(2009-08-10) Winer Narrate Your Work

Dave Winer pitches the Narrate Your Work meme. Narrate Your Work is something I used to tell my team at UserLand Software, because we were a Virtual Team, with people in Seattle, Boston, Vancouver, Germany and California. But it would have applied even if we were all working in the same office. As a manager, I wanted to know where my people were, because if they were completing a project I needed to be thinking about their next steps and how their deliverables fit in with other stuff that was coming online. And if they were late I needed to understand why. We even developed technology for this. (Instant Outlining, see also TeamWiki) Dave then connects it to his Newspaper/Journalism future. Today's reporters don't think the public wants to see inside their process, but they are wrong about that. Many of us totally want to look inside and watch them at work for a variety of reasons...