Paul Holbrook's Radio WeblogWorth $40 a year? You decide ..Phil Wolff: Project Management as Journalism.- January 29, 2003 Phill Wolff has come up with a lovely little item: Project Management as Journalism. A few quotes: Project journalism. PMs cover a beat. As journalists, PMs interview and research. Their sources are project members and external resources and stakeholders. PMs verify information, find trends and patterns, dig up urgent and important news. Reporters use notebooks and tape recorders. Use blogs to organize your notes and sources. You write status reports, exception reports, issue reports....http://http://dijest.com/aka/2003/01/27.html#a2333 Slammer - doesn't take much to push 2 gigabits ...- January 27, 2003 I talked to a friend who works over at Georgia State. He was called into work about 3:00am Saturday morning, and stayed there until 4pm that afternoon, trying to get control of the network. He says the Slammer worm was pumping out about 2 gigabits a second out to the Internet. The real surprise to me - that traffic was from only 30-40 infected hosts. It actually makes some sense, if you break it down: Once a host is infected, it starts sending 376 byte UDP packets as...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106188/2003/01/26.html#a268 Useful klog presentationintroduction- January 24, 2003 Joe Katzman gave a seminar back in November at the University of Queensland about the use of weblogs as a knowledge management tool. Here's a pointer to Joe's message to the klogs group pointing to a PDF of that presentation. This is ground that has been covered before, but Joe did a nice job of tying together information from other sources. Worth a look.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/klogs/message/332 K-logging pilot report- January 24, 2003 Not new, but new to me: Rick Klau published a nice summary of a pilot klogging project. A key point: Have a problem to solve. Just telling people "things will be better" when they don't know that there's a problem is tricky. As mentioned above, weblogs are many things to many people. In our pilot, we started out by simply saying we wanted to see if people found them useful. In other words - we weren't trying to solve a problem. This is true of any collaboration software. If people.http://www.rklau.com/tins/stories/2002/11/11/klogPilotRecap.html Compact Fluorescent bulbs - hey Mikie, he likes it!- January 23, 2003 I recently got involved with a church-based effort encouraging the stewardship of the environment through the use of "green power" - power generated from less polluting sources than coal, which is biggest source of power. The effort I'm involved with is called Georgia Interfaith Power and Light, which is an offshoot of an effort known as Episcopal Power and Light, which started in California. The folks involved in these efforts are also big on energy conservation, not surprisingly,...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106188/2003/01/23.html#a265 Freebsd 5.0 under VMware: no go (updated)- January 22, 2003 FreeBSD 5.0 was released over the weekend. I've been playing with FreeBSD lately, so on my MLK day off I decided to try to install at at home under VMware 3.2 Workstation under Windows 2000. Many hours later, I was only able to get a minimal install up, and I wasn't able to download anything else beyond that - no ports, no source. This is one of those cases where it's not clear if it's VMware's fault or Freebsd's fault. The symptom is that when I get part way through anything more than the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106188/2003/01/21.html#a264 Boxes and Arrows Favorite books- January 22, 2003 I adore book lists, especially ones that are more like annotated bibliographies. The web design journal Boxes and Arrows published a wonderfully eclectic list of their favorite books for 2002.http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/our_favorite_books_recommendations_from_the_staff_o... David Allen's tips for using a Palm- January 16, 2003 Keith Devans got a Palm IIIe from a friend who got another Palm. Keith notes that he might try configuring his to-do and memo list categories in the way that David Allen suggests (PDF). (David Allen is the author of Getting Things Done.) Allen's tips are actually pretty useful; I used them on my Palm back when I was at CNN and had many more meetings and action items than I do now. I haven't needed them as much this last year. On a similar note, my Palm Vx died this Fall. I was putting...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106188/2003/01/16.html#a262 Useful tips for Apache's mod_rewrite- January 16, 2003 Over the holiday break I was messing with Apache's mod_rewrite package as part of something I was doing for work. Practical information about mod_write is a little difficult to come by, so I was very pleased to find pointer to several useful weblog posts about mod_rewrite. Thanks to Dean Peters of the Heal Your Church Web Site. Dean's charter is to help out "designers of church, para-church and other charity organizations."http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com/archives/000636.shtml Viridian books- January 15, 2003 Former colleague Paul Beard to made reference to "Viridian Design." I haven't really groked what that means yet, but I did found a list of Viridian recommended books. There are some very interesting titles on that list; if these books are related to the Viridian movement, I'll have pay more attention to it.http://www.viridiandesign.org/products/books.htm |