Blog silence

Within a day after Sebastien Paquet announced he was going to reduce his
blogging activities, my own blog fell silent as well. Which was rather an
untimely event since Sebastien was advocating me as a possible destination for a daily dosis of blogging on what he describes as 'human knowledge management', to compensate for missing his own daily posts. By the way I am delighted by the term Sebastien coined: 'human knowledge management'. I don't know if it is a comprehensive description of where my professional interests are, but it certainly is spot on regarding the angle I take. An angle I had not put into words, so this is progress.

The reason I fell silent had everything to do with the fact that I was running my legs of getting everything done that must be done before the end of Friday 20th. And as I referred to myself here before as more of a thinker, I tend to blog more while I'm thinking. It has been a doing-week-and-a-half. Did I miss blogging? Yes, I did, even though I had nothing to blog about, too much to do to collect interesting blog items.

In the coming two weeks while I'm off from work I'll be updating here more frequently again I guess. The books you see lined up on the right hand side will get their last pages turned, and I'm sure they will get me thinking. And thinking is sure to get me blogging. Thanks for your patience.

I have noticed though, that even as there was nothing new to read here, the
number of visits has been above average in the last days. Much of it was sparked by my post about Judith Mair and her ban on fun in the workplace. Are there that much CEO's looking for ways to bring back the good ol' age of heavy command and control? Or are there that much employees looking for arguments to increase the fun at work. I guess I'll never know....

On to some links:
A friend of Sebastiens, Philippe Beaudoin, has posted his thoughts on how blogs are sort of a metasearch-engine.

Also, while metablogging, Thomas Burg of Randgaenge has put out a call for papers for a conference on blogging in Vienna in May 2003. I will give it some thought if I have enough to say to send in an application for participation, but I am already pretty much convinced to try and attend the actual conference.

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(posted by Ton Zijlstra at December 19, 2002 05:23 PM)