Napsterize Your Knowledge: Give To Receive
The primary lesson: "The more that a company shares its knowledge, the more valuable it becomes." It's astonishing how many people still don't believe this. But when I look back at the success my website and OLDaily have brought me - despite my lack of any obvious qualifications in the field - it is self evidently true. More...

Internet Content in Peril in Non-Competitive World
While broadband has long been a fact in Canada (I haven't had dial-up at home since 1998) consumers in the United States are still struggling to get bandwidth. More...

MS Announces Windows Media 9 DRM Tool, Music Alliances
The release of Microsoft's Windows Media Data Session for Windows Media 9 hasn't attracted widespread media coverage (to judge from Google News), but it should. The purpose of this software is to allow "media companies to protect content delivered to consumers by putting music on to a copy-controlled CD in multiple layers." In addition to the software, a list of key supporters - including CD manufacturer MPO, Universal Music Group and EMI - suggests that the music industry supports the new format. More...

Understanding Information Architecture

Rusty Foster's article - and the subsequent discussion on the Online News mailing list - got me to thinking. All this discussion makes me wonder why my website looks the same, day after day. Only the content changes. More...

A Day at the Office in 2013
A cautionary note amid a workplace utopia: "On this day, at 8:30 am, Gregor Samson will receive his first "referral," an auto-generated, monthly employee report from the CSI. More...

ISPs 'Should Pay' for Music Swapping
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is toying with the idea of asking for a tax on internet service providers (ISPs) that allow users to use file trading systems. More...

2003 Annual Speaker Survey
Promoters of the 2003 Distance Learning conference in Wisconsin have distributed this list of topics previous conference speakers expect to set the agenda for this year. Most of the projections are hit and miss. More...

Image Gate
From the website: "Image Gate is The New York Public Library's first full working version of its new digital image database. Image Gate provides free and open access to thousands of The New York Public Library's digitized images, taken from the Research Libraries' collections. More...

So Sorry Adobe Urges More DMCA Busts

This white paper touts the benefits of e-learning in supply chain management. If you need ammunition for a business case this paper may help you. More...

Preliminary Heuristics for the Design and Evaluation of Online Communities of Practice Systems
Though they claim to have discovered "uncovered additional issues previously unrecognized", the source for this warmed-over set of best practices for online communities is now thoroughly obscured, recycled as it is as a set of "heuristics drawn from published academic research into online communities of practice." More...