Category Archives: Weblog Meta

Blogging and knowledge management

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Sifting through my old blog accomplishments, I see that I already in 2003 had some interresting thoughts regarding the use of weblogs as a knowledge management tool. Referring managing knowledge work, I note that weblogs may be able to bridge the gap between codified and personalized knowledge.
Personalized and codified knowledge is described thusly:

  • Codification: Knowledge is is carefully codified and stored in databases where it can be accessed and used readily by anyone in the company (p. 107 in Hansen et al.)
  • Personalization: Knowledge is closely tied to the person who developed it and is shared mainly through direct p2p contacts (ibid)

    • (havent found the correct reference to Hansen et al. – working on it…)

    As such, blogs may be described as a connecting medium between the two extremes ‘codified’ and personalized knowledge, as that is what blogs do: personalizing knowledge in the process of codifying it (writing it down). Furthermore the comment/trackback functionalities facilitates p2p interaction.

    The above is a commented translation of the post found at the shared knowledge blog.

    Blogging guidelines

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    Joi Ito shares 5 principles of blogging. They are pretty basic, but nonetheless useful for anyone i the blogosphere.

    Joining Technorati too

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    Profile here. Jens’ post here

    blogs as networking medium

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    Jil Walker has returned from a lengthy trip around the states and opens blogging activities with some interresting thoughts on blogging as a means of networking. According to Jill, quite a few of her professional opportunities can be traced back to her blogging activities – there’s even a reference to blogging being a good training ground for academic activities (read returning to blogging). There’s also a post on whether or not to merge your public, professional and personal blogging.

    Blogging for bucks

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    Well, I cannot say that I am not tempted to experiment with Google Adsense – especially reading two articles labeled blogging for bucks on respectively Wired News and Poynter E-Media.
    Although this blog has not undergone any form of search engine optimization (apart from being a wordpress blog, with often updated content), my log files shows a decent flow of visitors from search engines all over the world. I don’t want an ad-blog, but I am not wealthy enough (yet) to ignore a possibility to make a little money on something I like doing.

    Citizen Journalism eller?

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    På Poynter diskuteres det hvorvidt personlig publicering til nettet skal have en term der både dækker blogging, podcasting, personlige websider etc.
    [tags]Citizen Journalism[/tags] er foreslået, men der lyder i mine ører alt for poppet/amerikansk/korrekt.
    [tags]Personal media[/tags] er også foreslået og lyder en smule bedre – men jeg vil vove pelsen og foreslå individual publishing. Hvordan lyder det?

    comment considerations

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    I modified the comment form a couple of days ago. It seems that there is a convention requiring commenting people to fill in all their details prior to to writing a comment. A comment being a thougt provoked by a post may be a fleeting thing in the head of the commenter. The inspiration that flares up in the spur of the moment may be hampered by a suggestion to do rutine tasks before beginning to write – and thus I applied some writing pedagogy to the comment-flow: write first, think later.
    I suppose a filled comment field is also a better incentive to filling in details, than filled in details is to writing that geniuos comment.
    Yes, I know that you can simply click in the comment field, start writing, and then fill in the details, but the layout suggest another action.