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Monday, December 3, 2001
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 Monday, December 3, 2001
started 12/3/2001; 1:33:38 AM - last post 12/3/2001; 6:32:24 PM
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Doc Searls - Monday, December 3, 2001 
12/3/2001; 5:33:38 AM (reads: 4240, responses: 6)
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Fmail 
| | Our email is gone. Not sure why. We're using the CoxAtHome cable service. It's working fine for the Web. Radio Userland works fine. So does everything else that uses the Cox Net connection. Hmm... |
| | Ah. Cox says there seems to be a problem with the Searls.com hosting service, Xo. |
| | Okay. They just told me they "seem to be having some kind of a problem" right now." And "a lot of the Web hosting is down." Including our email. "I could put you through to the tech support queue there, but there are 45 people already in line there." I wonder why. What difference will it make? Are the tech support folks going to say they're thinking about not fixing the problem? |
| | Credit where due: both Cox and Xo came through with human contacts rather quickly. It would be nice if Xo put a notice on their Web site, though. |
And now for something that completely matters
| | Open spectrum could lead to a tremendous wave of innovation. Now is the time for the technology industry to become involved, to challenge the government to reexamine the spectrum status-quo. |
| | It's a good cause. I like it. So should you, if you like the idea of ubiquitous wireless Net access without the intervention of dysfunctional Net plumbing companies. That's why I just called for help from the geek community over at the Linux Journal site, and now I'm doing the same here. Follow those links and let me (and Kevin) know what you think. |
Speaking of KM
| | I almost forgot that BuzzPhraser creates buzz phrase compounds in two languages: TechoLatin and CollaboLatin. The entire ColloLatin lexicon was created from a single speech by keynoter at a knowledge management event a few years back. |
| | Here's what you do. Go to BuzzPhraser.com. Click on the Language pop-out menu, and set it for CollaboLatin. Then adjust your nouns, suffixes, adnouns, adjectives, adverbs and previxes to any value you like and click away on the New BuzzPhrase button. Here are a few it just generated for me: |
| | - Knowledge Generation Transfer Enhancement Methodology
- Team-Focussed Consensus Paradigm Alignment Phase Leadership
- Typically Non-Trusted Arguable Discussion-Networked Boundary Alignment
- Frequently Non-Phased Committed Challenge-Installed Online Interactions Mood
- Horizontally Non-Dynamic Enhanced Belief-Suggestable Information Theory
- Eventually Meta-Basic Universal Sense-Suggestable Process Boundaries Bulletin
- Increasingly Self-Conscious External Level-Networked Organization Values Member
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Flocking A
| | The computer is listening to everything I¹m saying and typing in Microsoft word. What should I tell it to do next? Shutdown and come watch survivor with you? This is pretty flocking cool. |
Let's KO KM
| | Dave weighed in on Knowledge Management this morning. I did the same (you have to read down, but it's there) last June. |
| | Aside from being two-word eye-glaze, knowledge management suffers from being an oxymoron. Think about it personally. How do I manage what I know? I don't. Nobody does. Knowledge isn't the kind of stuff you manage. |
| | Software, starting with Dave's ThinkTank a couple decades ago, can be very good at helping you think, and organize, what you say. It can also also be good at helping you archive what you've written and streamline what you publsh. Blogs are thinking out loud, much of the time (such as now, here). That's all well and cool, but what Dave calls "the art of making knowledge useful" isn't management. |
| | As a buzzphrase KM has never taken off. It's just run up and down the runway, back and forth, over and over again, buzzing away. |
Misdirection
| | David Berlind thinks it all comes down to which warring faction's master directory you belong to. Java vs. .Net? How about neither? Or both, and then some? |
| | And what about news like this? |
| | All this Whales at War coverage makes me tired. |
Uh oh. A brainer.
| | I don't understand software licenses. Teaching me the differences is like instructing a gerbil in algebra. It isn't that I don't get them (which I don't). It's that there is something deep inside me, possibly my brain, that doesn't want to get them. Say "license terms" and my eyes glaze. |
| | But I like Adam Theo, who's a Jabber guy, proprietor of Theoretic.com, and into the whole licensing thing. GiftNet, for example, is one of his constructive licensing ideas. Now Adam has forwarded the Ransom license for your consideration. Let me (or better yet, him) know what you think. |
Whoa
| | It was Arthur C. Clarke who famously observed that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." By that standard, Ginger is advanced indeed. |
| | And here's the URL. Indeed, they did go to the trouble to obtain Segway.com. If you, the "consumer," (man, I hate that term) want to skip the animated Flash intro, just go to this site map. |
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Gary Turner - Re: Monday, December 3, 2001
12/3/2001; 10:30:25 AM (reads: 473, responses: 0)
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I don't get the thing about it not having brakes, you cannot simply imagine yourself stopping (or even lean back) and that being sufficient to avoid falling down an open manhold cover or an old lady who gets in your way! Unless it detects your leaning backwards and brakes for you?
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Dave Winer - Re: Monday, December 3, 2001
12/3/2001; 9:21:23 PM (reads: 446, responses: 4)
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OK OK, "Knowledge Management" may be a lofty term, but there are people inside companies who have been tasked to manage knowledge and I want to engage those people in conversation because I'm making software for them.
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Doc Searls - Re: Monday, December 3, 2001
12/3/2001; 9:25:33 PM (reads: 499, responses: 3)
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Go for it.
Buzzphrases like knowledge management work two contradictory ways. One, they kinda suck because they're meaningless buzzphrases. Two, while they're current they create waves that it's often smart to ride. So ride on!
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Dave Winer - Re: Monday, December 3, 2001
12/3/2001; 9:41:13 PM (reads: 580, responses: 2)
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Speaking of meaningless buzz phrases: "BuzzPhraser 2.01 is an OSI Certified Open Source Javascript application, written by Charles Roth. The source is available as the tarfile buzz.tar. Please let us know about any interesting uses of or changes to the BuzzPhraser."
Just as much gibberish. Who cares if it's OSI Certified Open Source. Heh. I gotta believe his tongue was in his cheek -- if so he's laughing at you and your Linux friends for breathing so much of your own fumes. If not, he seriously needs a self-reaming.
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Doc Searls - Re: Monday, December 3, 2001
12/3/2001; 10:01:40 PM (reads: 634, responses: 1)
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It was written years ago in a different political climate. Not that it matters. I don't believe anybody else ever did anything with it.
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Dave Winer - Re: Monday, December 3, 2001
12/3/2001; 10:32:24 PM (reads: 736, responses: 0)
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Doc, it's funny if I were going to poke fun at an open source buzzword hound I'd ask if anyone ever did anything with it. For what it's worth I think there's a lot to the philosophy of knowledge management. And yes, it's at the intersection of outlining, weblogging and a third technology which is even more popular than the other two.
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