Thursday, June 13, 2002

ASN.1: The biggest bug that you don't know about Four months ago, CERT issued an alert to security holes in Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). While there have been no reports of mass attempts to exploit the exposed flaw, Security Focus posts an article stating that a potentially greater flaw could exist in the implementation of the language that SNMP is built upon -- Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1). [kuro5hin.org] 10:45:32 PM

KnowledgeFarm Bottoms up knowledge management.  K-Logs.... >>>Knowledge management has been, up to now, largely a top-down enterprise. Driven by a concern that corporate knowledge repositories would quickly fill up with inaccurate, useless junk without rigid quality review, organizations have created small priesthoods of knowledge administrators responsible for virtually all authoring. Unfortunately, the result often has been massive bottlenecks as content generated in this centralized way sits for weeks or months awaiting review. By the time knowledge reaches its intended users, much of it has aged to the point of irrelevance. Top-down knowledge management has had limited success. KM will begin to show significant ROIs when the process is inverted. Centralized knowledge administration clearly produces higher-value knowledge -- but centralized authoring retards growth. In the coming decade, the hard dollar value of knowledge will be recognized, and everyone -- not just a small elite -- will be responsible for generating the raw materials for corporate KM. Bottom-up knowledge generation will have significant impacts on the way work, and workers, are perceived by corporations. Management will have to develop new incentives for knowledge workers to contribute high-quality content. For more traditional firms now adopting KM practices, decentralization of knowledge generation will be difficult, as it is antithetical to some ingrained management principles and habits.<<< [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 9:12:40 PM

ID theft--on the rise for e-biz. As e-business grows, identity theft will evolve from credit card fraud to corporate identity theft. How will it affect companies? [ZDNet Tech News] 9:07:56 PM

AOL, Scient to sell business services. Business services to be based on instant messaging, e-mail [InfoWorld: Top News] 9:03:26 PM

Dane Carlson notes that "blog" is being added to the Oxford English Dictionary. [Scripting News] cool... though not as significant as say being added to Websters. OED's philosophy is descriptive; Websters is proscriptive. 5:35:54 PM

Liquid Audio finds a buyer. Alliance Entertainment plans to acquire the online music company, just weeks after a dissident shareholder called on Liquid Audio to put itself up for sale. [CNET News.com] Interesting given that Universal, who uses Liquid Audio's format to sell music on-line, just announced price cuts.   8:36:27 AM

The hardest thing about about trying to keep a weblog with high-quality, original content is seizing the moment when you've had a thought worth writing down and actually writing it down.  Or, at least, that's what I see as my current stumbling block. 8:33:49 AM

To use a Moreover news feed from this list, you have to make this URL: http://www.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?o=portal&;c=Bay%20Area%20news look like this: http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Bay%20Area%20news&;o=rss ('p' instead of 'www' and add '&o=rss' at the end... radio is inserting a bunk ';' after the ampersand in both URLs.. ignore them.) 7:51:33 AM

The Economics of File Sharing [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 7:44:44 AM

Recovery Continues at Modest Pace [Wall Street Journal] 7:22:27 AM

How to build an RSS digital dashboard using Manila and Radio (a low tech approach).  Here is what the feed could look like: Sale:  Customer name:  Proctor and Gamble,  Date:  June 12, 2002, Amount:  $2.3 m,  Made by:  Tom Durst, E-mail: tdurst@widget.com, K-Log:  http://tdurst.widget.com ,  Product: Widget XYZ  [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 7:09:13 AM

Marketing 101: Your Very First Website in 5 Steps. Read Story [The FuzzyBlog!]  Seemed like a useful set of links for getting a site hosted. 6:57:18 AM

Marketing 101: Marketing and Blogging or Why Do I Blog So Much ?.  ==> Read Story <== [The FuzzyBlog!] 6:47:17 AM

Price breaks--sweet music for downloaders. Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment plan to trim prices for downloading digital music and add new features. [ZDNet Tech News] 6:40:21 AM