a problem shared is a problem halved' may be a cliche. But there is now a consensus of opinion in business intelligence (BI) that two heads are better than one. Corporations have recognised that there is significant value to be gained from allowing users to effectively collaborate over analytic data.
Collaborative BI is a team-building exercise that capitalises on the collective insight and experience of all employees. It pools expertise and insights to enable, faster, better and more accountable decisions. BI can be used to reduce business activity cycle times by eliminating the lag between evaluation, decision and action - one of the key aims of knowledge management (KM).
Companies are, however, having to strike a balance between the algorithmic number crunching of BI tools and the 'human touch' inherent in collaborative interactions. "BI places a lot of emphasis on how to drive efficiencies through aggregation and data-mining techniques... but it lacks a human element of understanding," says Don Campbell, Cognos VP of innovation and technology. Collaboration also runs against human nature as people are not naturally 'programmed' to share information...
Business Wire :: Online Learning 2003
...BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2003--Thomas Stewart, editor of Harvard Business Review, will present a keynote speech on how the new economy is transforming corporate learning at the Online Learning 2003 conference today at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Joining him on today's agenda will be Jonathan Levy, eLearning consultant to Harvard Business School Publishing, who will lead a session entitled "Corporate Wisdom: Achieving Strategic Coherence." ... In a keynote entitled "After the Ball," Harvard Business Review editor Thomas Stewart, who has written extensively on the subject of intellectual capital and knowledge management, will speak about the four key developments that are transforming the way people want to learn and how companies can teach them: the clock speed of the economy is faster; e-commerce is transforming how every transaction is performed; customer power has grown; and new, loosely coupled relationships are forming among buyers and sellers...
CRM News: Kana Debuts Next-Gen Customer Service Knowledge App
By Joe Outlaw
...Kana touts IQ 8 as a next-generation customer-service knowledge product because of its significantly improved integration, its knowledge authoring and workflow, and its support for industry-specific knowledge. Kana expects these improvements to address the two most fundamental issues that concern its customers: lowering their own customer service-related costs and improving their customers' satisfaction levels...
Business Wire :: Open Text Launches Livelink Review Manager for Adobe Acrobat
..."Global organizations today are producing and managing millions of pages of documents needed for regulatory compliance," said Anik Ganguly, Executive Vice President of Products at Open Text. "People collaborating on these documents need secure processes for managing and integrating changes to reduce the risk of errors. Livelink Review Manager offers a strong combination of advanced review and comment features for Adobe Acrobat with Livelink's workflows, collaboration and knowledge management capabilities. The solution can also be deployed quickly across the enterprise, providing an immediate ROI and giving customers the benefit of an efficient, uniform process for document collaboration that is critical for paper-intensive regulatory submissions."...
Business Wire :: SER Partners with Ringtail Solutions
...DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2003--SER Solutions, Inc, a leading provider of search and categorization technology, today announced the signing of an agreement with Ringtail Solutions to offer SERglobalBrain(TM) as an integrated concept search tool within the Ringtail(TM) suite of legal applications.
The SER technology will be used to search all work product and information uploaded to Ringtail databases, including electronic discovery, OCR, and other litigation-related documents. Ringtail's implementation of SERglobalBrain will allow attorneys to begin significantly enhanced analysis of discovery information, depositions, transcripts, and case law as soon as they become available...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: Reuters and IBM to Test Secure Instant Messaging Connectivity
...NEW YORK, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY; London: RTR), the global information company, and IBM, the world's largest information technology company, today announced an agreement that allows the companies to test secure access between Reuters Messaging and IBM Lotus Instant Messaging (Sametime). This initiative further complements the connectivity work Reuters has already undertaken with America Online's AIM and ICQ services and may in the future provide Lotus Instant Messaging customers with the opportunity to securely connect to the Reuters Messaging community without deploying additional software...
Business Wire :: Endeca's Leadership in e-Commerce Search
...Endeca, the only provider of Endeca Search(TM) and Guided Navigation(SM) solutions, today announced at the 2003 Shop.org Annual Summit in New York City, the addition of 14 new Endeca InFront(R) customers to its installed base of clients, confirming the market leadership predicted by the top industry analysts for Endeca in the e-commerce and online catalog search market. Leading e-commerce companies in both the B2C and B2B segments have chosen Endeca InFront with Guided Navigation to provide unparalleled improvement in the online search experience they offer their online consumers.
Newly signed Endeca InFront customers include Abebooks, the largest online marketplace for used, rare and out-of-print books; collectiblestoday.com, the web marketing arm of the leading International provider of limited-edition collectibles; Diamond.com, the leading online retailer for the highest quality GIA graded diamonds and fine jewelry; and Orvis, the premiere outfitter of the distinctive country lifestyle and sporting traditions since 1856; as well as, Ashford.com, Batteries.com, Book Depot, Drs. Foster & Smith, Finish Line, Infinity Resources, Inc., Interstate Batteries, Sierra Trading Post, Inc., Walter Drake, and World of Watches.com. All of these new customers recognize that improving metrics like conversion rate, basket size, and average sale are dependent on users who can find what they're looking for and discover new products and impulse buys along the way...
Taking XML's measure |CNET.com
By David Becker, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
...Tim Bray and his colleagues in the World Wide Web Consortium had a very specific mission when they set out to define a new standard seven years ago. They needed a new format for Internet-connected systems to exchange data, a task being handled with increasing awkwardness by HyperText Markup Language...
Q: There's a lot of business interest in search now. Do you think companies would be better off focusing on user interface issues than algorithms?
A: Absolutely. There's no reason to expect that search is going to get that much better. I think where standards processes don't do well is in dealing with new technologies. The basic algorithms by which search is done have not improved much since about 1975. The only way to improve the situation is by enhancing search engines with more deterministic metadata, essentially adding knowledge management techniques that give you more information from which to draw connections. If you look at the victory of Google in the search engine business, it wasn't because they had better search techniques. It's because they deployed one key metadata value--how many pages are linked to this one--to enhance the relevancy of their results. The same concepts need to be applied to the enterprise...
BBC NEWS | Technology | MSN shuts down its chatrooms
Don't miss the Have Your Say section of this article...
...MSN is closing all its chatrooms in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and most of Asia from 14 October, and changing the way others are operated globally. ... Chatrooms on MSN's other global sites will either be supervised - or moderated - by an adult 24 hours a day, or will be on a credit card subscription-basis only. ... It means no free, unmoderated chatrooms will exist anymore on any of MSN's global network of sites...
Papersinvited, via Liz Lawley's mamamusings: amazingly useful site for academics, lists the following Knowledge Management conferences and tracks with abstracts due in October 2003:
1. 2004 IRMA International Conference
New Orleans, USA
Abstract Date: October 3, 2003; Event Dates: May 23, 2004 - May 26, 2004
2. SCIP 2004 International Conference & Exhibition
Boston, USA
Abstract Date: October 15, 2003; Event Dates: March 22, 2004 - March 25, 2004
3. The Fifth European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities
Innsbruck, Austria
Abstract Date: October 15, 2003; Event Dates: April 2, 2004 - April 3, 2004
4. ARATA 2004 National Conference
Melbourne, Australia
Abstract Date: October 17, 2003; Event Dates: June 1, 2004 - June 4, 2004
5. 17th Annual International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium
Miami Beach, USA
Abstract Date: October 24, 2003; Event Dates: May 17, 2004 - May 19, 2004
6. International Symposium on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Communities in Networked Information Society
Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract Date: October 31, 2003; Event Dates: March 2, 2004 - March 5, 2004
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EContentMag.com :: Bringing People Together - It Takes More Than an Intranet
By Martin White
...There is a considerable amount of interest of late in "collaborative working" and "communities of practice." I have a sense that, in many organizations, these terms are the acceptable face of Knowledge Management! KM does seem to have fallen from grace and I have to admit that I have a problem with Knowledge Management as a discipline, and am much happier talking about knowledge exchange. The scale of adoption of communities of practice in many organizations is quite breathtaking...
InformationWeek :: Company Profile: A Future Constructed Around Technology
By Larry Greenemeier
...As foreign competition grows, Gilbane uses IT to drive customer value...At a time when tech spending in the construction and engineering industries is flat, Gilbane Inc. is investing in technology to help it hammer out what its customers need. The company has over the past year also taken on business-technology projects to drive cost savings.
One of the most significant changes in the past year at Gilbane, which recorded $2.4 billion in sales last year, has been the IT department's construction of a system of customized portals for clients and employees. Customers can access estimating, knowledge-management, construction-management, and strategic-planning software from their portals. Gilbane also developed an application that surveys customers about the quality of the company's services, gathers this feedback into a Microsoft SQL database, and reports this information to management...
DM Review :: Knowledge: The Essence of Meta Data: Metatag - The Newest Member of the Meta Data Family
By R. Todd Stephens
...Metatags play a critical role in the development of web sites. Metatags can assist in the process of knowledge management by cataloging information and organizing content. This information can document the relevance of the document without actually reading the content and attempting to interpret the meaning. This, in turn, allows for greater management of the web site (Watchfire 2000). Over the past 20 years, software has grown extremely complex and difficult to maintain. HTML is now approaching the same complexity and growth. Even today, Web sites are becoming a burden to maintain. Some of these problems are physical in nature while others are not...
Zawya.com :: Dow jones names Philips market leader in sustainability
..."Companies that pursue sustainable development have, on average, provided a higher return to shareholders than other companies. By measuring a company's economic, environmental and social dimensions we can provide a more complete basis for evaluating shareholder value," said John Prestbo, editor of Dow Jones Indexes. "To be identified as the leader in its sector, Philips had to demonstrate high-caliber governance, knowledge management, environmental performance, human rights policies and other factors. All of these criteria are carefully assessed in selecting companies for the index, and in our view all contribute to the long-term success of a company," he continued...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: Accelrys Announces Strategic Distribution Agreement
...Accelrys, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pharmacopeia, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCOP) and active member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, today announced a strategic agreement in which Accelrys will embed Oracle(R) technology into Accelrys' Discovery Studio(R) family of products. Under the terms of the agreement, Accelrys will embed Oracle(R) Database and associated software in Discovery Studio Project Knowledge Manager Plus (DS ProjectKM Plus), the core component of Accelrys' Discovery Studio's knowledge-centric system...
ebizQ :: Giant Eagle Chooses Open Text
...Open Text Corporation, maker of Livelink collaboration and content mangement software for the enterprise, says Giant Eagle, Inc., Pittsburgh-based supermarket retailer, has selected Livelink and Livelink MeetingZone. Utilizing Livelink as the foundation for its knowledge management strategy, Giant Eagle is uniting content management and collaboration to drive return on investment, communities of practice and compliance with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines, Open Text says...
Business Wire :: UniPress Software, Inc. Announces its FootPrints(R) Hosting Service
...FootPrints Hosting Service's comprehensive features include centralized customer issue tracking, self-service online, two-way e-mail management, knowledge management and powerful reporting. Customers, customer service representatives and administrators can easily and conveniently access the hosted FootPrints system through standard Web browsers. Using the self-service online capabilities, customers can submit tickets, check resolution status and search the knowledge base for self-help. Additionally, customer support departments can quickly launch a secure, hosted system without the burden and cost of purchasing and managing IT infrastructure, such as Web servers, software and databases...
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Regarding Wired News: Bidding Your Job Bon Voyage, a response from Michael Palacios of the Philippines:
...It's almost pathetic the way some Americans whine about their lack of global competitiveness ("Bidding Your Job Bon Voyage," Sept. 19, 2003)...The reality is that not everyone needs to realize the decadent American lifestyle to be able to practice its trade -- whether it's customer support, graphic design or anything else that can be outsourced. Knowledge workers in the Third World can be happy with much less than that...Years ago, America told the Third World to get competitive, and so we learned and became competitive. Now that the enlightened masses are starting to awaken, you cry foul? It's colonial America rearing its ugly head!...
Kauai Garden Island News :: Baptiste honors graduates of Academy
..."The collective talent of our people will be the primary factor in our County's economic vitality. This initiative provides workforce skills for the new, knowledge-based economy."...
Asia Times :: Thailand's novel education policy
By James Borton
...In the context of an increasingly interconnected world, the importance of a knowledge-based economy challenges developing countries to adapt or simply be excluded from the global community. With this advent of a new world order, Thailand's education minister acknowledges that widespread access to telecommunications networks, the development of an educated labor force and consumers and institutional capacity must be in place to become a part of the new economy...
...'In a drive to make Dubai a Knowledge-based economy and the region's digital hub, Dubai Government is sparing no effort to ensure that government and citizens are conversant with deploying eServices in all spheres of life.' said Khalifa. 'The programs are expected to boost government employees' productivity and enhance their ability to deliver eServices. The programs will enable citizens to maximize the benefits offered by the Knowledge based society.'...
