KMBlog :: Knowledge Management Blog




					About this Blog This blog is a collection of entries from various other blogs, all about Knowledge Management. I'm S. Morgan Friedman - I run this blog - and I have an intense love-hate relationship with KM. I can't stop myself from reading two-dozen KM blogs every day, when I find time, and I created this blog just for myself, so that I could read them all in one, and I put it here, hoping that other people will find it useful, too. The software that runs this blog is Aggreblog and it was developed by my company, Diseño Porteño. You can e-mail me at morgan@westegg.com. Page last updated: Friday, Aug 11, 2006 @ 3:15PM KM Links APQC's Knowledge Management Blog Alex Barnett blog Alex Moskalyuk Online As I May Think... Blogging DEMO Buzz Marketing with Blogs Charlene Li's Blog Customer Intelligence Enterprise RSS EventLab Gary Stein Get Real Going Global IdeaFlow Innovation Weblog InsideGoogle Joe Wilcox John Battelle's Searchblog Knowledge Jolt with Jack Knowledge-at-work Many-to-Many Micro Persuasion Moore's Lore Online Dating Portals and KM Read/Write Web Reforming Project Management Ross Mayfield's Weblog Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger Scott Rafer Scott on Feedster Sifry's Alerts Slashdot Strange Attractor The Blog Herald: more blog news more often The Nanopublishing Weblog The Office Weblog The Peer-to-Peer Weblog The RSS Weblog The Red Couch The Social Software Weblog The Spam Weblog The Unofficial Google Weblog To Wish for Impossible Things Visible Path diJEST: a journal of extrapreneurial strategy and technology iRi stevenberlinjohnson.com
			Merom in MacBook and MacBook Pros in September?
			Kevin C. Tofel writes "If you want to see where the computer industry is going, you often have to watch the computer component manufacturers, and that's just what DigiTimes did. AsusTek and Quanta both produce Apple notebooks and sources appear to have just revealed that September is the month for 64-bit Merom CPUs in the MacBook and MacBook Pro line." Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 6:27PM \| Posted on: Slashdot
			Window's Patchguard Hinders Security Vendors
			eldavojohn writes "Windows' PatchGuard seems to be upsetting third party security vendors such as Symantec, Sana Security and Agnitum. It sounds like the 'black hats' will be able to bypass this security feature (which will be in all copies of Vista) but force security software companies to give up developing software for Windows. From the article: 'PatchGuard will make it harder for third parties, particularly host intrusion-prevention software, to function in Vista,' said Yankee Group analyst Andrew Jaquith. 'Third parties have two choices: continue to petition Microsoft to create an approved kernel-hooking interface so products like theirs can work, or use "black hat" techniques to bypass the restrictions.' Apparently, using these techniques is not a difficult trick." Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 5:41PM \| Posted on: Slashdot
			Making the World's Fastest Kayak
			bart_scriv writes "BusinessWeek looks at the world's fastest kayak, which floats over the water rather than nosing through waves like more typical boats. Named 'Little Wing' for the fore and aft wings that add stability, the kayak is the creation of Ted Warren. An MIT-educated engineer, Warren 'played around for three years with 3-D wire mesh designs on his PC, crunching the numbers for speed and stability, then started building actual models to test in the waters near his Massachusetts home.'" Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 4:54PM \| Posted on: Slashdot
			Big Blue's Software Spending Spree
			abb_road writes "IBM has gone on an aggressive acquisitions spree for document management packages in the past three weeks, spending more than $2 billion to pick up two companies. The companies, Webify and FileNet, are expected to become part of IBM's Information on Demand strategy. The acquisitions point to a larger industry trend: a focus on software for unified corporate data management. From the article: 'It's a crucial time to jockey for most-valuable-software-provider status, because companies want to buy more from fewer players, and they're tired of buying stand-alone pieces of software like customer-relationship management that don't fix real-world business problems. The new message to software vendors: Fix my call centers, don't just sell me a product. As a result, the lines are starting to blur between software companies that offer, say, Internet security, databases, and tools to manage nearly every part of the business. So, too, are the lines between service companies and software companies.'" Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 4:06PM \| Posted on: Slashdot
			Studios OK Burning Movie Downloads
