A blog post from a geek about how the blog editing and commenting works - for him.

I wonder if this might help us with the evolution of Qumana.

http://radiofreeblogistan.com/2004/05/27/
paging_rogers_cadenhead.html

Bottom-up collaboration is about exposing information and letting others decide what they want. This eliminates one of the biggest barriers to information flow: The fear that something you send out will not be wanted, when it may be the most important piece of information you have at the moment, though only to someone else who is prepared to recognize and use that information strategically or tactically.

Now, Mr. Gates is just getting this idea, but there is a small army of Microsofties already hard at work on this. As Reuters points out, Microsoft already has 700 bloggers on its payroll. About 1.2 percent of the company's workforce already blogs publicly and there are myriad internal blogs, wikis, and other forms of bottom-up collaboration going on inside the Redmond, Washington-based giant.

Indeed, in recent months, Microsoft has hired Ward Cunningham, who created the wiki, an easy collaborative work environment, and last year enlisted Robert Scoble, a tireless blogger and former marketer at blog developer Userland Software, to evangelize Longhorn to developers.

Microsoft is not climbing on the blogging bandwagon late. It has been riding the blog-RSS railroad for a long while, and may turn it into the juggernaut that attacks Google, leading to a host of M&A activity in the social software space as warring camps stockpile technology for a protracted fight for the bottom-up workplace infrastructure.

Source link:  http://blog.redherring.com/MT/archives/main/000225.html

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Source link:  http://elmine.wijnia.com/weblog/archives/001283.html

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Source link:  http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/001297.html

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..... according to David Weinberger,   ...


Joe Trippi says that we shouldn't be calling it the "information age." It's really the age of transparency and empowerment.

The Dean Campaign was just a blink, one of the first glimpses of how the changes are going to happen.

WRT to TV, Joe says that in 1956 when Nixon gave his Checkers speech, "Bullshit had a medium."

Source link:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3734981.stm

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I posted a new photo to Photos.

Dave has another great post, in which he sets out design wishes and requirements.

 His design specs have often been very close to the fundamental underpinnnings of the tool we are busy building.

From this blog post:


I see the blog, and at a broader level the 'tabs' of our personal content management system, our 'filing cabinet', as nothing more than 'addresses' or destinations to send content to.

So although Microsoft would have us believe that 'saving' a document or message, 'sending' a document or message to someone else, and 'publishing' a document or message to a blog or website, are three fundamentally different functions and applications, I see them as conceptually indistinguishable -- they're all actions that move content from one specific space to another.

That's why I have proposed a single, intuitive Workspace Manipulation and Document Annotation tool to replace virtually every application users have on their PCs today, a tool that would finally make PCs accessible to the billions of technologically challenged among us.


Our tool does this, we believe - it acts as an "information pivot", allowing the user to move information how and where she wants.

Lilia Efimova Sebastian Fiedler, Carla Verwijs and
Andy Boyd have published a paper called: Legitimised theft: distributed apprenticeship in weblog networks. (download .pdf here)

If you're interested in some of the latest thinking about the internal use of weblogs in corporations, this paper does a good job of describing the possibilities, opportunities and barriers.

Quote from the paper:

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If you think it's now easier to introduce a service for a fee when its current user base was used to getting it for free, think again and see the heat Six Apart (the software vendor behind Movable Type and TypePad) is getting after it introduced its MT 3.0 pricelist yesterday. There's definitely room for improvement in a pricing structure that looks somewhat stuck between what's standard for online apps and what's done in the world of enterprise software, but at the same time there's still going to be a limited product for free and no-one forces you to upgrade if you don't like the new deal. I expect Six Apart to rephrase some awkard restrictions, create smoother upgrade paths where needed (for instance for current beta users who weren't told this was coming), and provide a more flexible model for those corporations they now target explicitely. On the other hand, no matter the (feigned) outrage, they need to stick to their guns and run this as a business, nice happy vibe or not. This will be interesting to watch. 05/17/04 update: Changes in and clarifications about the licensing terms.

Jon Husband was recently interviewed by a journalist for an article in Backbone Magazine on social networking and social software.

Here's his response to a question about why social software and blogging are important and whether it (the movement) will spread and grow: 

"Ultimately blogging (or the core elements of blogging) will take some kind of shape in commerce and within workplaces, because ... it's about quick and efficient sharing of information in ways that are easy to access and use.

Knowledge work in many (most) workplaces now uses email as a core work tool. Blogging adds context and enables distribution of information throughout networks - and combines it with a blogger's personality, or their view on an issue or piece of information. It's often been likened to conversation or dialogue, and this, generally, is how it will find application - as a "conversation or dialogue" with customers (as part of marketing or public relations) or employees, where the dynamics become "two-way", not just top-down.

I think that this dynamic will become a fundamental aspect of our "wired world", in which we are surrounded by connectivity and information. We will all be engaged in ongoing interaction with flows of information and with each other.  In that context, short of a wlkie-talkie or phone, blogging is the quickest and easiest communiction route - push-button publishing and conversation for the people.

Networks of bloggers form around an interest or shared points of view or whatever else would motivate someone to begin a "relationship" with another person. That's why it's a core element of "social software" - software that helps people connect with and get into conversation and relationship with others - customers, co-workers, professional colleagues, and so on."

Dave Pollard is bang on in my opinion on why Knowledge Management has received such a bad rap. How KM was deployed was ill conceived. These two paragraphs explain the past and what I beileve the future is.

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One of my peers in the badly-named discipline of Knowledge Management is IBM's complexity guru, Dave Snowden. Last year Dave wrote a paper entitled Managing for Serendipity, which I really enjoyed. Dave appears to share my disdain for the context-free capture and 'codification' of people's business knowledge in massive 'knowledge bases' just in case someone else might be able to benefit from that knowledge sometime in the future (assuming they can find it).

Dave's paper explains how senseless this expensive exercise is. I have outlined in my Personal Knowledge Management articles why I think Knowledge Management energies would be much more effectively spent (1) developing social networking applications and competencies, and (2) developing personal content management applications and competencies, focused on the specific, individual needs of the organization's front-line knowledge workers (illustrated above).

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Here is a fun and interesting piece by Dave Pollard on the future.

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It's 2015. Thirteen-year-old Kari Ross just got a PTV for her birthday, the much-anticipated PC⁄TV convergence product. PTV comes with the following hardware and software:

 - a stereo headset with a built-in microphone

 - a flip-up 3D screen that clips onto her glasses

 - a wireless trackpad that clips onto her belt

 - a wireless webcam with a velcro wrist strap

 - voice recognition software that 'learns' Kari's    pronunciation and vocabulary

 - a folding wireless keyboard that fits in her backpack

 - wi-fi internet access

 - VoIP worldwide long-distance telephony

 - subscriptions to her favourite television programs

 - a vast library of downloadable PPV movies and free music and books (including all her schoolbooks)

 - a pocket-sized CPU⁄hard drive

 - MC², an integrated personal content management, annotation, social networking and publishing package

MC², which stands for Managing Content & Communications, is the only software package Kari ever learned to use. It has three 'modes', represented by a pencil cursor (for document⁄message writing and annotation), a hand cursor (for saving, sending, publishing and otherwise moving content from one place to another), and a telephone cursor (for connecting with other people and their content). She laughs in disbelief when her father tells her he had to use 26 different, and incompatible, software programs to do the things she does with MC², which a friend taught her to use in 15 minutes.

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I had to include the last line. It's pretty funny!

Read the full post here.

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