Yesterday John Robb posted a piece about communications efficiency to his "K-Logs" marketing list on Yahoo Groups.

I tried to respond, twice, but my response never went through. Rather than remain silent, I'm posting it here.

("K-Logs" are John's idea for knowledge management: weblogs written by professionals in a given field, usually within an organization and primarily for an intra-organizational audience.)

For context, I recommend reading John's message first.

On 6/7/02, John Robb said:

>200 e-mails:  3-4 hours (relevant e-mails only, including
>inefficient repetitive replies due to a lack of viewable
>archiving).

Use a system like Conversant that integrates email responses into your "klogs", and you get a spam-free system that allows people to read your "klog" entries in their browser, Radio, or email, and then discuss the items via email either privately or publicly ("publicly" meaning on the the site's integrated discussion list).

Now you have email archives that are integrated with your "klogs", and any email which deserves it can even be published to your klog!

>50 K-logs with 10 posts a day (500 entries): 20 minutes to
>scan.  20 minutes to post responses.

So we're able to basically read and respond to "klogs" more than 10 times faster than email, huh? Is that an inherent trait of "klogs"?

Seth Dillingham
http://www.truerwords.net/

I had a post here, earlier today, which expressed some displeasure with Dave Winer, and subsequent private email was just making things worse.

Finally, though, he said something which brought out my stronger nature: sympathy and comeraderie. I can't and won't publicly repeat what he said, but it worked. I'm backing off, and I'd appreciate it if any friends who feel the need to "leap to my defense" would, um... not do so this time.

I just hope he was being honest with me. It certainly seems so.

(Note that I'm not retracting what I wrote earlier, and I'm still not happy about the situation, but I no longer feel like fighting this in public. The original post can be found here, but let's just drop it, at least for now.)

It rained heavily Wednesday through Friday, so I couldn't ride. Then on Friday afternoon I was walking through the house and tripped while trying to avoid crushing a kitten that appeared out of nowhere (they do that). I had a very large chip-clip in my hand and went down on it very hard. The hard plastic clip was smashed to pieces, and one of those pieces ripped open the 'heel' of my left hand, right where I put the most pressure when I'm riding.

Sigh.

The weather is beautiful today (mid-70's and sunny with a very slight breeze), but I'm not going to try (another sigh). I can feel it pulling at me... maybe if I'm nice to my hand today, I'll be able to ride tomorrow.