The military coup which resulted in Hugo Chavez "stepping down" has fallen apart, and Chavez is back in power. This probably means there will be no changes to the oil production policies in Venezuela. In fact, Chavez is likely to cut back on production in an attempt to harm/annoy the U.S., even though Venezuela deseparately needs the money that would result from increased oil production.

That's pretty good timing, I think, since the discussion on oil (as a result of my first post about Chavez) has died down. ;-)

Seriously, I wonder what it's like to live in a country that's so unstable as to have three governments in forty-eight hours. We're so spoiled to live in stable countriles like the U.S. (and Canada). The U.S.A. may be an incredibly selfish, decadent bully, but there's something to be said for stability.

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.