The next generation of aggregators are going to have a lot of interesting features, whether they are the ones I want or not. In reading John Tropea's "Authority in your RSS readers," I realized that the aggregator needs to extend beyond the box of a single tool.

I stumbled upon Eric Tsui's 2002 technology survey, "Technologies for Personal and Peer to Peer Knowledge Management," when writing my earlier article on PIM. I do not recall having read Eric Tsui in the past, but many of his ideas about knowledge management and the emphasis on personal vs. corporation are strongly connected to how I have thought of KM.

I was in a conversation earlier today, where we talked about the familiar rating tools that you find in Amazon and frequently on internal website ("rate this article"). There are some big differences in rating services on a public website, like Amazon, and internal websites.

I came across "The knowledge management puzzle: Human and social factors in knowledge management" from the 2001 IBM Systems Journal. The authors use the metaphor of a jigsaw puzzle to motivate their discussion, suggesting that IT is only one of many pieces to the puzzle for knowledge management. And they also acknowledge that there are pieces they may not know that create still other pictures when the pieces come together. They also provide a great set of references for the curious.