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A call to form a federation of tech worker coops
	Tech Underground is a network of San Francisco area nonprofit techies. They have issued a call to form a federation of tech worker coops, which I think is a smashing idea. If you're out there doing nonprofit technology work, whether on your own or in small teams, you owe it to yourself and the field to take a look at this. Posted: 3/28/04; 10:56:25 PM #

How to Make a Faceted Classification

I have long been a student of classification and taxonomies, starting most clearly when I was a biologist. Even then, I saw weaknesses in strict unidirectional hierarchies of classification. Faceted classification is an alternative that allows multiple views of the same information. My company Social Ecology, implemented faceted classification for InWeb, its now-defunct document management tool. Well, it's finally catching on. William Denton has written an excellent primer called How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web. Posted: 3/28/04; 10:56:05 PM #

The Honesty Virus
	Clive Thomson's The Honesty Virus is an exploration of the mechanisms that contribute to people being more truthful with each other online. I think there are countervailing factors, but it would be wonderful to harness some of these mechanisms for social movements. Posted: 3/28/04; 10:54:28 PM #

The Social Enterprise
	I read much of what John Udell writes. This piece on The Social Enterprise is an excellent take on the relational aspects of content and the field of knowledge management. Posted: 3/28/04; 10:54:05 PM #