Friday, August 23, 2002 
Curiouser and curiouser! has pulled together a variety of sources on the topic of using k-logs to avoid choking project managers' email queues:
Reuters: Managers drowning in e-mail.What I don't get is why a k-log would be better than some sort of toggle or checkbox in a database that the KM could look at? I'm not sure how pure business k-logs look, but woul the project manager have to search for "I finished debugging the widget" to be sure she had your seen your update? How passive is passive?
A huge volume of business e-mails is generated from workers reporting progress to project managers, Nickerson said. <<< There is an answer to this: post it to your K-Log. K-Logs are more passive and user friendly than e-mail.
[John Robb's Radio Weblog]
[Jim McGee: Blogging]
[Ron Lusk: Ron's K-Logs]
I shall be leveraging this argument quite heavily I think. Savvy people already realise that email is the rope they've tied around their neck. I think they are just afraid to do anything different in case they pull the handle for the trapdoor.
Hopefully the k-log message will resonate with these people in a good way.
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Automated Aggregation!
Ask and ye shall receive. Now I have to admit my failure of reading comprehension, as I did not grok from Dave's explanation a week ago that the Multi-Author Weblog tool has exactly the feature I wished for in my previous entry.Mark Paschal, ever helpful, commented thusly:
Autoposting from feeds is what the Multi-Author Weblog tool is for. Since you have a paid LJ account, you could use a special style (that's the one I put together, but I know l.m. orchard had one too) to get RSS with item bodies.Oh frabjous day, callooh, callay!
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Automated Aggregation?
In the interests of offering one-stop shopping, I figure I should cross-post here pretty much anything I blog anywhere else (as always, by category). Frankly, though, it's tedious to cut-and-paste or even post through the aggregator (plus my LiveJournal's RSS feed is headlines-only). I wonder if it might be possible to write a script to watch my news feed and automatically post to pre-specified categories entries from my other blogs?I know one day I'll probably have to settle on a single tool and run everything through it, but I consider this market research, a learning experience, and something of a teaching exercise as well to explore as many options as possible. So, in the meantime, I'd love to employ a drudgery-free method of pulling together all my x-pollinations into one place.
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