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Blogs have spread like wildfire on the Internet. Blog postings range from the trivial and vain to the witty, informative, and insightful. A blog, for those of you who have not taken a look at one yet, is a Web page of short entries arranged in reverse chronological order. Some blogs are the efforts of one individual while others are produced by a team of authors. The success of blogging as a new publishing form lies in the ease with which a new Web site can be produced “automatically.” Intranet blogs certainly can support KM. Blogs allow individuals or groups to easily encode content, store it, and transmit it via Web pages, Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, or daily or weekly e-mail digests.
Search engines can help find relevant documents, but a new breed of technology goes beyond simple document retrieval. These text-mining tools make it possible to discover new knowledge in the form of trends, anomalies, relationships, and patterns that span multiple documents and large document collections. By extending the way text databases can be explored, text mining can add valuable content analysis and decision support tools to existing intranets.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a not-for-profit division of The Johns Hopkins University. The library has developed and maintains numerous Web sites on the laboratory’s internal network. These sites include the internal home page, a research portal, and specialized topical resource sites.
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