Right now I write a WebLog, read lots of weblogs, send emails (like blogging, but targeted to small key group of people, or maybe something that's still wide-broadcast but of higher importance to me).

Peerkat, annotations, RSS

See John Robb's notes on making a community cloud/knowledge network

Some scenarios:

• loose community of affinity (e.g. cohort of webloggers), watching each others' work

• free agent sharing info with other free agents, also with institution-employees

• employee of institution. Intra Net, Knowledge Management

Some issues/questions

• How important is timeliness? I tend to obsessively waste time visiting high-update blogs hourly. But realistically, I don't get any significant value from that distraction.

• How importance is the gestalt of a given WebLog? E.g. if it's extracted into smallish chunks of XML (e.g. RSS) and I read those filtered and reformatted by my proxy, am I missing something in the translation? Does the RSS even include all the text content, or is it just titles?

• What are the implications of different bits of info being more Action Able than others?

• When/how does any group processing of WebLog content add value (e.g. showing most popular links across my cluster of favorites, etc.)?

• With a relatively closed Virtual Community (project team), does it make sense to have a single shared space, or to keep things driven independently by individuals, with some sort of group-aggregation system, which might reduce some redundancy of posting? Or is there a mix (a subteam working on a particular task/phase might have a shared space, those individuals might have their respective individual spaces, etc. - does it stay clear what kind of postings go where?) The looser the affiliation, the more I like having clear ownership and control of nodes, for later separation (or at least taking of copies). In other words, if I'm consulting for a company, I want to document work on their intranet, but I don't want to lose my words, so I want a copy. That's not too hard on a single-channel weblog. But what about when it's an entire Wiki For Collaboration Ware space? Maybe I need a replication mechanism (s2s, server2server). Of course, then I get a copy of the words of other people in that space. Messy. But really not too different from what happens informally anyway. And as long as I keep that info confidential, it's pretty kosher. But when you make arrangements like this explicit/contractual, people tend to go nuts...

• What's the role/process of Group Discussion? Annotation Systems? Ratings?

• Is it important to be able to search across some limited body of 3rd party content? Is searching the RSS chunks sufficient?

• How important are subset views of a person's flow, esp. if (a) there's a lot of it, and (b) you don't read it on a daily basis?

Hmm, what are the Business Models For Information? Do the notes above apply mainly to an environment where my written words are given away? What's [My Personal Business Model] for the future?

Some places where this is discussed

• WikiWikiWeb:AllInOneWiki

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