Just been talking to Scott Johnson and I've realised I have a guilty secret.

I admit it.

I am a 30-something and I enjoy watching Buffy.

There, I feel better now.

Actually the thing that really irks me is that I didn't get into it sooner.  I missed the humour the first time round and ignored the show.  But thanks to Sky's policy of endlessly re-running everything I don't have to miss out.

• Context sensitiveness was my group. We went for a bit philosophical discussion about the importance of context and tacit, but then turned to more practical things: ways to share context and tacit knowledge. We didn’t have many answers, but more questions:
  • What is context?
  • What kind of value shared context adds?
  • How to support sharing context? What technology can do and what not? What motivation and skills people need? What kind of environment?

[Mathemagenic]

» Good questions. 

I'm reading some interesting articles (one is here) about story telling as a way of supporting shared context for knowledge transfer.  My gut feeling is that this is a powerful approach but one with a lot of pitfalls (as in: "the softer the approach, the harder the sell").   Mike (I really will write a blog entry one day) O'Reilly also tells me that Narratology is a very hot research field right now.

Elements - a website CMS. (SOURCE:have browser, will travel)-Nice migration path for those using the static site features of Radio and Frontier.

The nthWave Elements web site building application enables web developers to build and maintain sites efficiently and intelligently by separating a site into distinct components or "atomic elements". The Elements application applies a template to each content file, incorporates specified elements, processes any scripts, and writes the results to a new file in a corresponding destination directory. Simple. The Elements application is easy to use. It uses the file system to maintain its data; you use your choice of html and image editors to develop the content. Existing web sites can begin using Elements immediately.
[Roland Tanglao's Weblog]

» I'm building a website at the moment.  Ideally I would host it on Frontier but alas that cannot be.   So I'm evaluationg NetObject Fusion as a way of building the site.

Give it it's due, NoF is pretty easy to use and creates pretty good results.  But to be honest I think Elements, a good stylesheet and a favourite editor might be almost as easy and a bunch much more flexible.

As so many people have told me: networking is the key to starting a successful business.  To this end I have joined both Ryze and E-cademy which are online networking sites where you can build a profile and hopefully connect up with people who have similar or complementary interests.

Okay I want to get the liveTopics license issue resolved once and for all.  To this end I have setup a QuickTopic to discuss it and hopefully reach a consensus.  If you are at all interested (even in the process of a license being worked out in the open) please join in the topic and share your views.

My intention is that once an approach is decided I will use QuickTopic again to review the license text (if any one is interested to participate in that process) before issuing the final agreed license.

All are welcome.

I'm a bit stuck at the moment.

So many things to blog about, so many interesting discussions.  Also so much work to do: build a website, write business plan, create presentations and other collateral, finish product, find target visionaries, write documentation, nurse post-op kitty kat, decide licensing, network like crazy, buy a router, do I buy WiFi?, respond to email, blog, life.

It's only when I get seriously logjammed on all fronts like this that I take the time to step back and think in a 7-habits kind of way.  So first things first:

1) Website.   It's due.

2) liveTopics license.   Mail registered users and get their feedback.

3) Finish first presentation & publish.