Site Transition (Almost) Complete
Transitioning this site from Joomla to Wordpress went off (almost) without a hitch. In the transition the comments to all of the posts on this site were lost, I wasn’t able to keep the same URLs for posts, and currently, each of the posts has random questions marks floating in them.
Also, if I’ve managed to flood your feed reader with lots of old posts in the process, I do apologize!
Other than that, things should be back to normal and I can get back to posting regularly now that I don’t have to do so by hacking my blogging platform…
Moving from Joomla to Wordpress
This website will be moving from Joomla to Wordpress in the very near future. While I will attempt to break as few links as possible that point to the content on this site, I’m not entirely sure how successful that will be based on accounts of other folks who have jumped platforms.
Ideally I would be staying on Joomla as it is a great CMS all around; however, it’s blogging capabilities/support still leave much to be desired. I say this as I am updating this post via a hack, as the blogging component installed has encountered an unknown error and prevented me from posting updates legitimately for quite some time…
Please bear with me in the meantime while I transition this site and all of it’s content.? Additionally, please check back in a few days for an update to the RSS feed, as I am assured by others that it will break in the transition. In the meantime, enjoy Downtown Naperville, IL in the middle of a snowstorm. Taken 01/13/09.
Google Launches ‘knol’
While it appears to only be in private-beta at the moment, Google has just launched ‘knol’ - their knowledge service where people who are recognized as subject matter experts are asked to author an article on a particular subject.? Jack , Doug and Rich have already covered this announcement and have shared some of their thoughts.? Not wanting to be redundant since I agree with most of what has been said by each, I thought I would share a different observation I’ve had on this.
Often a bit of news will get picked up and will be discussed in many of the blogs and sites that I frequent; however, this is usually where the discussion ends.? Not everyone I know gets as excited as I do about a new and interesting KM article that has just been published or cares to discuss how LinkedIn will transform once is opens up to developers.? Fair enough.? So just imagine my surprise when I saw that The Drudge Report picked up on the knol announcement today with the headline/link to article, “Google to tackle Wikipedia with new knowledge service. ” It seems that this may just be one of those things that everyone is a little bit interested in seeing where it goes…
The KM Exit Interview
The latest Dilbert comic shows us one way to begin the exit interview process…
