BlogStreet: How Useful Are Blogs and Wikis for Sharing Knowledge.

BlogStreet: How Useful Are Blogs and Wikis for Sharing Knowledge

BlogStreet has just announced a survey that they are hosting to look into this:

BlogStreet is hosting Sébastien Paquet's survey on the usefulness of weblogs and wikis for sharing knowledge. Please go here to fill in the short multiple-choice questionnaires.

- Weblog Survey
- Wiki Survey

Definitely worth filling out.

[The FuzzyBlog!]

I concur!

Remarkably Good Spirits.

Nope, not from A Christmas Carol. I'm just havin' a good time. I get kinda wrapped up in the silly season and despite whatever's going on in my life at the time (though of late it's much more rare for me to have cause to say "despite what's going on") I've usually got a pretty goofy smile on.

[...]

What I learned this year is that of all priorities, money, security, happiness in vocation, charity and all the rest, that there are none that compare to the vital importance of sharing good times with good people, the warmth of sharing yourself with them and the highest of praise that comes from someone else doing the same with you.

[The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty]

Good to see you reflecting and finding things to be happy about.  I've never been much of a journal keeper and tend to reserve reflection for darker moments when I can really beat up on myself.

However I recently resolved to start keeping a diary and spending a little time each day writing it and reflecting upon where I am and where I am headed.  Partly this is as a way of managing my time, knowing what my priorities are.  But also this is an effort to get more in touch with what I want to do and what I want to be.

Should make this all more interesting next year.

Multiplier effects in klognets.

The Weblogging Multiplier Effect. Some thoughts about the significance of weblogging for instruction and scholarship. [EduResources]

[...] The booster or multiplier that occurs when a person writes about what she or he thinks, observes, and reads, and then receives comments from others within a few hours or days makes an incalculable difference--the difference between private and public writing. This difference multiplies what can be learned and also multiplies the responsibility for thinking through what is said. If a writer's greatest tool is a large wastebasket (as, I believe, Hemingway remarked); the next greatest tool is a real audience.

Again, very good stuff from Joseph Hart. A must-read. In a similar vein, see the article by Verna Allee containing the famous quote Knowledge = power, so share and it multiplies.

[Seb's Open Research]

I've always been happiest when I have a sounding board for my ideas which are often half-formed or just plain out of phase.  The power of the weblog as sounding board is that those ideas can kick around some, be rediscovered when the time is right or just act as big flags to warn you "danger Will Robinson!"