Careful what you write, you could end up in someone's bibliography -- a thoughtful note from Martin Roell in the inbox to tip me to my being cited in his BlogTalk paper Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge Workers' Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing where Martin had seized upon an afterthought comment I'd posted in Pinging the Actionable Senses; Martin brings into the workplace my notion of archiving the aggregate knowledge of the whole human hive as exposed by the interactive commentary surrounding a blog:

By following weblogs of colleagues, members of the organisation can learn from eachother: A novice can follow the stream of thought of a more experienced worker without having to interfere into his work and without having to be physically present. Additionally readers can learn from the reactions that a weblog post created ...

Weblogs capture experiences of the organisation's members and can so convey corporate culture, which is especially valuable for new members joining the organisation.

Improving Knowledge goes much further, of course, and delves into many aspects of that pet problem we all love to prod, on how to turn Information Management into Knowledge Management without creating a burocratic muddle. Well worth the read.

For the record, here's the context and quote from that prior post on my Here Comes Everybody egalitarian approach to knowledge harvesting:

Prior to blogs ... an expert was an expert, we sought one-shot insight, expected it to be complete, neatly packaged. Advice was in quantum completeness deliveries, Dear Ann, Dear Abby, from the pen of the guru direct to your door ...Today you can be reading a quasi-guru and become enlightened not by what the master says, but by the sum of the reactions the what of what was said creates in the great pool.

This is an amazing thing ... we can afford a host of only partly overlapping partial pundits, teachers of widely varying skill, from each according to ability