John Udell: “The knowledge effects of Weblogging, or “k-logging,” go far beyond search-and-retrieval. A collection of Weblogs isn’t just a pool of documents. It’s also a knowledge network, where at each node human intelligence performs the routing function. The network’s architecture is publish/subscribe. Its protocol is RSS (Rich Site Summary), a simple, powerful, and popular application of XML. Bloggers tune into other bloggers’ RSS channels; they select and react to items flowing through those channels; they post items that also flow out on their own RSS channels. It’s a kind of Krebs cycle where the input is individual thought and the output is group awareness.”
I like this description of the potential uses of Web logs as KM tools…especially the “output is group awareness” piece of it. That’s what I’m trying to sell to these committees and departments, but I don’t think they have the context to see the value…yet. Some still want me to set up a newsgroup…Just have to keep plugging, I think.
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