Word Bursts.
Six months ago I said I would write about blogging as a topic -- to try to capture my thoughts about how profound and important blogging is. There has been so much written by so many thoughtful people that it would be hard to offer new ideas about it and frankly, I have been putting off the task. Yesterday I got an email from Irving Wladawsky-Berger, my friend and former boss at IBM, about Word Bursts. Irving's note motivated me to get going and put my thoughts down -- time to blog about blogging.
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I think the biggest economic potential of blogging is inside the firewall. Intranets are now cluttered with millions of pages of “stuff” and most of it is poorly organized and the relevant things are often hard to find. To some extent the intranet has become an information dumpster. Portal software (like WebSphere) is making an impact but there is a long way to go for most organizations. Every company, government, university or non-profit has inside "experts" and people really care about what they think. They would find it much more productive to go to the expert's blog than do a search with the intranet search engine. Knowledge Management is not an “in” term but to me that is what blogging is about – sharing knowledge. (read more), See John's short bio, [John Patrick's weblog]