Open Monologue
Just because I'm making it up as I go along doesn't mean I don't know what I'm doing

Archive for May, 2004

DCoPs, policy development, and blogs

2004/05/30

As Rick noted, I am at the workshop on Building Distributed Communities of Practice for Enhanced Policy-Research Interface hosted by the International Centre for Governance and Development. It is actually just after the adjournmjent of the second day of proceedings right now, and my brain is exhausted. I have taken too many notes to dump [...]

The 500 pound gorilla is talking about blogs!

2004/05/25

Red Herring Blog: Bill Gates’ blog strategy::Will the infamous Micro$oft approach to competing technologies of embrace, extend and exterminate be repeated?

An aggregator in every page

2004/05/25

OK – its not quite as rousing a rallying cry as Hoover’s “a chicken in every pot” but let me add my adulation to Brian Lamb’s cheers for Alan Levine’s RSS2JS script. I like the idea of being able to put an RSS feed in the content of any web page. That’s stigmergic!

Movable Type is worth paying for

2004/05/18

First of all, in response to Mena Trott’s query How are you using the tool?, here’s how movable type fits into my life: I have two weblogs with two authors running on my site (at www.omegageek.net/blog and www.omegageek.net/rickscafe). Since typepad came along, I’ve tended to use my domain blog as more of a testbed for [...]