collaboration – Psyberspace

December 3, 2021March 20, 2022

Three Modes of Knowledge Development

1. Personal writing

For me that was Evernote, then for a while Google Docs, now Obsidian

Obsidian suits because of linking and tags. And because I’m not combining it with tasks, and because I’m not using it to store reference material or bookmarks. I’m also learning to process my thoughts more fully.

Later: Sunday, 20 March 2022 – I use it for Tasks. But not for storing reference material. with Dataview plugin I can add a task to any note, and it will be on the list of tasks. I don’t think it interferes with my knowledge dev. I can add tasks that are just about plans for that note. Writing Plans.

2. Public writing

This blog has almost 30 years of my public note taking. Psyberspace — my overgrown garden with indexes and categories. For it to be public there must be readers, and this blog does have some, dear reader!

3. Collaborative Writing

Google Docs, there must be a better way! Social Media done right? Social Creation? Comments on posts? Relationships are always the hardest, the neglected…

Consider this however, that this post was stimulated by a whole movement of people engaged in PKM and theorising about it. I’m not just a lonely brooder.

August 11, 2010August 11, 2010

Are You Mad Enough To Stop Using It? Can You Even Stop Using It?

Mad At Google? The Question Is: Are You Mad Enough To Stop Using It? Can You Even Stop Using It? http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/08/10/mad-at-google-the-question-is-are-you-mad-enough-to-stop-using-it-can-you-even-stop-using-it/

One of the many items discussed in the “brainstorm” documents: will Google create a “Like button” that follows you around the Internet, dumping all of that “like” data into a giant database that it then hands over to the highest bidder? What’s to stop it from doing so, and does that bother you?

(Sent from Flipboard)

Posted this ’cause it is interesting in its own right but also because of how the quest for the perfect collaborative filtering is still not achieved. I reckon someone might build it on top of everything. Open source would be best. Wikipedia style collaborative filtering network based on algorithms that know what you like because others like you like it.

May 14, 2002August 29, 2021

Every email is a significant act

E-Mail Notification Management
“I like to impose this extra bit of protocol on myself, to underscore that every e-mail is a significant act.”

Jon Udell is one of the few writers who takes a real interest in how our emails work, how groups work online. His column “Tangled in the treads” for Byte always has a good take on this or that aspect of online collaboration. I don’t always agree with the details (or understand the hi-tech stuff) but “that every e-mail is a significant act.” is a fine principle.

This article is about his first look at Outlook.

April 6, 2002August 29, 2021

Instant Outlining, Instant Gratification

O’Reilly Network: Jon Udell: Instant Outlining, Instant Gratification [Apr. 01, 2002]

“When I turned in the first draft of my book, my editor, Tim O’Reilly, said: “This is great, but you ask too much from people.” And he was right. I was advocating not just a communication tool, but a way of using it to optimize collaboration. That meant asking people to narrate their work, but also to think carefully about the attention demands they placed on their coworkers, and to label, structure, and layer their communications accordingly. Most people didn’t want to do these things, and most people still don’t.

“What does all this portend for instant outlining? There’s reason to hope. It’s been clear to me for a long while that the only thing that might displace email would be some kind of persistent IM. That’s exactly what instant outlining is. If it catches on, and it’s buzz-worthy enough to do that, we’ll have a framework within which to innovate in ways that email never allowed.”

Interesting article – but I think that it still won’t catch on… persistent internet messageing, nice idea but email remains king IMO. ANY method of collab requires either dumbing the tools right down and working ad hoc OR education in a series of rules and protocols OR human facilitation and email groups + the GroupSense approach to their design and facilitation is a real world solution combining what people know already and do now with gentle nudges to a saner world. Well managed email groups have benefits over the Outlined approach in Radio. Threaded email IS outlined. It is persistent (locally and/or on the web). It is instant when needed, asynch when needed, groups can be defined and structured as needed and you can filter out certain users if you need to!

Why can’t these guys use email + mailinglists?

I am cross posting here – originally sent to Dan’s Online Group Weblog.