Atkinson recalled engineers at Apple drawing network schematics in the form of a bunch of boxes linked together. Sun engineers, however, first drew the network's backbone and then hung boxes off of it. It's a critical difference, and he feels it hindered him.
"I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard," he said from his studio in Menlo Park, California. "I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser."
According to a simple calculation my blog is now 2.6 degrees seperated from anyone's blog. I found the the equation in the third chapter of Linked.
The thing that makes weblogs significant is that the average number of links per page is both high and contains context. That means that even if I have 28 links per page view many of them contain way-finding cues that make it more likely for you to select the correct one amongst equally likely options. [Blogging Alone]
You know, I don't like the term klogging very much. It has meaning to us "in the know" but I think it's rather an opaque term. I would prefer a term like Personal Knowledge Publishing which actually says a little bit about what it means, and, harkens back to the Desktop Publishing revolution.
I think PKP will hail the same revolution for Knowledge Management by emphasizing that it is people that matter. Process should follow people. Let people do what they are good at (thinking, scheming, designing, creating) and help them get it down "on paper" and let process and automation do the rest for them.
