Friday, November 16, 2001

Lifestreams vs. Weblogs Techreview.  David Gelernter (not Gerlertner) arrives late to the station with his Lifestreams desktop (time-organized desktop digitial files).  Weblogs have already put that concept into practice and gone beyond it.  How?  Weblogs let you share your stream with others.  That's a huge innovation.  10:15:49 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

>>>> Techreview.  David Gelertner arrives late to the station with his software for Lifestreams (time-organized digitial files).  Weblogs have already put that concept into practice and gone beyond it.  Weblogs allow you to share your stream with others.    10:15:38 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

>>>> Techreview.  David Gelertner arrives late to the station with his software for Lifestreams (time-organized digitial files).  Weblogs have already put that concept into practice and gone beyond it.  Weblogs allow you to share your stream with others.    10:13:10 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

>>>> NYT.  Getting closer.  Military leader of OBLs organization got whacked by US airstrikes.  This is combination with the encriclement of 3k "Arabs" in a northern Afghani city, is the end of the drama.  The only thing that might spoil it are excesses by the Norther Alliance (the despised Rape Pillage Plunder routine).  It is nice to see how close this war is conforming to my earlier analysis except that the time table has been shortened.  The perverse consequence of this situation is that there has been more damage to civil liberties done, here at home, than necessary given our ability to provide closure to this attack.  4:41:16 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Simplicity and K-Logs This is another post to K-Logs.  A Yahoo Group dedicated to knowledge management Weblogs.  If you like this content you are welcome to subscribe.  175 participants and growing fast... The biggest hurdle that faces any knowledge management tool is:  will people use it?  The key to surmounting this hurdle is threefold: 1) The tool must be EASY to use. 2) The tool must deliver visible benefits immediately. 3) The tool must gain value as more people use it (network effects). A quick review of most existing knowledge management tools fails all three counts.  They are often bewilderingly complex, the benefits are difficult to measure (particularly from the perspecitive of an individual user), and the tools value is the virtually the same regardless of the number of people using it.  In contrast K-Logs measure up well.  Here's how: 1) The tool is easy to use:  a) write something > b) hit post to Weblog   That is all it takes to contribute.  2) The tool provides quickly visible benefits:  a) I create a K-Log > b) I inform my co-workers > c) my co-workers can quickly and easily keep up to date on what I am doing by reading my K-Log 3) The tool provides network effects:  a) the more people with K-Logs the greater the number of knowledge streams I can subscribe to (RSS), b) the greater the number of K-Logs the greater the searchable number of Web pages, and c) the more K-Logs the better the knowledge network cloud works (hotlists, most recent updates, etc.). 12:38:32 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

>>>> Reuters.  Bruce Lee to star in new action flick.  This type of things has got make the SAG worried.   Hollywood's penchant for "sure things" may eventually lead them to use simulacrums of known mega-actors instead of trying new talent.  Particularly hard hit as this technology gets less expensive will be character actors.  11:25:24 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

>>>> Question.  Why doesn't Yahoo use an advertising system that is similar to Google?  It's simple.  It allows advertisers to target keywords.  It's text-based.  It's automated.  Right now, Yahoo's right hand margin is full of internal promotion.  They spend a lot on sales people.  They should be generating $0.02 to $0.04 per page from text-based ads in the right margin with no sales people involved except the small team needed to handle the system and customer service. 11:04:27 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

>>>> WSJ   Industrial production plunged in October for the 13th month in a row, the longest string of declines in manufacturing activity since the Depression (1932). Meanwhile, the consumer price index fell 0.3% (deflation) in October after climbing 0.4% a month earlier, the Labor Department said Friday. The drop in energy prices was partly offset by an acceleration in food prices. The so-called core index, which excludes typically volatile food and energy items, rose 0.2%, the same rate as in September. It is pretty clear to me that something bigger than a normal recession is at work here.  The Fed doesn't have a chance of reversing it.    This is a phase state change in how our economy operates.  We need to get to a higher level of complexity through the wholesale introduction of computer automation into all areas of our economy.  Once we reach that new level, watch out, our growth will be tied to Moore's Law.  10:33:40 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

>>>> Openwave.  Yet another instant messaging tool.  7:43:04 AM    Comment_ Trackback []