			SirClicksalot writes "The DVD Copy Control Association has released a statement (pdf) announcing that it will make adaptations to the Content Scramble System (CSS) used to protect DVDs. The association, made up of Hollywood studios, consumer electronics and software companies, licenses CSS to the DVD industry to protect content. The changes will allow home users to legally burn purchased movie downloads to special CSS protected DVDs, compatible with existing DVD players." Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 3:24PM \| Posted on: Slashdot
			We’re still seeking spiffy columnists at The Blog Herald
			We’re still looking to add to our staff here at The Blog Herald with openings for additional paid columnists. Specifically, we’re looking for the following: Design Columnist: Regular commentary on web design, reviews of new designs and new blogs with spiffy designs. Must know and move CSS and standards based web design. News [...] Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 2:54PM \| Posted on: The Blog Herald
			Contagious Cancer Found in Dogs
			Dan East writes "Scientists in England have gathered definitive evidence that a kind of cancer in dogs, known as Sticker's sarcoma, is contagious. It is spread by tumor cells getting passed from dog to dog through sex or from animals biting or licking each other. Robin Weiss and his colleagues did genetic studies on the tumor cells from 40 dogs with Sticker's sarcoma, collected from five continents, which showed that all the tumor cells are clones of each other. The parent cell probably arose in a domesticated dog of Asian origin — perhaps a husky — hundreds of years ago, and perhaps more than 1,000 years ago. A similarly transmissible cancer has recently been discovered spreading through populations of Tasmanian devils." Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 2:39PM \| Posted on: Slashdot

			Dasht: "Article squatters are the feudal lords of Wikipedia and the only way to displace someone is to spend a great deal of time fighting with them, possibly escalating through the central authority. No doubt there exist article squatters who make it there mission to work with others to improve content but, in my samples, the trend is more towards censorship." Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 2:24PM \| Posted on: Scripting News
			Michigan Enforces Do-Not-Email Registry Law
			elanghe writes "The Michigan Attorney General filed suit against two companies sending adult-oriented email messages to the state's children, in violation of the Michigan Children's Protection Registry. A similar law in Utah is being challenged by the porn industry. While the FTC, influenced by the Direct Marketing Association, rejected the idea of a do-not-email registry, have these two states proven anti-spam laws like these — unlike CAN-SPAM — really have teeth?" Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 1:47PM \| Posted on: Slashdot
			Microsoft Bracing for Worm Attack
			10010010 writes "A network worm attack targeting a critical Microsoft Windows vulnerability appears inevitable. The flaw is easy to exploit, as evidenced by the quick release of an exploit module for HD Moore's Metasploit Framework. Within hours of the Patch Day release Tuesday, two pen testing companies (Immunity and Core) created and released 'reliable exploits' for the flaw, which was deemed wormable on all Windows versions, including Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1." Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 1:01PM \| Posted on: Slashdot
			MapQuest Beats Google Maps? Oy…
			Techpoint takes a look at Google Maps driving directions and how they compare with MapQuest, and finds out that MapQuest still does a better job at getting you to your destination. Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 1:00PM \| Posted on: InsideGoogle
			Interview request
			These days when I get an interview request from a professional reporter, I offer to answer the questions, best I can, on my blog, without saying who the reporter is and exactly what questions were asked. This way I create a public record, something that can be useful to anyone, and I avoid the problem of being quoted selectively and out of context. Having created a record that's likely to be as widely read as the story, I make sure what I have to say has a chance of being heard. In this case, the question basically is if any trend can be discerned from my decision to stop blogging, on or about the end of this year, and the answer is no, imho. Blogging is a lifestyle, not something you do inbetween things. For a guy like me, it's the background, it's what I do when idle, and when busy, it's what I think about every waking hour. The lessons I learn from life appear in my weblog, but maybe not so much these days, for a variety of reasons. I'm what many would call an "A-list blogger," not by choice, it's not something I decided to be or something I wanted to