Thanks to Seb's Open Research. 

Tom Smith comes up with a totally rockin' list of  formulas that explain the success of weblogs in learning / knowledge management. Via the social software channel.


    •     Bad Is the New Good ( It Really Is )
    •      Some Things Just Don't Work (And Never Did, Let's Get Over It)
    •      People need to PeripherizeTM, Not Focus ( There is Too Much Information )
    •      Thinking Out Loud ( The Best Place to Do It )
    •      Informality Fucking Rocks ( Everybody Hates the Suits - Really )
    •      You Don't Know What You Know ( Really )
    •      You Probably Know Too Much To Even Begin Writing It Down ( Really Really )
    •      A Little And Often is Best ( Your Mum Was Right )
    •      The Link is God ( Which makes Google the Devil )
    •      Person Centric not Place Centric (You can only be in one place at a time)
    •      Personal Taxonomies (Let Dublin Core catch up rather than dictate)
    •     You Own Your Blog ( You Are Your Blog )
    •      Information Exists in the Context of People (And Always Has)
    •     If It's Not Documented, It Really Doesn't Exist
    •     Democracy is the Least Worst of the Alternatives (Let's Get Over It)
    •     Reflection is the New Black (Who'd have thought?)
    •     Lets Plan To Start Now, Plan Later (That's The Plan Anyway)
    •     Passwords Blow Goats
    •     Distributed AND Centralized (not OR)
    •     Nobody Owns the Blog Concept
    •     If Blogs are the Songs, RSS is the Home-made Compilation CD (RSS is cool)
    •     People Can Cope With Simple ( Just about, but not always )
    •     Don't Try And Make The Computer Do Things It Can't And We Can ( i.e Manage Knowledge, Make            Sense, Inspire, See Connections, Make Jokes, Cock            Up)
    •      Google for "Small Pieces Loosely Joined"