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Monday, December 5, 2005
Euan Semple Discusses Real-world Use of Blogs, Wikis, and Social Software in Business
Just had a listen to Euan Semple, International Information Industry Awards 2005 Information Professional Of The Year, on BBC Radio Five Live talking about the process of managing internal blogs and wikis within the BBC. Interesting stuff.I listened to the show live. I guess we'll have to wait a bit for the archive link to be posted. I listened to a little bit of the subsequent segments out of curiosity - a bit on Indian music podcasts and some news about UK taxes on oil companies. Pretty good stuff. I rarely listen to news anymore, or watch it on TV. Just too tiresome.Me on the radio
I have just been interviewed by Chris Vallance for the Pods and Blogs section of Up All Night on BBC Radio Five Live. It is meant to be going out live at 2.50 am GMT but when it gets to "Listen Again" I'll post a link.
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Monday, November 28, 2005
Skype 1.4.0.84 Offers Improved Performance and Stability
The latest Skype version, 1.4.0.84, appears to have addressed several performance and stability issues. I've only just installed it this weekend on both my desktop PC and my ThinkPad, so experience is limited, but the annoying system lockups and 100% CPU usage while doing nothing in particular seem to be gone.For some reason, I'm still amazed when tech support tells me repeatedly that they've never heard of my problem, never seen it before, have no idea why it happens, and are absolutely certain it has to do with software on my machine. Then all the problems magically disappear when they do some upgrade. Fascinating, that.
Anyway, I'll be turning Skype back on for a while to see how it holds up under use.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Can We Get Socially ORL?
Radio Userland product manager Steve Kirks proposes a new nickname for this weeks geek topic, OPML Reading Lists. I know lots of people hate OPML because Dave Winer thought of it, but I like it (Id love to see a real outliner for windoze that used it) and I like the idea of a standard way of publishing reading lists.
Nick Bradbury of FeedDemon/TypeStyle/NewsGator fame explains a little more what ORL is about:OPML Reading Lists need a nickname
OPML reading lists (an OPML file containing links to selected XML syndication feeds) are the hot topic this month and personally, I'm tired of typing all of those letters. So, in the grandest tradition of the blogosphere, let's find a good way to shorten those words. I'm proposing ORL pronounced "oral". Usage: Person A: "I need new stuff to read. Got any recommendations?" Person B: "Download this "orl" file into your aggregator?" Person A: "What's an aggregator?" Person B: "<SIGH>" ORL isn't the prettiest name, but if I pick something, someone else might make a better stab at it. I'm going to start tagging these types of post with ORL, too.
Then I read where the indomitable Judith Meskill at the Social Software Weblog has finally, unbelievably, indisputably had enough of entering all her stuff into all these different services (I actually felt this way the second time I did it. Judith must have done it hundreds of times.)In a nutshell, the idea is that you'd subscribe to an OPML document which contains a list of feeds that someone is reading, some organization is recommending, or some service has generated (such as "Top 100" list). Changes to the source OPML document would be synchronized, so that you're automatically subscribed to feeds added to the reading list. Likewise, you'd be unsubscribed from feeds removed from the original OPML.
So I have to ask, isn't there a path here for ORL to capture a "lifestream" that populates all these things and just fills them in as we hop from one container service to another? Now, I know we have FOAF and LOAF and RDF and BFD and whatever, but theyre all so freakin complicated I cant deal with them. OPML I get maybe because it gets rendered as a human-readable outline but I get it. I dont know how this stuff works so maybe its all just so-o-o-o-o-o much more complicated than someone like me can grasp. But Id be happy for people to tell me why ORL cant begin to do what Ive described.Swagroll lists and shares your stuff again
I caught a glimpse of Swagroll last week and saw it again on Emily Changs excellent eHub list of Web 2.0 apps and figured Id mention it here. Why didnt I mention it last week? Well... Im of the same mind as Stowe Boyd -why do I feel like Im doing a lot of work Ive already done elsewhere? Add books, music, movies, and more to your own swagroll - my god, do I have to? Again? Didnt we do this already with Delicious Monster? Havent I done this in iTunes? Havent I done this on Amazon? On All Consuming? On Netflix? I have zero desire to do any of it all over again. Zero. [...]
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