As part of a yet to be named project I’m working on, I’ve been trying to get a blog-like atmosphere created without any of the negative connotations that come along with it.
I’ve been running around callling them “informal articles” without ever giving it a second thought, but John Bashir of Lyceum made me finally realize that I may have actually coined my first useful term 
Using “informal articles” is a good way to sell the creation of rapidly generated yet personal content by people within our organization, including those that might not otherwise support a ‘blog’ initiative. Let me know if it greases any wheels for you!
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Some of you may remember my previous post about “blog://” as a mechanism for universally easing the pain of doing trackbacks. Well, I guess the basic idea was good (and the need real) but greater minds than I have apparently been thinking on the issue as well!
Ray Ozzie has some thoughts on extending the clipboard model to the web. Coming from his corner, Marc Canter has some thoughts on using other services like Redirectthis.com as well.
The net of the thing is that we are generating a LOT of content, and we are doing our best to attack the problem of organizing and proliferating the inter-content relationships, but it’s just not to the point where it is properly self sustaining yet. I know that I personally will skip the chance to blog or link to something simply because there is too much overhead:
- grabbing content snippets
- locating links
- launching editor
- dealing with images (gak!)
StructuredBlogging is one way to attack this, but it simply hasn’t picked up the momentum that the creators hoped that it would. And until we have transparent integration into a mainstream tool, and noone has to know what structured blogging is, it won’t.