Canada NewsWire :: 'Behind' the Scenes of Canadian Innovation: 'One-Size Fits All' Just Won't Do
..."MMO is pleased to have played a part in advancing the delivery of new products to the automotive industry," says Geoff Clarke, president and CEO, Materials and Manufacturing Ontario. "Partnerships between industry and universities are essential in a competitive and a rapidly changing economic environment. Supporting the transfer of knowledge and commercialization of new technologies is the driving force behind all that we do."
MMO is one of four Ontario Centres of Excellence established by the provincial government promoting commercial research partnerships between post-secondary research institutions and industry. The Ontario Centres of Excellence, funded by the Ministry of Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation, are part of the provincial government's $2 billion investment in Ontario's knowledge economy making Ontario more competitive through innovation in science and technology...
Sunnetwork Online News :: Indo-US relations have undergone "major transformation": PM
...Elaborating on Indo-US ties, the Prime Minister said the two countries were jointly exploring frontier areas of science and technology, including medicine, environment- friendly energy and advanced materials. "We are working to re-establish ties in civilian space applications and in civilian nuclear safety. Information technology and the new knowledge economy are increasingly defining the story of our bilateral relationship. Our growing partnership in developing technologies of the future should take our bilateral relations to a qualitatively new level," Vajpayee said...
"The Structure of Pattern Languages", by Nikos A. Salingaros
...Pattern languages encapsulate human experience, and help us cope with complexity in our environment. They apply to everything from computer programs, to buildings, to organizations, to cities. A civilization's pattern languages are often synonymous with its technical and cultural heritage. New spheres of human endeavor develop their own pattern language, which must link to existing pattern languages in related fields...
This paper argued that patterns provide a necessary foundation for any design solution to connect with human beings. Contradicting them disconnects the built form from people... Pattern languages were revealed as the "taproot" of all architecture, from which design draws its life by virtue of satisfying human needs. This is true even if one disagrees with one or more of Alexander's patterns. Our results imply that design styles which cut themselves off from this source of life are condemned to remain forever sterile. Those that intentionally do so have to admit from now on that this is indeed their aim...
The following excerpt is the freely available Opening Statement of the September 2003 edition of the fee-based subscription Cutter IT Journal. This issue has a focus on Pattern Languages and contains articles by: Jim Coplien, Alan Shalloway, Steve Berczuk, Dirk Riehle, and Linda Rising and Esther Derby.
...In Benjamin Franklin's time, lightning would often strike buildings, fires would ignite, and people would die. In his recent biography of Franklin, Walter Isaacson explains how the lightning rod, Franklin's invention for protecting buildings from the devastation caused by lightning, resulted from Franklin's single-minded devotion to applying all of his scientific learnings to the improvement of human existence.
Christopher Alexander has a similar devotion. His invention for improving human existence is called a pattern language. Alexander's pattern languages delineate what increases and decreases the quality of life in the physical design of such things as countries and cities, townships and neighborhoods, streets and buildings, houses and gardens, sitting areas and lighting. His pattern languages are designed to be generative, which means that the people who use them can generate their own physical designs to improve life for themselves and others...
...From October 1st, Oxford Analytica will make its daily analysis of global political and economic developments available through Alacra, a leading aggregator of business intelligence...
STUFF:New Zealand :: Unbundling boosts broadband - watchdog
By Marta Steeman
...The Australian competition watchdog says "unbundling" of the local copper network has boosted the uptake of high-speed services in Australia, though few lines have been rented by Telstra's competitors. ... "If the Government is serious about the whole knowledge economy thing then unbundling and wholesaling, the intervention of the commissioner, is the only thing to kick the deployment of broadband throughout New Zealand."...
The Scotsman :: Hi-Wide set to deliver broadband to isolated communities
by John Ross
...Calum Davidson, the head of HIE's (Highlands and Islands Enterprise) knowledge economy team, said: "In the current market, we can't see that commercial broadband solutions will become available to much more than half the people in our area. But we are convinced that broadband will be the major driving force for economic and social development this decade and we can't afford for any parts of the Highlands and Islands to be left behind."...
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Scotland on Sunday - Business - Ignite the new enlightenment
by Jim McMahon
A GROWING body of academic opinion in America believes that it was 18th and 19th century Scots - not the Italians of the Renaissance period - who invented the modern world. From John Knox to Lord Kames, David Hume to Adam Smith, the Scots had few equals in developing and evolving ideas in economics and business philosophy.
Yet somehow we have lost our way, and in particular we have lost the confidence to grow our economy and our people today. We need consensus, collaboration and a focus on three core areas - education, enterprise and a new era of enlightenment - if we are to build a confident, self-sustaining economy.
At long last an enterprise culture is beginning to develop here, but the challenge is to continue that momentum so the entrepreneurial bandwagon becomes unstoppable. ...the Entrepreneurial Exchange model, in which entrepreneur aids fellow entrepreneur through mentoring and knowledge-sharing, could be adopted by other organisations - the Chambers of Commerce, for instance. The EE's 400 members show clear benefits of 'knowing fellow entrepreneurs and learning from them'. Indeed, research from the Hunter Centre indicates the single largest hurdle to new business creation is the lack of knowledge of a fellow entrepreneur...
The Capital Times :: Summit to tout arts, economy link
...author Richard Florida argued in his 2002 book "The Rise of the Creative Class" that communities with a vibrant arts scene will attract the kind of talents that will thrive in the new "knowledge-based economy" of the 21st century. ..
eTaiwanNews.com :: Chen addresses links issue at ECCT gala dinner
...Taiwan still needs to strengthen IPR protection, offer greater market access in public procurement, and provide a better regulatory environment in the service industry, he said.
"(These) are key steps that would make Taiwan more attractive to European investors and lead to the development of a 'knowledge-based economy' in Taiwan. It would also help in fulfilling Taiwan's plans to establish free ports and to become a global logistics center," said the ECCT chief...
Brudirect.com :: Japanese Envoy Lauds Brunei For Paving Knowledge-Based Economy
...Bandar Seri Begawan - The commitment of His Majesty's government in providing opportunities for the acquisition of several languages, other skills and knowledge could pave the way for the promotion and enhancement of a knowledge-based economy...
...Since 1996, the Government of Canada's Office of Learning Technologies has worked in partnership with other governments, businesses, associations, labour and learning institutions to raise awareness and expand the use of innovative technologies for adult learning. Projects are designed to increase understanding of how adults learn and how technologies can best support their learning needs. Research has shown that people who are familiar with technology and are willing to pursue lifelong learning will have the greatest opportunities in our emerging knowledge-based economy and society...
Turks.US :: India-Turkey relations in the 21st century
As post-Cold War India and Turkey look at each other across a vast Asian landmass, they see that the cultural affinities of the past have been reinforced by new political convergences and economic complementarities. ... We have some obvious shared strengths and commonalities ... These commonalities lead to many obvious convergences of interests and objectives. ... both our countries have attached great importance to science & technology as important catalysts of their development process. Technology drives the knowledge economy, which is at the heart of the globalisation process. It also accelerates the transition from one stage of development to the next. India and turkey have global scientific traditions. It is natural that we should enhance our linkages in this area. India's growing strengths in agriculture, Information technology, biotechnology, space sciences and civilian nuclear power are well recognized. Companies around the world are outsourcing their research to Indian laboratories and institutions. India is also emerging as a world-class centre for healthcare. Collaboration in these areas can be a significant force multiplier for our economic cooperation. We have to pursue it with a sense of purpose...
Cleveland.com :: Web page comments have students in jam
by Jennifer Gonzalez and Scott Stephens
Plain Dealer Reporters
...What teenagers write in online diaries can come back to haunt them, as a half-dozen University School students found out this week. The students came under fire after administrators at the exclusive Hunting Valley preparatory school found they had made nasty comments about a fellow student on a "blog" - a Web page that functions as a publicly accessible journal. The episode is the latest of a growing number of incidents in which student musings have turned blogs and chat rooms into the high-tech equivalent of a lavatory wall...
Montgomery Advertiser : : Edgewood alum blog guru in NYC
By Teri Greene
...Blogging's recent rise in awareness and popularity has resulted in a strange phenomenon: media celebrities who have emerged from the niche world of the blog. Among the most successful of these is a hometown girl, 26-year-old Elizabeth Spiers, who hails from Wetumpka. Now living in Manhattan, this Duke University grad and Wall Streeter-turned-writer has penned the highly praised New York-based "Gawker" blog -- one of a growing number of blogs that actually bring in revenue. It launched last December. As editor, she's updated the site an average of 12 times a day, every day. And now she's hit the big time. Spiers announced Wednesday on her personal blog, www.elizabethspiers.com, that she's leaving Gawker for a permanent writing position at New York magazine. Editors there came to know her through Gawker and wanted her for their own. She'll hand her Gawker duties over to fellow blogger Choire Sicha. "And here's the real kicker," Spiers wrote, "New York magazine wants to start a blog."...
Montgomery Advertiser : : Blogs give writers a voice
By Teri Greene
...The addiction is spreading, all the way into Alabama; an informal Web search for Alabama bloggers yielded more than 50 of them, and there are likely many more. But blogging, at least in this part of the country, seems to be at a strange crossroads. While it's a craze for a relative few, blogs remain obscure to many. For every enthusiast, there are probably thousands more who have never even heard the word. ...Which elevates Alabama bloggers, at least as they see it, to a whole new level of cool...
KnoxNews: Bloggers flood net reporting on Isabel
By MICHAEL SILENCE, silence@knews.com
...While Hurricane Isabel moved up the eastern seaboard, the keyboards kept clicking to provide an electronic eye on the storm's movement and damage. With candlelight and backup battery power, bloggers, as they are known, provided first-hand accounts, at times taking breaks to deal with the storm's aftermath...
TechTV | Top Five Tips for Webloggers
By Brent Todd, The Weblog Review
...Anyone can create a weblog, but that doesn't necessarily make it good. Today on "Call for Help" a veteran blog critic tells us what makes a weblog worth reading.
1. Have good content. Compelling content is what gives people a reason to come back to your site. Don't write in shorthand, valley girl, or h@k0rz.
2. Update frequently. Regular new content is what distinguishes weblogs from static websites.
3. Stay focused on your content. Switching topics randomly can induce some readers to move on to another blog.
4. Create an About page. Give people an idea of who you are, but don't post personal stuff such as your name, address, or work place.
5. Have an original design. Make sure your site is easy to navigate. If you use a template, modify it. Of course, a pretty design doesn't mean the weblog is good. Make sure the design doesn't interfere with the content...
PRESS RELEASE ( PR Web) Social Networking Site Ringo.com Comes Out Of Beta With 200,000 Members
...Social networking site Ringo.com completed a 90 day Beta testing stage this week. Quietly launched in June 2003, Ringo already has 200,000 members, with a growth rate of 10% per week...
Defining Knowledge Work: A Cross Cultural Study
by Jennifer Waiming Yau, Mar 2003
University of York ITBML Project
A copy of this 91 page thesis, in pdf format, can be found at the above link.
...Knowledge has become a marketable commodity in the business world. The post-industrial era has arrived, which many have termed the 'Knowledge Age'. A new form of work has been recognised, knowledge work, causing a flurry of interest into its meaning, importance and implications. Knowledge work is seen as imperative to business success and survival, yet given its immense importance it is little understood and poorly defined. This report investigates the key characteristics of knowledge work that ought to be included in any definition of the term...
This morning, while performing my daily review of knowledge news items, I found this reference to ProQuest's for pay access to dissertations:
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: Dissertation Best-Sellers?
This press release lists the top 10 best selling dissertations on ProQuest's service for 2002. There is a most impressive showing of three Knowledg Management Dissertations in this group of top ten. Weighing in at number four is:
Assessing knowledge management initiative successes as a function of organizational culture. by Ribiere, Vincent Michel;, DSc, THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 2001, 158 pages
I also found Vincent Ribiere's dissertation available for download with free membership in the KM Documents - Knowledge Management forum at The George Washington University. (There are a number of additional KM dissertations and documents also available at this site.)
Listed as tied for the eighth position are:
Sharing knowledge through a knowledge management system: The relative effectiveness of formal control and organizational support, by Marks, Peter Vincent, Jr.;, PhD, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 2001, 146 pages
An empirical study of factors affecting successful implementation of knowledge management, by Choi, Yong Suk;, PhD, THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN, 2000, 140 pages
You will find a comprehensive List of Ph.D. Dissertations in Knowledge Management during 1991-2002 available as a PDF download on ICASIT's KMCentral's KM Index page.
Pursuing the 17th-Century Origins of the Hacker's Grail
Neal Stephenson's (of Snow Crash fame) gargantuan 927-page historical novel, Quicksilver, is to be published next week.
