In an earlier statement ( http://radio.weblogs.com/0106698/2002/11/12.html#a61") I mentioned that "preannouncing " a new personal knowledge development effort might be a way of drawing suppport to a that effort.
A special case of such drawn support might be special interest klogging groups such as the group-forming group [http://www.aquameta.com/gf/drupal] where special attention to the efforts of fellow-members; in that case a supportive response might be both faster and more likely. But the ideas I discuss below might be useful for in not only the case of the fellow special-interest-group member as well as the more occasional, or even utterly unknown, first time respondent.
Question: What is a good knowledge-making technique for the individual that also allows support, ie. friendly kibitzing.(I working on the optimal format for a "barely good enough" 'seed entry' that would serve the hurried first documentation purposes and yet activate a potential group of respondents at the same time.
I've come up with a couple of ideas. First, create a subsection of my weblogging operation that is devoted to initial thoughts (and from which later more sophisticated entries will derive). Thus I've created the "beginnings and not ready for prime time (NPRT)" category.
Idea: put placeholder statements and germinal ideas which are just beyond inarticulate in this category. My idea is that kibitzers who are interested in finding support-worthy ideas might look here[ http://radio.weblogs.com/0106698/categories/Seeds] for my really obvious candidates.
Another idea: leave a trail back to earlier efforts in the same cognitive territory. As you try to leveraqe your own knowledge-base a chronological trail of entries which link back to earlier efforts with similar material will probably help you, and possibly prospective supporters, to recreate the sequence of thoughts and, thus, to catch the gaps in reasoning that need interpolating and possibly to better guess possible extrapolation from present reasoning. Thus-- I' m trying on the idea of news aggregating my own entries so that I can take snippets and have easy linkage back to the earlier entry --- a flow of links to prior entries.
Who's the beneficiary, this way? For one, I am. I can trace my own thoughts more effectively through a backward trail of links. Also, any observer wishing to follow the same set of links may have a related thought induced by puzzling with the sequential, item to item stream.