Wikis and command and conquer management

A disappointingly short interview with Jimbo Wales, the founder of wikipedia nevertheless contains some great insights about the nature of wiki-like collaboration on corporate intranets. I like best his judgement that it’s good when “people don’t have to get permission to do something useful.” This feels right to me – I would rather that my [...]

It’s a whole new internet

“I think the large, feature-rich multimillion dollar IT systems aren’t working as promised.” Too right. This quote comes from a great interview about the new online triumvirate of wikis, weblogs and RSS and how they’re really about people and collaboration. The new internet is not about technology any more than newspapers are about ink. I’ll [...]