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Aww shux…  thank you Dorothea:

What’s most salient for me at the moment, though, is how the written
perceptions of me I’m thinking of say at least as much about the people

who produced them as about me. I’m sure Frank has a range of reactions
to others, but I would guess he nonetheless describes a lot of them as
he did me, because he’s the kind of guy who brings out warmth in
people, and wants to see brilliance.

…touts "team blogs:"

Team blogs. Project aggregators and RSS feeds. Individual blogs.
Blog your thinking as you scope the project. Blog flash reports.
Meeting minutes. Task notes. Use a blog-to-email gateway for
stakeholder communications. Socialize new project members faster and
more completely. Create better after action reports.

Projects often fail due to poor communication. Blogs aren’t a magic
pill, but they are a fast and cheap way to produce more and better
communication. More, because blogs lower some of the barriers to
communication and create personal and peer reinforcement for
sharing. Better, because blognets’ social nature also improves the
quality and context of those communications. The PMBOK describes a
basic project communication; you can live it with blognets.

I’m a wiki guy myself, Phil.

At Wirearchy, John posted,

I’ve recently decide to go back (on this blog) to what I know best …
the design and dynamics of knowledge work and the structure of
organizations … after spending a couple ofyears getting somewhat
familiar with blogging. Read more…

I finally got around to reading the article on Euan Semple at Inside Knowledge.  It’s a good read.  It has bits like this…

[Euan says]  “It was Socrates who said, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living for
man.’ You start to notice things when you’ve got somewhere to write
about it. You become more aware of what’s happening.” Blogging has not only given Semple an outlet for these musings, but has also created a large network of contacts and friends. One of the arguments against blogs is that they kill face-to-face time. “They refine your face-to-face time,” Semple counters. “As a consequence of blogs
and networks, I have met some really interesting people. Business is
based on relationships, and this way you actually talk to the people
you want to talk to.”

Finally, a meet-up with Dorothea.  Madison soon will lose a foundation stone from our blogging edifice.  Dorothea and David Salo are heading for Virginia where she’ll be working for George Mason University and he’ll be finishing his dissertation.

Dorothea has been studying and working and studying in these parts for ten years or so.  Around March of 2024 she added blogging to the mix.  Goodness knows how long she’s  been a gamer as well, but one suspects it pre-dates the blogging. 

It was pleasant to have lunch with Dorothea today at Panera on University Avenue.  She is one of the brilliant ones, and warm.  So many who are brilliant seem somehow brittle.  Not Dorothea.  This was another one of those occasions when you meet a friend you’ve known for a long time even if you haven’t ever spent time with them before.  The whole cliched yet wonderful blogger meet-up thing.   We’ll miss you in Madison Dorothea, but it’s nice to know someone in the DC area.  Don’t worry though… I’m past that part of life when I might have shown up and asked if I could crash in your living room.

I hardly knew ye.  Dorothea Salo was one of my earlier interviewees, and a Madison resident to boot.  I interviewed her three years ago via email, but we didn’t meet.  On her birthday, Beth and I tried to find her at Vilas Park for a little meet and greet and celebration.  No luck.  A year ago I saw her on the street and I pulled over and introduced myself.  It was quite tentative since only instinct told me that this was Dorothea.  Now, over the last few weeks during a regular daily commute I’ve watched David and Dorothea’s house on Midvale Boulevard looking emptier and emptier, and their storage container looking ever more full.

I suspect they’ve waved goodbye to Madison by now, and shed a tear for the last lonely goldfinch at the feeder.

Consider this one Duly Noded!

In the latest Joho, David says,

NO, I’M NOT KEEPING UP WITH YOUR BLOG.

I would like to. I really would. I like it and I
like you.

But we’re now well past the point where we can keep
up with all the blogs worth reading from the people
worth keeping up with.

Well said, David.  A few months ago on a mail list I posted regarding my intention to eschew immediacy on my blog.  This is what I was talking about.  There is so much to read, so many conversations alive, so many things in my own life competing for the bandwidth that I can’t keep up.  I’m happy to run into the good stuff a few days or a few weeks late.  I’m happy to credit another blogger for a link or an idea, no matter how that it may have scrolled off the bottom of her blog.  But as for keeping up — I can’t do it.  I’ll continue to swim in these waters but you’ve gotta know that I may not have read what you wrote this week.  Or last week either.

So, as David said… send me an email or drop a comment if I simply must see it now.  Otherwise, we’ll keep on this way, seeing and being seen, reading and being read.  Blogging, clogging and the like…