Hire people before you really need them.
Employment [en]
Hire people before you really need them.
Fun With Spammers [en]
Michael Fraase is currently being threatened by lawsuit by a spammer.
A few months ago, under the title Fun with spammers, Michael published an article detailing how he suggests dealing with spammers. He included the email exchange which took place when he put his method in practice with one particular spammer.
Enjoy.
Domain [en]
The wiki now has its own domain, with friendly urls: http://spirolattic.net.
Bookmarks [en]
When I first thought about setting up a wiki on this site, I was thinking of the personal use I could make of it. A giant scrapbook, a place to brainstorm, to think about my dissertation topic, or post quick links.
Even before I had got the script running, though, another project had loomed up: make it a place where people visiting this site regularly can interact. Make it a place where we can have interesting discussions, and get a little community-feel.
But I didn’t forget my initial idea, which I found was fully developped in WikiAsPim.
I’ve been wanting to make my bookmarks available publicly for some time now. First of all for myself, so that I can have them handy whether I’m at work (Internet Explorer) or at home (Mozilla) or even at university (Mac and old Netscrape).
But also because every now and again, I spend a few hours doing what I call “web research”, and I often come up with collections of links on a given topic which I think a pity to just leave lying on my computer, once I’ve done with them. I don’t want to go through the trouble of putting them on a full-blown site page either, because they are often not topics I’m ferociously interested in.
So a wiki would be a great place to dump my bookmarks.
Start digging!
Independent Web [en]
Things are moving over at Independents Day.
The Future Independents Web: Visions of What’s to Come presents a series of essays about what the future of the independent web might be; one essay published every six hours – or every 250 .beats.
Keep checking. The .beat of the web is pulsing.
SpiroLattic [en]
A new space has opened on Climb to the Stars: SpiroLattic.
Interaction [en]
N’hésitez pas à venir faire un tour sur le wiki SpiroLattic.
Un wiki permet à tout un chacun d’éditer ses pages et d’en rajouter, sans connaitre de html du tout. C’est un peu comme un super-forum.
Wiki [en]
If you want to try out the wiki, please do so.
Have fun!
Moved [en]
Apart from a sluggish dns propagation, everything has gone fine with the server move. Even though you probably won’t notice the difference, welcome aboard!
Knowledge Management [en]
Seth does a rather good job of explaining knowledge management to us, in two articles (more coming!) on the subject.
Knowledge management is an attempt to do with the collective knowledge of an organization — the individuals within the organization — what an individual does with his own knowledge. That includes storing, cross-linking, categorizing, contextualizing, retrieving, and of course presenting.
KM requires computer technology, because it can’t be done any other way. Remember, this isn’t the knowledge of a single individual being available to that individual whenver its needed, we’re talking about the knowledge of at least one individual being usable by at least one.