Archive for June, 2004



HTML-in-RSS Challenges

My apologies to those of you who have been getting my content by RSS feed; I’m aware that you have been receiving unformatted paragraphs smushed together in one long graph. This is a problem with Expression Engine’s RSS generation template. Basically, in order to use HTML in an RSS feed you have to specifically escape […]

Portals and KM: Blog as Filing Cabinet

This post on using weblogs as a personal organizing tool is a rare example of the “Gee, aren’t blogs swell?!” genre of weblog posts that actually manages to touch the elusive certain something that makes blogs work. What’s nice here is the resonance between personal needs and knowledge management value. The fact that the blog […]

Great Piece on the Flaws in Kirkpatrick and ISD

This nice piece (which comes by way of eCornell Research Blog) sums up the problem with these archaic methodologies nicely:
As the table above indicates, although there are four levels of evaluation in the Kirkpatrick model, none of the levels captures business feedback or business reaction to the training or e-Learning product. Level I captures the […]

Thoughts About ChatterBots

I’ve always been fascinated with chatterbot technology and the possibilities of using it for online learning. (If you don’t know what a chatterbot is, it’s easier to experience than to explain. Try talking to Brian, Ella or, if you’re in the mood for the bizarre and macabre, a simulation of John Lennon’s personality.) Basically, a […]

Interesting Challenge For Ideas to Improve the Browser

Blake Ross, one of the guys on the Mozilla Firefox team, is calling for ideas on how to use machine learning to improve future versions of Firefox. Be creative!

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