If you want to find out how organizations are using wikis, the 33 wikis project from eastwikkers is a terrific place to start. This wiki includes detailed commentary and analysis on each of the 33 wikis listed. It aggregates that from the daily posts eastwikkers has been running for the past, well, 33 days into an online case study resource. Nice work, Giovanni and everyone at eastwikkers. … [Read more...] about 33 wikis resource
Archives for April 2006
Exposing the past of BBC 2.0
One follow-up to my post yesterday about the BBC's plans for re-invention - the broadcaster has posted its complete catalogue online, which includes: Details of 946,614 BBC radio & TV programmes, dating back 75 years 503,193 subject categories, from Pig Farming to Pirate Radio 1,182,424 contributors, from Bruce Forsyth to Imelda Marcos This is a gigantic searchable database - there aren't any programmes themselves online. Writing about it yesterday, project … [Read more...] about Exposing the past of BBC 2.0
IE7: Good for users, good for developers
Like quite a few people, I've installed Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 that Microsoft released earlier this week as part of broadening out their beta testing programme of the new browser version to as wide an audience as possible. I like it and, compared to the earlier beta, it seems pretty stable. One big plus for this beta: it has a workable bookmark migrating tool like Firefox, so I was able to successfully import my lengthy lists of bookmarked sites - over 1,000 including RSS feeds aka … [Read more...] about IE7: Good for users, good for developers
An obituary for mass media
The announcement yesterday by the BBC on their plans to re-invent themselves for the 'age of participatory media' makes everything that any mainstream media organization has done to date with blogs, podcasting and other social media just look like tinkering. Trying to concisely summarize the detail of everything they've announced in their 'Creative Future' plans isn't easy. The vision from the press release probably is the best encapsulation: [...] The plans build on … [Read more...] about An obituary for mass media
Blogging the shift in power at Sun
Will Jonathan Schwartz be the first Fortune 500 CEO blogger? asks Debbie Weil. I was wondering exactly the same thing as I read various news reports today about Schwartz taking on the top job at Sun Microsystems following the stepping down of current (ex) CEO Scott McNealy. As Debbie noted, the most recent post on Schwartz' blog is over a week ago. It would be very interesting indeed to see commentary there by Shwartz about the shift in power at Sun. And what subsequent comments … [Read more...] about Blogging the shift in power at Sun