Friday, August 16, 2002

10 tips for shared purpose. Christopher M. Avery has written an article on 10 secrets to a shared purpose. This outlines some tips on how... [Column Two] 10:59:32 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

War and the common people (1). Student nurses from the Japanese Red Cross Society Training School practice kendo (wooden sword fighting), June 14, 1937 [Jonathon Delacour] 10:58:30 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Towards a storytelling architecture. Tom Reamy has written a two-part article for KMWorld exploring the use of storytelling in an organisational setting. Part 1... These are practical articles, packed with useful insight and tips. Well worth a read.  [Column Two] 10:39:50 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Murmurs. I have this document where I keep fragments of things. I call it “ideas.” Periodically I return and read through... [Oblivio] 10:36:22 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Green: A Thing Raitt Talks About. Blues rocker Bonnie Raitt, who advocates sustainable living and alternative energy sources, walks the walk with solar and wind-generated power fueling her current tour. Brad King reports from Austin, Texas. [Wired News] 10:35:57 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Radio Comments for Stories. RADIO NOW ALLOWS COMMENTS ON STORIES How to use Story Comments: Blunt Force Trauma] 10:34:38 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Rene Descartes. "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." [Quotes of the Day] [The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty] 10:28:06 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Techdirt.com. Back when I started talking about business applications of (or lessons from) blogging, Mike Masnick sent me an interesting message about Techdirt.com, a multi-author (slashcode) technology/business news blog that's been running continuously since 1997 (that is, since before the word blog was coined). One interesting thing is that Mike and his team managed to monetize the project by starting Techdirt Corporate Intelligence. Techdirt CI provides "enterprise blogs to technology companies.... Each gets a customized, private blog that is filled every day with links, summaries, and (most importantly) analysis of all the news that impacts them." This is interesting to me, because it's a passive or "push" blog for the end-users. I suppose this can be thought of as sticking to their core competency and outsourcing the infograzing. Mike tells me the company is profitable, running off revenue with no outside investment. In a sense I see this as a version of what Megnut's been talking about (I'd call her Meg but we've never met). You can say that Mike (with the help of his cohorts) established himself as a competent blogger (not just poster, but link-sifter, context-provider) and then found a nice independent way to get hired by numerous client to blog for them professionally. Not as outreach but as intelligence. [Radio Free Blogistan] 10:15:26 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Architecture Matters: The Rebirth of Public Discussion. Ray Ozzie hits the nail on the head, detecting the architecture of the blogosphere and the benefits it confers through decentralizing the content management and enabling people to make the connections: But blogs accomplish public discussion through a far different architectural design pattern. In the Well's terminology, taken to its extreme, you own your own words. If someone on a blog "posts a topic", others can respond, but generally do so in their own  blogs, hyperlinked back to the topic's permalink. This goes on and on, back and forth. In essence, it's the same hyperlinking mechanism as the traditional discussion design pattern, except that the topics and responses are spread out all over the Web. And the reason that it "solves" the signal:noise problem is that nobody bothers to link to the "flamers" or "spammers", and thus they remain out of the loop, or form their own loops away from the mainstream discussion. A pure architectural solution to a nagging social issue that crops up online. The downside? Well, part of why people like getting together is that unintended consequences  can be quite rewarding. And there's a danger that the self-selecting environment of a given blogging community might limit unintended outcomes. But, then again, I could argue quite the opposite: in a traditional public discussion, a good idea might get lost in the noise. [Radio Free Blogistan] 9:34:37 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Also Crawling the Ecosystem. Via Backup Brain another ecosystem crawler, this one called organica. [Radio Free Blogistan] 9:27:41 AM    trackback []     Articulate []