 by Flemming Funch
Steve Barth, Editor of Knowledge Management: "How do we balance conversation and contemplation? Is there a difference between the interactive creation of knowledge and the internal processes? It isn't knowledge until it has been integrated with our existing knowledge and beliefs, right? So as our daily intake of ideas and information increases, do we need more "quiet time" for processing input?"
Yeah, I guess. Or we need ways of making our incoming information less confusing and disjointed. The reason we're overloaded with information and we need time to process it is that it is mostly a badly structured mess. We don't have good ways of sharing information, or of having a conversation in a *structured* way. So it is mostly just a lot of words, and then you need to afterwards go and figure out what it all *means*.
Dave Winer: "An idea is in the air in blogging land, a global identity system so you don't have to re-enter your name, email address and weblog url in every comment system you visit. Of course the idea has been around for a while, but perhaps there's a will to implement it now."
Hm, doesn't have to be global. A site just needs to know which other sites it is willing to accept logins from. E.g. NCN could happily accept a statement of identity from Friendly Favors. But a common protocol for carrying this out would be nice.
Recently, a bunch of small companies with online stores were being sued by a company called PanIP, which claims to have a patent covering pretty much all automated commerce, and which successfully has extorted money from these companies. Well, they do indeed have such a patent, which shows how screwed up the patent system is. If they went after somebody with significant resources, the patent would quickly be invalidated. But they go after small people that they can scam into paying them a few thousand dollars, but who can't afford to defend themselves. One small company, however, a little chocolate manufacturer named DeBrand, is figthing back and is organizing people for that purpose. The website is youmaybenext.com. Help them if you can. Or buy some of their chocolates, so they can afford to defend themselves. PanIP on the other hand is owned by some guy named Lawrence Lockwood. Remember the name, so you can avoid ever doing business with him.
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