Comments for Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management at KM Chicago

Comment from Joitske on 2007-01-11

2007-01-11T13:58:18Z

Hi, though an interesting attempt, the passive, minimally active and active categorizations doesn't work for me really. I'll have to think why. In any case blogging can not be called minimally active for the blogowner :).
Maybe it's more useful to view each tool from two sides, the content providers and the content consumers?

Comment from jackvinson on 2007-01-11

2007-01-11T16:13:12Z

Joitske- I had a similar feeling, as an active blogger. But Elfving was attempting to categorize by the amount of back-and-forth there is between participants around the object in question. His research is focused on wikis, so he likely has that bias around single objects (pages) as well.

My previous thoughts about blogging and community fit here. While an individual blog may appear "minimally interactive," if you look across a community of bloggers, there is a lot going on between them. In the "porch" metaphor, if we stop looking at one porch and observe the movement in the street, we see a lot of activity (depending on the blogging network).

Comment from joitske on 2007-01-12

2007-01-12T08:56:15Z

Come to think of this, I think that too much of a feature is subscribed to the tool or services, rather than to the people, the users. For each tool, you have many different levels of user engagement (I'm quite a passive user of wikis, when I find one on an important topic, I tag it, just in case I will ever need it in future!)