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A few weeks ago, I installed the Zemanta module for Drupal on KnowProSE.com and haven't had much opportunity to play with it. Once configured, it does give you options - allowing you to link to images/video from a media gallery built as you write, as well as contextual links. The image to the right was added with one click (and it even showed up where I wanted to, perhaps by accident - perhaps not).

Overall, I'm beginning to see that this may be a useful tool. The last useful tool I found for blogging was tabbed browsing, but nowadays I'm drowning in tabs.

One of the hiccoughs I had was being in a writing mode and then finding out that I had to set up the module - but that is to be expected and it wasn't too painful. Still, I'm not sure that it's customized right for my own use; it seems so tailorable that it's likely that using Zemanta will be a continuous adjusting process. To speak to that process now would be too early as I have only adjusted it once. You can stick up to 800 sources to draw from - XML sources - into Zemanta as of this writing. That's impressive. How many do I have in there now? Oh, maybe 3.

It's fun to play with and see what can be done with it. It is rare that there's a tool that makes blogging easier and to say that Zemanta does this would be, for me, premature. I'll get back to it after about 50 blog posts and see how it really works out.

But then, the other beauty of Zemanta is that it's not invasive in the writing process. So far. :-)

After starting the new job, I did what I typically do to get my feet under me - immersion. Like every job I've had since the 90s, there's a level of situational awareness that is necessary to get anything accomplished. That takes time and focus, but even with that there are details that slide by. The world isn't perfect and I'm most certainly not perfect. As with most things, though, perfection isn't the issue.

Over a decade ago, I tried starting KnowProSE LLC in the State of Florida. The idea then was to become a place for outsourced programming for companies in an era where the Internet had not yet reached Web 2.0. The short version of what happened is that life happened. This kept KnowProSE LLC from becoming a reality. It also allowed me to broaden and deepen my experience in new areas as well as better understand how to run a company through seeing good practices that I would like to emulate and bad practices that I most certainly do not.

Since this is the first blog entry,I could write about all the cool stuff that is planned, or how awesome the world will be now that KnowProSE LLC is a part of it. This is where every new business typically oversells itself, claims untested abilities and promising to change the world.

I'll bypass the hubris: KnowProSE LLC is already working with one client and trying to develop strategic partnerships with other small companies and I don't have the luxury of large amounts of planning until KnowProSE LLC is more solid. The site, very basic now, will continue to evolve.

Once KnowProSE LLC has more solid footing as a company, this blog will release solid things that are planned or are already happening - and sometimes, things that have already happened.

This blog will also be used to communicate ideas and thoughts from KnowProSE LLC. For those who are more interested in the private thoughts I used to post here on KnowProSE.com - you should probably redirect your browsers to OpenDepth.com, my personal blog.

As for KnowProSE LLC - it has now gone from nowhere to Now Here.