Have blogs changed our idea of what constitutes a well-designed webpage? I was reading Wired’s interesting piece on guerrilla webpage redesign, where disgruntled folk take the content of a badly designed website and make their own mirror, throwing out the Javascript, cookies, confusing menus, bugs, excessive art-junk for a slimmed down, simplified imitation on their… Read More »
This week I wrote a couple of pieces on Knowledge Management for the Far Eastern Economic Review — a sort of overview of KM for the layman, and a column on corporate blogging, centred around Robert Scoble. (Both are subscription only, I’m afraid. The WSJ version of the column will appear here next week.) Here’s… Read More »
Continuing the theme of RSS, here’s a couple of tidbits: NYTimes.com has expanded its Really Simple Syndication offerings to 27 categories including new feeds such as Most E-mailed Articles, Multimedia and Week in Review. Mediathink, a ‘full service marketing firm’, has released a White Paper on entitled “RSS – The Next Big Thing Online.” The… Read More »
I’m in the market for a new newsreader. Am I missing something, or are they all missing something? I’ve tried dozens, all of which have their strengths, and most of which are good quality programs, but for me fall down on one thing or another — formatting issues, stability, bandwidth problems, look and feel, configurability (yes,… Read More »
I hate people who quote themselves, but here goes: A few months back I wrote in my column about how “eventually, RSS will replace e-mail. Or rather, it will dovetail with e-mail so that it appears in the same place, in the same program, so you can read Aunt Edna’s newsletter as well as the… Read More »