(SOURCE:"rossm")-Exactly. Blogs allow you to inform your community WITHOUT having to explicitly decide to update everybody and explicitly decide who to update.
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The competition for k-logs, then, isn't KM systems; it's email. What k-logs add to email is a slight, but important change to the communications paradigm. The shift is from targeted addressing to an assumption of community and inclusivity. A blog is an open record, available to everyone in the community. Instead of thinking about who needs to know, the corporate blogger thinks about informing many others. Instead of a one-time message, the blogger thinks about creating a long-lived, widely accessible record. These changes in the way we think about our daily writing are more appropriate for the way we work. It's much more natural to gradually document our work for others using an open, journal-like blog than to constantly update specific individuals. The advantage of k-logs is that they eliminate the effort required to explicitly remember to update coworkers and the additional work in deciding who needs to know about each update.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

(SOURCE:Fliegen von ferne)-These hypotheses are well worth reading and pondering and I bet they are true.
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First, the basic klog hypothesis: [ELIDED, read the article for the full text!] ... Second, the augmented klog hypothesis: comparison of otherwise equivalent initial learning 'problems' will show that the klog augmented by news aggregators, automatic google searches (such as googleIt applied to title) and commentary from readers of klog entries (as in 'further reading' [see above]) will demonstrate significantly enhanced speed and comprehensiveness of development when compared to results of the pure klog approach. Third, the accelerated community learning hypothesis: ... Consequences of Bounded Group Augmented Klogging: (a) the concepts produced have a greater degree of coherency than those produced by the same augmented kloggers working in isolation (to be expected) or in a more more loosely affiliated group (e.g., a yahoo discussion group). (b) the rate and acceleration of concept production per individual will be markedly greater as well. (a consequence of focusing attention not only in one's work but upon the work of others -- in the group -- also working in the same or closely related domains, nodes or 'situation
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

(SOURCE:"aklogapart")-As usual Phil, nails it! Read the entire post!
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Only clueful VCs will buy blogging; it is very early and populated by many craftsmen personalities and curmudgeons. (I could be wrong.) Portals and ISPs - and others who value loyal visitors and community building - have a vested interest in coopting the blogosphere. Will GM be the first company to bundle a blog with every car? Since Earthlink became a Trellix customer and Interland bought the company, see others launch environments where everyone gets a blog. Where interests lead, money follows.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

Excellent overview of blogs, knowledge sharing and publishing!
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In this two-part document, I analyze an emerging form of knowledge sharing that I call personal knowledge publishing. Personal knowledge publishing has its roots in a practice known as "weblogging" that has been rapidly spreading on the World Wide Web over the last three years. It is a new form of communication that many expect will change the way people work and collaborate, especially in areas where knowledge and innovation play an important role. If you are a researcher or knowledge worker who is not very familiar with weblogging and personal knowledge publishing, reading this document should help you grasp the significance of this practice and better understand how you might benefit from getting involved in personal knowledge publishing. Although the emphasis is on research work, most of the ideas generalize to other kinds of creative knowledge work where knowledge sharing plays a role. In the first part, I describe what weblogs are, and explain how they are altering communication patterns on the Web. The second part focuses on personal knowledge publishing and similarly describes the new patterns of communication that this practice is giving birth to. In particular, I explain how these patterns can facilitate the emergence of new communities of knowledge. I also point out the current limitations of personal knowledge publishing. I review the most important points in the conclusion.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

Newswire stories, including: Structured Content: What's in it for Writers?; Hypermedia Workflow. [xmlhack]

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