...The cards are stacked precariously in a cabin in Newtowne, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1713 where a philosopher, Daniel Waterhouse, is trying to organize all of human knowledge. Each card is also inscribed with a number. And just as each number is a unique product of prime numbers, so, in this system, is each concept a unique product of elemental concepts. For every number there's a concept, for every concept a number. ... For if all the world's knowledge could be encoded in number, then the acts of creation and invention would just be forms of calculation. And the world would reveal itself as a calculating machine, an information processor. ... England's Royal Society often sought knowledge using the tools of alchemy, seeking to refine, as one of Mr. Stephenson's characters puts it, the "base, dark, cold, essentially fecal matter of which the world was made" to produce quicksilver - mercury - "the pure living essence of God's power and presence in the world."...
Knowledge of Reality Magazine :: Contemplating the Cosmos
by Albert Einstein
This is an excerpt from an article by Albert Einstein that appeared in the New York Times Magazine on November 9, 1930 pp 1 - 4. It has been reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, Crown Publishers, Inc. 1954, pp 36 - 40. It also appears in Einstein's book The World as I See It, Philosophical Library, New York, 1949, pp. 24 - 28. And this citation is taken from the Knowledge of Reality Magazine.
...During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
One will probably find but rarely, if at all, the rationalistic standpoint expressed in such crass form; for any sensible man would see at once how one-sided is such a statement of the position. But it is just as well to state a thesis starkly and nakedly, if one wants to clear up one's mind as to its nature.
It is true that convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking. On this point one must agree unreservedly with the extreme rationalist. The weak point of his conception is, however, this, that those convictions which are necessary and determinant for our conduct and judgments cannot be found solely along this solid scientific way.
For the scientific method can teach us nothing else beyond how facts are related to, and conditioned by, each other. The aspiration toward such objective knowledge belongs to the highest of which man is capabIe, and you will certainly not suspect me of wishing to belittle the achievements and the heroic efforts of man in this sphere. Yet it is equally clear that knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. One can have the clearest and most complete knowledge of what is, and yet not be able to deduct from that what should be the goal of our human aspirations. Objective knowledge provides us with powerful instruments for the achievements of certain ends, but the ultimate goal itself and the longing to reach it must come from another source. And it is hardly necessary to argue for the view that our existence and our activity acquire meaning only by the setting up of such a goal and of corresponding values. The knowledge of truth as such is wonderful, but it is so little capable of acting as a guide that it cannot prove even the justification and the value of the aspiration toward that very knowledge of truth. Here we face, therefore, the limits of the purely rational conception of our existence...
Judith L. Klavans is Director of the Center for Research on Information Access, Columbia University, which is responsible for linking theoretical computer science research with operational applications such as digital libraries and digital government. She is a principal investigator in several large projects, including the NSF-funded PERSIVAL medical digital library, the NSF and BLS supported Digital Government Research Center joint with University of Southern California-ISI, the DARPA-funded TIDES multilingual summarization project, and, most recently, the Mellon-supported CLiMB (Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building) project which links text and image collections.
Klavans focuses her research on computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). She is currently working on ways to analyze both monolingual and multilingual texts and to link meaningful segments via semantic nets and syntactic structure. She has worked on linguistic and statistical methods for extracting and linking information from large online texts. Klavans has developed a novel method of text mining to use automatic methods for the extraction of glossaries from text. She has also developed a web-crawler for the identification of glossaries from large government websites.
Channel3000.com :: Madison Magazine Honors WARF
...The book "Innovation U: New University Roles in the Knowledge Economy" names UW-Madison among the top 12 research institutions in the US promoting technology transfer off campus...
HindustanTimes :: India seen as third largest IT, BPO industry
by Arvind Padmanabhan
...Mahadeva said the main reason for the backlash against BPO was that economic recovery in the US had not translated into more jobs. "It is also the 'silly season' right now in Washington, DC, with the Presidential election, then Senate, the House, and many of the governors and state houses. Jobs, therefore, are certainly a major issue," he said. Yet, one cannot shy away from the fact that the baby boomer generation in the US is retiring and that the next wave of knowledge workers will be much smaller, he said...
TechRepublic :: Outsourcing backlash: Globalization in the knowledge economy
By Dion Wiggins and Diane Morello
...Globalization of the knowledge economy has surprised many enterprises. The speed and impact of offshore outsourcing, and the poor global economy, are driving change in the workforce...
Shout99 :: Submit your views on outsourcing to Commons Committee
by Susie Hughes
...Freelancers in the Shout99 network are invited to put forward their views on the impact of outsourcing on the UK's knowledge-based economy as part of an inquiry by the influential Trade and Industry Select Committee. The Committee intends to review progress since the publication of the Government's White Paper 'Our Competitive future: Building the Knowledge Driven Economy' in 1998...
canada.com :: Business people applaud Paul Martin economic vision; but short on solutions
by Allan Swift
...Paul-Arthur Huot, Quebec president of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, welcomed Martin's insistence on help for research and development..."Innovation is a key driver of long-term economic growth," said Huot. "We commend Mr. Martin's focus on commercialization of our world-leading research and knowledge-generating capacity to generate returns, jobs and economic prosperity."...
Xinhuanet :: IT industry in spotlight in Guizhou
...Guizhou Province in Southwest China will be developed into one of the most important research and production bases for China's IT industry, senior provincial officials said yesterday. "We have adopted a new economic development policy - technology innovation coming first and industrial processing second," said Chen Dawei, vice-governor of the province, at the opening ceremony of the two-day International Conference on the Guizhou Development Plan for Innovative Knowledge-based Economy...
TheStar :: Singapore PM suggests Asean-wide firewall
...Asean countries must also give priority to Internet literacy, he said, warning that "if the people are not ICT-savvy, they risk being left out in the knowledge economy."...
New Zealand's National Business Review :: Democracy: The tyranny of the PC minority
Comment from James Allan
...having a prime minister who can say to Linda Clark on National Radio that "I never had the slightest interest in science" is embarrassing and hypocritical when combined with her professed desire to build a knowledge economy...
Malaysia kini :: Mahathir deserves a grand farewell
...Incentives given to tertiary education and the development of professional skills, not only as a growing industry but also as a means of developing skill knowledge worker for Malaysia's own requirements, is certainly something to be lauded...
Yesterday my Movable Type installation stopped working - all of my cgi scripts were failing - but in the end I hardly missed a beat in my weblog (meanwhile, my heart was doing flip flops as the situation seemed to become less fixable by the hour!)
I recently upgraded to Apple's Mac OS X (10.2.6) and I have been in the process of upgrading all of my old stalwart software solutions. To make a long story short, my FTP client turned all of my ASCII mode files into binary mode files and Movable Type (MT) did not like that one bit. I attempted to restore my weblog service files for hours, following the MT troubleshooting recommendations, to no avail.
I finally gave up trying to fix it myself and sent an email to my web hosting service, Tiger Technologies. They responded within the hour! They told me that they had a tape backup that they had run just hours before my system took a turn for the worst.
Tiger Technologies has the most excellent level of technical support via email that I have encountered in a web hosting service, or, for that matter, any technical service. Within hours of my initial plea they had, with surgical precision, completely restored my files to a fully operational state and they had also managed to tweeze out posts that I had assumed would be lost in the transition.
In this age of dwindling technical support Tiger Technologies stands out as a shining beacon of service. This is the only service provider relationship in which I have been able to successfully rely solely on email support. Tiger Tech Rocks!
For those of you who access my weblog through RSS, I make extensive use of Movable Type's extended entry feature when trawling for knowledge sharing, social software, and social networking news. And so you only ever see the first of anywhere from an average of 3 to 12 stories that I include in each post.
I have created a Full Text version [in response to Lilia Efimova's request for the same] that you can sample here (utilizing soapclient.com's online newsreader.)
I also have a link to my index.xml rss feed at the bottom of the right-hand column of this weblog. Thanks for reading!
Yahoo | PR Newswire :: MetaFarms Launches DairyDaily.com(TM)
Dairy Business Daily is ok but now my vegetarian self doth shudder as, in the name of news, I also present Pork and Beef knowledge management solutions by MetaFarms.
Yahoo | PR Newswire :: Havas: Strategic Reorganization 2003 First Half Results
...Havas management will be refocused on 9 specific responsibilities: Finance; Talent Management; Client Development; Knowledge Management; Innovation; Communication and Reputation; Creativity; Management of the Disposal Program; Efficiency and Productivity...
...The partnership will combine ClearForest's leading content extraction and analysis software with Ness' 17 years of expertise delivering IT solutions to Life Science companies. The partnership is focused on applying text mining and other advanced knowledge management capabilities to clients' strategic initiatives in drug discovery, clinical development optimization, competitive and business intelligence...
MarketWire :: Cleary Gottlieb Selects Recommind for Firm-Wide Universal Search
...MindServer products will become part of Cleary Gottlieb's knowledge management infrastructure, and will be integrated with document management, collaboration, and portal tools to provide a single, central access point to the firm's critical knowledge...
...Vignette V7 Wins Readers' Choice Award From Leading Content Management Trade Publication; Readers of Transform Magazine Recognize Vignette as Leading Web Content Management Solution ... Vignette has been recognized by a wide variety of leading publications and organizations for its industry leadership, innovative product offerings and commitment to its customers. Recent accolades include Trend-Setting Product of 2003 by KMWorld, 2003 American Business Awards, 2003 Frost & Sullivan Market Engineering Award for Product Innovation, eContent Magazine's eContent 100, KMWorld's 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management and the ITSMA Services Marketing Excellence Award for Customer Loyalty & Retention...
Business Wire :: GTSI Wins Prestigious Army ITES Contract
..."This is a great achievement for GTSI," said Terri Allen, Senior Vice President of Sales at GTSI. "We are charged with providing the technology necessary to support the Army's goal of an enterprise-wide architecture. It is a great responsibility and one which we are enthusiastic about fulfilling." The contract is a key part of the high-profile Army Knowledge Management transformation plan aimed at moving the Army to a net-centric knowledge-based force...
...PSIMedica, a business unit of the Company, is a clinical knowledge management (CKM) organization offering an array of information solutions for reducing healthcare costs and improving quality performance that are based on a flexible, scalable software analytical engine that utilizes all available source information, including claims data, enrollment data, prescription data and laboratory data...
Business Wire :: IBM and Factiva Join Forces to Transform Global Content Business
...Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, provides world-class global content, including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and The Wall Street Journal, offering the only single content solution with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 8,000 sources. Factiva's products and services help companies integrate news and business information into their daily workflow to increase organizational intelligence and leverage external and internal content within the knowledge management function...
Business Wire :: RealObjects Announces SCT Corporation as OEM Customer
...Today RealObjects, international market leader in cross-platform web content authoring solutions, announced SCT Corporation (NASDAQ:SCTC), the leading provider of e-education technology solutions, as a new OEM customer. Using RealObjects' proven edit-on-Pro technology, SCT will now deliver advanced in-browser word processing capabilities as a key new component of their next major product release of the SCT Luminis(TM) Content Management Suite...
ZDNet UK : News :: Search tool scans blogs for business
...Moreover said that blogs can represent a valuable source of business information that springs directly from consumers, rather than traditional media sources. "Weblogs highlight the news that matters as well as providing instantaneous commentary and opinions on a wide variety of topics and events," said Moreover chief executive Jim Pitkow, in a statement...
seattlepi.com Microsoft Blog :: More on Sun Java System
Weighing in on Sun's announcement of a Linux-based alternative to Microsoft's Windows operating system for desktop computers:
...various technology-related weblogs are offering commentary on the announcement. See, for example, the personal weblog of Microsoft employee Robert Scoble, a technical evangelist for the next version of Windows who was featured in our earlier story on Microsoft employee blogs. He, in turn, points to others outside Microsoft with views on the subject, including technical consultant and programmer Russell Beattie...
reviewjournal.com -- Opinion: EDITORIAL: FCC rules
...Far from stifling any "diversity of views" in broadcasting, the ownership rules proposed by the FCC would allow new technologies to let a multiplicity of voices flourish. They offer a formal acknowledgement that individuals now receive their information from a multitude of sources; newspapers and network affiliates compete with alternative weeklies, talk radio, 24-hour news channels and Internet Weblogs to inform and entertain...
InfoWorld TechWatch :: John Cleese's day in the Sun
by Mark Jones
...blogging live from John Cleese's keynote at SunNetworks ... here's a good slight at Scott McNealy: "And what about Scott's hair cut, you think he could afford a better hair cut than SuperCuts."...
Guardian Unlimited | Economic dispatch | Blogging on
...Victor Keegan reports on the Guardian's experimental linking of editorial comment and the world of the blog during this month's WTO summit...
