All in blogs
A KnowNow press release says, "KnowNow has released three new solutions designed to instantly connect people with critical information." It sounds like an aggregator and blogging tool packaged together.
David Snowden has dropped Cynefin for Cognitive Edge, and he has started a blog. It will be interesting to see where he goes with this form of communication.
Hai Zhuge has an article on "Discovery of Knowledge Flow in Science" in the May 2006 issue of Communications of the ACM. Zhuge focuses on the scientific citation network that is a familiar topic in academic circles, but the concept applies anywhere you can find citations, such as in blogs.
George Siemens has an interesting comment about how decentralized communities could work - or how bloggers would like to see it work.
I use my writing both to formalize what I've been thinking as well as to get those thoughts into the larger world and see how they come back to me. Nancy White does the same thing.
Is there a connection between blogging and communities? I gave a presentation on this topic recently, and this is what I had to say.
I've just learned that my blog is being studied in group assignment on knowledge taxonomies in a class at McGill. One of the students just contacted me with some questions about my process. This is my response.
Martin Dugage writes about a blogging executive, who has built social/trust capital via a weekly forum he has written for three years.
David Weinberger has a nice piece on Fact-based ethics for bloggers , and I think it actually adds a bit to the ideas about blogs as a vehicle for conversations.
Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide's Neurolearning Blog give us some insight into blogging in "Blogs as Our Brains: Can We Escape Chaos?" They touch on a couple aspects of blogging and cognition that make things chaotic: tagging, learning preferences, and even organizational skills.
Tris Hussey found a nice list of tips to improve your blogging from Make You Go Hmm. These cover a lot of ground, and they don't make sense for all bloggers, but they give a positive way to think about blogging. I like the focus on passion in a few of these.
Bill Ives has done his first podcast with the Otter Group's Learning2.0 podcast series. His topic is Blogs as Personal Knowledge Management, and he does a nice job of summarizing in six minutes what blogs are and how Bill (and others) use blogs as their "backup brain."
Amy Gahran has a nice list of "10 Reasons Why Blogs Are an Awkward Conversation Tool" that talks about how blogs hinder the flow of a conversation. I agree, and yet conversation still happens.
I've been "attending" the CPSquare Web 2.0 and Communities of Practice online conference for the last week or so, and it has resulted in a number of interesting conversations. It's also inspired some personal realization as well.
What a nice combination of blogs and podcasting. Dan Oestreich is writing and reading at his blog, Oestreich Associates. He is posting his written word as audio files.
Rather than making a list of my favorite KM blogs, which is always changing, why not make that list available to the public. And instead of a blogroll, why not put it somewhere everyone can use it. Viola, Blogdigger (and others).
Bill Ives wonders "When is a blog, a blog?" based on a talk from Ethan Zuckerman at the Berkman lunch series. Is a blog more than just the technical description of "blog?"
Ed Vielmetti writes that shared context is important and that it is getting lost, particularly for people who are all-virtual-all-the-time. Shared context is important because of the sense of trust it creates, which enables work.