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With respect to current awareness, I too have tried a variety of readers and have settled on a Firefox add on called Wizz. A while back I dutifully went through and organized my several hundred feed subscriptions into categories in Wizz, which shows up as a bookmark extension in a vertical window on the left side of the Firefox browser. I also methodically un-subscribed from all the email newsletters and announcements I had been getting in an effort to simplify my email life.As it turns out, though, I don’t scan my different feeds as religiously as I used to. Instead, I use Wizz to generate and maintain a master OPML file containing all my feed subscriptions that I use as the basis for a My Megite page. Megite as a news aggregator uses my OPML files as the basis for its scan of daily news items. It regularly discovers new items from the people whose RSS feed information is included in my OPML file as well as related items that Megite determines may also interest me. It’s an efficient system that kills two birds with one stone: Megite makes me aware of new stuff published by people in my RSS subscription list.It also incorporates new and related tech news items.

1) Blogs know no boundaries. We're a geographically dispersed company...many employees in San Francisco and many more in Sydney. My team doesn't sit within 10 feet of me or on the same floor for that matter.

3) Blog posts are discoverable by all. If my idea is trapped in an email, it's limited to reaching only the people I send it to. By blogging I can reach anyone in the company. 4) Blog posts are infinite. With a blog, my idea is forever searchable on our internal wiki. So even if my idea is ahead of it's time, someone still might pick it up and find it useful months or years from now.

certain disrespect towards borders and rigid hierarchies.

No need for the person in charge to spend time compiling all the emails, deleting the duplicates, and cutting ‘n pasting a list into a document.

The email read something like, “Can everyone please email me a list of issues with [our system] and then [this person] will go through all the emails make a list in a document.”

I took the essence of it and put it on the wiki on their behalf…we need to discipline people out of old habits.

We have one client working with Ford that is using the wiki to draft requirements. They created a template, use it to start new requirements documents, and then work collaboratively with the clients to fill them out and update them. The permissions are tuned so only the appropriate team members have edit access to the specific wiki pages. The project is very efficient, and the customer is very happy to have full visibility into the process as it unfolds. They are now using wiki pages for other project deliverables like meeting notes, testing plans, and other important documents.

With the wiki, federal agencies compiled a database of 13,496 earmarks in 10 weeks. In the old days, it would have taken six months to get the information to the OMB.

Meanwhile, as part of its Flash development effort, Adobe delivered a Flash Player public bug tracker, which helped the company decide on and accelerate delivery of some of the new features in Flash Player 10.

The young guns argued for complete openness – or no locking of pages. The more senior refinery folk liked the command and control way – or “lock ‘em up”. I’m a young gun (so I like to think), thus the latter was a wiki anti-pattern to me. “It’s just not the wiki way,” became my mantra about command and control.

The elephants, I found, tended to be the more senior folk and were weary of new tools.

“Well”, I said, “those other tools didn’t allow you to freely express yourself to share the valuable knowledge you carry around in your head

Burke noted than Intellipedia includes instructions from a 1944 CIA field manual for sabotaging companies. The manual suggests that agents encourage companies to use channels to make decisions, and when possible refer matters to committees for further study and consideration. Companies will face further strife when spies within encourage haggling over the precise wording of communications.