Editor & Publisher :: Newspapers Try 'Really Simple Syndication'
...One of the newest RSS offerings is from The Telegraph in Nashua, N.H., where nh.com Editor Ernesto Burden's team built a feed for the latest presidential primary news. The Christian Science Monitor offers the entire paper in this format and also lets users subscribe to specific sections such as world coverage or arts, says Joel Abrams, partnership development specialist for csmonitor.com. While the site has no way of tracking individual RSS users, it serves over a million RSS files per month...
..."Real-time collaboration technologies like web conferencing have experienced impressive growth in the past three years, fueled mainly by applications like web seminars and web training," said David Coleman, Managing Partner at Collaborative Strategies, a collaborative technologies and knowledge management consultancy. "We see future growth coming from smaller structured meetings involving 5 to 20 individuals. This survey will help us understand what the future meeting is going to look like."...
vnunet.com :: Livelink shares out the Jewson knowledge
...UK timber and building materials supplier Jewson has deployed Livelink, Open Text's collaboration and knowledge management software, throughout its 450 UK branches...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: KMWorld Honors Autonomy for Trend-Setting Product of 2003
...Aungate, a division of Autonomy focused on electronic communications management for regulatory compliance in the enterprise, has been selected as one of KMWorld Magazine's Trend-Setting Products of 2003...
The New York Times :: SBC Won't Name Names in File-Sharing Cases
By Seth Schiesel
...As the recording industry pursues its lawsuits against those it says are digital music pirates, SBC Communications has emerged as the only major Internet service provider that has so far refused to identify computer users whom the industry suspects of copyright infringement...
BW Online | September 15, 2003 | The Underground Internet
...darknets -- gated communities that run on the Internet but are open only to those who belong to the private network. These mini-networks are gaining appeal among more than just teenagers looking for a free copy of rapper 50 Cent's 21 Questions. Political dissidents from China to Iran, as well as civil liberterians in the U.S., are interested in avoiding the prying eyes of government authorities and reestablishing some privacy on the transparent Internet. Even well-respected corporations, including Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ ) and Siemens, are turning to darknets to allow them to share sensitive data with outside partners while protecting the data from rivals and restricting the partners from burrowing into the corporation's own intranet...
Rocky Mountain News :: Blogging on
By Mark Wolf, Rocky Mountain News
Web loggers provide color commentary on just about everything...Pick a topic and bloggers - the journal-keepers - have it covered: politics, current affairs, culture, lifestyles, technology sports, the minutiae of everyday life...
Business Wire :: iMakeNews and ChannelWorks, Inc.
...iMakeNews and ChannelWorks, Inc. Announce Strategic Alliance to Improve Channel Marketers' Information Supply Chain... iMakeNews has pioneered Informative Marketing(TM), an approach that is based on the continuous measurement of responses to content and offers for an improved return on investment (ROI). The company's e-marketing services include e-newsletters, e-marketing campaigns and e-mailed Weblogs [DirectBlog™]...
RealMarket Today :: ICT Journal Weblogs Announced
...ChannelMinds announce the addition of ICTJournal.com - a new ICT Weblogs platform - to their portfolio of services offered throughout the ICT community...
Daily Trojan :: Blogging forums thrive
by Kyle Singhal
...Internet communication among students is surging, and with it has spawned a new phenomenon: online journals. Students and people of all ages are using Web-based journals - commonly called "Web logs" or just "blogs" - to keep diaries, post information and communicate...
theage.com.au :: Gartner findings on desktop Linux disputed
...With enterprise cross-over technology platforms like Citrix, Win4Lin Server and Crossover Office, maintaining support under Linux for the 'diverse combinations of applications' that knowledge workers need is achievable. As Citrix-style technology is becoming more widespread, this form of Linux desktop solution is correspondingly becoming more available as an option...
The Star Online :: Taib: Make R&D a core activity
...Taib urged workers to inculcate a philosophy of lifelong learning to update themselves with skills and knowledge and better contribute to the state's development...
CIO Magazine :: E-Mail on the Cheap - Emerging Technology
...So why would anyone pay high prices when they could deliver e-mail for one-sixth to one-tenth the cost of Exchange? One reason is that corporate knowledge workers - those whose job it is to discover, create and manage information - actually do use the more complicated collaborative features (document sharing, scheduling and the like) built into Notes and Exchange...
PRNewswire :: HELP Desk Institute Introduces New Knowledge-centered Support
... "This new course was developed to address the trend in the service and support industry toward adopting knowledge management strategies," explained Judy Benda ...
Yahoo News :: FAEGRE & Benson LLP Chooses West km for Knowledge Management
... business (TSX: TOC - News; NYSE: TOC - News), today announced that Faegre & Benson LLP is implementing West km(TM), the innovative new knowledge management ...
Kennedy Information and Deltek Webcast: "How to Fail: Success Factors That Consulting Firms Ignore"
...DeFusco, vice president of design and product management at Deltek, is responsible for leading the product design and go-to-market strategy execution for Deltek Vision -- the only fully integrated, Web-based solution designed to help professional services firms win new business, capture billable hours, increase employee utilization, streamline project management, increase revenue and profits, and enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing throughout the organization...
Many-to-Many :: The Weakening of Strong Ties
by Ross Mayfield
Ross Mayfield weighs in on the viral nature of Plaxo...
...Now that we are all on the network, it is time to figure out how to best leverage this incredible set of connections...the objective of keeping data current for dynamic analysis has led some models to burden people who don't benefit from the system to perform data entry. We have all been Plaxoed by now in the name of virality. If the transaction costs for updating contact information were lower or if non-participants gained value we would all be Plaxo users. But we are not -- stop spamming us...
MSNBC | Newsweek :: Chewin' the Fat
by Gersh Kuntzman
...Suburban sprawl also makes us lonely. Our communities, the journal says, "are not interconnected" and cause "a lack of social networks and diminished social capital, which can contribute to obesity, cardiovascular disease, mental health problems, and increased rates of mortality."...
E-Commerce News :: Microsoft Takes Mobile Phone Plunge with Motorola
...Microsoft said the phone will boost productivity for knowledge workers and will help mobile phone carriers generate new revenue streams...
Business Europe News :: Firms 'harmed' by out of touch workers
..."A gap seems to be opening up between what we are asked to do and what we can do - given the tools we have. New mobile products on the market should be an important part of the knowledge worker's armoury and should help make more of our mobility."...
...FileMaker is a leader in workgroup databases and workgroup information solutions. Unlike complex database software, the FileMaker intuitive interface empowers knowledge workers to create and share rich solutions...
Business Wire :: Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2003
...Gartner Says Extending the Life Cycle of Desktop PCs Won't Necessarily Save Money on Total Cost of Ownership...Overall, Gartner analysts recommend a four-year desktop life cycle for mainstream knowledge workers and a desktop life cycle of three years or less for high-performance users. Five years is possible in some cases, but Gartner analysts advise trying to extend the life cycle to five years for fixed-function systems only, where the application load is limited and does not change...
Globetechnology :: Wireless networks changing life on campus
..."The key to knowledge-building in the 21st century is how we manage information and how we share information." Mobile students may need new skills than their predecessors a decade ago -- a more than cursory knowledge of e-mail protocol, computer troubleshooting and on-line, anti-virus security...
...The first presentation will be on 'Harnessing National Intellectual Capital for Wealth and Jobs Creation; Roadmap from Assessment to Fulfillment' by Debra Amidon, CEO ENTOVATION International Ltd, a renown architect, practitioner and authority on knowledge innovation and strategies, technology management, and knowledge economy and development...
Radio Singapore International :: Is economic progress contradictory to environmental sustainability
...In the short term, it is possible for any government to achieve economic growth at the expense of the environment - in the short term, maybe three years, maybe five years, maybe even 10 years. But in the long term, it is not possible, because as you move up the economic ladder, you're going to move into what we call a knowledge-based economy. You're going to move into an era where more and more of your work force will be knowledge workers. And knowledge workers will demand a high standard of living, in terms of living environment. No knowledge will want to work in a place where they are paid $200,000 a year, but they have to live in an environment where they have no clean air, no clean land and no healthy living environment... Mr Lim Swee Say, Singapore's Minister of the Environment.
SmartPros :: 'Offshoring' Drive for Savings Accelerates
by Jeffrey Marshall
...India may be the clear leader among Asian outsourcing providers, but the Philippines wants to make it a horse race. The government there has been actively promoting its labor force -- which it claims is ranked first worldwide for knowledge workers -- and cites a META Group ranking that puts its telecommunications capabilities on par with India's...
WTO-CANCUN :: UN Makes The Most of Observer Status
...The UNDP facilitates donor coordination and South-South cooperation on trade-related issues. It has established a corporate database as a tool for knowledge sharing on experiences gathered in trade capacity development... "The poverty and MDG knowledge networks provide a platform for discussion of pro-poor issues of which trade is a subset," said UNDP's Assistant Administrator Pasha...
GN Online :: Manpower training centre set up
...The DIHRD will promote awareness and will also host knowledge-building programmes aimed at senior and middle management in government departments, agencies and the private sector. These programmes cover areas of human resource management including quality, leadership, business excellence, customer relations and personal development. It will also provide advisory services in the form of informational support and consultancy in order to promote life-long learning, forming a foundation for the knowledge-based economy...
Business Wire :: U.S. Wireless Carriers May Face A Tidal Wave of Switching
...To help carriers ensure they're fully prepared for the arrival of WNP, Convergys has developed a comprehensive care program alternately designed to convince customers not to switch providers or to ensure the change goes smoothly. Intended primarily for Tier I and Tier II carriers serving the top 100 U.S. metropolitan service areas, the Convergys program consists of Basic Care, Technical Care, and Smart Care components. Specific Convergys services range from answering questions about WNP to delivering number porting-related technical support and providing knowledge management services...`
...AT&T Wireless utilized Primus Application Hosting to implement its Web self-service solution in eight days. This solution employs Primus software to find answers from across the AT&T Wireless enterprise--including knowledgebase solutions, customer forums, and frequently asked questions (FAQs). AT&T Wireless customers are already utilizing the next generation of Data Services solutions and are successfully resolving their own questions online at http://support.attwireless.com...
Business World :: Cork jobs boost as Harney opens Pepsi
...Tanaiste Mary Harney this morning officially opened Pepsi-Cola's new facility at Carrigaline, Co Cork. The USD100m investment, which is supported by IDA Ireland, will create 250 new jobs within five years...The global marketing services will handle consumer insights, global intelligence gathering and knowledge management...
...XCP 2.7 Released with Advanced Knowledge Management and Regulatory Compliance Features; Jabber XCP 2.7 to Be Deployed by Leading Financial Services Companies, Enterprises, and Service Providers...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: iManage, Inc.
...Duane Morris Deploys iManage WorkSite Server with Caching...
Market Wire :: CollabNet Announces Three New Customers
...The CollabNet SourceCast environment combines applications for: software development, knowledge management, and project communication all controlled through a Web-based project workspace with a centralized role-based permissions model. Since the CollabNet SourceCast environment is provided to these customers as an application service, it eliminates the time and expense of purchasing, installing, configuring, and managing hardware...
Business Wire :: Knowledge Management: Managing Intellectual Assets Helps Reduce Costs
...To efficiently manage intellectual assets, leading companies embed knowledge management activities in their corporate strategy. Identifying and sharing internal best practices enable organizations to gain market position and drive long-term growth, according to a study from research and consulting firm Best Practices, LLC...
Business Wire :: Percussion Software
...Percussion Software Selects Oracle Application Server 10g As Strategic Delivery Platform For Rhythmyx Enterprise Content Management Solutions...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: Software Firm Cincom Systems Reaches 35-Year Milestone
...Considered a pioneer in database technology in the 1960's and '70s, Cincom has expanded into customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), knowledge management, data access technology, IT outsourcing services and more...
Business Wire :: CE*COMM Corporation Reports Financial Results
...CE*COMM Corporation Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and the Fiscal Year 2003; Company Reports on Improving Results and Update on i3 Mobile Merger Agreement... Our solutions are matched to each customer's business environment. They provide the analytical tools required to extract knowledge from operating networks - knowledge our customers use to generate more revenue, reduce costs, accelerate time-to-market for new services, and deliver more effective customer support...
Business Wire :: RMI Improves Sales Force Productivity Using Soffront CRM
...Soffront Software Inc., a pioneer in the CRM market since 1992, offers end-to-end CRM solutions consisting of several integrated modules. The main modules provide the following solutions: customer and employee help desk management, sales force automation, marketing automation, asset management, contact center, self-service knowledge management and defect tracking...
Computerworld | Serious attention to this buzzword pays off
by Helen Han
...Knowledge management is not a playful buzzword but a dynamic initiative companies need to take more seriously if they want to harness their most valuable corporate asset: knowledge...
...The art of applying knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations has become necessary to ensure a company's success...
