I see that, while I was away (very nice thank you), Information World Review put my February column online. In it, I talked about the exciting and useful Web 2.0 stuff that's taking place at the edge of organisations. I also predicted that, eventually, the best parts will become part of the standard business infrastructure. It's called "Our web 2.0 freedoms can easily turn into IT chains."As always, I'm a bit peeved by the delay between writing and online publication - it's always weeks at the very least. But, in the grand scheme of things, I guess a few weeks don't matter. It's just such a contrast with the immediacy of blogging (which I also do, usually on Fridays, for Information World Review). Sometimes I have to write stuff early to fit my own schedules - one piece I wrote in mid January won't appear online until early March. When it appears, it may appear derivative because of other coverage of the same topic recently. In the old days, it didn't matter, everyone knew about paper lead-times.Now, in these days of electronic leap-frog, I find myself biting my tongue - wanting to engage in the conversations, but unable to because of my commitment to the paper publisher. It pays me for my thinking and writing, and I feel honour bound to keep the collective powder dry.Anyway, it's good to be back. It looks as if I will be engaged in some new blogging initiatives very soon and if I think any of it will interest you, I'll link to it here. For the moment, I'm sticking to the "effective communication" theme for this blog. It seems that most of what interests me is about communication in some form or other, whether it's writing, teaching or computer-mediated collaboration.
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