Weblogs as distributed conversations [1].

Weblogs as distributed conversations. Death to Blogs. Jonathan Peterson: Death to Blogs. [Doc Searls Weblog] Distributed conversations and the communities that they create/nurture are the killer app of the internet. Let’s talk about why that is revolutionary: It’s uncontrollable – While governments, media companies and even technologists may try to conspire to deliver least-common-denominator pablum that can be monitored, licensed…

Blogging as part of a…

Blogging as part of a personal knowledge management strategy. I Think of It More Like My Brain’s “Memory Stick”. My Blog, My Outboard Brain by Cory Doctorow “As a committed infovore, I need to eat roughly six times my weight in information every day or my brain starts to starve and atrophy. I gather information from many sources: print, radio, television,…

Seeing and tuning social networks…

Seeing and tuning social networks. My reason for planting the “horizon of observability” meme yesterday is now revealed. In my OreillyNet column this month, I interview Jon Schull and Valdis Krebs who both offer great perspectives on the social networking craze that is sweeping through blogspace. … [Jon’s Radio]

If you read nothing else…

If you read nothing else today, or this week, read Howard Rheingold’s Reboot talk, which Cory just blogged at BoingBoing. And give a big thanks to both of them for bringing us back to first causes, first principles. [Doc Searls Weblog]

Apologies [1].

Apologies. It looks like I’ve hit the limit on the number of pages PicoSearch will index (after having already maxxed out my Atomz account), so I will start bribing Andy B. right away to see if he can install ht:dig in the near future. Until then, the search engine for this site is, most unfortunately, down.  :-[The Shifted Librarian]