TheFeature :: Cities, Swarms, Cell Phones: The Birth of Urban Informatics
By Howard Rheingold [& Anthony Townsend, urban informatician and wireless activist, professor of urban planning at NYU]
...Townsend believes the pace of urban life is quickening. "As every person completes more tasks, communicates with more people, coordinates activities among more social networks in the same amount of time, the aggregate effect is an acceleration of the urban metabolism."...
At the same time that the urban core is heating up and attracting the young, fast-moving, youth thumb-tribes and unwired mobile knowledge workers, it becomes possible to extend sprawl even further. People will be doing email via speech-to-text/text-to-speech intermediaries while crawling through traffic from their suburban homes...
ManchesterOnline - Leese in 'snub' to twin cities launch
...A NEW era of co-operation between Manchester and Salford has got off to an embarrassing start after Manchester city council leader Richard Leese missed its launch.
The twin cities have united behind a project called Manchester: Knowledge Capital.
The aim is to create 100,000 jobs over the next 10 years by the two local authorities working together with the four universities - Salford, Manchester, Umist and Manchester Metropolitan - to attract new investment...
..."In addition to the successes in joint technology development, the UMR/Motorola team has established a great partnership to bridge today's industry and academia through knowledge sharing and graduate student internships," says O'Keefe. Over the past three years, four UMR graduate students have spent their summer working at Motorola. These students have not only contributed to the Motorola research, but also gained valuable industrial experience, says O'Keefe...
Arizona struggling in high-tech sector - 2003-09-08 - The Business Journal of Phoenix
...Morrison's review of Arizona's four competitor states concludes that those states, over many years, benefited "mightily from large, sustained, multifaceted federal investments in defense and space that contributed to the formation of a significant concentration of knowledge workers."...
Connecting the Dots - Knowledge Management Research Center - CIO
...In a report released a few weeks ago, INPUT predicts that the federal government will boost its spending on knowledge management (KM) products and services at a compound annual rate of 9 percent from 2003 to 2008. That translates from an initial investment of $820 million to $1.3 billion...
Wireless News: Open Source on the Brink
...The third major change ahead, due to the influence of open source, is that computer-hardware manufacturers will continue their shift toward becoming knowledge-management companies... [Eben Moglen, Columbia University law professor and Free Software Foundation general counsel]
STLtoday - Boeing's defense chief rides wave of defense spending
by Cynthia Wilson Of the Post-Dispatch
...Albaugh said Boeing hated to lose the contest for the lucrative program. But, he said, that the military's future lies in network systems and that Future Combat Systems is the defining program of this decade because it will give the Army greater awareness of the battlefield and let it do a job with fewer planes, tanks and soldiers.
"It will prove whether or not we can get great leverage out of information and knowledge management," Albaugh said. "We can make the Army much more deployable and much more robust."...
EContentMag.com :: TheBrain Releases Lotus Notes Connector v1.0
...The Lotus Notes Connector was a joint development project between TheBrain and Ekakan, one of TheBrain's newest resellers and integrators. Ekakan selected BrainEKP as their primary knowledge management solution for project management and client solutions, in addition to signing as the official Scandinavian reseller and integrator of BrainEKP...
Autonomy & Virage to Unveil First Integrated Products at IBC 2003 Show
...Autonomy Corporation plc is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise. Autonomy's technology powers applications dependent upon unstructured information including customer relationship management, knowledge management, enterprise portals, enterprise resource planning, online publishing and security applications...
Herein Kai Arste, Atlantic College, publishes his Theory of Knowledge Notes compiled while teaching a course on the same.
Niclas Eberhagen, Stockholm University :: Research and publications
on this page a pdf paper entitled: On the Design of Support Systems for Knowledge Sharing within a Social Learning and Sharing Context is available.
ARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort public library
The International Association of Science and Technology for Development
The 2nd IASTED International Conference on
INFORMATIONAND KNOWLEDGE SHARING
November 17-19, 2003, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
OJR article: For Pioneers of Web Journalism, the Future Is Still Full of Surprises
...Christopher Barr: Weblogs, or something very similar, were dreamed up more than 100 years ago by Jules Verne. In his 1890 futuristic "A Day in the Life of an American Journalist in 2890," he predicted that instead of being printed, every morning the news is spoken directly (IM'd?) to subscribers, who, from interesting conversations with reporters, learn the news of the day. Each subscriber owns a recorder (hard disk?) to gather the news if he doesn't want to listen to it himself.
Although he was off by 890 years, Verne accurately predicted that people would want to get the news as unvarnished as possible. Weblogs are good devices for encouraging conversation, although they are still in very early development and usage. I expect to see them become more useful and more sophisticated in the next decade...
Making Blogs More Than Just What's for Dinner (TechNews.com)
By Ellen McCarthy
...Meg Hourihan, co-creator of Blogger, the blogging tool acquired by Google, and co-author of "We Blog: Publishing Online With Weblogs," believes that businesses are only beginning to realize the capabilities of instant publishing...
Mentioned in this article:
Debbie Weil, Bill Kearney, Meg Hourihan, Scott Knowles, Gary Price, Macromedia, Fast Company, Gartner, New Media Society, NITLE Weblog Census, BLOGGER, Google, and Jupiter Research
Wired News: Website: Westerners Pretty Rich
by Leander Kahney
...A new website, the Global Rich List, starkly illustrates the worldwide distribution of wealth...Since going live last Monday, the site has attracted 120,000 unique visitors. It has earned a few brief mentions in the press -- the London Guardian, USA Today -- but most traffic has come from word of mouth, weblogs and newsgroups...
Al-Ahram Weekly | Culture | A critical exile
A century after his birth, Ernest Wolf-Gazo recalls the life and achievements of Theodor Adorno
...a search engine ceaselessly operates in Adorno's mind, attempting to locate non-identity -- his way of escaping the tyranny of subject-object epistemology...
SearchWebServices.com :: Web services are for small businesses, too
by Ronald Schmelzer, Senior Analyst, ZapThink, LLC
...individuals can just as easily realize benefits of Web services as their larger company counterparts by simplifying the interaction and exchange of information among the various pieces of desktop software that they require to maintain their productivity, either as knowledge workers or small business owners...
Canny consumers can always get what they want - www.theage.com.au
By Leon Gettler
This piece is predominantly about the reverse engineering of a new "Pink" drink in response to consumer preferences, and it ties up with some quotes from Peter Drucker:
...Drucker says tomorrow belongs to the knowledge technologists, computer technicians, software designers, analysts in clinical labs, manufacturing technologists and paralegals. These people are as much manual workers as they are knowledge workers; in fact, they usually spend far more time working with their hands than with their brains...
CIO | Future Results Not Guaranteed
by Ben Worthen, CIO
Interesting piece on the failure of demand forecasting and supply chain solutions to include and capitalize on the importance of an enterprise's knowledge workers in conjunction with technology.
...Good demand forecasting requires a combination of accurate data and smart people. Up-to-date sales data and point-of-sale (POS) information will almost always improve a forecast. So will having the processes and people in place to make sense of anomalous results or simply to check computer-generated predictions against the pulse on the street...
...employer-focused, Web-based technology that leverages the experience and knowledge of professionals from all walks of life, to create an ever-expanding knowledge base used to manage human capital and grow organizational profits...
The Globe and Mail :: Electronic health records offer big payoff
By David Ticoll
...There are all sorts of opportunities at the other side of this rainbow. Jobs for new kinds of high-tech knowledge workers. Outsourcing diagnostic imaging and other activities...
msmobiles.com - P300 and P700 - new Pocket PC phones coming from E-TEN around Novembe 2003
...Designed for youthful professionals and road warrior knowledge workers, the E-TEN P300 with a built-in digital camera, helps users integrate their digital lifestyle with mobile business and personal productivity capabilities...
The Globe and Mail :: Slater Steel seeks court permission for bonuses
By Greg Keenan
..."These employees possess valuable institutional knowledge that would be difficult to replace," the filing said. "If these employees are lost, it would be very difficult, costly and time-consuming for the [company] to attract qualified replacements."...
thestar.com.my: Targeted fiscal stimuli to remain the govt’s focus
by Nicholas Crist
...In view of the threat of other fast developing economies such as China, the (Malaysia) government has emphasised the importance of accelerating the transition to information and communications technology to achieve a knowledge-based economy...
...Lured by cost savings as high as 50 percent, U.S. companies including American Express, Dell, GE, HP, Microsoft and Sprint are relocating or outsourcing some of their operations to countries such as India and the Philippines. Indeed, Forrester Research estimates that as many as 3.3 million white-collar jobs in America with $136 billion in wages will be exported by 2015, with call center services in the vanguard of that flight...
LJWorld.com : Text: Hemenway's 2003 convocation remarks
(Taken from the text of Chancellor Robert Hemenway's remarks to Kansas University faculty and staff on Sept. 11.)
...We must be very clear. The key to a prosperous state of Kansas is an excellent education system. Our ability to lift ourselves out of any post-9/11 syndrome will come from a University of Kansas creating knowledge, transmitting knowledge and educating students for a knowledge economy. The stakes are high. That is why the financial crisis is so frustrating...
West Bluff district holds first meeting
Medical, technology group seen as city's best hope for re-energizing local economy
By Sonya Klopfenstein, of the Journal Star
..."This is, if not historic, a unique time in Peoria - moving into the 21st-century knowledge economy," said Methodist Medical Center President Michael Bryant, who was elected commission chairman Wednesday...
APEC member economies discover the sky's the limit
...Chinese Taipei has been putting much effort into developing a knowledge-based economy (including a strong biotechnology sector), promoting liberalization and transparency, and assisting developing member economies in capacity building...
destinationKM.com: Eight C's of KM Success
by Madanmohan Rao
...InfoTech (IT) companies feature very prominently in the list of winners of awards like the annual Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) awards -- such as Intel, HP, IBM and Microsoft. The more successful IT companies of the world owe their success in part to highly effective and efficient knowledge management (KM) practices and cultures...
Western Producer - Ag Notes - September 11, 2003 edition
...Alberta Agriculture has been awarded the Institute of Public Administration of Canada's bronze award for excellence in public service. The prize was presented for Innovations in Knowledge Management...
Line56.com: CRM Knowledge Power
More on Kanisa:
...Kanisa rides new funding round, momentum among user bases seeking knowledge-powered customer service across multiple channels...
destinationKM.com: Faster Knowledge
by Stowe Boyd
...In a paper I recently wrote for the Cutter Consortium, I proposed a corollary to Reed's Law that I (humbly) call Boyd's Law, or the Law of Synchronization Amplification:
As companies seek to increase their individual responsiveness and decrease the impacts of volatility in their markets they will increase their synchronous communications with partners, but the net effect will be an increase in asynchronous operations of the meta-enterprise...
...the Center for Advancing Business Through Information Technology (CABIT) ... established in 2002 by Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business, serves as a self-sustaining catalyst for a research and education partnership that focuses on collaboration, innovation, incubation and technology transfer of knowledge management, and software service innovations in the e-business environment...
Outsourcing is not a big issue in Washington - The Economic Times
Sofia Tippoo, Bangalore
...Some parts of America may find it a touchy issue. But the state of Washington doesn't think outsourcing is a big deal. So says Sam Reed, secretary of state, Washington ... John Okamoto, chief administrative officer, Port of Seattle, says "We have started a new initiative which would channel knowledge management and transfer of technology to other ports"...
...Generation21, a leading developer of enterprise learning software, will present a free online seminar hosted by WebEx on September 16, 2003. "It's Not My Fault, I Didn't Know ... : Using Knowledge Management Technologies to Cope With a Rapidly Changing Environment" will feature speaker Dale Zwart, Generation21 Learning Systems founder and chief technology officer and creator of Universal Object Technology...
Citadon Introduces Business Process Design Application: Citadon BPD(TM)
...Citadon's fully integrated Web services help customers to manage and share documents, automate and propagate core business processes, collaborate and communicate seamlessly, and capture and leverage knowledge across the extended enterprise...
Sep 11 - EDS PLM Solutions Releases NX Nastran for CAE
...This strong combination of customer-centric analytical tools and knowledge-based data management solutions offers companies the opportunity to realize significant product performance and quality gains through the use of integrated digital prototyping and simulation...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: TripleHop Named Content Management Trendsetter by KM World
Tidepool | Answering the Call, What can a volunteer fire department tell us about community?
by Ed Hunt
...In his groundbreaking book "Bowling Alone" Robert Putnam documented the increasing social isolation of Americans. We have shunned the civic organizations of our fathers and have instead turned inward, assuaging the longer hours we are all working with quality time at home with our families in front of the TV, or disengaged in solitary activities. In the past 25 years there has been a 58 percent decline in attendance at civic club meetings, a 33 percent drop in family dinners and a 45 percent drop in having friends over for dinner...
