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Luis Suarez pointed to an article by Dennis Stevenson on his first blush with Twitter, The World is Smaller than You Think. I think Dennis' observations are in line with whymany people get so excited about social media.

In a blinding flash, Stephen Dale reminds us that "It's not the (social networking) technology - it's the people that matter."

An article on What are people searching for and where are they looking?in the March 2008 KM World caught my eye.

There has been a lot of discussion of what the web is all about and where it is going. Nova Spivack has a great discussion of this available as a video.

According to a collection of researchers centered around MIT, In today's knowledge-based economy, it pays to be an "information hub." I am not sure I believe the conclusions, based on the information presented.

David Weinberger pointed out some "Cool visualizations" last week, and I just had the chance to take a look. Their visualization of del.icio.us links and tags is nice, but I can't see a way to get at my tags.

I'd really like to be able to turn off the internet connection across the USB connection. But I want to be able to control it easily. There is no clear answer, yet.

The ARC Advisory Group have developed a concept they call Collaborative Manufacturing Management. I don't see any collaboration in their description. It's integration.

Pick just about any word, and you will find many potential definitions or common usages. Take "collaboration," for example.

This is my first experience with a GPS - the Garmin model that Avis provides. The interface is fairly intuitive. But at the outset, the unit has its hardest time.

Robert Gaskins, inventor of PowerPoint, has a Viewpoint article in the December 2007 Communications of the ACM in which he describes the starting point for PowerPoint 20 years ago.

Here are a couple lists of social networking and social communications technologies I've come across recently.

I had an interesting conversation with Luca Scagliarini of Expert System, a company that doesn't make expert systems per se. They are a semantic technology firm with an interesting set of products.

Dennis McDonald describes the knowledge management perspective on Google's OpenSocial offering last week.

Steve Dembo asks Why don't we wiki well? Why do we continue to re-create the wheel that others have already created? What does this look like inside organizations?