What has your cell phone done for you lately? Mine just updated my blog. Then it told me my friend Craig was just a few blocks up the street. Then it showed me my Google Reader feeds. Then it told me what song was playing on the radio. Then it got me out of a really boring meeting.

Source: Alpha Geek: 10 cool cell phone tricks - Lifehacker

Wikis are ideal for drafting documents, creating content outlines and collecting resources before writing technical documentation. When it comes to actually writing documentation, specialied tools like XML-editors for DocBook come into play. In an ideal world you could at this point continue using the Wiki-principle of collaborative authoring and with Mindquarry's combined versioned file sharing, wiki and task management you've got all tools in one package.

Source: Lars Trieloff's Weblog : Developing Documentation with Wikis

Should we have domains and domain owners? 

They prune old and unused content, sometimes having a blog that lasts just a very short time. They work hard to keep it all fresh and up to date. They have knowledge champions in various areas who help do this. He feels these "domain owners" are an important part of facilitating the "quality" of the information and its organization. This is internally oriented, which has everybody with the same mission of advancing the company's goals and under the same governance to keep out bad behavior, etc. This is not Wikipedia on the public web.

Source: Starting January 25, 2007

A Pentagon advisor and national defense analyst says the U.S. Army has such a severe shortage of chaplains that some reserve units may be forced to deploy without chaplains. The Army's Office of the Chief of Chaplains in Washington, DC, reports that branch is currently short by about 520 chaplains, with 80 Regular Army vacancies and 440 openings in the National Guard and Reserves.

Source: Army has severe chaplain shortage (OneNewsNow.com)

Martin's fast-paced lecture touched on many other obstacles to rapid development, but again and again he kept returning to the theme of professionalism. "My Test-Obsessed bracelet is a promise to myself," said Martin. "A promise that my software will be tested and clean."

Source: SD Expo Show Daily - Test Obsessed

Because of the death of John Piper's father, he was unable to be with us tonight. Thankfully C.J. Mahaney, who was at the conference anyways, was willing and able to step in and take Piper's place. As C.J. said, "Regardless of your eschatology I don't think anyone saw this coming!" As is typical of him, C.J. began with a funny, self-deprecating monologue that had us all laughing for a few minutes. But he grew serious and said that he considers the opportunity to speak at the Shepherd's Conference a life and ministry highlight that is only exceeded by MacArthur's invitation to preach at Grace Community Church during a worship service. C.J. opened with prayer for John Piper as he mourns the loss of his father.

Source: Challies Dot Com: Shepherd's Conference (III)

#737 Google School -- Johnny's Brain has a useful tip for using the Google Reader: "Let’s say you are reading a post, and realize that it would make a great blog topic, but you don’t have the time right then to mess with it. Hit the t key, and pop in “toblog” into the textbox to save the item for later.Later on that day, it’s time to start blogging. Simply hit the “gt” key combination, and up pops a great little Ajax’y goodness dialog that lets you easily select the tag you are looking for:This is most useful if you want to be able to tag a lot of items that you don’t necessarily need to read for a while."

Source: the evangelical outpost: Yak Shaving Razor #80