[History] Searching for a curator/archivist interested in preserving black memorabilia/African American history; Contact scottabel@mac.com

[iPhone] Verizon iPhone announced by June 30, 2009? http://bit.ly/Xtaki

[Web Content] Planning to attend Jonathan Sapir's presentation on Designing Situational Applications http://bit.ly/3zyzZ at #wc09

[Customer Service] Using Twitter to complain can help you get noticed by/obtain service from folks you're complaining about.

[Metadata] Take the Metadata Maturity Model Survey: Receive free pass to monthy community of practice conference call http://bit.ly/vIkIg

[Music] Chi-Chi La Rue returns for West Hollywood this weekend, spinning at RED HOT http://ping.fm/dHSOs

[Education] National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Washington DC from June 28 - July 1 http://bit.ly/FIjCH

[Marketing] Twitter for Marketing and PR: O'Reilly webcast (free) June 3 at 10am ET http://bit.ly/gwSKV

[Blogging] "Embrace Social Media: Blogging and Microblogging" http://bit.ly/6z4qV from Solari Communication

[Quote] "Microsoft has so much bad karma...I can't imagine a company like us trusting them" Sridhar Vembu http://bit.ly/14ODXO

[TechComm] Unneeded STC expenses need to go. Trim the fat. We don't need an office! We don't need membership cards sent via postal mail...

[User-Generated Content] 75% of businesses surveyed said content created by users was mostly inaccurate; 66% said they saw no value in it

[Content Management] Recorded webinar from NStein: The Powerful CMS that Fits in Your Pocket http://bit.ly/1aER08

[Security, After Death] What Will Happen to Your Crypto-Keys When You Die? http://ping.fm/mDx6U

[World Wide Web] W3C has announced the launch of its first W3C Office in West Africa (Senegal) http://ping.fm/fGwbH

[XML] W3C XML Processing Model Working Group update of the "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language" Candidate Recommendation http://bit.ly/oJUuj

[XML] CMIS: 'Browser-enabled' protocol that delivers on the promise of 'Browser mash-up' (from OASIS) http://bit.ly/16QCH2

@citipotts "They" = whomever is selling a product/service, in this case STC. Customers purchase (or not) what "they" create. I am a customer

[Life Sciences] Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating Structured Product Labeling (SPL) Files http://bit.ly/FyIwF

[Life Sciences] Structured Product Labeling Validation Procedures for Drug Establishment Registration & Drug Listing 2.0 http://bit.ly/tOg4W

[Life Sciences] Structured Product Labeling Implementation Guide: FDA Drug Establishment Registration & Drug Listing 2.0 http://bit.ly/hnkRw

[Life Sciences] Providing Regulatory Submissions in Electronic Format – Drug Establishment Registration and Drug Listing http://bit.ly/R9amp

[Life Sciences] Current Developments and Best Practices for Medical Device Labeling webinar - June 9, 1pm ET http://bit.ly/9eBQm

[Life Sciences] EU Competent Authorities are now conducting studies on the readability and comprehensibility of instructions for use.

[Life Sciences, Translation] Underwriters Laboratories recommends ISO 13485 and ISO 14971 certification for labeling translation suppliers.

[Life Sciences] The average error rate in translated medical device labeling is 400% higher than those produced using current best practices

[Quote] "Doesn’t it make business sense to ensure that content is “people-compliant” as well?" - Scott Smith http://bit.ly/bQAFw

[Web Content] Workshop: Engineering Web Content, presented by Joe Gollner on June 15 @ Web Content Chicago http://bit.ly/2rEb9

[Web Content] EPiServer - http://ping.fm/jNzHf - just became a sponsor of Web Content Chicago http://bit.ly/Du3FU

[Peer-to-Peer] Looking for peer-to-peer networks like LimeWire. Any suggestions?

[Jobs] DITA experts needed! Looking to work for a fast growing consulting and services company? Contact Shawn Blaney: sblaney@terraxml.com

[Twitter] Finding Design Opportunities in the Twitter Ecosystem, May 29 at 1pm ET http://bit.ly/11nb47

[TechComm] My point re: STC leadership is they are leading us .... where? Anyone remember the transformation? Spare me.

[Accessibility] introduction to Web Accessibility http://bit.ly/rYM1Q

[Organizations] Most trade/member organizations just don't get it. We don't NEED them any longer. Their new job is to make us WANT them.

[Content Management] Expect more layoffs at several CMS software companies that aren't making their numbers. Bad news for sales people.

[TechComm] Of those who have recently lost jobs, few were XML/DITA experts. Still think style guides are what you should concentrate on?

@vojtechtoman I agree. Big value of XML is that all these standards CAN work together. We first have to get folks to use them correctly.

[TechComm} STC has"projected shortfall that could reach as high as $1.2 million" - time to trim some fat off; trade associations are dying!

[TechComm] Former Adobe employee @Richard Ferrel no longer w/ MadCap Software. http://bit.ly/v4zlJ; Rumor mill says Var G gone, too

[XML Standards] XMP Open Meeting, June 3, NYC http://bit.ly/17JNEW - What is XMP? Find out here: http://bit.ly/19njfw

[Translation and Localization] Across V5 Language Server introduces statistics-based data/ text mining http://bit.ly/FpzJj (SMART!)

[TechComm] Help update the FireFox User Manual http://bit.ly/ygL9I

@benry Thanks so much for sharing SEO links with me. It's a good first step. And, I appreciate your help. :)

[Innovation] I'm the event blogger @ AlwaysOn global technologies conference at Stanford Univ, July 28-30, Palo Alto, CA http://bit.ly/cbeER

[Content Management] Do you manage large # of portals, eCommerce, intranet, web sites? If so, take our ECM survey: http://bit.ly/PIb7q

[Web Content] Using behavioral, social, contextual data, this service helps sites provide relevant recommended content http://bit.ly/3p6pMW

[Quote] "Muscle memory may lead us to congregate, but the future is about satisfying our need to aggregate" Mark Signal http://bit.ly/18MhdH

[Advertising] How Facebook Will Upend Advertising http://bit.ly/MDuNJ

[Visualizing Data] Great visual notebook approach to capturing experience of SXSW: Sketchbooks http://bit.ly/F5IUZ

[Publishing] Most book-related advertising doesn't seem to deliver significant sales - there are reasons for that http://bit.ly/NdL7Q

[Marketing] Which Marketers Might Want Susan Boyle Singing Their Praises? http://bit.ly/LVC5n

[Life Sciences] 17th annual Medical Device Conference, Melo Park, CA June 10-11 http://ping.fm/iKOyK

[TechComm] S1000D really needs to work with DITA. It seems stupid not to. I know others have worked on projects w/ both standards involved

[Jobs] www.Hound.com monitors the career pages of over 10,000 companies for jobs; use it to locate in-house jobs not publicized elsewhere

[Web SEO] Can you recommend a website that I can point my URL to see how good the SEO is? Seems like there should be tools for this. Ideas?

[Web Development] A tool that claims to be easy to use to for non-techies to design websites; TypeRoom Lite http://bit.ly/BqHJp

[TechComm] US Navy providing users with text-based procedures accompanied by animated documentation, 3D models. They're using Contenta CMS.