be, but because I was first, and the first generation blogs were rooted in my work, and their work formed the roots for the next level, what I write here tends to get a lot more attention than what someone might write at a random blog at Blogspot or Typepad. You might think that's good, and at times it is good to have such a pulpit. But it also means giving up on some things that are important to me. I don't want everything I write to be seen as a U.N. Security Council resolution, yet often my posts are read and picked at as if they were formal documents, and they don't stand up to such treatment. I'm also a software developer, and part of the satisfaction of blogging for me was writing the software that made it possible, and then creating software and formats that made reading massive amounts of blog material possible (reading is going to be a big deal in the future, as I've written earlier this month). I don't think there's much room for changing what blogging is, but I do think there's a chance to create new ways of writing on the net. Key point, if I'm blogging every day, I won't have the incentive to create new software. Blogging is good enough, but it may be possible to do something richer and more powerful, and I want to find out. I think there's a subtext to the questions my professional colleague is asking -- can we say that blogging is just a temporary thing, bound to pass as people get tired of it. They seem to keep wanting to see this, but no way, that's not what's happening. In fact, blogging is just beginning to come into its own. Yesterday we got the scoop on the news of the terrorist threat from a blogger, Doc Searls. He beat the mainstream reporters, who were (presumably) waiting for official word from the governments, because he was there, at Logan Airport, experiencing the event first-hand. And as the day went on, bloggers posted their accounts of the human view of the events, the eye witnesses, while the pros were (importantly) reporting on the governments. See how the two complement each other? We need both views, and it would do us all good if the pros would stop predicting the demise of blogging, and get busy learning to use blogging in their reporting. It is happening, they are giving up the fight, but every so often I'm asked to defend blogging, which I will never stop doing. Sylvia, my friend, wrote about my silence at BlogHer, describing me as a parent or grandparent, proud of what his offspring are accomplishing. My blogging voice will go silent, by choice, but I will still be standing behind the medium with every ounce of my being, proud as can be to have helped get something so powerful and empowering started. Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 12:37PM \| Posted on: Scripting News

			Today is the 25th anniversary of the IBM PC. I wrote a remembrance for the celebration five years ago. I thought of it as a "big blank machine." Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 12:18PM \| Posted on: Scripting News
			Novell Defends 'Unstable' Xen Claims
			daria42 writes "Novell has fired back at Red Hat's claims that the open source Xen virtualization software is not yet ready for enterprise use. 'We had all the major hardware partners that had virtualization hardware like IBM, Intel and AMD. They all stood up and said "Yes, this technology's ready, and we fully support deployments based on Xen and in combination with SUSE Linux Enterprise 10."', Novell's chief technology officer said today. 'So I guess the other vendors would not do that if it weren't ready.'" Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 12:10PM \| Posted on: Slashdot
			Del.icio.us goes on a tear
			Yahoo!’s darling del.icio.us has seen their traffic more than double since January, according to a study released yesterday by Hitwise. What’s probably more interesting than the simple traffic numbers is this summary of who is driving the growth at del.icio.us: What the chart below shows is that del.icio.us is highly skewed toward the social groups U1, “Urban [...] Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 12:01PM \| Posted on: The Blog Herald
			So Google Saves… Nothing?
			Google is well known for trying to squeeze every possible byte out of Google.com's HTML, removing every unnecessary bit of code in order to make the page lighter and load faster. Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 11:00AM \| Posted on: InsideGoogle
			9 planes, 29 terrorists, 2,700 would-be victims
			Over at The Irish Trojan, Brendan Loy has posted the best news summary so far of the terrorist plot that was foiled yesterday in the United Kingdom. He also has some strong political commentary. But at least he’s shooting from my side of the aisle… Also, don’t miss the Washington Post’s summary of the plot [...] Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 9:59AM \| Posted on: The Blog Herald
			Slow....
