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Friday, July 26, 2002

Improvements in Paschal's Kit

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Kit is probably the single best improvement in Radio I've made in my brief experience. The news aggregator filtering is a great improvement over the standard Radio aggregator, and the search tool is very good. I haven't used the date modification tools yet, but I'm beginning to understand how they could be used. Highly recommended.

I suspect activeRenderer will be an equally enlightening addition, as soon as I can figure out how to ger a browser that works with it.

Kit 1.1.7 [markpasc.blog Headlines]
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Publisher Profits Up

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McGraw-Hill Reports Profit Rise of 14%. New York Times Jul 26 2002 2:06AM ET [Moreover - Book publishing news]
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Thursday, July 25, 2002

Lessig In Law Journal on Libraries and Copyright

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I wrote about this earlier -- how Librarians are our first, best hope for stemming the Copyright Cabal. I need to find it.
Library Journal | Cahners - Copyright in the Balance: LJ Talks with Lawrence Lessig. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace - by <a href=Lawrence Lessig" title="Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace - by Lawrence Lessig" >

Stanford University professor Lawrence Lessig is certainly no stranger to the library community. Considered the nation's most eminent legal scholar on the nexus of copyright, technology, and the Constitution, he is the highly regarded author of the landmark works Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Bks.) and, most recently, The Future of Ideas (Random). In these works he eloquently defends the need to balance creators' rights with public benefits. Now, in a more direct way than ever before, Lessig carries the hopes of the library community, and by extension a largely unknowing public, squarely on his shoulders.

Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World - by Lawrence Lessig

In a promising sign for libraries and the public, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed in February 2001 to review whether Congress overstepped its bounds in 1998 when it passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, extending copyright terms for another 20 years. Lessig will argue the case, Eldred v. Ashcroft, on behalf of a group of online publishers that offer digital editions of public domain books for free over the Internet. Two lower courts already ruled against the plaintiffs, but hopes are high in the library community that the third time could be the charm.

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This simplistic notion of what copyright is and how people think about it is weakening the debate substantially. We need to be much more aggressive in calling people on this rhetoric, because it's just wrong. It's just not the case that copyright has ever been understood to mean that if you use a copyrighted work in a way unintended by the copyright owner that's "theft." [Privacy Digest]

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Klogging: Chapter and Verse

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I took a quick run through the on-line version of Chapter 8 and have to say it looks pretty good. 2.5 minutes at midnight isn't a fair assessment of anything, but it looks like this chapter does justice to both the concept and content of business blogs -- enough so that I'm going to see if I can find an on-line copy down at the Georgia Tech Library like Paul Holbrook mentioned when I meet him for lunch on Thursday.

Blogs and Business, Take 3.

The BlogRoots authors are publishing their book on the Web, in its entirety. Chapter 8, Using Blogs in Business, is online now. Excellent. [Scripting News]

The birth of a meme. I've now counted at least five separate sources of info on the blogs and business topic. And I got my copy of Information Week today with the cover dedicated solely to blogs:

"Give individual employees within a company their own weblogs, encourage them to document their best ideas and personal experiences, link them, add search capabilities, and it's easy to imagine that at least some innovation will arise from the ordinary."

More on this later. [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]

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Wednesday, July 24, 2002

Business Weblogs and Their Uses

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A brief but useful article hitting many of the highpoints of weblog usage, but also noting a couple of the gotchas.
Web logging can serve many roles. Good article by Paul Andrews of the Seattle Times on "corporate weblogs" and their potential in organizations. [Gurteen Knowledge-Log]
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Managing Subject Matter Experts

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Ten tips for ensuring that outside expertise actually helps your project. According to the article, there is good reason to worry.
Beware: Mismanagement of SMEs can have serious consequences. Your project may:
  • never be completed
  • go over budget or be delayed
  • result in training that lacks substance or, conversely, is too advanced for the target population
  • create conflict between training and line management.

    Subject Matter Experts. Learning Circuits has posted an article on Getting the Most from Your SMEs, which talks about how to manage the [Column Two]

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