[TechComm] Applicability of content - whether the content is relevant to the target audience - Rhonda Wainwright

[TechComm] "With a CMS we can get what we need -- consistency" Ken Waringa

[TechComm] "Working in a CMS is a different way of thinking. It offers a lot of benefits and has fair number of drawbacks." Ken Waringa

[TechComm] "There's a learning curve. If you haven't worked w/ structured data. It's quite different than authoring in Word" Ken Waringa

[TechComm] @ xyenterprise "We're seeing a lot of reuse (content)" Ken Waringa

[TechComm] Listening to S1000D presentation from contractor that worked with the US Navy

[Search] 4-Part SharePoint Search & IA Jumpstart (free) June 4, 11, 18, and 25 http://bit.ly/6lmYy

[Findability] Want your company to be found in local Google listings? Then head here and add your listing: www.google.com/local/add

[Twitter] "No one was looking @ the presenters, but every word was probably live-blogged, video-streamed, and, tweeted" http://bit.ly/WErSs

[Enterprise Computing] Call for Papers: 13th International Enterprise Computing Conference, Sept 1, 09, Auckland, NZ http://bit.ly/55fOt

[Enterprise Content Management] Do you manage websites, intranets, portals, e-Commerce sites? If so, take our ECM survey http://bit.ly/mjAMS

[Content Reuse] Using music as a metaphor helped me explain content reuse and re-purposing to non-TechComm folks in presentation yesterday.

[Marketing] MIMOBOT designer USB flash drive maker asks who you want to see "Mimbot-ized" http://bit.ly/bd7CQ

[Content Wranglin'] Social Media @ NASA, XML Tutorial, Integrating Twitter into Wordpress today on The Content Wrangler http://bit.ly/pwzJ8

[Social Network eCommerce] eBIZ.Mobility has created a Facebook payment plugin for its OneTouch Online Purchasing payment processing system

[TechComm] MadCap Flare Group on The Content Wrangler Community http://bit.ly/21Os7Z

[TechComm] "I thought I was immune, but apparently not, I am now redundant" David Jones on demise of his doc manager job http://bit.ly/jY1rw

[Social Media] The Social Media Tsunami http://bit.ly/zsoN4 is changing the way we communicate/interact, like it or not.

[Learning Management] Alabama Depart of HR seeks a qualified vendor to install, brand, host Moodle, an open source LMS http://bit.ly/15OxF9

[eLearning] DevLearn09 Conference & Expo, November 10 – 13, 2009 | San Jose, CA http://bit.ly/oIVMN -- I'll be there!

[Free Software] Free Adobe Products for unemployed developers and for education http://snipr.com/ik9m9

[TechComm] Tutorial on the new interface in Adobe FrameMaker 9, here's a recording, http://bit.ly/3hlDf6

[TechComm] 2 recordings on how to link FrameMaker 9 books in RoboHelp 8 via Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2, http://bit.ly/OGeey

RT @rjacquez How to embed AIR, the runtime, in their AIR apps. This is called an installation badge, more info here, http://bit.ly/JICev

[Marketing] What most marketers need is a "retraining program". Oh wait, there's one! June 15-19 - free http://bit.ly/IMuniv

[Music] New book from O'Reilly: Computer Orchestration Tips and Tricks http://bit.ly/15qCLd

[Humor] Lots of comments on my groovy t-shirt from @rizzotees today. It reads: "I'm going sailing off the coast of Somalia" LOL

[Advertising] Text keywords attached to billboard ads help marketers measure ad success and build database of prospects http://bit.ly/4o9liS

[Advertising] In-game advertising expected to reach $1 billion US by 2014 http://bit.ly/d1V5H

[Facebook] Russian firm injects $200 Million into Facebook http://bit.ly/vluz

[Life Sciences] FDA issued draft guidelines w/ suggestions on ways to present risk info to consumers & health-care pros http://bit.ly/17fPkY

[Quote] "We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery." - HG Wells

[Blogging] Know WordPress? Help us update the new WordPress Manual: http://bit.ly/uaMhD

[Video] Best practices to measure and monetize video http://bit.ly/2KOHU

[TechComm] Don't create an XML silo. Select integrated authoring tool you can use to create text, video, interaction, applications, help...

[TechComm] Free webinar Thurs "How the U.S. Navy adopted S1000D and simplified their electronic distribution with IETPs" http://bit.ly/zSKwj

[Web Content] Be my guest in Chicago at the Web Content 2009 Conference, June 15-16. Interested in free tix? Contact me @ scottabel@mac.com

[Search] http://ping.fm/drAae yet another search engine, this time scooped up by Microsoft (interesting results)

[Design] Another Scott Abel (not me) who's great at print design projects http://ping.fm/O14Rs

[Search] A different way to view search engine results http://viewzi.com/

[Publishing] New York Times now has a Social Media Director http://bit.ly/UZyLJ (SMART!)

[Content Management] ECMS vendor e-Spirit will be in Chicago June 17. Want a demo? Let me know: scottabel@mac.com http://bit.ly/qJ17t

[Web Content] Engineering Web Content: A Workshop @ Web Content Chicago, June 15-16. Get tickets today! http://bit.ly/2rEb9

[TechComm] Websites can be created with DITA; here's one http://www.syntext.com/ (flip open the source code and take a peek)

[Storytelling Contest] SlideShare.net "Tell a Story in 30 Slides or Less" Contest http://bit.ly/iIN3C

[User-Feedback] Sortprice Enhances Merchant Store Application on Facebook - www.Sortprice.com

[Social Media] How Tyson uses social media to grow community around the issue of hunger; June 3, 2 PM (EST) http://bit.ly/ibW1G

[Social Networks] Whole Foods uses offline marketing to promote online community http://yfrog.com/

[User-Generated Video] Nokia encourages users to submit videos of themselves opening the boxes of their new phones http://www.womworld.com

[Crowdsourcing] Best Buy is now in on the action; retailer the power of crowds will give the company fresh ideas http://ping.fm/I5x1f

[Social Networks] Social network for book lovers; includes embeddable virtual bookshelf and slick interface http://ping.fm/IuBec

[Social Networks] Ravelry is a unique site for connecting knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers. http://ping.fm/GBHZC

[Social Networks] Social network for Harry Potter-philes. It has chat, blogs, groups, and other features. http://ping.fm/sCfJL

[Social Networks] Social network for dog lovers everywhere http://ping.fm/Y6CQa

[Social Networks] Social network for sports lovers of all kinds - NBA, NCAA, MMA Boxing, NHL, Soccer and more http://ballhype.com/

[Social Networks] Social network for lovers of beer -- explore beers of the world and cool pubs/festivals http://www.coastr.com/

[Social Networks] Social network for wine lovers; users share experiences, find wines based on suggestions http://ping.fm/nAFwY

[Social Networks] Social network for connecting research scientists; allows scientists to share resources http://ping.fm/6stE2

[Social Networks] What does your world look like today? International photo community; post only one photo per day http://www.fotolog.com/

[Social Networks] A social community for LGBT folks: http://www.glee.com/

[Storytelling] Telling stories using the telenova approach: http://bit.ly/1SxkfW

[Jobs] Web Content Manager - London, UK - Contact Kate Kenyon http://ping.fm/yTwAd

[Jobs] Full-time Instructional Designer with Nursing background: http://ping.fm/SzvAv (Texas)

[Customer Support] How to Migrate Your Customers From Free to Paid Support - Boston, June 26 http://ping.fm/m5ipi

[Search] iPhone apps are Google's biggest threat in mobile search http://bit.ly/otwEb

[Publishing] User-generated feedback from readers helps Don and John create http://ping.fm/eCONU Just interviewed them. Cool!

