CRM Assist Apr 9 2003 2:16PM ET [Moreover - Knowledge management news]

(SOURCE:"mcgee")-Summary: weblogs are better and more compelling for the general public because they foster thinking in public; wikis and other media require thinking together and thinking together is harder than thinking in public.
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My problem is this. Most of the technology tools for supporting thinking together (e.g. discussion forums, threaded discussion, wikis) depend on skills and norms that I've found to be rare in practice and challenging to promote. My intuitions tell me that there are important differences with weblogs that address at least some of these issues. ... One of the primary reasons that thinking together is hard is that it requires both that we think in public and that we think collaboratively. I suspect that thinking together fails at least as often because we don't know how to think in public as it does because we don't know how to do it collaboratively. Further I think that order matters. You need to learn how to think in public first. Then you can work on developing skills to think collaboratively. Thinking in public is a precursor skill to thinking collaboratively that's been ignored. We want to get to the fun stuff (ooh, brainstorming!) and skip over the hard part. Weblogs make the hard part easier. They make it possible and permissible to go public with an idea while you're still working it out. Their structure of time-ordered, generally short, posts feels less intimidating than having to produce a finished, completely worked out, properly structured report. Their organized, permanent, structure of archived posts give you something to go back to and to build on. Pulling it all together under the umbrella of an individually identified place makes it visible and sharable with others without forcing it on anyone. Finally, syndicating the results via RSS makes it available to those who are interested in a way that enables dialog without demanding dialog.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

Amen! Preach it!
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First of all, how cool is that? Second of all, the subtitle really nails it: "What Happens to Journalism and Society When Every Reader Can Be a Writer." I'll say it again, the connection of Web logs and journalism is just too important to miss. It's valid to argue what form of journalism Web logs take, but there is no denying any longer that it's a form we're all going to have to start taking seriously as a source of information. And that means teaching our students the good and bad about the genre as well. I have a number of new "sources" that I trust, and I've left behind many of the traditional media sources that I used to rely on. The more I read Web logs and the more I find intelligent, articulate filters and thinkers, the less I believe the stream of pre-packaged pablum that Big Media want me to consume. And that's significant as I have been immersed in the study of media almost all of my professional life. If you would have told me just a couple of years ago that I would stop buying newspapers and not watch the evening news I would have laughed in your face. Seriously. But here I am.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]

(SOURCE:Scripting News)-Weblogs can be the memory for the project.
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OK, here's the method for making sweeping, positive social change. FIRST, everybody gets a project. Join one or start one, but the project has to be directed toward making things better. That's what's called a "positive vector". SECOND, everybody talks with everybody else about their projects. That's "talks with", not just "talks to" or "talks at". This sets up a "field of communication", with information flowing in all directions. It's very important to the process, and we now have the tools (the Internet and the phone system) to make communication available without much hierarchy. THIRD, be prepared to change your project based upon what you learn by communicating about it. This is also very important. It "closes the feedback loop" by making the communication consequential, and, with everyone's good sense, sets up a "converging system" in the general direction of the vector. That's it. Act, especially in concert with others, communicate and re-evaluate. Repeat as often as possible. Oh, yes - keep records of what you try and what happened , both good and bad. The system needs an element of memory to function.
</quote> [Roland Tanglao: KLogs]