Tuesday: August 2, 2005 2:28 AM
Excellent Globalization Books...
Three Billion New Capitalists - Clyde Prestowitz
A couple of great books on the impact of globalization. Mr. Prestowitz does an excellent job of describing our world and how the global economy will t...
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Tuesday: August 2, 2005 5:55 PM
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other Web content. Think of it as a distributable Whats New for your site. Originated by UserLand in 1997 and subsequently used by Netscape to fill chan...
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Wednesday: August 3, 2005 10:26 PM
Who or what will derail Google from the top spot in the internet search arena? Some will say no one, but you don’t have to look far to see that the vast majority of businesses on the Fortune 100 did not exist a 100 years ago. Change and the basi...
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Thursday: August 4, 2005 6:06 PM
Today, most organizations are implementing some form collaborative applications. These applications include shared documents, shared content management, groupware, corporate blogs, etc. What factors impact the success and failure of these effort...
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Monday: August 8, 2005 3:02 AM
Wow, another search engine stock takes off and I sit on the side lines. I emailed a co-worker early Friday that this stock looked promising. Little did I know what would happen.
Shares of Chinas largest Web search company, Baidu.com ...
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Wednesday: August 10, 2005 12:58 PM
Yesterday, a colleague and I stopped for a conversation which turned toward the difference between an employee and consultant within the large corporation. My belief is that:
Consultants are hired for their experience, assumed to be k...
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Wednesday: August 10, 2005 1:08 PM
I finally figured out how to turn TrackBack on.
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Wednesday: August 10, 2005 6:25 PM
Interesting Article...
What is unfolding is the commoditization of knowledge. We have seen global forces undermine autos, electronics, and other manufacturing, but the Knowledge Economy was expected to last forever and play to America's st...
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Friday: August 12, 2005 11:59 AM
Some books you can fly through and read like a Harry Potter Book while others stop you in your tracks. Recently, I read a book that had absolutely nothing to say until the seventh chapter. And even then, most of the material was repeated from ot...
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Wednesday: August 17, 2005 5:28 PM
Interesting article on the subject of competing with the emerging service providers.
Three million U.S. manufacturing jobs have been lost in the past half-decade, so by the ruler method 6 million more will go poof in the coming 10...
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Friday: August 19, 2005 9:53 PM
Monday: August 22, 2005 1:32 PM
One of my favorite scenes in the movie A Beautiful Mind is where the main actors are in a bar when four beautiful young ladies walk in and the gentlemen discuss their strategy. The eureka moment in Dr. Nash’s research arrives as he realizes that ...
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Monday: August 22, 2005 4:44 PM
Excellent Research paper on the semantic web and metadata.
From the perspective of a librarian, cataloger, publisher, or content provider, the Semantic Web is a metadata initiative; at the heart of the Semantic Web is the assumpti...
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Tuesday: August 23, 2005 12:01 PM
What ever happened to Topic Maps? In June of 2000, Gartner predicted that Topic Maps would be main stream by 2003. Clearly, that did not happen and we are now in 2005. A search for Topic Maps on Google with Filetype:pdf produces nothing new for...
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Wednesday: August 24, 2005 11:56 AM
We have got to get better and communicating technology to the masses. I posted a comment about topic maps yesterday where I got some great responses with links. These links and most of the other references on topic maps work very hard to make so...
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Wednesday: August 31, 2005 2:00 AM
Ron Daniel of Taxonomy Strategies and Seth Earley of Seth Earley & Associates are running an interesting series of surveys to profile contemporary enterprise search, metadata, and taxonomy practices. Even if you don't have all the answers, you'll ...
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Wednesday: August 31, 2005 1:42 PM
If you wanted to rate your interest or passion for a particular subject on a scale from 1 to 5, how would define the different levels. What are your thoughts based on my initial stab?
1: I am interested in the subject; enough to publicly ...
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