Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Best Intranets of 2005 was announced today, mentioning wikis and online video among some of the elements found on winning sites. Being more curious about wiki use than anything else, I gravitated to the paragraph on Orbis:
Orbis has probably the most unusual intranet approach, building its site entirely on a Wiki platform. […]

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Late coming New Year’s Resolution #34. Geoff will not forget to add tags to his del.icio.us bookmarks.

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Library Journal has an article on UMinn’s blogging experiment, UThink. I’m still hoping to get some first-hand information from them about how the project is going. UM Library Offers Free Blogs
When University of Minnesota (UM) librarian Shane Nackenrud showed its library’s new blog system to a faculty member in the philosophy department, he […]

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Fellow Canuch Dave Pollard’s report card on the current state of blogging and where we might be headed…
Everyone has their own specifications for what they’d like blogs to do. Advanced users, comfortable with the technology and able to tweak their blogs to do some amazing (and some silly) things, are quickly leaving the rest of […]

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I better blog the following before I lose track of it: Main Articles: ‘Filling Institutional Repositories: Practical strategies from the DAEDALUS Project’, Ariadne Issue 39.
:: I sat through an interesting library training session this morning on GIS and spatial data. One of the requests expressed this morning came from the Department of Biological Sciences, […]

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Yet another article on the rising popularity of the RSS format. This one reviews two RSS aggregators and lists a number of other options. Other tools for “info-junkies” are also listed, among them LookOut, which I’ve personally found invaluable to have on my work pc.
Surf’s Down as More Netizens Turn to RSS for Browsing
Newsreader software […]

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I’m looking forward to reading Semantic Blogging: Spreading the Semantic Web Meme
by Steve Cayzer, Research Engineer at Hewlett-Packard.
The semantic web promises to make the web more useful by endowing metadata with machine processable semantics. Blogging is a lightweight web publishing paradigm which provides a very low barrier to entry, useful syndication and aggregation behaviour, […]

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Library Groupware for Bibliographic Lifecycle Management by Dan Chudnov, Yale’s Center For Medical Informatics. If you work in a library, and you are at all interested in the IT side of things, and you read only one thing today, then this should be it. A very thought-provoking piece that is well researched and articulated. I […]

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Interesting. Very interesting. blogs.setonhill.edu
Seton Hill University students and staff can get a free Movable Type weblog, courtesy of the humanities division and the new media journalism program. (Thanks to Six Apart, makers of Movable Type.)
Blogging meets the academy. Nice. Very nice.
:: University of Minnesota Libraries looks to be one step closer in setting up […]

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Nielsen has an interesting alert this month, ideas that probably resonate through many a New Years resolution. I’m all for increased productivity, and even more for cleaning up this communications mess we call email. At times I love it, at times I despise it.

What Individuals Can Do
All time-management courses boil down to one basic […]

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