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Saturday, March 16, 2002 |
 For those of you that are new to Radio, please visit this directory of resources. I am going to put it in my menu bar to the right as a reminder.
11:02:13 PM 
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David Brown is using Radio's blog from anywhere feature (even a BlackBerry). To access this, make sure Radio is running and click this link: E-mail to weblog. This is the perfect tool for a group or personal K-Log for people that are on the move. In this mode, Radio acts like a private Yahoo Groups tool.
The only thing it is missing is the ability to publish a summary of posts to users via e-mail. That would require a way to put in a list of e-mail addresses (or point to a source of e-mail addresses) and the ability to set a time to send a summary (ie. midnight). However, most people don't need more e-mail sent to them. The group K-Log is sufficient.
3:55:09 PM
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Damn. Radio's RSS news aggregator is fast. In the time it took me to click "add" a new subscription and then click the "News" menu item, all the news from the subsciption I just added was there. Wow. Less than 2 seconds and I'm up to date.
3:41:28 PM
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Jeremy's damngoodbody.com This is another personal business in the making using a weblog format. And also, given the pictures and the site name, a big ego boost.
3:31:10 PM
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I hope Matt continues to build out this financial site. I don't know what his background is, but it is a good idea. High quality analysis on breaking financial news in key sectors is a perfect weblog topic. Imagine a weblog on financial news related to a given sector (wireless vendors for example) by an industry insider. He/she could easily dissect each press release, filing, product announcement, etc. He/she could even provide first hand reports on how products are doing in showrooms or what the industry rumors are. Nice. The data could also be packaged and sold as a retail product (a PDF or Word doc). I know of one independent Internet analyst that sold a report on Internet companies he tracked for $100. 9,500 people purchased the report. This is a business model. I am sure this model would work for technology topics too. You could even use Befree to track affiliate revenue ($10 a sale) for sales generated by promotions on the sites of other webloggers.
3:10:13 PM
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Ernie the Attorney blogs his thoughts on K-Logs. He has an example from the legal world:
>>>But, an industrious paralegal named Connie goes to court everyday to file things, and she is always learning the newest filing requirements because she is there in court everyday and learns first hand all the lastest court gossip (i.e. they're getting picky about the font size requirement for pleadings). Her blog puts that information out there. And so when people are going to file something they check her blog first to make sure their pleading complies. Or Connie keeps an updated list of court phone numbers on her blog site. Then she adds the updated list of operating hours for the local courts. A couple of months go by and the office manager decides to have someone comb through Connie's blog and "data-mine" the information that is in there that can be formally set out and put on the firm's intratnet site and to assign Connie the task of keeping it updated.<<< K-Logging allows her expertise to bubble to the surface. Her knowledge isn't a static thing, it is something she is constantly improving as she makes trips to court. Sharing her discoveries makes her a corporate resource. Once it's known her posts on this topic are useful, she could easily categorize (using Radio) those posts related to filing requirements. Categorization will automatically create a new weblog dedicated to that topic with its own URL. That category specific K-Log could then be attached to the appropriate section of the Intranet. To maintain it, she would merely need to click on that category every time she makes a post that relates to filing requirements. Easy.
2:45:57 PM
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