As per a previous entry I’ve started playing with these technologies as a way of interfacing between MindManager and arbitrary document formats. On the way I’ve found an excellent freeware editor. Debugging XPATH statements to understand why the latest “<xsl:apply-templates select =” hasn’t selected what I thought it would is a real “refresher” for the logical parts of the mind!
Been having problems with the Wiki. I’ve upgraded the Twiki scripts to the latest (Feb 2003) release and all is not well. Frustratingly it appears to work in some areas but not others. I’ve been through the upgrade instructions with the proverbial fine-tooth comb so I’m beginning to conclude it must be something to do with my hosting ISP. Unlike some of the more prolific bloggers out there I find that concentrating on a techie task like that severely reduces my ability and motivation to write… hence the gap…
I’ve been spending time re-familiarising myself with the nuances of this tool. I’ve been using it for about six months, and now use it for planning meetings and pretty much any major document. I’m about to start a project that will also benefit from its ability to link with MS Project and Powerpoint, so I’ve been digging into that part of the functionality. What I love about the project management link is the way the functionality of this tool complements the total left-brain-ness of standard project management tools.
Been having something of “blogger’s block” for a few days – I blame the time and energy that is being consumed by this. On the bright side it has meant that I can catch up on my current reading…
Jim McGee is asking Is Knowledge work improvable?. He contrasts the “organic” approach of “knowledge-enablers” espoused by Kim Sbarcea and others with Taylorism. Sbarcea attacks the Taylorist, “command and control” approach to KM, but McGee rebuts with “it is a mistake to confound the issue of what to call knowledge management with objections to Taylorism.” McGee goes on to link in thoughts triggered by Peter Drucker’s 1999 article “Knowledge-Worker Productivity: The Biggest Challenge.
Steve at OnePotMeal is untangling the strands of online influence. He starts by agreeing with AKMA that, regardless of the sometimes high noise-signal ratio on the web: we can devise and sustain persistent salutary connections online in new ways that would have been significantly less workable and durable under the limitations of physical interaction and adds a nuance from Anne Galloway: it has become (somewhat painfully) obvious that the same inequalities that we struggle with in the everyday are equally present in cyberspace – they just take on context-specific qualities and poses this question:
In an earlier article I noted the idea of exploring the cultural models operating on the opposite sides of the Eldred dispute. Progress update- have got as far as creating a Wiki page to capture my thinking on this, and have populated it with an outline of the approach, condensed from several pages of the training manual from the last NeuroSemantics course… Since it’s a Wiki, feel free to contribute!
I’m playing with Les Orchard’s MT <-> Twiki interfaces. Putting related blog entries on the bottom of Wiki pages went OK after a bit of head scratching The Wiki formatting plugins XmlRpcToWiki and MTXmlRpcFilterPlugin seems a bit broken on my installation though… From the error messages I’m getting it’s something to do with the Perl installation… more digging when my brain is working again. see ShareAndEnjoy item item [[Sitenews.AddBlogSearch][AddBlogSearch]] still broken after reinstall of latest perl HTML and SOAP packages…
Shaking off the “Shoulds”, Pardon Sisyphus by Johanna Rothman The Politics of Projects by Geoff Choo Project Integrity Hal Macomber [Source Hal Macomber]
Gary Lawrence Murphy is writing about Open Content on Prentice Hall – the series that Prentice Hall are bringing out under the Open Publication License. Gary refers to his earlier experiences trying (unsuccessfully) to persuade Macmillan to adopt an Open Content approach to a project he was driving. The issues weren’t just with the publishers – authors had problems with a licence that wasn’t either 100% free or standard, and the publication process fell over in the middle – authors and printers were ready for XML-based document manipulation and output, but the editors in the middle were still using “their MsWord-based font-painters”