November 24, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving...
Happy Thanksgiving, we have so much to be thankful for. One of them is not the amount of blog spam...
Posted by Todd at 8:57 PM
May 12, 2006
Top 2%
Could our Enterprise Metadata Blog actually rank in the Top 2% of all blogs? According to Technorati, we do and that’s pretty cool. Of course, it helps that there are now 38.6 million blogs in the world and the long tail of popularity comes into play.
Posted by Todd at 11:50 AM
October 20, 2005
Blog Usability
Nice reminder on ensuring usability for your blog by Jakob Nielsen. Here are his 10 factors
1. No Author Biographies
2. No Author Photo
3. Nondescript Posting Titles
4. Links Don't Say Where They Go
5. Classic Hits are Buried
6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation
7. Irregular Publishing Frequency
8. Mixing Topics
9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service
Posted by Todd at 12:49 AM
September 14, 2005
TrackBack Turned Off
I have turned off the trackback function due to the enormous amount of spam and bad people doing bad things here. Sorry for any inconvenience. If anyone knows how to turn this functionality back on without getting the crap from businesses that have no business here, please let me know.
Posted by Todd at 3:07 AM
June 26, 2005
Blog Codes?
This is the first time I have seen this. In order to post to David Allans blog you must type in a code which prevents Spam Blogging. I wonder how well it works and more importantly, should we do this?
Posted by Todd at 6:43 PM
May 17, 2005
Blogging by IBM, Cool
As has been reported on a variety of blogs around the net, IBM today is publishing an announcement on its Intranet site encouraging all 320,000+ employees world wide to consider engaging actively in the practice of "blogging". This move follows several years of persistent grassroots efforts by an informal community of IBM bloggers.
Posted by Todd at 12:49 PM
January 30, 2005
Why Not...
Why are you not blogging? Please, tell me why we in the data architecture world are not storming into this technology. I did a search this weekend on “Data Architecture Blog” and nothing but Information Architecture oriented sites appeared in the search results. Perhaps it’s time to stop asking why but why not.
Posted by Todd at 3:45 PM
January 26, 2005
Blog-Ends Everywhere
Recently, I have started to understand the power and evolution of the blog. A blog is a web log that serves as a personal or professional journal where other people can comment or provide feedback which is unedited. There are plenty of options and I think I have tried them all in the past week. Unfortunately, there is no perfect solution that seems to work in every case. Each option had benefits and problems.
Moveable Type: Great but you need your own server or find a host. Need to keep looking into this option since many people are using it.
TypePad: Another great option but most corporations block blog sites and my material is specifically geared toward major corporations. In addition, I am not sure how Google and Yahoo index blog sites.
FrontPage plus webpart: Work good but required me to built two pages for every post
FrontPage Alone: This was wonderful too but feedback was required to be emailed and you couldn’t subscribe with an RSS Feed.
I feel like Charlie Brown and Luci is holding the Blog Ball. In the end, I am going to try the Typepad option and see what happens. I will also build a Corporate Version that can get pass the security police and be viewed during normal business hours.
Posted by Todd at 12:36 AM
January 25, 2005
First Blog
I am a little unsure about how much this blogging information will be read but when so many people are utilizing the software, I had better give it a whirl. My first blog must include a picture of the Hawaii coast where the conference was held last week. The Hawaii International Conference on System Science was a blast and the Waikoloa Village Hotel was perfect in every way. Our Enterprise Metadata lecture was attended by about 50 people. Attendance was helped by rain that day. Great feedback and comments from the attendees. All I can say is wow, what an experience.
Posted by Todd at 2:14 AM