Community tools and knowledge extraction in web logs Phill Wolf address the future of blogs and points out indicators of social capital in web logs. He give ten each with and extended example, I've only shown the full text of two that appliy to my work towards a mesurment framework for social capial in weblogs.
Where are weblogs going? How will they adapt to the workplace?
1. Blogging platforms are quickly growing smarter.
2. Blogspace is joining the infrastructure.
3. Community tools are improving too.
Social capital is getting easier to observe and measure in blogspace; no reason it shouldn't happen in your enterprise's blogspace. Every week we see new tools that help users identify what's new, what's relevant, who's the expert. We see people forming communities of interest/practice, project teams, spreading memes and tools; evidence that people are reading as much or more than they're writing.
4. Knowledge extraction is coming.
Weblogs leave a trail that can be mined by social network analyzers, text miners, taxonomy and categorizers, and search engines. All of this is work that today's KM systems ask the poster to do at the time of the post. Blogs lower the effort hurdle; they're easier, so they get used. And their trail of time-stamped posts, citations and cross references, traffic logs, and syndication feeds (in XML) mean that other tools can be added when you get to it.
5. Blogs compete with MS Word and email as a writing tool. . . .
6-10 see the full list on Phill's page [a klog apart]
One last prediction.
In the tradition of Coke machines with web sites, I expect my 2006 Camry to come with a blog.
[aka klogs]
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