A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog

  • There’s a new crop of business wikis. And some interesting discussion. But what’s wrong with this picture? SystemOne, an enterprise-knowledge-management system masquerading as an ordinary business wiki. What’s cool about this product is that it automatically creates, at the bottom of each page, a list of relevant other wiki pages, feeds, and Web search results.…

  • Joel Spolsky on a good hack : I think what makes a good hack is the observation that you can do without something that everybody else thinks you need. To me, the most elegant hack is when somebody says, “These 2,000 lines of code end up doing the same thing as those 2 lines of…

  • When I wrote SdiDesk I explicitly decided that I wanted many small, hand-layed-out diagrams which are hyperlinked together, rather than automatically generating a large diagram. (Of course, it helped that that was the lazy thing to do, in terms of coding 🙂 Manually drawing diagrams doesn’t help with *discovery* of new connections or of other…

  • ZenPundit on Super-empowered individuals

  • Wiki-based software for the enterprise

  • SocialText 2.0 is out. Check out the screencast. Some nice work on the UI. Here’s what looks good to me : * the automatic backlinks * deciding you can be “expert” (an explicit recognition that SmartAscii mode corresponds to expertise), * watched pages, * the sortable table views of RecentChanges, watched pages and other queries.…

  • Making business beautiful

  • Very interesting. Now HyperScope has been released, don’t miss Brad Neuberg’s great Screencast of Douglas Engelbart’s Augment System How much was SdiDesk influenced by Engelbart? Directly, not so much. But indirectly, obviously a lot. My direct influences were wiki, the Smalltalk environment, Emacs, HyperCard and the web-browser. Obviously, all, heavily indebted to Engelbart’s work.

  • Great idea for a productivity hack. Brudnopis: Mailing Lists and WWW

  • Dave Winer says he made 2.3 million with his blog, without advertising. What I think he means (as I explain to Bill Seitz, here) is that he sold the weblogs.com server last year. For Winer, the blog is a full media and communications strategy. It’s how he does his personal branding, hypes his projects, and…

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