Matt Mower on community formation in blogspace. Matt Mower has posted some interesting thoughts on community formation in blogspace: ... [Jon's Radio]

More grist for the mill on connections between two key knowledge management concepts--weblogs and community.

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Boutinsphere. Put that together with traditonal journalism, and you've got:::: The Boutinsphere. And the Searlsphere. And the Reynoldsphere. And the Winersphere. One sphere per blog. [Doc Searls Weblog]

Pointers to a couple of interesting diagrams of where blogs might fit into a broader communications and knowledge management environment. Haven't had time to think about these pictures much yet, but didn't want to lost track of them (weblog as memory crutch)

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"The greatest danger to the Web comes from people who would exercise their coercive authority to domesticate the Web, to render it the reproduction of what we already know, what we've already seen and done, only with a different means of transmission. For education, that means people who treat technology as a way of doing classroom teaching the same way, only with more horsepower (making chat rooms and threaded bulletin board discussions do the work of seminars, substituting online resources for libraries, turning the good old slide lecture into a PowerPoint presentation). In familiar media, that means the movie and recording industry and print media moguls hobbling the Web to deliver only what they want it to, on their terms."

The rest of the interview is equally enlightening.

I've blogged about some of my previous encounters with AKMA and I continue to read his weblog regularly, although I usually find myself overwhelmed by the depth and quality of his insights.

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