http://www.i2kblog.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:29:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While a small corner store and Wal-Mart may both be retail businesses, the knowledge and skill set required to operate them successfully are vastly different. The operation of Wal-Mart is not simply a "supersized" version of the small business practices used by the corner store. Unlike the corner store, Wal-Mart ... http://www.i2kblog.com/?p=12 Many of us wiki users, being so proud that we are doing our part to realize the vision of so-called Web x.0, easily fall into the habit of trying to be arbiters of how wiki should be used. As new wiki adopters (a category that really includes every wiki user) ... http://www.i2kblog.com/?p=10 While Knol (or the Knol model) certainly represents an alternative use of wiki for encyclopedic implementation,  the knol model may also be a revolutionary catalyst for changing how new knowledge is developed and accepted into the mainstream of human activity. What Google's Knol does is apply wiki in a manner ... http://www.i2kblog.com/?p=8 The recent transition into the third millennium was the subject of numerous predictions. Some forecasts were centuries old, while others were more recent. Many of the predictions were quite fanciful and benign, and included such visions as cities in the sky, wrist watch radios and a flying car in every ... http://www.i2kblog.com/?p=5