Archive for September, 2002

MITRE and the Thank You Database

Is E-mail the Killer App?. …In March, 1998, MITRE, a non-profit corporation and a leader in knowledge sharing practices, created a “thank you“ database. It works like this: Whenever someone replies with a “thank you,” the entire e-mail thread can be cc’d to a “thank you” e-mail box. The “ thank you” e-mail is copied […]

To Serve and Protect Market Share

Ah, Marketing!.


Flight Attendant: Please prepare for our landing in Tanzania…I’m sorry, it is now called “New Zanzibar” Excuse me. It is now called “Pepsi presents New Zanzibar.”- The Simpsons

Panama City, a Florida town of 9,000 souls, has decided to put ads on their police cars. The mayor said: “We had some concerns over […]

Screenshot of the activeRoll with Radio NavLinks

Here’s a screen shot of what the desktop website looks like now that I’ve got the Radio menuing added as an activeRoll. (It’s too small to see in this snapshot; click the image to see it full size.)

Thanks go to Marc Barrot for making this so freakin’ easy.

Adding navlinks to all Radio desktop pages

After adding the radio_navlinks outline to my desktop website, I realized that only solved part of the problem. The other was getting the same navigation options for all Radio pages – the Aggregator page, the preferences pages, etc. If you add the activeRoll to the #template.txt file, you’ll end up publishing it to the rest […]

Radio NavLinks

Radio users only:

Just created a Radio outline called radio_navlinks.opml. The idea was to take all of the desktop Radio functions and put them into one outline. I then used the activeRoll macro by Marc Barrot (it’s part of his activeRenderer suite) to put the outline in my desktop website template. The result? All Radio navigation […]

Excited Utterances - Now Available in RSS

Excited Utterances, Joy London’s excellent blog about KM and the law, now has an RSS feed. Welcome, Joy – now my lazy butt can actually read your posts more often.

Anyone else interested in Joy’s site can view the RSS feed here; Radio users click here to add the site your subscriptions.

Joy – if you’re looking […]

V: The Final Battle on DVD

Check this out:

The #5 top selling DVD at Yahoo! Shopping is V: The Final Battle. Who knew that this 18 year-old TV miniseries would still be such a huge hit? From the synopsis:


The epic television miniseries comes to an explosive conclusion as a motley force of humans makes a final stand against the reptilian visitors […]