* The focus is on concepts and evolving ideas rather than time limited thoughts as in blogs.

* Open collabortaive editing encourages direct text alteration, 'annealing' and 'refactoring' - very different from markup and version control.

* Structure is emergent - there is no predetermined ontology or page order -it is constructed 'on-the-fly'

* There is equality of access and editing - everyone can have a say. In blogs comments are 'second class' posts - under the eclusive control of the blog owner and related to the background (need more clicks to access)

I especially liked the quote about email and spending alot of time there - do you think RSS/Social Software is really changing that discussion/work balance though?

Also like the work getting done despite KM solutions. Seems very true - and we touched on that at the PKM workshop at KMEurope on November.

Also also interested by the taxonomies getting bust as soon as they're rolled out. I'm playing around with tikiwiki at the moment and it has an elegant (ish) solution with touchgraph - i.e. visualising where the tags are clustered - did Socialtext have anything similar?

Also also also (!) - sorry last thing :) - think Denham's "classist" point on equality of access and editing might need a little qualifying.

To say that "everyone can have their say" seems disngenuous to me. If they want everyone can still have their say with blogs - they just write their own. And while yes there is the risk that they remove or sanitize or downgrade comments, bloggers presumably run less risk of being steam-rollered and edited off the page by the prevalent culture.

Anyway, thanks - interesting, useful stuff - and feel free to delete this comment! :)

It has been several weeks since BlogWalk, and I still have a pile of post-its sitting at my desk. Here are some themes from the conversations in which I participated. And a long list of thoughts from the post-its. [Read More]