[Web Design] Don't wait any longer - enter the 2009 WebAwards today before it is too late! Go to www.WebAward.org and enter right now.

[TechComm] The Content Wrangler Summer School starts in June. Roster later this week. Online help, content quality, DITA, CMS, XML, & more!

[Social Networks] Social Networks are a source of advice and info, challenging the role of financial services firms http://bit.ly/3wwKOy

[Video] Webcast Your Brain Surgery? Hospitals See Marketing Tool http://bit.ly/esFTp

[Social Media] Is Social Media Making Corporate Websites Irrelevant? - http://bit.ly/oYMRI - I asked same about trade association websites

[TechComm] International techcomm industry is much larger than the membership rosters of our largest international techcomm associations.

[Information Technology] Dr. Seuss explains why computers crash - mystery solved at last http://bit.ly/2T5zv

[TechComm] IBM has modified FileNet to support DITA and XML, with Quark providing a Word-based editor http://bit.ly/4lHJv0

[TechComm] Pretty box, no DITA inside. Don't be fooled into buying software that kinda-sorta "supports" DITA w/a phased approach.

[Publishing, XML] DITA For Publishers http://bit.ly/hNWFK - generic DITA specializations for common publishing document components

[Good Causes] Volunteering for The Trevor Project: 24/7 crisis/suicide prevention helpline for gay youth http://ping.fm/zvoNU

[Music] Last night's Upright LA Cabaret was great. Another great performance by Audra Mae http://ping.fm/xTWPr

[Music] Audra Mae is an artist/songwriter/vocalist to watch: www.myspace.com/audramae

[TechComm] Techcomm is not art form. It's business communication, the success of which should be evaluated using business metrics.

[TechComm] Techcomm products needn't always be created by techcomm pros. Quality content has nothing to do with professional title.

[Jargon] Mashup: Digital recombination of musical or other elements extracted from different sources; results in new, derivative product

[Green Ink] Environmentally-friendly soy-based toner now available from www.thegreenoffice.com

[Digital Paper] Not quite yet...but new e-Reader is 8.5" x 11" and uses familiar iPhone/iPod Touch gestures http://bit.ly/f7wdI

[Voice-Activated Search] Keeping up with the Joneses: iPhone Yahoo! appliance enables voice searching of web: hhttp://bit.ly/101qab

[Voice-Activated Search] iPhone Google appliance enables voice searching of web: http://bit.ly/ir8ss

[RFID] Simple printing technologies can now make it affordable to RFID tag low cost goods: http://www.kovio.com/

[Coffee] 30% of decaf coffee/tea is actually high in caffeine. New test allows decaf drinkers to detect (20 strips, $10) http://bit.ly/YAGCr

[Data Storage] Move over DVD storage: Holographic data storage is here! http://bit.ly/YGvMk

[Multi-Touch] Experience designers have work cut out for them. Folks @ Perceptive Pixel are leading way: http://ping.fm/piD0z

[Location-Aware] 267,475,223: The number of location-based ads delivered to mobile devices by Loc-Aid www.loc-aid.net/

[Artificial Intelligence] Sign up for the beta test of Siri, the largest AI project in the US: http://www.siri.com/

[Quote] "We believe in five years, everyone's going to have a virtual assistant to which they delegate menial tasks" - Dag Kittlaus, Siri

[Life Sciences] The Vital Role Of Terminology Management In The Life Sciences http://bit.ly/QJ7Ap

[Translation] Sajan has released Authoring Coach memory tool http://bit.ly/iLlvy

[Content Management] Interwoven to be acquired by Autonony Corporation for $775 million US

[Translation] Mandarin translations of South Park http://ping.fm/sRE48

[Jargon] Computer-aided translation: Applications that assist in the act of translating text from one language to another

[Quote] "I don't know many people who profess to write content in a single style, for various audiences w/out compromising UX" Ultan OBroin

[Quote] What about the "...automatic lingustic sorting of localized content. DITA has index-sort-as-element. Then what?" Ultan OBroin

[Quote] "No out-of-the-box migration can pour content written in ... MS Word into a structured one in a day or two" Ultan OBroin

[Quote] "It's not clear how topic-based content is likely to see more reuse by users of a CMS than objects ...on a file system" Ultan OBroin

[Carbon Footprint] Does where you live impact your carbon footprint. Sure does. Enter your home address and let www.walkscore.com show you

[Social Media] www.goloco.org trip sharing coordination service. Alerts notify you whenever friends/others are going places you want to go

[Quote] "Humans are inclined to change when they see it will improve on what they already experience" - Geoff Wardle

[Innovation] MIT researchers developing wireless sensors that look for forest fires. The sensors are powered by trees http://bit.ly/3YJuNr

[Design] Post-Modern Style: Video from 1956 of Eames Lounge chair introduction (COOL!) http://bit.ly/PRzHv

[Crowd-sourcing] Mark Frauenfelder explains how the natural tinkerers who built the web are starting to hack the world http://bit.ly/5inAn

[Writing] The Super Bowl of Spelling - http://ping.fm/i9YEy

[Relationships] Do you support gay marriage? Want a free bumper sticker saying so? Get one here: http://bit.ly/cN7cq

[Journalism] A Glimpse at the Future of Journalism http://ping.fm/q2JsT

[Publishing] Would You Pay for Journalism? http://bit.ly/18FP9O

[Publishing] Life After The New York Times - impacts not only readers, but writers http://bit.ly/BPMlw

[Publishing] A new digital approach to paying for journalism: http://spot.us/

[Publishing] Is This the Future of Print Media? http://bit.ly/T0gkh

[Telecommunications] More than a telephone network, Credo Mobile helps you support causes you believe in www.credomobile.com

[Presentations] Create Flash content by recording computer applications, screen animations, PowerPoint presentations http://bit.ly/12KTz6

[TechComm] I'm looking for products that compete with MadCap Mimic and Adobe Captivate. Ideas?

[Searching Twitter] http://ping.fm/mjW7h seems to have issues, daily. Offline now (at my end). Often displays old results. Need XQuery.

[Art of Search] Google incorporates Mary Cassatt into search page logo today: http://www.google.com/

[Communication] Internet VOIP Phones: 10 million units sold in 2006; expect to grow to 164 million units sold in 2010 http://bit.ly/akCKB

[Social Customer Relationship Management] Check out BatchBook CRM http://ping.fm/UiYzF

[Good Deeds] Zoho donated its development platform to help parents and children dealing with autism http://ping.fm/xncme

[Social Networks] If your group has a goal, they should pick software that supports that goal. Change will upset some individual members.

[Social Networks] "Social software is political science in executable form." Clay Shirky on the politics of groups

RT @geekygirldawn: Clay Shirky: "You may own the software, but the community 'owns itself." You support & moderate, but don't control. Amen!

[Marketing] "Please stop talking about yourself:
Is your web content killing your brand?" @ Web Content Chicago http://bit.ly/2DU06n

[Government Content] Patent Application Bibliographic Data (2009) --> XML http://ping.fm/LpNdu

[Government Content] EPA Geospatial Data Download: Facility and Site Information http://ping.fm/Io1bz

[TechComm] Some aerospace companies and pharma firms are now looking at DITA - what took these folks so long?

