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Using my own blog as an example, natch, I’ve written instructions on how to subscribe to blog feeds
What do I do with that RSS button? Well, you need the “Tivo for web pages,” which is an RSS reader or aggregator. RSS aggregators are tools that manage your feed subscriptions for you [...]

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Talking about notifications on systems that matter, and going beyond notification to action
Here’s a light bulb that can send your cell phone a message when it goes out. Think about it - you could generate a household “to do” list via SMS! However, I think that Gizmodo is right, [...]

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Talking about the top three reasons people say they’re working on implementing a CMDB
According to Network World, in this CMDB adoption: What some numbers tell us and why article, they have found three top drivers or motivations for CMDB implementations:
1. Change and Configuration Management (also named Release, Change and [...]

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Observations on discovery technology based on sitting in on the BMC IT Discovery Suite presentation at last month’s BMC Forum
Tools for discovering your IT assets are a new area to me, so if I get the technology all wrong, let me know. I attended this session Wednesday of the BMC Forum [...]

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Lately I’ve seen several good articles or tidbits about specifications and was surprised to see some hatred for them
You know, specs. That short little list of things that is supposed to be the technical description of a product. I just read this New York Times article of the commandments to electronics manufacturers and [...]

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Discussing one evaluator’s perspective and looking for other evaluation methods
I use Google Answers for research questions on occasion, by typing in some keywords and then browsing through already-asked or already-answered questions. I believe you could look for business trends by browsing through the Business and Money section [...]

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What are you reading on IT blogs?
Ever feel like you have 100 channels but nothing’s on? I’m definitely feeling that way about television. Now that I have a TiVo®, though, my television viewing is sharply focused to just the content that I want to know about. I recently showed [...]

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Roundup of the DITA reading I’ve been diving back in to lately
Here’s a rough grouping of some interesting articles I’ve been reading about DITA implementations lately. BMC has explored DITA implementations for both mainframe and distributed documentation, modeling the information for a couple of books. I’ve been looking at [...]

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Back to the heart of this blog… exploring
I want to write more about exploration, and specifically, I want to talk about Geocaching. Ever heard of it? Basically it’s like a high-tech scavenger hunt using GPS (Global Positioning System) units to track down coordinates, called waypoints, where other geocachers have [...]

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