Al Macintyre wishes:

When you are at the Radio Home Browser - look at  Top Command Menu ... all the way on right is HELP, then just before it is PREFS ... this is where we can tweak some rules regarding how our web site functions - each of the links has a brief statement on top saying what it is for.

Radio Wish - I want all those brief statements together on some reference page that I can scan down to find which preference it is (if any) that does whatever I happen to be looking for at a particular moment.

The Radio prefererences are jargon heavy. Newbie-friendly narrative, earlier in the tweaking process, drives better user behavior.

Dewayne Mikkelson pointed to a post by McGee about knowledge sharing, knowledge logs, and the unexpected. (Emphasis mine.)

Do you live in a changing world? New rules? New problems and threats? New opportunities? New world views?

Are you in touch with reality? Are you keeping it fresh? Challenging your assumptions? 

Are you doing it alone? McGee:

Their essential argument is that organizations need to become more mindful in two ways. First, they must become better at anticipating the unexpected. Second, they must become more adept at containing the unexpected. Containing might either mean keeping a small error from mushrooming into a disaster or seizing and running with an opportunity before others do.

Their arguments dovetail nicely with the recent discussions around the role of knowledge logs or klogs as a tool for knowledge sharing. The essence of dealing with the unexpected is in separating weak signals from the background noise and then understanding who in the organization has the requisite expertise to deal with the signal. The knowledge sharing enabled by the effective use of k-logs is squarely focused on precisely these two issues.

Klogs detect and respond:

A loose network of knowledge workers maintaining weblogs represents that early warning system for an organization. Weblogs applied to organizational knowledge problems provide an outlet for picking up early signals of the unexpected and amplifying them so they can be better heard. They also serve as a system for surfacing diverse expertise in the organization that may bear on how to respond effectively to those signals.

Klogs are better at new knowledge than mature:

More formal and structured knowledge management systems are focused on getting more mileage out of known solutions to known problems. That has a place, particularly in large and dispersed organizations. But all organizations today are also faced with the problem of responding effectively to the unexpected. Weick and Sutcliffe make a compelling case that this is the more important problem for most organizations. And they offer a series of prescriptions for increased mindfulness to respond to that problem. For me, they provide the puzzle piece that links my intuitions that knowledge sharing and k-logs are an essential element of effective knowledge management to the critical items on the strategic agenda.

Mature knowledge is proven, structured, endorsed, refined. It sounds a lot like curriculum, the province of Learning Management more than Knowledge Management.

McGee has it right.

Klogs marshall your collective observational and analytic powers. They massively amplify your ability to sense, prioritize, and respond to change. Klogs can be your DEW line, your trip wire, your radar microphone, your clued-in Huggy Bear with an ear on the street. They can also be your think tank, a home grown war college, your business intelligence in the deepest sense of the term. 

[aka klogs]

RandomMaccess via ranchero.com:

Apple’s newly released iCal is the most beautiful calendaring program I have ever seen. It’s a shame it sucks.

I'd love to hear the usability research behind iCal's design.

Any word on calendaring standards supported?

Is there an event syndication feature: you can subscribe to a feed of events that auto- or semiautomatically wind up in my calendar?

From a Gulf News staff reporter in Dubai:

The Arab world has been urged to invest more in human capital and female empowerment by Mohammed Ali Alabbar, director general of Dubai Department of Economic Development.

"This investment and female empowerment can be done by prioritising quality education systems as a national economic driver," Alabbar said on Sunday at the inaugural two-day Arab World Competitiveness Meeting organised by the World Economic Forum in Davos.

"The most worrying area of neglect is in the field of our most valuable resource, our human asset base. Despite an historical reputation for innovation and invention, the Middle East has tended to create a commercial culture that imports, rather than generates, innovation and intellectual capital.

"Women must be encouraged into the labour force and public sphere. Restricting or prohibiting female access to public professional space is effectively disabling 50 per cent of our natural wealth," said Alabbar.

The full story is worth reading. Alabbar says women's education, access, free speech and innovation are critical to making the Arab world economically competitive.

Since Arab states have been a net importer of white collar talent, this makes excellent sense.

I want to subscribe to themes that include advanced features, perhaps the result of macros, tools, or other software.

As a blogger:

• I trust the theme's source to distributed working templates, macros, and tools.
• I get updates as they occur. (without paying attention or learning about the plumbing)
• I get improvements as they occur.
• I can subscribe by category.

It makes it easy to conform look/feel/function. Teachers on a school site wanting to get the latest and best functionality ("New this month: Grade appropriate book lists from the library"). Or picking up a new style in my Girl Scouts category (theme of the month) from GSA headquarters.

Options:

• Subscribe by category.
• Preview and approve theme before applying, including disclosure of new code distributed.
• Hands-free automatic updating.

As a value-adder (developer, designer, host, coach):

• I have a distribution mechanism.
• I can see who subscribes automatically and manually.
• I assure new features don't break old designs.
• I make it easy to stick to a standard where appropriate.

[aka Blue Sky Radio]

I want themes that include advanced features, perhaps the result of macros, tools, or other software.

For example, I might want a "weather" theme that includes a web service showing a small weather forecast on my home page. Or that sticks Google links after each post. A theme designed for these features is pointless without the code.

So let me:

1. Preview the bundle of theme and code components
2. Download the package with one click
3. Install them to the right places in one click