[Defense Content Management] S100D/IETPs webinar May 28 features US Navy http://bit.ly/slggG

[Content Component Management] 3X this week I've heard folks say they are purchasing Contenta CMS from XyEnterprise http://bit.ly/123aSg

[Content Discovery] Simply search or grab a chunk of text, and Juice will start performing its magic http://grabjuice.com - works in FireFox

[Personalized Marketing] This summer I will test PURL campaigns built w/ VDP Web: http://www.vdpweb.com - Marriott, Caterpillar do already

[Quote] "Component content introduces smaller needles into bigger haystacks" - Paul Wlodarcyk on difficulties finding modular content chunks

[TechComm] Two customers decide to embed video in documentation in next release. Smart. And, just what their users want.

[Content Management] Finally, a humorous video from FLASH Content Management vendor Yooba: http://bit.ly/fwfOk This is great marketing!

@rotkapchen Content management is a hot, hot, hot space. Lots of work. Consultants all busy and billable. Life is good.

[Personalized Content] AIIM should provide personalized content from Infonomics mag based on user profile. Missed opportunity to lead.

[Marketing Idea] When you make a typo in an advertisement and a customer points it out, give them a free product as a thank you.

[Advertising] Surprisingly, America Online's Platform-A tops the U.S. rankings for ad networks (ahead of Google/Yahoo) http://bit.ly/19Yxaa

[Twitter] #followfriday @MaxGalitsyn, @jeckman, @Mediabistro, @NiemanLab, @jsmith_54, @phaester, @jowyang

[Social Media Clothing] People are still requesting info about FLOSS Manuals as a result of text message marketing t-shirt I wore @ #stc09

[Photography] Submit Your Best Photos & Win Up to $2,000 in Cash and get a spot in international exhibit http://bit.ly/10eSJ6

[Social Media] Driving Innovation and Reducing Costs using Social Computing @ Microsoft office, June 11 http://bit.ly/Rc3G0

[Web Content Management] I have two-for-one passes for Web Content Chicago 2009, June 15-16 http://bit.ly/p3Ixd Email scottabel@mac.com

RT @amvr2medwriter Communication = interaction that occurs when a person is actively working to understand meaning other is trying to convey

[Cloud Computing] Webinar – Cloud Computing: The Evolution of the Enterprise Data Center, May 28 http://bit.ly/8eALi

[Government Content] Open Government Initiative wants your ideas for creating a more transparent, participatory gov't http://bit.ly/11X8b7

[Government Content] First-ever catalog of federal data being made freely (and easily) available to humans http://www.data.gov/

[Publishing] Is he crazy? The man behind "The Printed Blog" at Web Content Chicago June 15-16 http://bit.ly/R9iwB

[Publishing] Magazines/newspaper should try this approach: Reward current subscribers free month of subscription for recruiting new readers

[Popular Culture] Clay Aiken says Adam Lambert of American Idol not his "cup of tea". His blog post has been removed http://bit.ly/53nYA

RT @lostremote Just launched a Twitter-friendly iPhone app for Rachel Maddow here at msnbc.com. http://bit.ly/196AWP

RT @fuzheado Wikipedia trumps print media? Survey of toxicologists show 3x as many say Wikipedia accurate vs newspapers http://bit.ly/3ZsYs

@jasowen Any luck finding the DITA friendly CMS. If you need suggestions, let me know. scottabel@mac.com

RT @jasowen Nice Firefox plugin for constructing searches http://ping.fm/9VX7u via @addthis

[Information Technology] RT @JeanetteMcLeod 84% of parents of primary schoolers think IT as important as English/Math http://bit.ly/xnFB2

[Marketing] RT @MaxGalitsyn The Three Essentials of Breakthrough Content Marketing http://fa.by/63a

[Content Strategy] RT @MaxGalitsyn Why Your Website is Just the Beginning of an Online Strategy http://fa.by/112ba7

[Quote] "It's not about the writing. It's about the money spent paying for it, and ultimately, the value it provides to users." Scott Abel

[Content Management] Props to Magnolia CMS and Boris Kraft for using video and social media to reach new audiences: http://bit.ly/W8o72

[TechComm] #tomjohnson clued me into this site designed to help you upload, share, manage video, documents, etc. http://ping.fm/xuHP6

[Video] As of Feb 09 more than 1/3 of US homes had @ least 1 HDTV http://bit.ly/m8YfK

[Quote] If payback is less than 12 months, you should've started yesterday Philippe Robitaille (on automated publishing) http://bit.ly/FJ6uK

[Quote] "Ask customers what they want. Pay attention to answers. Test assumptions." Charles Cooper http://bit.ly/bgvu

[Quote] "People want to do stuff real time and I think they [Twitter] have done a great job," Google CEO Eric Schmidt http://bit.ly/4xpfW

[Quote] "We have done a relatively poor job of creating things that work on a per-second basis" Larry Page, Google http://bit.ly/4xpfW

[Experience Design] According to Eddie VanArsdall, "the design element that is often lacking or absent is proximity" http://bit.ly/z64Tn

[Twitter] Familiarize yourself with these powerful Twitter tools to become a Master Tweeter. http://bit.ly/v5cbf

[Software Development] Getting questions together for my interview with Jason Cohen of SmartBear Software next week http://smartbear.com/

[Telephone SPAM] Phone rings. Don't recognize number. Caller ID says "UNAVAILABLE". Find out who was calling: http://whocalled.us/ (U.S.)

[Digital Asset Management] Automating Rich Media Operations Seminar - June 9, Santa Monica (I'll be there!) http://bit.ly/25rlUb

[XML] Just had a good chat with publisher of book I'm writing about the business of creating and managing content. Excited, I am.

[XML] Three more reviewers needed to write book review of DITA 101 text. Free book, plus the glory of the byline. Email me scottabel@mac.com

[Video Marketing] It's interesting to watch videos produced in the Middle East like this one from Al Ain Mall http://ping.fm/v8lXa

@StubbornlyWrite Complaining about usability of product got me noticed by both usability & training departs. I sold my services from there.

[Twitter] Twitter is great for business. Even complaining about a company can get you a gig with them if you handle it right.

[Publishing] Got a book related to content management, XML, techhcomm, you'd like to get published? Email me scottabel@mac.om

[Content Marketing] Help us get ranked higher on Junta42! Vote (aka "hitch") for The Content Wrangler http://bit.ly/kKKqV - currently #35

[Social Media Marketing] It's not cool to start a social network, recruit members, then 5 min after they join, call them via telephone.

[Twitter] Attention marketing pros: Twitter helps pizza joint boost sales; tracking shows Twitter matters http://bit.ly/KcqVL

[Net Freedom] Craigslist is suing SC AG after he threatened to prosecute for allowing solicitation of prostitution and dissemination of porn

[TechComm] It's amazing how many technical communicators are joining Twitter daily. Keep 'em coming!

[Web Content] I have three free full access tickets to Web Content Chicago available (first come, first serve). Email scottabel@mac.com

[iPhone] Baskin-Robbins is rolling out new soft-serve ice cream w/ a national TV campaign and an iPhone app http://bit.ly/fMjOA

[Analytics] Prepping for call with folks working on NASA computational analytics project; this is exciting stuff!

@BkwdGreenComet Rephrasing: Naysayers are a good thing; while they're wasting time spouting off, others are making his ideas come to life

[TechComm] Writers who create FAQs using psychic power, rely on style guides to "enforce" quality have no business making business decisions

@BkwdGreenComet I'm happy some folks see Wolfram's ideas as "dud"; leaves more room for those who see value to capitalize now

[Advertising] "TV in Context" (TBS & TNT) offers advertisers ability to target ads to particular scenes in movies/shows http://bit.ly/8DReP

[Twitter] NASA Twitter account keeps people updated on anything and everything that is happening up in space http://twitter.com/NASA

[Social Media] InterContinental Hotels blog helps people decide where to go, once they are there, what to do http://bit.ly/1avzth (SMART!)

