b.cognosco

I don't know what the answer is. I don't have an employer -- at least not for long -- so I don't have to worry about it. But I can sure see the issues. If you work for any MajorCorp I think there are serious concerns (see: "Can K-Logs Improve Corporate Integrity") about how your efforts will be perceived.

Having read this (older?) piece, I'm now less interested in having my company notice that I'm k-logging/blogging/whatever, lest they spray Roundup® on me.

When do we declare the revolution?.

Where's the Beef in Web Services?

You're reading it. It's personal publishing.  Web Services are being used to reinvent the world of personal publishing. What is personal publishing good for? Knowledge management, small business, news publishing, and much more. A combination of markets worth a boatload of money (personal Web publishing can even take a bite out of the $8 b a year Microsoft makes from Word sales). In addition to the potential opportunity, personal publishing is a sexy use of Web Services that provides immediate, tangible results. [...more] [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

All true - but now we can route around the ignorance the same way that the internet can route around an outage. When the PC started being used inside organizations it was largely ignored as well. The power structure is always blind to grassroots phenomena; that's what gives them time to take root.

I would just as soon let the power structure miss the point for a while longer. What is going on now is fundamentally subversive, as Dave Weinberger has been arguing for a long time. Let's be mindful about how and when we trigger corporate immune responses. We want to reach a healthy symbiotic partnership not kill the organism or ourselves. The question is not where's the beef so much as when do we want "them" to get it. [Jim McGee: Blogging]

[Ron Lusk's Radio Weblog]