“Jim Roepcke's Comments on John Robb's, Re: Email, IM, Weblogs”

John Robb writes a lot about "K-logging," which is short for "knowledge logging", which is the phrase John uses for a sort of tightly-focused weblogging. John promotes "K-logging" as a partial solution to knowledge management in corporate culture.

Some of the stuff that John writes is right-on and easy to agree with. Some of it is, in my opinion, totally off-the-wall.

Jim Roepcke has taken one of John's recent pieces and responded to it in piecemeal fashion. His basic points are:

• that email isn't so bad if you're using a good system (Yahoo Groups is not such a system)
• that IM isn't so bad if you have the self-control to to sign off or set the "away" preference when you're busy
• that instant outlining is a good idea but which still needs a lot of work in order to be useful in the long term as a workgroup product

I know I'm being boring, but I agree with most everything he's said. I have a lot more to say on the subject, especially about email, but no time to say it right now. Go read Jim's comments.

Hopefully, John will take Jim's words in the way I believe he intends them: constructive criticism.