[Marketing] Smart decision on Dell Computer's part to announce new product on its blog after speculation in blogosphere http://bit.ly/kjTAn

[TechComm] Reviewers needed for new DITA 101 book; email scottabel@mac.com

[Computer Science] "A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram; free online access to book http://ping.fm/fEayE

[Search] Google Squared extracts data from Web pages, presents them in search results as squares in online spreadsheet http://bit.ly/1n06Q

[Life Sciences] New content on FDA Structured Product Labeling page http://ping.fm/phzeb

[Life Sciences] FDA provides updated the UNII list http://ping.fm/lfwOm

[Life Sciences] Four Training Sessions
Preparing Electronic Drug Establishment Registration and Drug Listing Submissions http://bit.ly/A348K

[SPL] Pragmatic validator now catches and displays "missing postal codes" for foreign sites as a validation error http://bit.ly/UmyhR

[Technical Computing] International Mathematica User Conference 2009, October 22-24, Champaign, IL http://bit.ly/AGrAx

[Mashups] It's in the mix: 42 Different APIs Used in 7 Days - From MTV to NPR - The future is here! http://bit.ly/cMtKX

[RDFa] Rich Snippets: Google's microformats & RDFa experiment http://bit.ly/M0NTv (what do you know, my crystal ball was right on this one)

[Twitter] Free webinar "Twitter Power Tips" - Tim O'Reilly (May 21 1pm ET) http://bit.ly/nKfdO Don't miss this. O'Reilly knows his stuff.

[Self-Publishing] Free trial of user-friendly self-digital-publishing service: http://bit.ly/I5lL8

[RDFa] Rich Snippets: Google's microformats and RDFa experiment http://bit.ly/M0NTv (what do you know, my crystal ball was right on this)

[Social Media] Executive Guide to Social Media: How smart companies are using Twitter and Facebook—and what's next http://bit.ly/dq6CI

[Search] Google using location data and other factors to try to determine what users really meant; not what they typed. http://bit.ly/1IlcqQ

[Intelligent Search and Analysis] Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram http://bit.ly/10TBlX

[Games] Wii Remote has caused more headaches than any other game controller. Those times are going to change, co says http://bit.ly/9yozQ

[PR] WTF does "Enterprise Release Combines State of art WCM, Document Management, Portal Features on One Aggregated Content Platform" mean?

[Travel] Want to save BIG $ on airline travel? Try booking a multi-city trip instead of single ones; Just saved $1200 on 8 city trip. :)

[Web Content Chicago 2009] Conference theme: "Delivering Dynamic Personalized Web Content" June 15-16 http://ping.fm/O6gne

[Health] Cubicle-dwelling knowledge workers often suffer negative health consequences from sedentary jobs; Exercise & diet is the answer!

[Twitter] Bummed that I'll be missing the 140Characters Conference this year. Next year, for sure! http://www.140conf.com/

@tomschneller I like the catalog a lot. These types of visually-rich online experiences are here to stay! Great work. Got other examples?

@Tierrah I'd love to schedule an interview with you about your role at MS and what it involves. Sounds interesting! Thoughts?

[Business Costs] What does it cost the average US corporation to process a payment, prepare and send a check, for instance? Anyone?

[eCommerce] What do you think of this online catalog approach from CB2? http://bit.ly/Kl8Px

[Microblogging] Twitter-like service for behind the firewall; private/secure http://ping.fm/qFjdx

@scottbcitrix Yes, I found videos on YouTube http://bit.ly/4fFDv. So far, most aren't role-based. I must be missing something. Ideas?

@DavidBaeza If you can recommend a human at GoToWebinar to help me better understand the product, that would be excellent customer service.

@DavidBaeza Thanks for responding about need 4 video on GoToWebinar. My customers would really benefit from a task-based walk-through video.

[Video Documentation] Why is it so hard to find videos on using GoToWebinar on the company site? Easy to find on YouTube. Go figure.

[Web Content Mismanagement] Staples Copy Center says I have 5 items in my cart on one part of screen; other says 0. I should have 7. Geesh!!

[Web Content Mismanagement] Staples CopyCenter online sucks! Staples could make A LOT more revenue if they knew what they were doing.

[TechComm] Single-sourcing is not content management. It's a method of producing multiple deliverables from a single set of content objects.

[iPhone] Apple iPhone Software Roadmap shows where company is heading with device http://bit.ly/doADq

[Cloud Computing] U.S. Government creates working cloud computing definition http://bit.ly/akcdO

[Information Technology] With IT budget of 70 billion dollars+ a year, the US government represents the largest IT consumer on the planet.

[Quote] "It's not just disasters they need to worry about, even mundane threats can cause costly downtime." Stephanie Balaouras, MetLife

[Security] The overwhelming majority of damaging data loss happen via stolen laptops and handheld devices. http://bit.ly/YycC3

[Quote] "An error in one of our systems caused us to direct some traffic through Asia, which created a traffic jam." Urs Holzle Google

[Twitter] @socialtoo Despite paying for preferred service, your results are still wrong. Why am I pay $20 for results that aren't accurate?

[Communication] "Weed out all unnecessary words. An average sentence is 10-15-words long. Ask: 'Do I need all the adverbs?'" - Dee Dukehart

[TechComm] Thanks everyone for good vibes! FYI: not MY conference; I was just a contractor for #doctrain; Blog post in progress

[TechComm] Documentation and Training Conferences goes under; economy and poor sales to blame -- more to follow

[Collaboration] Making Group Management Tools on the Web Not Suck http://bit.ly/5pzHh

RT @jaesuna: asked #wolframalpha, "what are you dong?". it answers "i am doing computation for the world" hahahaha

[Caluculations] According to #wolframalpha I was born 395160 hours ago. Amazing calculation engine: http://ping.fm/MXTkk

[Food for thought] Struggling to find work/life balance? I'm moving away from billable hr work toward repeatable passive income generation.

RT @ bphuettner: Look who's on Twitter! RT @JackMolisani: Working on program for #lavacon 2009 in New Orleans.

[Books] Generate a bar code for any publication with an ISBN # http://bit.ly/ClD2g

[Twitter] Anyone have any info (or know of links to articles about) the inability to find a Twitter member in the Twitter directory?

@KorenZ Would you mind sharing your experience w/me via email @ scottabel@mac.com re: Getting off Obama listserv?

[Humor] @brainopera Yes, I was tempted to say "to die for as well" on a different list, but still as offensively humorous. Hehhheeee

[Content Management] Going to be in Chicago June 17 and want to learn more about e-Spirit CMS? Let me know. I'm helping set up appointments.

[Listservs] @Kristil I'll be addressing those things in my article, which is not really about Twitter as much as alternatives to listservs.

[Listservs vs Twitter] Writing article on difference between these two communication approaches. Suggestions welcome. Links, quotes, etc.

@kberman Someone might hire you if you did more than RT everyone. Creating concise tweets demonstrates your skill and can help get you a job

@CharJTF It's also about NOT providing the wrong content, to the wrong people, in the wrong format. Something we communicators often ignore.

