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Friday, June 28, 2002 |
I have a picture here visualizing the emerging socal network. I still have to figure out how this cms works. I had some trouble working with the picture tool so I gave up and made the link.
12:37:41 PM 
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Now this is getting interesting fast. I'm no longer blogging completely alone. I've been in my own experiment for two or three days and watching the network activity more closely. After completing the recommended reading list from Jon Udel (Noah E. Friedkin's paper on Horizons of Observability) I began to walk the bibliography and today I followed my path through knowledge and found Peter Merholz is exploring Social Capitol in the Social Networks in a similar way.
We are trading in a Knowledge Bazaar. (pdf)
Abstract:
This paper presents field work that challenges existing metaphors of knowledge work as a process shaped by machine or market forces. Instead, as people in organizations jointly engage in the generation of solutions, each exchange between individuals represents both the production and distribution of knowledge; each exchange is valued in multiple (often social) currencies; and each exchange is located in a particular time and place. To more fully capture the practice of knowledge work in organizations, this paper draws from Geertz’ 1978 description of a Morrocan Bazaar as both economic and social community. Knowledge work in organizations draws its central characteristics as a bazaar in which the exchange of ideas and expertise is continually shaped by both social and economic forces within the community and the continual flow of goods and services from the environment. Such a perspective highlights several implications for the management of knowledge work. First, the environmental conditions that surround knowledge work create (and require) a dynamic rather than static equilibrium within the organization. Second, embedded market forces appear effective in valuing and rewarding employee contributions within this dynamic equilibrium. And, third, the physical and social commons provided by the organization create the necessary community for such embedded markets.
When information becomes more freely available it becomes more beneficial to give it away more freely. We have to measure the social welfare of larger communities to get a read on the health of the network.
10:28:23 AM
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IBM has done some work on making social cues visible through the ui. Jon Udell played around with this a few months ago in radio around the time the article Seeing and Tuning Social Networks was released. Now that I'm trying to write meaninfull content my deffinition of path through knowledge is changing somewhat. I'm finding I have to retrace my path more often to reproduce my thoughts here in words to communicate the to possible readers; although I'm still blogging alone so it may be necessary for only me to understand what I'm talking about. There are deffinatly longitudnal changes to my dailey browse.
8:18:44 AM
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Alerticons need to be integrated into Radio. I've seen some attempts but that's one of the reasons I open groove before I open Radio. I still think Ray prefigured many future software apps. News.com has this coverage today:
"buddy lists"--which show when others are online and available to chat--proved too powerful and comforting to shut down.
8:07:39 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Stephen Dulaney.
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