http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/ ... because the Internet changes your life! en-us 2003-04-28T11:44:37+01:00 2003-05-20T19:20:08+01:00 ''I don't think blogging in businesses will be capturing the water-cooler buzz... On the other hand blogs definitely have potential to smoothen out the intranet / knowledge database sumbission process.'' http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2003/04/28/blogs_in_business_watercoolerchat_or_knowledge_management.html This is an incredibly good idea for sharing books you've read and don't plan to read again: donate them to the public domain & track their travels :-) http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2003/03/14/bookcrossingcom.html I came across this interesting article on how intelligence applies in this age of rapid retrieval and ubiquitous availability of information. http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2003/02/26/intelligence_in_the_information_age.html Example; combining a wearable computer, image recognition software and a semi-AI personal knowledge management tool - imagine the number of people whose name you would remember (I am ashamed to say that I'm one of those guys that keep forgetting names of people I've just been introduced to). http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2003/02/12/and_then_wearables_got_interesting.html MSN.com misforms their page on purpose to make it look like Opera is buggy. Very naughty. http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2003/02/07/msncom_plays_dirty_with_opera.html ''The small size of handheld computers provides the convenience of mobility at the expense of reduced screen space for display and interaction. [...] Enabling simultaneous navigation and manipulation yields the ability to create and edit objects larger than the screen and to drag and drop in 3-D.'' http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2003/01/28/spatially_aware_displays_for_pdas.html Yahoo employee Jeremy Zawodny is having a semi-public discussion with colleagues about the future of centralized message boards versus weblogs. I am a strong believer in blogs, but some things are best left to an open forum as long as the forum has strict topic-scoping and in some cases moderation or at least some editor who removes completely off-topic postings. http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2003/01/23/blogs_vs_message_boards.html Librarians are not a dying race. Au contraire! ''this is truly amazing stuff -- to be able to call up a live librarian and ask a question out of nowhere and get timely information. [...]'' http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2003/01/21/librarians_googling_for_you.html There is evolution in TrackBack-space. I came across The Internet Topic Exchange via brilliantcorners, and it lets users trackback on categories... http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2003/01/20/trackback_evolving.html A topic related to registrations is avoiding machine-automated registrations (preventing spammers from registering thousands of ''garbage'' yahoo.com and hotmail accounts, for example). http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/12/12/man_vs_machine_in_website_registration_forms.html Wow! A dynamic airport/flight information system with all the stuff you (the frequent traveller) wants to know! http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/11/18/useful_preflight_information.html For the first time I've seen information (presumably) made freely available on the net systematically blocked for subgroups of the online population. What do you think about it? http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/11/08/knowledge_unsharing_on_the_internet_reversed_extranets.html Fellow weblogger and reader Martin Roell's in London for the KM Europe conference. All readers, webloggers and KM-interested parties are welcome to join us for dinner... http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/11/06/weblogklogmeetup_london_12_nov_2002.html It's been in the air for a while: spurred by increasing frustration over Micros~1 dominance in the ''Office'' market, there is a trend toward enforcing a more open exchange of information, starting with pressure on Governments. http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/11/01/open_digital_information_exchange_in_governments.html ''Both Intentia and Reuters agree the Reuters reporter obtained Intentia's financial statement directly from Intentia's website.'' Here is how.. http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/10/31/hacking_the_information_economy_2.html