[Contact Management] Great card scanning service - SERVICE is the keyword here -- they scan for you http://ping.fm/ROq4E

[TechComm] Working on several surveys aimed at TechCommers. What topics do YOU want to know about?

[Social Networks] Trade organization leaders need a reality check. They forget, they work for us -- the members -- not the other way around.

[Social Media] Syndicating feeds from 1 service to another can create duplicate posts when you use more than one authoring interface.

[Testing] Please ignore this post. Thanks.

[Social Networks] Check out my FriendFeed http://ping.fm/Y97Q1 - powerful, useful, and saves time and money

[Jobs] 2 writers needed to work on CMS system documentation - MUST have XML component content background. Contact scottabel@mac.com - Good $

[Search] I found 10 folks who retweet my tweets using "real-time search" @ http://ping.fm/qju4e Also found research I was looking for.

[Search] First there was "search", then "persistent search", then "playable search" and now "real-time search" http://www.oneriot.com/

[Listservs] My final comment on listservs today: Listservs are the poorest choice of available technology and don't support personal choice.

[Marketing] Send a text message to my t-shirt - http://bit.ly/w20Wj (I used this service & attracted 100+ new followers while @ conference)

[Twitter Advice] Follow limit = 2K. When you hit limit, don't unfollow others! Earn more followers then your follow limit will be increased.

[Web 2.0] Web 2.0 Expo New York Call for Participation open now http://bit.ly/1aboXl - see you in NYC!

[Intelligent Content Processing] Expect more solutions like www.wolframalpha.com that provide answers to questions. We're making progress!

[TechComm] Twitter and social networks support "different strokes for different folks" - listservs cannot do this; STC should kill theirs

[Presentations] A few clicks & you can transform PowerPoint presentations into rich, interactive experiences http://bit.ly/sCFJt

[Speech Analytics] http://utopy.com/ issued patent for method of classifying telephone conversation into predefined categories of interest

[Web Content] Zoe Gillenwater explains web accessibility, how it affects audience; how to set up accessibility testing http://bit.ly/p7Ut6

[iPhone] The iPhone has changed mobile communication forever; now there's text-to-speech http://bit.ly/B71nh

[Twitter] Twitter gives you only a tiny bio. One URL. With tweet spinner, you can change that. http://ping.fm/3GW07

[TechComm] Tools are rapidly moving to the web; Adobe BuzzWord is a web-based word processor http://bit.ly/4nziML

[Translation] It bugs me that translation websites are not often translated. Here's an example of the problem http://www.t-online.de/

[Email] Google GMail is more intelligent. Now it reminds you to include attachment if you mention "attachment" or "attached" in body

[TechComm] Tim Plumer on Captivate, demos how to plan/create presentations, add animation, interactivity, audio/video http://bit.ly/17mVim

[Experience Design] The Evolving Institutionalization of Usability: User Experience as Strategy, May 21 (free webcast) http://bit.ly/Qse9O

[Search] Microsoft will pay you to buy products you find using their search: http://bit.ly/OV6bV and http://ping.fm/1saLz

[Design] Culture-centered design techniques used to promote HIV testing to African Americans http://bit.ly/3wnj3 (know your audience)

[Marketing] 2/3 of marketing experts admit they do not understand social media - Sad and predictable http://bit.ly/fYwFq

[Twitter Mashups] http://ping.fm/ZdhCN is one of the best Twitter Mashups around. Try it yourself. Very cool.

[Stats] In less than one year after its initial release, there have been more than 100 million installations of Adobe AIR - wow!

[Translation] Web-based translation project management tool based on open standards: www.yooprocess.com

[What Students Read] Kansas State researchers say students read 8 books, 2,3000 webpages & 1,281 Facebook profiles year http://bit.ly/j8uJz

[XML] How J.J. Keller Struck Gold w/ its New XML Repository (includes 8 tips for planning content migration project) http://bit.ly/toD0h

[Hardware] Does your HP laptop battery burn the hell out of your lap? It can also burn your house down. Recall: http://bit.ly/qTzfe

[Quote] "If you are worried (about social networks)...evaluate not only your presence on web, but your presence in the world" - Katie Botkin

[Publishing] NYT launches Times Reader 2.0, based on Adobe AIR; good example of innovation needed in publishing industry http://bit.ly/9qWK5

[Sports] When it comes to buzz, steroids trump all of their on-field accomplishments http://bit.ly/B1Jkp

[Email] Google GMail Labs now allows you to recall an email. But, you better be quick. They only give you 5 seconds to recall

[Jargn Watch] Semiotics: Study of sign processes, signification/communication, signs /symbols, both individually/grouped http://bit.ly/5rnVe

[Quote] "Facebook only does quickly what gossip and your own attitude do eventually" - Katie Botkin, Multilingual Magazine (so true!)

[Images] Add a button to flickr button-bar in FireFox, allowing one-click posting of flickr image link to twitter http://bit.ly/VMaNS

[Wikis] Wikis have gained in popularity, but many enterprises still begin wiki projects w/ unrealistic expectations http://bit.ly/8sdx6

[Social Networks] Interviewing a smart friend Sat who specializes in setting up social networks for churches. And, a huge untapped market.

[XML] RT @AlainCouthures I think I've found a trick for xforms:upload support in #XSLTForms : http://ping.fm/HGpY4

[Web Content] Want to deliver the right info to the right people at the right time on the web? Attend http://bit.ly/p3Ixd. I'll be there!

[Journalism] Journalism’s battle for relevance in an 
age of too much information http://bit.ly/g2NH2

[TechComm] Joe Marini takes you thru basic XML rules, discusses tools, explains syntax, creating style sheets, schemas http://bit.ly/AONPX

[Content Marketing] Custom Media Day - June 17 NYC http://ping.fm/pPSY7

[Translation] They say it's "automatic and accurate"; they're offering free trial - give it a shot http://nobabel.com/

[SPAMmers] Now I'm getting Twitter SPAM from Jesus. As he knows everything and is everywhere, does he really need Twitter?

[#MLUC09] Hope you enjoyed my coverage of conference. Join 3,000 of your peers on my social network for content pros http://bit.ly/pwzJ8

[Translation] Google Gmail Labs Activates 49 Languages http://bit.ly/bp7Jm

[TechComm] Get immediate access to the entire lynda.com Online Training Library $25 month - a GREAT deal! - http://bit.ly/Spb8X

[Quote] "Encountering as much info in 365 days as great-grandparents did in lifetime encourages schizophrenic filtering" - Katie Botkin

[Video] RT @Beet_TV: Personalized video ads have high clickthru http://bit.ly/4oNyc

[Categorization] Deciding whether to keep using [brackets] to preface and categorize my tweets and move to # sign categories. Thoughts?

[Social Networking] Police Use Social Networks, Fake Profiles in Investigations http://bit.ly/3ftM2J

[TechComm] STC Management SIG listserv members made my case for getting rid of listservs, they don't provide flexibility social networks do

[Sports] Why are jocks so atwitter about the newest social media craze? (no, it's not the absence of jock itch) http://bit.ly/15sJik

[Twitter] #followfriday: @scottabell (not me), @socialmediaclub, @socialmediablog, @thumbcontent, @realtimecontent

[Twitter] Celebrating my 5,000th tweet! Shots for the entire bar! What'll you have? I'm starting with a shot of Patron w/ a little salt/lime

[TechComm] Now That We've Got Dita Up and Running, What's Next? http://bit.ly/Dd7dA

[Security] So, you think someone stole your identify? Report it here: http://ping.fm/KDbuT

[Jobs] Research In Motion is currently searching for a Director, Product Information Development Contact Kirby (+1) 519.888.7465 x72584

[Twitter] Twitter Chats: The New Media Commons? http://bit.ly/F2od1

[Globalization] GALA 2009 Conference & Exhibition, September 14-16, 2009
Cancun, Mexico http://ping.fm/EH2Bn

[Blogging] Used http://www.tumblr.com/ to blog from #MLUC09 and it worked great. Could use auto-spell check though.

