Poking around the intersection of KM and Social Media
adj. 1. Highly pleasing or agreeable to the end user, especially the functionality and performance. 2. Very pleasant; delightful: a googlicious web interface. The knowledge management system I am working on is tightly entwined with Verity’s Ultraseek search engine technology. One of the recurring requests we used to get about search functionality (both the search […]
How do you depressurize when you’re under the gun? If you’re a deep sea diver, you do it slowly and carefully to avoid the bends. If you are working on a computer, you find a friend that can share your pain, and maybe take your mind off the impending tsunami of bits and bytes that […]
Projects are piling up all around me, which is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because, well, it’s better than having no work at all. A curse in that if I’m awake, ante a good chance I’m working. And if I’m not working, I probably should be. In spite of the workload, I […]
Nope. I’m not referring the the uncontrollable urge to share the minutae of one’s life, but the frustration that comes from running Moveable Type on a Windows server. It seems like everyone is running on *nix, and getting support when it’s needed is therefore more difficult. Weird to be on the other side of the […]
Frustrating when things don’t go smoothly, but not entirely surprising. This blog runs on a Windows server. Most Moveable Type blogs, judging by the discussions in their support forums, are run on *nix servers. This in itself is not a huge problem, but gets frustrating when the occasional problem occurs and you’re searching for help. […]
Drive five hours up the coast: check. Move son into his dorm: check. Meet his roommate: check. Embib free booze at hotel happy hour: check. Devour Wilde Bread at Woodstock Pizza: check. Crash at hotel after too-long day: check. Son spent his first night in his new digs, and true to form, we cannot reach […]
It’s been Monday all day long. The first workday of the week always seems to take a bit longer to get warmed up. Today was no exception. Alarm clock rang at the ungodly hour of 5 AM; rolled out of bed at 5:15. Hit the road at 6 AM to drop my youngest off at […]