Science Blog - Baboon Fathers Really Do Care About Their Kids
...According to Jane Brockmann, who directs NSF's animal behavior research program, "This study puts together the behavior and physiology of individuals with the genetic and demographic structure of groups and populations. It will substantially increase our understanding of the evolution of complex social behavior."...
celebrate her life
"go at throttle up" they said
her spirit lives on
haitech haiku™
©2003 judith meskill
...Upon graduating from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970, Judith A. Resnik (Ph.D.) was employed by RCA located in Moorestown, New Jersey; and in 1971, she transferred to RCA in Springfield, Virginia...
Dr. Resnik was a biomedical engineer and staff fellow in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1974 to 1977...
Immediately preceding her selection by NASA in 1978, she was a senior systems engineer in product development with Xerox Corporation at El Segundo, California...
Selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in January 1978, she completed a 1-year training and evaluation period in August 1979...
Dr. Resnik first flew as a mission specialist on STS 41-D which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984...This was the maiden flight of the orbiter Discovery...
Dr. Resnik was a mission specialist on STS 51-L which was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 11:38:00 EST on January 28, 1986... The STS 51-L crew died on January 28, 1986 when Challenger exploded after launch...
OJR article: The Guardian of the Web
by Daithi O. hAnluain
(From an interview with Editor in Chief Emily Bell of the Guardian Unlimited, the most successful newspaper site in the UK, attracting 7.5 million unique visitors a month -– more than 2 million of them from the U.S. and many others from around the world.)
...In terms of the nature of journalism, blogging -- self publishing, whatever you want to call it -- is probably the most interesting challenge that we've got, and what it does to the orthodoxy of journalism is really interesting. We haven't seen long term what those effects will be...
Google to provide blogging for free - The Washington Times: United Press International
...Bucking the trend for paid premium Internet services, Google has decided to provide its Web blogging service for free...
TechCentral: The PC world according to Dvorak
By Chan Lee Meng, Kuala Lumpur
...Dvorak spoke out against another Internet phenomenon - blogging, which he hopes "will not catch on here as widely as in the United States." He steered the audience to anti-blogging websites and said a typical blog in America is inane and boring, and was created by person who doesn't get out much. He said most bloggers seem "to like to write about what they ate that day, as if anyone cares." On the plus side, blog-hosting websites are a good way to put up a complicated website quickly, Dvorak said. "The blogs themselves are horrible, but people are using them as cheap, fast, and efficient tools to set up elaborate websites," he said...
Dear Campaign Diary: Seizing the Day, Online
By Michael Falcone, The New York Times
...Since Howard Dean's Democratic presidential effort created one in March, the blog, with its spontaneous feel and wide reach, has quickly gained acceptance as a tool of technology-savvy political campaigns, along with online fund-raising and grass-roots organizing sites like MeetUp.com and MoveOn.org. But unlike many of the 2004 presidential candidates, who have teams of online writers churning out material, the bloggers in the recall race, including Ms. Huffington and Mrs. Davis, say they are writing their own entries...
...America Online has gussied up its "AOLbyPhone" service with new features aimed at keeping its wireless phone-using members just a keypad away from checking e-mail or updating personal Weblogs...
Editor & Publisher :: It's Time to Blog Hard News on Your Site
STOP THE PRESSES! By Steve Outing
...It's time for increasing the speed of news sites -- to that of television news -- and Weblogs are the way to do it...
allAfrica.com: South Africa: Sustainabe IT - Blueprinting the Future
...Reinventing the wheel in the workplace has cost Fortune 500 companies more than $30 billion in just one year according to the IDC Knowledge Management Fact Book. Armed with this information, a bunch of engineering graduates from Stellenbosch University and Professor Niek du Preez, CEO of Indutech (Pty) Ltd, had the brilliant idea to design and develop a 'knowledge and change management software solution' in a class of its own. Called EDENTM, the software roadmaps the paths to reducing operating losses caused by trying to "reinvent the wheel", at the same time converting individual employee knowledge into company knowledge...
New F-35 Facility Focuses on Naval Operations, Draws on Navy Experience
...Burbage said to the group, "BASSIC will be a great resource for training. The best access to knowledge management is to find someone who's been there and done that -- and talk to them"...
Photocopy Your Favorite Web Pages: N-LITER Golden Retriever Will Fetch Them For You On Or Off-Line
..."N-LITER Golden Retriever is the only knowledge management system designed for the average Internet user," said Bernardo Sanchez, president of N-LITER. "We want to make managing online information fun and easy -- that's why we named it after a dog. Now you can send your Golden Retriever to fetch your research as easily and comfortably as sending a trained dog for your slippers."...
...Knowledge Computing Corporation provides technology-based crime fighting solutions to leading edge law enforcement agencies nationwide. Its critically-acclaimed product, COPLINK®, in use since 1998, is based on knowledge management technology first prototyped by top-ranked researchers in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson through a grant by the National Institute of Justice...
Jacksonville's Financial News and Daily Record :: Legal administrators get a lesson in technology
...A representative from Administrative Partners, Inc. gave a presentation on the latest high-tech equipment they offer to the legal community, including the newest personal digital assistants, productivity software, storage, security and "spam" reduction options, knowledge management, computer forensics and remote connectivity...
..."We evaluated five knowledge management packages. We chose Open Text's Livelink for its fast return on investment performance, Web-friendly environment and ease of integration with our existing legacy environment," said Jan Reiher, Knowledge Manager, EcoRecycle...
Stonebridge Technologies Announces Support of Cognos(R) ReportNet(TM)
...Stonebridge's solutions are focused on business intelligence, knowledge management, business process integration and fully integrated server and storage networks...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: Kanisa Secures $13 Million in Financing Led by Needham Capital Partners
..."In Kanisa, we see a company poised to be the leader in the rapidly growing market for knowledge-empowered customer service applications," said Mr. Shanahan...
DeVry University Opens First Center in Indianapolis
..."DeVry University prepares students to succeed in a global knowledge economy in which technology and business are intertwined. We look forward to helping contribute to the highly-skilled workforce needed in Indianapolis to meet the demands of tomorrow's economy," said Forsythe...
...Europe's industrial base certainly needs updating. It has more than its fair share of capital-intensive industries that have reached the end of their innovation cycles, and are unsure where to go next. European industry is also investing too little in research and development (R&D), at least if it hopes to keep up in the knowledge-economy stakes. But increasing the amount that Europe spends on R&D is difficult when so much of its industrial base is mature...
...The library will pay $25,000 to each of the architects, who are to present their ideas at an Oct. 22 forum. The selected design should "increase Philadelphia's visibility to the world as a knowledge center," said Peter Benoliel, the board member overseeing the project...
IEK: Taiwan to lead magnesium alloy market in 2004
...Taiwan is expected to become the world's largest supplier of magnesium alloy products and the largest importing country of magnesium ingots and chips in 2004, according to the Taiwan-based Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK)...
OneWorld.net - Wiring up a Knowledge Revolution in Rural India
...A group of 15 women, some of them from the so-called untouchable castes or Dalits, operate the computers, collate and present data. They speak no English and have not studied beyond high school. For the benefit of the odd visitor, they put up a Power Point presentation they have created. They man one of the twelve spokes - called Knowledge Centers - of an information and communication technology (ICT) enabled rural upliftment program...
Big Blue's New Experiments in Real-Time Communications
...One early, yet promising project at the company is known as Socializer. It's a prototype of an open, distributed, peer-to-peer platform with capabilities including chatting, file transfers, application sharing and broadcasting and discovery of services. Socializer users can create profiles and exchange personal information with others, and in finding others with whom to collaborate, can search and filter by profile information...
Australian IT - Peers question Telstra's Linux savings (Kelly Mills, SEPTEMBER 09, 2003)
...Telstra is also testing a Wyse thin-client terminal with XP-on-a-chip using Citrix. It plans to retain Windows NT servers for simpler applications. About 6000 of the telco's core knowledge workers will retain Microsoft desktop applications...
EContentMag.com :: Faces of Econtent
...Dialog provides online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages. "Dialog has over 500 databases and multiple product offerings," says Mary Kay McDonald. "I work the Dialog Knowledge Center as team lead in intellectual property and science"...
Blue Ridge Business Journal :: The problem of addiction
...With the increased emphasis on knowledge work, behavioral health, or "personal resiliency," has become more and more important...
The Value of Latent Ties :: AO
by Ross Mayfield
...Bottom-up Social Networking Models like Friendster, LinkedIn, Tribe.net and Ryze grow from strong ties to weak, and share a predominant risk of devaluing what it means to be a Friend...
...Saudiel Ramirez-Sanchez is a student at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby (Canada). Saudiel is using a social network approach to study fish resource access and use practices in the Parque Nacional Bahia de Loreto in Mexico in order to address marine resource conservation issues. His work will provide information on social network properties as indicators of cooperative management of sustainable resources...
The Origins of Business Networking :: AO
Krishnan Unni [http://pigtailpundits.com]
...The first social networks started 3.5 billion years ago, almost a billion years after the Big Bang, with the cyanobacteria...
...the environment for Linux on the desktop is significantly different. Knowledge workers use PCs to run diverse combinations of applications. For those users, migration costs will be very high because all Windows applications must be replaced or rewritten...
...Today KnowledgeWorks Foundation and Ford Foundation announce the formation of the Ohio Bridges to Opportunity Initiative, designed to promote educational opportunities for Ohio's 1.2 million "working poor"...
silicon.com - 5 years ago... Small UK firms urged to go back to nature
...It is quite likely that in another five years we will still be wondering why knowledge workers can't ply their trade from just about anywhere...
Life at Work Live (washingtonpost.com)
Amy Joyce, Washington Post columnist
The following is a comment posted by a knowledge worker named "Laurel" to Amy Joyce's weekly online talk:
...On procrastination: I'm what's known as a "knowledge worker." About 1/3 of what I do is sit down and output product. The rest is thinking, experimenting, tinkering; and to be perfectly honest: daydreaming, planning my weekend and participating in WP.com chats...
Business: Sonic Foundry headed downtown (captimes.com)
...the downtown environment is really conducive to companies that have a lot of knowledge workers who like to be where the action is...
...Axia NetMedia Corporation helps organizations and individuals meet the needs of the Knowledge Economy by combining the power of high-speed networks with high-end applications...
New Zealand News - NZ - Greens urge review of student loans
...Green Education spokesman Nandor Tanczos said ... that although the Government promoted a "knowledge" economy, the increased costs of tertiary education affected more than students...
Scotsman.com News - Top Stories - Children losing interest in science
...Dr Peter Cotgreave, director of the pressure group Save British Science, an organisation which campaigns for greater awareness of science policy, said he believed the "knowledge economy often referred to by Tony Blair's government" depended on inspiring young people to continue with the subject...
...ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali has called for promotion of culture of knowledge sharing and transfer of technology between the developed and under-development countries.
ICSI mulls intl federation to combat WTO challenge
...A need is felt to popularise one brand and one identity for the profession of company secretaries throughout the world to bring out uniformity and to ensure knowledge sharing and management amongst professionals.
Looking Beyond Vivendi at G.E.
...There is a knowledge sharing advantage that bridges the capital and industrial businesses that can sustain profits and growth...
According to HeartMath Study, Millions Gripped by NEDS
New Study Findings Link Heavy Internet Usage, Information Overload and Social Isolation to NEDS (New Economy Depression Syndrome)
...Tim Sanders and HeartMath® are releasing new findings of a national study that links depression and symptoms of depression with the always-on-economy. ... When I wrote my book, LOVE IS THE KILLER APP, I advocated my own personal system that included building powerful and warm relationships with knowledge sharing, networking, and acts of compassion...
...The African Trade Insurance Agency(ATI) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group ... will help each other in the areas of business development, marketing and knowledge-sharing, as well as engaging in risk-sharing arrangements through coinsurance and reinsurance projects...
...platform not only facilitates knowledge sharing but also provides Mutual Fire's field inspectors with the tools to excel in their jobs...
...The Bologna Declaration adopted by the Higher Education Ministers in June 1999 set in motion a series of reforms necessary to make European higher education more coherent, more competitive and more attractive for European citizens and for students and scholars from abroad ... The Bologna process contributes to our overall ambition to make Europe the best performing knowledge economy in the world...
...The iManage WorkSite suite delivers document management, collaboration, workflow and knowledge management accessible through an integrated portal in a single integrated Internet solution..
Business Intelligence, Inc. Announces Support Of Cognos(R) ReportNet(TM)
...BI, Inc. offers unrivaled information exploration, discovery and knowledge management for financial services organizations...
...The knowledge management memos set goals and directions for accelerating server consolidation, and consolidating systems around the Army Knowledge Online portal, which now has 1.47 million registered users...
cogdogblog requests a social network experiment. ...Echo this blog, pass it on, write about it, move the news around the net... It is time to march up to the Network Associates, Virus Detective, Norton et al and say... Stop sending rejected emails back to the innocent...