[Mind Games] Need a little mental stimulation? Check out http://www.sporcle.com/

[Video] It's just history repeating... MTV gets big uptick in viewers who were watching -- drum roll -- MUSIC VIDEOS! http://bit.ly/qPOv0

[Marketing] A great idea. Sponsors by access to the CrunchCam http://ping.fm/5vXHm

[Search] http://duckduckgo.com/ another entrant into the search arena

[PR and Marketing] I can't believe there are people who call themselves professionals who fail to provide content info in email.

[Medical Research] Exemplar provides great results on healthcare searches http://ping.fm/LFhAK

[Artificial Intelligence] IBM unveiled advanced computing system that will be able to compete w/ humans on Jeopardy! http://bit.ly/UZEKR

[#MLUC09] "There's no point in displaying businesses in London if the user typically searches for businesses in Reading" Graeme Saeton

[#MLUC09] "I shutter to think how long our project would take if it were a waterfall project" (they now use Agile method) Graeme Saeton

[#MLUC09] "I'd prefer (in the future) to use MarkLogic as the underlying data repository" (instead of the CMS they use today) Graeme Saeton

[#MLUC09] I searched Yell.com for DJ w/location southeast England - try it. Very cool. Got results, related user-generated content and more

[#MLUC09] "It's always the long tail that gets you" - Graeme Saeton

[#MLUC09] "The strategy is to do a lot of deals w/ third parties that can provide content we can pull into out searches" - Graeme Saeton

[#MLUC09] Yell.com also provides context-dependent content along with results from third-parties, users, Wikipedia, etc.

[#MLUC09] "We've got over 100 business rules for search" - Graeme Seaton, Yell.com

[#MLUC09] "We're all about saving time and preventing our customers from trying to think too much" - Graeme Seaton, Yell.com

[Web Design] I love http://ping.fm/PcQZw website design. Beautiful! Award-worthy.

[Broadcasting] Now you can broadcast just about anything from nearly anywhere http://ping.fm/PdO13

[Social Media] Post-secondary educational institution claims to provide practical, hands-on training in social media http://bit.ly/2UJMwN

[#MLUC09] Yell.com is what Martha Stewart needs to do, deliver the right information to users based on WHERE they are

[Search] Yell.com is the future of search - matching businesses with consumers - keep an eye on this one!

[#MLUC09] "MarkLogic provided us with a significant search retrieval improvements" - Graeme Seaton, Yell.com

[#MLUC09] "We are more and more becoming instant gratification driven" - Graeme Seaton, Yell.com

[#MLUC09] "We were spending an inordinate amount of time creating search features; usuall taking 6 months per" - Graeme Seaton, Yell.com

[#MLUC09] "Nothing can be fast enough. As long as it's instant, that's all we want" - Graeme Seaton, Yell.com

[#MLUC09] "The proof of concept produced by MarkLogic far outperformed the others" - Graeme Seaton, Yell.com

[#MLUC09] "At the end of the day, what we're really selling is time" - Graeme Seaton

[#MLUC09] Try this search service http://www.yell.com

[#MLUC09] Last session: Matching Businesses with Customers at the Leading Directory Service in the UK - Graeme Seaton

[PR] How to Be Smarter Than Your PR Agency - New Research on News Release Best Practices (webinar) May 20 http://bit.ly/KpbKW

[#MLUC09] This conference is so much better than most. The solutions presented are real and you can often interact with them yourself online

[#MLUC09] Many of you @ home can't see what I have here; I'll work w/ MarkLogic to find ways to help you understand why this is so important

[#MLUC09] One thing is apparent to me now. Many CMS vendors are in big trouble! Your approach can't hold up against the MarkLogic approach.

[Innovation] If (something) no longer existed, would it matter and why? http://bit.ly/PSol2 See what others think & why http://bit.ly/gGCN7

[#MLUC09] If your firm is still thinking about solving your content problems with database type systems, you are in big trouble.

[#MLUC09] After hearing Craig Wilkins session, I believe there are big - no HUGE - opportunities in this space for XQuery-based solutions

[Web Marketing] Catching Up To The Speed of Social Media http://bit.ly/17p1nG

[Geospatial] Location-based services using geospatial capabilities allow us to add geospatial context to search queries http://bit.ly/4EKbIX

[#MLUC09] XML and CDA are the best paths toward adopting a better data accessibility and management approach - Craig Wilkins

[#MLUC09] "Access to handwritten or dictated/transcribed medical content is challenged. You have to scan, run OCR" - Craig Wilkins

[#MLUC09] "60% of all clinical information is encapsulated in documents - handwritten or dictated/transcribed" - Craig Wilkins

[#MLUC09] There are 18,000 billing codes for healthcare procedures but not one for cures - Craig Wilkins, Wedmedx

[#MLUC09] 1% of the US Population pays 35% of the care cost - Craig Wilkins, Wedmedx

[#MLUC09] 75% of $ spent on healthcare is for chronic care - Craig Wilkins, Wedmedx

[#MLUC09] Almost 20% of US GDP is spent on healthcare - Craig Wilkins, Wedmedx

[#MLUC09] US Healthcare spend = $2.5 trillion a year - Craig Wilkins, Wedmedx

[#MLUC09] Now attending "Bridging the gap in clinical documentation by applying XML and CDA" - Craig Wilkins, Wedmedx

[#MLUC09] "We used templates to enforce rules and requirements" Murry Christensen, JetBlue Airways

[#MLUC09] "You do not give power tools (XML authoring, for example) to civilians" Murry Christensen, JetBlue Airways

[#MLUC09] New link to opening session video; whether you attended or not, this is outstanding http://ping.fm/9CGDG

[#MLUC09] Fun with mashups: Check out this XQuery cartoon generated from Twitter and Flickr together http://bit.ly/O7stg

[TechComm] Nearly 40% of existing implementations & approx 60% of in-progress/ planned projects are based on DITA http://bit.ly/RWWg

[XML] Will IBM-Quark partnership help mainstream DITA? Ann Rockley ponders the possibilities http://bit.ly/vqPn0

[iPhone] Bringing Back the Art of the Pickpocket http://bit.ly/iwxJc

[XQuery] Use cases for those who wonder WTF is this XQuery thing that Scott won't stop tweeting about http://bit.ly/AA3mP

[XQuery] First there was Bud Lite, now there's XQuery Lite; no idea whether it's useful or refreshing http://bit.ly/N82ij

[#MLUC09] If you are looking for something to do tonight, why not see the musical Wicked http://ping.fm/lwV3E at The Orpheum

[XML] XML-in-Practice 2009 Conference & Exposition, September 30 - October 1, 2009, Washington DC http://bit.ly/d83cO

[Social Media] Twitter Power Tips from Tim O'Reilly (webinar) May 21, 10am PT http://bit.ly/d5re2

[#MLUC09] Birds of a feather lunch topics include: XRX and XForms; Open Source XML; XSLT; XML, XQuery, and Java; Digital Media Management

