I added several categories-- it now reads: ecology, weblogging, klogging, systems, knowledge-making. Hope this serves to connect my future community with my searching as well as with my sharing.

Next: To determine good searches of blogchalked information.

Blogchalking could help find klogging support. Summary: My blogchalk needs work! It doesn't help me get support for knowledge-making efforts.

I recently subscribed to blogchalk as I noted briefly in this item [http://radio.weblogs.com/0106698/2002/11/15.html#a66]

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Blogchalk. This is my new blogchalk: United States, Washington, Port Townsend, Hastings Valley, English, French, Spike , Male, 56-60, ecology, cooking. :)

What is said is a true subset of categories that apply to me. It doesn't reflect my own sense of my self, certainly, wasn't intended to but, most importantly, it's no flag for people interested in fellow knowledge-makers or in people wishing to discuss and study knowledge making. How about some changes then.

My most conservative change will be to alter the two categories.

Then, maybe, I'll change from a list of two (cooking, ecology) to a list of of say 10 or 15 that reflect topics I really would like fellow Personal Knowledge Managers to know about. [Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog]

Summary: Weblogging is altering the human computer interface. There is no simple way to conceive of the changes that are taking place.

See the following from Abbe Normal here[http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?_AbbeNormal/001036182141.46.html] In his entry he responds to one single-minded interpretation of weblogging with

--here's the tangent the title [Microcontent] sends me to (the first part lifted from wiki weblog PIM):

It's not just microcontent, because it can be large.

It's not just peer to peer, because it's also about the individual's interface to the computer.

It's not just personal publishing, because it's also about collaboration.

It's not just the living web, because it doesn't have to be updated frequently.

It helps to have the organizing focus that some of these terms can provide. In the end, i believe that there's no simple definition to what so many (ChandLer, TheHumaneEnvironment, SpaCes, ZigZag, UserLand, ZoPe, TinderBox, etc. please suggest more!) are after, because we are in the process of redefining the relationship between humans and computers.

But it's different now, because there's no blank slate to work with -- many people already have a relationship with computers, so as the metaphor goes we're trying to maintain and upgrade the 747 while it's flying. And it still has to work for people new to computers -- since the majority of people on the planet have almost certainly never used one. Probably we'll all look back in ten years and laugh about how we used computers today. (rather than crying about it like we do now :-)

Summary: My blogchalk needs work! It doesn't help me get support for knowledge-making efforts.

I recently subscribed to blogchalk as I noted briefly in this item [http://radio.weblogs.com/0106698/2002/11/15.html#a66]

This is the text:

Blogchalk. This is my new blogchalk: United States, Washington, Port Townsend, Hastings Valley, English, French, Spike , Male, 56-60, ecology, cooking. :)

What is said is a true subset of categories that apply to me. It doesn't reflect my own sense of my self, certainly, wasn't intended to but, most importantly, it's no flag for people interested in fellow knowledge-makers or in people wishing to discuss and study knowledge making. How about some changes then.

My most conservative change will be to alter the two categories.

Then, maybe, I'll change from a list of two (cooking, ecology) to a list of of say 10 or 15 that reflect topics I really would like fellow Personal Knowledge Managers to know about.