The Texas State Senate: Senator Judith Zaffirini
...The only senator with career-long 100 percent attendance and 100 percent voting records, Sen. Zaffirini has cast more than 29,000 consecutive votes during nine regular and 13 special sessions. She has sponsored and passed 457 bills and 45 substantive resolutions and co-sponsored and passed another 208 bills. Her legislative successes include passing bills to reduce paperwork for teachers; provide zero-interest loans for college students and forgiving them if they maintain and graduate timely with a B average; immunize all Texas children; reform Medicaid and simplify eligibility; facilitate independent living for persons with disabilities; suspend the licenses of drunk drivers; promote dual language programs; keep radioactive waste out of SD 21; stop the proliferation of colonias; restrict minors' access to tobacco; and reform indigent health care, welfare, nursing homes, adoption and child support...
MediaGuardian.co.uk | | Kelly's death excites online conspiracy theorists
...The Google internet search engine returns 235,000 results for a search on "who killed David Kelly?", 103,000 for "David Kelly conspiracy" and 39,200 when asked for links relating to "was David Kelly murdered?" The links reveal a massive network of websites, discussion forums and weblogs dedicated to the subject from countries including the UK, the US, Australia, Sweden, Canada and Germany...
MediaGuardian.co.uk | New media | Salam Pax: How I became the Baghdad Blogger
...It began as an internet joke with a friend in Jordan. But then the media - including the Guardian - picked it up, and suddenly he was the Baghdad blogger, the most famous web diarist in the world. Salam Pax describes what it was like to play cat-and-mouse with Saddam's censors...
Broadband Behavior: I Want My Info Now! :: AO
...Over 40% of broadband users have personalized their home page. And almost the same number say this is an important consideration for them in terms of what they want online...They do much more blogging and content offering...
NewsForge: Keep it Real Simple, Stupid: An introduction to RSS
...RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, depending upon whom you ask. It's a Web content syndication format, meaning you can use it to send, receive, and aggregate Web content from a variety of sources. RSS was originally designed for news sites (like us) to make their content available. Nowadays it's also heavily utilized by bloggers...
OJR article: Top Sites, Blogs for California Recall
...Best Political Blog, Journalism Division: Daniel Weintraub's California Insider
In my ongoing daily research I have been noticing a steady shift away from a preponderance of references to Knowledge Management towards a growing surge of talk about Knowledge Work, Knowledge Workers, Knowledge Sharing, and Knowledge Economy.
For the near future I will be experimenting with loosely parsing my Knowledge news bytes into the above titled topics. I am certain that eventually my citations will naturally begin to coalesce back into a single Knowledge news category but for now I will be documenting these distinctions via the titles of my daily posts.
This shift in languaging has obviously been ongoing but recently, in my online searches, there has been a more distinct segregation in the utilization of knowledge descriptive terminology between academia, worldwide governments, consulting groups, community support agencies, corporations, and technology vendors.
Deep Under the Sea, Boiling Founts of Life Itself
By William J. Broad, The New York Times, Science Section
dark ecosystems
hyperthermophiles breathing
rich black magnetite
haitech haiku™
©2003 judith meskill
First Help Is Best - Computerworld
...Not only are businesses increasingly implementing self-service channels and building knowledge bases to enable users to solve problems themselves whenever possible; they're also empowering front-line agents as never before...
...Tier 1 Performance Solutions is a human performance company specializing in Learning Solutions, Change Enablement and Knowledge Management...
Bangkok Post Tuesday 09 September 2003 - Integrating processes key
...Knowledge flow. Knowledge management and sharing between trading partners is often neglected, leading to poor co-ordination, distrust, unsynchronised activities and unnecessary costs. The best systems and design can be impeded by poor knowledge and understanding of the people involved...
Zoologic Releases Upgraded Financial Reference Tool
...the leading provider of web-based financial courseware and end-to-end learning solutions for financial professionals -- unleashed a significantly more powerful and comprehensive version of ZooFiRST, the only self-directed, self-paced knowledge management and reference tool for financial professionals...
...Hummingbird Enterprise(TM) offers customers a 360 degree view of their knowledge assets by bringing together Hummingbird's industry leading portal, connectivity, document management, records management, knowledge management, business intelligence, collaboration, and data integration solutions into an integrated enterprise information management system (EIMS)...
BusinessWeek Online: News from C|Net.com
...Microsoft's Knowledge Worker business unit, which produces Office, is among the company's most profitable divisions. The unit will generate roughly a third of Microsoft's product revenue in fiscal year 2004, according to analyst estimates...
thestar.com.my: Siemens: MSC progress impressive
...Siemens group board member (information and communication networks) Anton Hendrik Schaaf said ... the knowledge workers at the MSC should take advantage of technology and develop services and applications which were marketable...
Business Wire :: Corel Grafigo 2 Now Available!
...Corel Grafigo 2 gives mobile knowledge workers the tools they need to be productive...
The Chronicle Online - Program aids new student leaders
...Leading At Duke, a new leadership orientation program, aims to simplify their initiation process by providing students with better training and a greater understanding of the resources available to them at the University... the orientation program will also help students create a social network with peers and administrators...
Spoke Builds on Social Networking Patent Portfolio
...Currently, there are seven companies in closed testing of the social networking software, according to Tolles. A $9.2 million funding round earlier this year is expected to last Spoke until those companies become customers...
Your Table is Ready ... Meet New Friends Through Dinner Introductions
...Dinner Introductions utilizes an upscale and intimate dining experience to provide members with interesting social contacts and focuses on expanding their member's social network through an evening of engaging conversation and fine dining in intimate and upscale settings!...
Park Record - Skullcandy changes concept of staying wired
Parkites develop line of electronics that bring extreme cool to the ears
By Monika Guendner
In my "Knowledge Work" newscrawl I came across this "Skullcandy" newsbyte: ...I do know where they [people who have this knowledge] work and how to pay them... and found that Skull Candy (Headphones that "Link Any Music Player With Any Phone") definitely "fits" as a tool for knowledge workers. (^:
Business Wire :: Intellilink Solutions Brings the Knowledge Worker Into Focus
...Intellilink Solutions, Inc. today announced its exclusive focus on the "knowledge worker enterprise." Intellilink defines knowledge workers as the employees and consultants of service organizations, from internal IT departments to external consultants - that work on projects and apply specialized knowledge to create the deliverables that ultimately translate into an organization's value. Combining a unique blend of management consulting acumen with hands-on software development and implementation experience, Intellilink helps customers successfully select and deploy the appropriate solutions to automate and manage the knowledge worker enterprise, and achieve tangible business benefits...
...Ambrose cited recent IDC research that shows that knowledge workers spend 15 to 20% of their time actively looking for specific information; however, these searches are successful less than 50% of the time. According to the research, these unsuccessful searches could cost a company employing 1,000 knowledge workers $6 million in time lost and $15 million in opportunity losses. "The Intel Developer Library will help minimize these losses - and potentially could result in revenue gain," said Ambrose...
Dr M: Project to be expanded to other cyber cities
By Raslan Sharif and Saodah Elias
CYBERJAYA: The second phase of the Multimedia Super Corridor, to take the project nationwide and create more knowledge workers, was launched by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad last night...
The Korea Herald : Lee Kun-hee's reform drive - Samsung innovates in communication
Internal efficiency is the key
In 2002, Kim Hong-ki set up Phase-II of the plan for information-based operations of the group. The objective was also changed from "enhancement of management" to "enhancement of competitiveness," showing the group's intention to generate added value through information-based operations. Samsung set up five sub-objectives for information-based operations: establishment of a complete customer relation management (CRM) system, supply chain management (SCM), Internet-based e-Commerce, value-based (VBM) and knowledge management system (KMS), and supplementation of the IT infrastructure.
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: GMSI and StreamSage Win Air Force Research Laboratory Contract
...GMSI specializes in providing government clients with IT and network services which advance communications, improve enterprise efficiencies, and increase the value and security of knowledge management systems...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: V2R Financial Services Brings Banking Solutions to Financial Institutions in the Caribbean
...V2R FS's initial offerings of core financial processing solutions, including Internet banking capabilities, card processing solutions, knowledge management and bank compliance services...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: Cathay Financial Holdings Launches Enterprise Information Portal With Interwoven
...eBusiness strategy to develop a single point of access for critical information across the group -- increasing employee productivity and fostering knowledge sharing for better customer service...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: KMWorld Selects Intraspect as Trend-Setting Product of 2003
...Intraspect combines the best enterprise collaboration and knowledge management technologies to create high value applications that manage content within collaborative environments...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: Accelrys Announces DS Modeling 1.2 - SBD: Structure-Based Design Tools for Drug Discovery
...The Discovery Studio family's experiment wizards, integrated graphical representation of results, and project knowledge management system enable researchers to perform structure-based design in an easy-to-use and highly interactive manner...
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: Integ Delivers InfoVista's Performance Management Solutions to Customers in Australia
...The Business Solutions Group provides consulting, implementation and integration, application and technology infrastructure services. Offerings include knowledge management...
the future is now...
"don't blog and drive" warns phil wolff
moblogging can kill
haitech haiku™
©2003 judith meskill
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Buzzworthy: Share that book
If you're interested in social networks and communities formed using the Internet, check out Rebekah Denn's story today about local involvement in BookCrossing, "a literary Web version of a message in a bottle."
More than 3,000 people from Anacortes to Yelm are now surreptitiously dropping off books covered with sticky notes announcing "I'M FREE!" and bookplates listing the volume's ID number for tracking online. Worldwide, the Bookcrossing site now boasts more than a half-million books and 150,000 users.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Business calendar Monday September 7, 2003
A "SOCIAL NETWORKS AND BUSINESS" dinner panel will be Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Xerox, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto. Presented by the Institute for Social Networks Analysis of the Economy. Speaker: Mark Granovetter, a corporate scientific advisor, researcher and writer. Cost: members $45, nonmembers $55. Registration: ISNAE: Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy (ISNAE: is-nay)
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Judith Weir "is one of Britain's most wide-ranging and prolific composers. She studied composition with John Tavener while at school in London, and at Cambridge University with Robin Holloway. For six years she taught composition at Glasgow's University and RSAMD and she has also held visiting professorships at Oxford University and Princeton University.
Her interest in theatre, narrative and folklore has resulted in three full length operas (A Night at the Chinese Opera, The Vanishing Bridegroom and Blond Eckbert - all televised, and widely performed in the UK, Germany and the USA); and collaborations with the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Peter Hall Company, working with playwrights including Caryl Churchill and Peter Shaffer. Together with storyteller Vayu Naidu, Judith has created a blend of storytelling and music entitled Future Perfect which has toured England and India."
Newsweek : A Geek Bill of Rights
by Steven Levy
"While nothing can replace a flesh-and-blood teacher, computers are essential tools for learning, and every kid should be able to use one in his or her quest for knowledge. Dare I go farther and insist that every kid should have a computer? Some years ago, the then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich got flack for suggesting this as a federal mandate. People noted that such a multibillion-dollar initiative was unrealistic, and the financial status of schools now is much, much worse. Nonetheless, experimental programs have proved that students benefit tremendously from having a laptop they can take back and forth between school and home. Just as we can't imagine a business without computers these days, it's absurd to think that students - the ultimate knowledge workers - shouldn't have their own machines."
GoMemphis: Editorials: Jobless need more help than 'jobs czar'
"The nation's economic transition appears increasingly likely to reward "knowledge" workers more than those who make things. That means a cleaner environment and, often, more congenial job conditions."
sunspot.net - technology
by Rachel Osterman, Chicago Tribune
"Employers are catching on to blogs as a way to replace the heaps of e-mail, faxes and telephone calls that slow office life."
Boston.com / News / Nation / A hired gun who muses with fingertips
Joanna Weiss, Globe Staff, 9/7/2003
"Mathew Gross, 31, former rock band drummer, Colorado River boatman, and environmental studies graduate student, became the blogmaster of the Howard Dean for President operation -- before the Dean campaign developed its tech-savvy reputation, before Dean's "Blog for America" even existed. A blog, shorthand for weblog, is an online bulletin board that includes personal thoughts and links to other sites."
Utica Observer Dispatch : O-D team heading to Bosnia
'From Faraway Lands' trip to include online diaries (weblogs), photos
Religious Blogs Provide Forum for Personal Opinions on Faith, Worship and Spirituality | theledger.com
Naples Daily News : Alphabet Soup: Getting 'blogged' for food lovers
by Kristen Smith, Features Editor
Technology and real estate go hand in glove - The Economic Times
"Increased energy costs, life-altering technological change, fierce competition for knowledge workers, and the export of knowledge work to such countries as India and the Philippines are some of the trends that will shape the business and economic landscape of developed countries such as US in the next five years."
