Today I'm accepting something important.
I cannot cope.
I am now subscribed to 37 news sources. I add about one new source a week. Each of these is easily capable of delivering at least one or two items each day that are really interesting to me. That I want to talk about. But I cannot absorb this quanitity of new information even on a good day. There is no time to reflect, to mull, to doze on it.
So I have resolved that I don't care.
I won't cope.
I'll let good stuff go by the wayside.
Other people will find it.
Google will keep track of it.
It's all their when the time comes.
I'm not Atlas to the internet.
Even to my own small chunk of it.
There.
I feel better now.
Budgeting is good for the soul..
Budgeting is good for the soul.
Bad VC market a good time to start a company:. "...while capital is scarce and returns on venture investments have never been poorer, the track record from previous downturns suggests that conditions for building a solid start-up may be the best they have been in years." [evhead]
Hey Mike, maybe doing the company thing isn't so stupid after all. You learn how to run a company on a tight budget! :) [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog]
True enough mate, true enough.
[rebelutionary]
» Well this is better news!
Brett Morgan is talking about KM and blogging integration (k-logging) being the next wave of tools. You bet. Or rather I bet. I'm betting the farm on it.
Here's a thing... How about process-logging.
Every workflow process produces an RSS output stream commenting on the state of the process and events that occur. If you're interested in how the process is going you subscribe.
Are any of the open source workflow packages looking at RSS integration?
John Robb interview defining k-logs.
What is a k-log?. Some people are taking the concept of weblogs and applying it to the wider concept of knowledge management. The result is k-logging ("knowledge-logging"). But will it catch on - will your employer dump Lotus Notes databases in favour of browsers and blog-style brain-dumps? [WriteTheWeb]
I've posted this interview with John Robb before, but it remains an excellent introduction to the notion of a k-log.
[McGee's Musings]
» Definitely worth a re-printing. And it's worth reading the comments to Johns interview as well for some interesting commentary.
Note: Web Design pattern for a wizard and other
good stuff from
Croc o' Lyle
Business Week. Accelerating mutual fund redemptions shows that we have finally reached the classic bear market capitulation phase. Another couple months of this and we could finally see a bottom in the market. Excellent time to start getting funds together to begin investing again. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
» One of the things that is hitting me, as I read up about starting a business, is that although I have exactly 1 employee and no customers right now, I need to be thinking about what my business is will be like in the future and then plan how I get there.
That means that, as inconceivable as it is to me now, at some point I am going to need funding to grow.
Guess I better start understanding this stuff then...
Reuters: Managers drowning in e-mail.
>>>A huge volume of business e-mails is generated from workers reporting progress to project managers, Nickerson said. <<< There is an answer to this: post it to your K-Log. K-Logs are more passive and user friendly than e-mail. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
[Jim McGee: Blogging] [Ron Lusk: Ron's K-Logs]
» I shall be leveraging this argument quite heavily I think.
Savvy people already realise that email is the rope they've tied around their neck. I think they are just afraid to do anything different in case they pull the handle for the trapdoor.
Hopefully the k-log message will resonate with these people in a good way.
This is a little tricker than it first seems because there are really two editors. The HTML textarea based editor and the WYSIWYG editor. What is even more confusing is that, if you are using the WYSIWYG editor, Radio defines a hidden input field with the same name as the textarea when it is used. This makes detecting which editor you are using a little more confusing!
Here is the code I ended up using
bundle { // Get the text of the blog posting
htmlText = htmlText + "if( thisForm.itemtext.tagName == \"INPUT\" ) {" + cr;
htmlText = htmlText + "text = getEditorContents();" + cr;
htmlText = htmlText + "} else {" + cr;
htmlText = htmlText + "text = thisForm.itemtext.value;" + cr;
htmlText = htmlText + "}" + cr
}