[#MLUC09] "You just won't be able to escape this new world. There will be a resurgence of the art of deception" - Guy Filippelli, Berico

[#MLUC09] "There is tremendous opportunities for intelligence communities to hone in on historical data on individuals" - Guy Filippelli

[#MLUC09] "We need to have trusted transactions in an untrusted world on untrusted networks" - Michael Kushin, ManTech

[#MLUC09] "We have to start operating in a world where the networks we use are untrusted" - Michael Kushin, ManTech

[#MLUC09] "How do you keep all of this information secure is the number one problem for government" - Bill Goodhue, Lockheed Martin

[SPAM] The continued menace of email spam shows that given enough incentive, spammers can innovate and create new types of attack campaigns

[#MLUC09] "If you were starting a new company today, you would need no IT department at all" - Dewey Houck, Boeing

[#MLUC09] "Sometimes it's difficult to set up SaaS in the government...economically, it's here to stay" - Dewey Houck, Boeing

[#MLUC09] "We made our structured content unstructured to allow us to find things faster; make more complex queries" Bill Goodhue, Lockheed

[#MLUC09] XQuery vs XSLT: XSLT was designed for document rendition; XQuery was conceived as a language for querying XML databases

[#MLUC09] "The most fascinating site on the net from a KM perspective is Wikipedia...and it's unstructured" - Guy Filippelli, Berico

[#MLUC09] After 9/11 ave age of military IT folk was 39 yrs; Now it's 29. These folks demand advanced technology. - Michael Kushin, Mantech

[#MLUC09] Metadata catalogs: mechanism for storing, accessing descriptive metadata; allows users to query based on desired attributes.

[#MLUC09] "I'm really kind of astonished at just how bad it is" - Michael Kushin, ManTech

[#MLUC09] "Cybersecurity" has been a challenging problem for the government (of the US) for quite some time - Michael Kushin, ManTech

[#MLUC09] Information needs to be shared but done in a responsible fashion - Michael Kushin, ManTech

[#MLUC09] "Need to know" has morphed into not sharing info under any circumstances - Michael Kushin, ManTech

[Marketing Metrics] Need to monitor your online social media buzz? TrackUR says they can help you in 60 seconds: http://www.trackur.com/

[Marketing] Identifying the Elusive Influencer: Building programs to best leverage your most influential customers http://bit.ly/fLXNY

[Jobs] Senior Technical Contributor (Integration) MarkLogic, San Carlos, CA #MLUC09 http://bit.ly/u8IdE

[Jobs] Quality Assurance Engineer (Storage Integrity), MarkLogic, San Carlos, CA #MLUC09 http://bit.ly/u8IdE

[#MLUC09] "Lockheed Martin uses MarkLogic to search through 100s of billions of documents in minutes, not days" - Bill Goodhue

[Social Media] Miracle Whip Rolls Out Social App http://bit.ly/W7vJC

[Social Media] The "My" Movement: Now Chipotle Grill is in on the user-generated content action http://bit.ly/jo9hI

[Twitter] "Gee, thanks Twitter. I didn’t realize that an option I manually activated was undesirable." Jason Kincaid http://bit.ly/kacD8

[#MLUC09] "It may seem wiser to use a relational approach, but in long-term, it's smarter to take the MarkLogic approach" Guy Filippelli

[Web Development] The largest collection of web development tutorials on the net http://ping.fm/bkZaG (should be in DITA though)

[#MLUC09] Information fusion: Aggregation of information, regardless of type, to provide useful views of the information in meaningful ways.

[#MLUC09] "There's also a big push in government for data discovery" - Jeremy Glesner, Berico Technologies

[#MLUC09] "A lot of the buzz in government is about cloud computing and architecture" - Jeremy Glesner, Berico Technologies

[#MLUC09] "Hardware should be free, if you believe in the cloud" - Jeremy Glesner, Berico Technologies

[#MLUC09] Attending session: Information Fusion: Realizing Cost Benefits and Gains for Efficiency for Government

[Marketing] Identifying the Elusive Influencer: Building programs to best leverage your most influential customers http://bit.ly/fLXNY

[Jobs] Sales Consultant, MarkLogic, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia #MLUC09 http://bit.ly/u8IdE

[Social Media] Lee Aase, Mayo Clinic, says he has replaced the RSS feeds he subscribes to w/Twitter

[Social Media] Intel's Inside Scoop highlights employees http://scoop.intel.com/

[Social Media] Southwest Airlines' Twitter contest http://ping.fm/RORLY

[Mobile] The Wireless Guide At a Glance: A preview of everything for building, operating, and using wireless systems http://bit.ly/15Z04z

[Publishing] The Great Unbundling: Newspapers & the Net http://ping.fm/ZaWSt

[Marketing] Excellent example of how to market your social media subscriptions, feeds http://ping.fm/1CQ3H

[XML Content Management] XyEnterprise partners w/automated XML typesetting, batch pagination, loose-leaf publishing firm http://bit.ly/KGc7U

[Marketing] Over Half Of Online Retailers Decreasing Search Spend http://bit.ly/80JML

[Marketing] Rebecca Lieb asks "Who Owns Social Media Campaigns?" http://bit.ly/1a11DM

[eCommerce] Attention Shoppers: Social Media and Blue Light Specials at http://www.mykmart.com/

[eCommerce] Sears embraces social media @ http://www.mysears.com/

[Groups] A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy http://bit.ly/4iupI

[Marketing] Twitter FAIL! The 8 worst brands on the world's hottest microblog http://bit.ly/drPUR

[Publishing] David Geffen Wants A Chunk Of The New York Times. What Does Google Want? http://bit.ly/pqMnx

[PDF] Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, Adobe has taken the PDF format to a whole new level http://bit.ly/ntjA9

[XBRL] 340 of 500 public companies required by SEC to file financial data in XBRL have made the conversion http://bit.ly/ZJWiS - #mluc09

[XML] US Senate to publish roll call votes in XML http://bit.ly/rzlmj #mluc09

[#MLUC09] Complete text of my blog posts from the MarkLogic user Conference can be found here: http://ping.fm/ZTQl5

[Jobs] ContentManagement Specialist in Silver Spring, MD - Contact info@tst-us.com

[TechComm] Five minute tutorial video on DITA Topics http://ping.fm/XwI6a

[XML] Free downloads of a AJAX viewer for XML based compliance mandated information http://bit.ly/HQvCq

[#MLUC09] Endless possibilities: My interview with Norm Walsh, MarkLogic on the future of publishing http://bit.ly/p6J7o

[Publishing] Another custom textbook publishing solution for professors and instructors http://ping.fm/Fq0uw #mluc09

[Publishing] Customized textbooks: http://ping.fm/RDAJm

[#MLUC09] Great video from Wiley & Sons: Rebinds -->The Dark Secret of Custom Publishing (great example) I'll get video for you later

My upcoming speaking gigs: San Diego STC, June 10; Web Content Chicago, June 15-16; Milwaukee STC June 19-20, San Gabriel Valley STC June 22

[#MLUC09] Opening session video @ MarkLogic User Conference -- excellent use of video medium: http://bit.ly/7hYpy

[Quote] "SIGs whose interest is general, not special should be dissolved, or become a different kind of group" from STC Presidents listserv

[XHTML] W3C Publishes 4 XHTML Documents as Proposed Edited Recommendations http://ping.fm/SqXA8