			Hey esteemed readers - I'm a bit loopy after my shoulder surgery, and won't be posting much till the Percocet wears off. Meanwhile, how is it that the damn spammers always know when I'm offline?... Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 9:54AM \| Posted on: John Battelle's Searchblog
			My Google bag
			My first grade daughter has been bringing a swim bag to camp most days this summer -- it was one of those tchotchkes that I got at an industry event. So last weekend she was getting ready to go to... Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 9:36AM \| Posted on: Charlene Li's Blog
			In-line tagging at LibraryThing
			Tim Spalding has taken discussion forums a big step forward over at LibraryThing. The concept is simple but could make a real difference because it allows forum msgs to be aggregated in multiple ways. When you’re entering a msg at a forum, you can put a title or author in brackets and LibraryThing will take a stab at identifying what you have in mind. Think of it as in-place tagging. You can thus easily find all the posts about a book. And all the references to a book or author will be lilsted on that book or author’s page. Because LibraryThing knows which books you own (because you’ve told it), it can feed you msgs about any of them. And, as Tim points out, this unhiding of msgs will change the temporality of posts: Rather than msgs fading into obscurity a few days or weeks after they’re posted, they’ll be easily findable and reply-able. Very cool. Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 8:59AM \| Posted on: Many-to-Many
			Lebanese-Israeli conflict via mobile phones
			Suw and I have been meaning to do a podcast, maybe a podcast over crepes in the morning. The Strange Attractor Crepe-cast. At any rate, fresh off our two-week European road trip, I decided to take the podcast plunge and have a chat with Eric Sundelof, who is just finishing a fellowship with the Reuters Digital Vision programme. As he says on his site: Cell phones today transmit audio, video, photographs and text. When combined with the proper web application, cell phones enable any citizen in any country of any background to publish information and share it with the world. I talked to him about how he put this idea into practice to hear voices in Lebanon and Israel. powered by ODEO Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 8:57AM \| Posted on: Strange Attractor
			ACLU, EFF, & Others Fight RIAA for Debbie Foster
			NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a landmark legal document, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, Public Citizen, the ACLU of Oklahoma Foundation, and the American Association of Law Libraries have submitted an amicus curiae brief in support of the motion for attorneys fees that has been made by Deborah Foster in Capitol Records v. Debbie Foster, in federal court in Oklahoma. This brief is mandatory reading for every person who is interested in the RIAA litigation campaign against consumers." Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 8:46AM \| Posted on: Slashdot
			It was the bloggers, in the parlor, with the knife…
			Make no mistake, Time’s article about how bloggers pulled off the upset of Joseph Lieberman in this week’s Democratic primary election for US Senator in Connecticut is spot on… The much-hyped Internet activists of the Howard Dean presidential campaign, liberal blogs like Daily Kos and activist groups like MoveOn.org had generated lots of buzz, but few [...] Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 8:29AM \| Posted on: The Blog Herald
			Why The London Plot Helps The Democrats (Or At Least, Why It Should Help Them)
			I hope the Democrats (or at least the anti-Iraq-war Democrats) are smart enough to recognize the Gatorade bombing plot actually supports their position on the war on terror. (Or, to put it less kindly, gives them an opportunity to actually... Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 8:00AM \| Posted on: stevenberlinjohnson.com
			Blogrolled: Dogcaught - A Railroad Blog
			Our new series Blogrolled continues with Dogcaught - A Railroad Blog. This is likely not known to many of you, but I come from a railroading family. My grandmother was one of seven children who all worked for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad beginning in around 1930 up until the last of them retired in the [...] Link \| Fri, 11 Aug 2006 @ 7:52AM \| Posted on: The Blog Herald
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