Primus Knowledge Solutions Completes Acquisition of Broad Daylight
EContentMag.com - Monkey Releases Version 1.5 of KM Solution
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine - Sharing Leads to Abundance
by Don Tapscott
"The days of knowledge hoarding are coming to an end. The modern corporation requires internal transparency, essential for effective knowledge work. Employees must share unprecedented amounts of knowledge, be given the latitude and authority for making decisions, and be self-motivated. As such, most need high visibility into the values, strategy, business processes, and operations of the firm to collaborate and work effectively."
Light Reading - IBM Sells Off Search Engines
IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM - message board) has sold the technology of its nascent search engine chips business to Integrated Device Technology Inc. (IDT) (Nasdaq: IDTI - message board), as part of the company's plan to scale back its original network processor ambitions.
Revolution - DIGITAL BRANDS: Digital Top 40
TOP 10 MOST RELIABLE BRANDS
Google - number 1
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: Vivisimo Announces Release 4.0 of its Award-Winning Clustering Engine
Making Knowledge Management Work With Service Management
by Michael Pastore for Intranet Journal
"For a concept that dates back to the beginning of time, knowledge management suffers from an identity crisis. Some users lump knowledge management in with its younger, somewhat distant cousins, content management and document management. Others define knowledge management by taking a cue from Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's famous definition of obscenity: "I know it when I see it." In reality, knowledge management goes back as far as human memory. It evolved onto stone tablets, books, file cabinets and sticky notes. But knowledge management in the IT world has always suffered from a lack of context, a lack of a problem that KM is clearly designed to fix. Service management may be the answer."
IT-Director.com | Enterprise Content Management meets Business Process Management
by Martin Langham, Bloor Research
"the outcome of the Open Text/Gauss merger will be strong support for integration of unstructured documents and collaboration with business processes. This could be a useful way for Open Text to differentiate Livelink from the rest of pack. Business process management is starting to shake off the stigma of Business Process Re-engineering and is again becoming an important IT priority."
COMPUTERWORLD HONG KONG : Chinadotcom acquires manufacturing software provider
ADVISORY/Experts Available To Discuss Homeland Security, Sept. 11 Anniversary
Business Wire has a service called ExpertSource that lists - among a number of other experts - Fern Krauss who can offer experts from GTSI to discuss issues including, government trends since 9/11; homeland security and e-government (myth and reality); and a plethora of other topics including knowledge management, security, privacy policy, and legislation.
ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at Business Wire.
pulsar wind bow shock
supersonic geminga
night-light diffusion
haitech haiku™
©2003 judith meskill
President, The University of Pennsylvania
1994 - Present
"In 1994, Dr. Judith Rodin became the first woman to be named to the presidency of an Ivy League institution. During nearly a decade of service, Rodin has guided the University through a period of unprecedented growth and development that has transformed Penn's academic core and dramatically enhanced the quality of life on campus and in the surrounding community. Under her leadership, Penn has invigorated its resources, doubling its research funding and tripling both its annual fundraising and the size of its endowment; launched a comprehensive and widely acclaimed neighborhood revitalization program; attracted record numbers of undergraduate applicants, creating Penn's most selective classes ever; and risen in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of top national research universities from 16th in 1994 to 4th in 2002. Dr. Rodin's presidency has also marked the largest capital construction period in Penn's history, with more than $1 billion invested in new buildings, renovations and restorations."
Columbia Journalism Review : Emerging Alternatives: Blogworld
by Matt Welch
"This February, I attended my first Association of Alternative Newsweeklies conference, in the great media incubator of San Francisco. It's impossible to walk a single block of that storied town without feeling the ghosts of great contrarian media innovators past: Hearst and Twain, Hinckle and Wenner, Rossetto and Talbot. But after twelve hours with the AAN, a much different reality set in: never in my life have I seen a more conformist gathering of journalists.
... The papers once embraced amateur writers; now they are firmly established in the journalistic pecking order, with the salaries and professional standards to match...
The average blog, needless to say, pales in comparison to a 1957 issue of the Voice, or a 1964 Los Angeles Free Press, or a 2003 Lexington, Kentucky, ACE Weekly, for that matter. But that's missing the point. Blogging technology has, for the first time in history, given the average Jane the ability to write, edit, design, and publish her own editorial product - to be read and responded to by millions of people, potentially - for around $0 to $200 a year. It has begun to deliver on some of the wild promises about the Internet that were heard in the 1990s. Never before have so many passionate outsiders - hundreds of thousands, at minimum - stormed the ramparts of professional journalism."
vnunet.com IBM unlocks the secrets of life
by James Watson
"The challenge for IBM is figuring out how IT can be used to help transform the massive amounts of data being discovered into meaningful knowledge. Royyuru says IT is being used to help sequence assembly algorithms, perform molecular modelling and structure prediction and generate complex cell and organ simulations. IBM researchers are drawing on a diverse range of disciplines, such as knowledge management, visual data analysis, grid computing and data mining and management."
IDG.com.sg - FDA pushes pharma industry to modernize
By Nancy Weil, IDG News Service, Boston Bureau
"Manufacturers are being encouraged to propose PAT (process analytical technology) technologies they want to use in processes that involve FDA regulation. PAT consists of new manufacturing technologies and quality assurance tools, including data acquisition and analysis, modern process analyzers or process analytical chemistry tools, process and endpoint monitoring and control, and knowledge management tools."
KMWorld and CAP Ventures Recognize Stratify's Success Making Actionable Information a Reality
Haig Barrett Grows on 'Sustainable Results' Approach With E-Learning, Business Management Clients
USATODAY.com - Conason's 'Big Lies' serves up red meat for hungry liberals
"It's a book tailor-made for a group that has grown increasingly angry in recent years and has been lashing out in a variety of ways, including enthusiastic letter-writing campaigns to media outlets and a zesty variety of Weblogs."
OJR article: Online News Pioneers See Lots of Changes in the First 10 Years
OJR: How important are Weblogs in the history of journalism, and how do they differ from personal home pages?
Winer: Weblogs drop the cost of publishing to near zero, making it possible for anyone with information or ideas to publish them. It's a huge change. Before, I used to get quoted occasionally by reporters, and they'd select the sound bites that were important to them, not me -- and they'd often mangle the quotes. It never served to get the ideas out that I wanted to get out. Now I can do it myself and have been since 1994. A lot of other people do it too now. About being different from the personal home page, geez, Weblogs are the personal home page. The difference is that Weblogs change and old PHPs were cute, and maybe a little snazzy, but never changed.
Tom Davenport - Big Offices Are Better - The New Work Order - CIO Magazine Sep 1,2003
"IT'S PRETTY COMMON to beat up on IT organizations for one reason or another. Yet when it comes to knowledge worker productivity and effectiveness, some IT people - particularly programmers - are the poster children of knowledge workerdom. In fact, some of the practices employed in IT are considered state of the art in enhancing knowledge work."
CRM News: Sun Unveils High-End App Server
Some market segments "are migrating heavily to the Web in order to tie together discrete clinical applications and enterprise knowledge-management components," says Frost & Sullivan analyst Amith Viswanathan.
Saint-Gobain Company Selects Open Text To Provide Knowledge Management Platform
Captiva's Digital Mailroom Named Trend-Setting Product of 2003 by KMWorld Magazine
MozillaZine Fifth Anniversary Poll - MozillaZine Talkback
"We want you to tell us what your main reason for visiting the site is... Maybe you like keeping up with the Mozilla developer weblogs. There's probably several reasons why you visit MozillaZine but tell us the main one."
Columbia Spectator Online - Committee Will Focus On ESC Programs
"...an e-community with weblogs and photo galleries, will be up and running later this fall."
Benchmark Compelling And Collabortive E-Business Communities
The Toque - Canada's Source for Humour and Satire
Fun. Sounds eerily similar to a number of meetings and conferences I have attended in my career. (^:
Using computers to outthink terrorists - Computerworld
Future Watch by Dan Verton
"Research into new intelligence technology is taking place as part of a $54 million program known as Genoa II, a follow-on to the Genoa I program, which focused on intelligence analysis."
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - NEWS
"Workshops will also be held in the coming week in order to gather together past experience of the Games. This is part of the Olympic Games Knowledge Management programme, which includes project management, construction and overlay and strategic planning. The purpose of this programme is to share experience with BOCOG and offer advice on the next steps to take."
The Charleston Gazette - KeyLogic Systems
"KeyLogic Systems, a knowledge management technology firm with corporate offices in Morgantown, plans to use the U.S. Small Business Administration's HUBZone (Historically Underutilized Business Zone) program to bring high-tech jobs to West Virginia."
Reed Smith Selects West km for Knowledge Management
"Knowledge management programs -- which enable organizations to leverage their institutional knowledge in the service of their customers -- are seen as critical to the long-term growth and effectiveness of businesses."
Hummingbird announces release of Hummingbird Connectivity 9.0
Dearborn Financial Services Launches Dearborn Financial Institute
RightNow Delivers Softbank/Yahoo! Broadband Partnership Competitively Superior Customer Service
Autonomy to Present at Forbes/Andrews Corporate Compliance & Executive Planning Conference
JCN Network - Toshiba Medical Puts Knowledge Portal into Corporate-wide Use
"Judith Butler (1956-) is Professor of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and is well known as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity. Indeed, she is described in alt.culture as "one of the superstars of '90s academia, with a devoted following of grad students nationwide". (A fanzine, Judy!, was published in 1993)."
Is RSS the Answer to the Spam Crisis? by Ryan Naraine
"With scam artists, spammers and virus writers all using the e-mail inbox as the main target, it has become a daily nightmare for legitimate online publishers and marketers to cope with mail filters, blacklists and irate subscribers. Enter RSS (define), the XML syndication format that allows publishers to shuttle content to news aggregators, avoiding the e-mail chaos altogether."
mentioned in this article (in order of appearance):
Lockergnome, RSS: Your Gateway To News & Blog Content, PaidContent.org, RSS Feeds are the Better Email Newsletters, FeedDemon, Feedreader, NewzCrawler, AmphetaDesk, Radio UserLand, NetNewsWire, Bloglines, MyWireService, Feed Me Info, NewsGator, Lockergnome's RSS Resource, MSFT, MSFT/DESC, and The Scobleizer.
Seeking a greater depth of knowledge - theage.com.au
"Knowledge, in all its buzz-word guises, allows business to operate efficiently, effectively and competitively. Although it can be difficult to track knowledge from the top to the bottom line, that is where its impact will be felt."
Supply chain knowledge on the move
"A PORTABLE supply chain knowledge centre is presently touring the country with education programs and course materials, on-line delivery such as websites, and stand alone software tools distributed on CD-ROM."
dBusinessNews.com - Triangle Metro Edition
Lloyds TSB Selects SAS to Manage Risk and Collect Rewards
CNN.com - Internet newbies unite - Sep. 1, 2003
(CNN) -- I've been writing and talking about weblogs and news feed readers to the point that folks think of me as some sort of "blog nut." By writing this column, I risk perpetuating that notion, but this is too big of a deal to keep quiet.
By Christine Boese, CNN Headline News
TUNE IN!
Six Apart founders Ben and Mena Trott will be discussing their new product TypePad on CNN Headline News on Wednesday, September 3.
Internet Magazine - Now you can email Tony Blair
"One website bloggerheads.com has run a 10-month long campaign to persuade Blair to get an email address."
Dumping the wrinklies causing massive hi tech problem
"THERE IS A REALLY huge problem looming on the tech support horizon, and most large companies don't even realize it yet. It is all because they are losing their memory. No, I don't mean senior management is getting so old that Alzheimers is becoming an issue, I mean what I call Institutional Memory (IM). The current trend it to overlook it in the name of cost cutting, and it is most likely a fatal error."
vnunet.com Email slated as collaboration tool
"Email has become a burden and an ineffective information management tool, with most companies wasting a disproportionate amount of time and money on it, analyst Butler Group has warned."
"A key focus of the National Water Initiative will be to implement a robust framework for water access entitlements that encourages investment and maximises the economic value created from water use, while ensuring that there is sufficient water available to maintain healthy rivers and aquifers. The framework will be compatible between jurisdictions and reflect regional variability in the reliability of water supply and the state of knowledge underpinning regional allocation decisions."
San Francisco Chronicle / Molly Joel Coye: Bringing hospitals the latest technology
"Dr. Molly Joel Coye has the tough task of keeping hospitals abreast of the latest technological advances, even though many are struggling to make ends meet...
As a member of the Institute of Medicine, Coye was also behind two highly publicized reports that shook up the medical establishment. The first, in 1999, reported that as many as 98,000 Americans a year die from preventable medical errors. A follow-up report in 2001 found that it took an average of 17 years for new research knowledge to become incorporated into standard practice."
Quote: "Sometimes technology can create a problem, then answer it."