Koral would make Vista cool

Koral has a knowledge management system that is the coolest thing I saw at the SAP show recently and I have a demo and an interview on ScobleShow today.

Look at how it keeps Excel spreadsheets and other files in sync.

Demo (9:20). Interview (22:39).

Oh, there’s lots of stuff on Vista around today. I put the best on my link blog. Including this list of ways Microsoft could make Vista better by Jeremy Toeman. Heheh, John Dvorak is tired of baiting Mac users, so now he’s going to bait Windows users to be equal opportunity. Got it John! Damn, I fell for it again! ;-)

What to do if you are having a bad day blogging

Getting attacked? Can’t figure out what to say? Sad that your audience has gone to read Digg or Mike Arrington? Read this post on Global Voices online about an Egyptian blogger who was jailed. That should make you feel better about your bad day and give you something to get angry about, all at once.

Linking to Sarah Blow

Heheh, Sarah Blow was at a little dinner we threw tonight and she was giving me some virtual heck for not linking to her. Oh, Sarah, I Google’d you this morning, looked at all three of your blogs, and didn’t see an update for 10 days, so didn’t link.

I guess she doesn’t listen to Steve Gillmor, who said that not getting a link is a sign of respect. ;-)

For Valleywag

Gotta give Valleywag something salacious from London. I love Hugh, what can I say? Anyway, it was really great meeting Steve Clayton, Microsoft blogger, I’ve enjoyed his blog a lot.

You can join us on our “pissed as newts” tour tomorrow. Meet at the Eros Statue at 1 p.m. sharp. After that, Hugh will lead us on a tour of fun things and pubs in London.

Blogs and wikis as platforms

Whew, yesterday was a busy day. Three interviews. Two speeches. One London Girl Geek dinner. Two videos posted (thanks to Kevin Edwards and Michael Klinger for posting those while I’m gone).

Anyway, I saw Don Dodge talking about blogging and wikis as platforms. He’s absolutely right. Anyone who’s seen a list of WordPress extensions sees that developers are building cool things on top of that blogging platform.

One of the blogging vendors, Blogtronix, I had on the ScobleShow yesterday (demo and interview). I like their stuff a lot, it lets companies build their own “Channel 9″ without having three great developers of their own.

Opacity is evil?

I love this quote from Steve Sloan: “opacity is evil.” I totally agree with that when it comes to public institutions. The way our tax money is being spent should be done transparently. I doubt we’ll ever get there.

I look at yesterday’s events regarding PodCamp. Would I have done anything differently if we had been totally transparent? No. I told an audience yesterday that I live my life expecting that whatever I do or say will get on the front page of the New York Times. That makes people uncomfortable.

It is an uncomfortable life sometimes. Particularly when people don’t do their homework before jumping to conclusions.

I wish bloggers called and tried to get my side of the story before making attacks and tried to present both sides of the story, even if their side of the story is right and mine is wrong. I thought blogging was about being fair, and open, and different than what existed before. I guess not.

Hey, I live in a dream world. I know.