We’ll start with three essential posts on the Wikileaks matter. First is Iran and the Bomb , by Hedrik Hertzberg , It’s this week’s Talk of the Town in  The New Yorker. Second is Clay Shirky ‘s Wikileaks and the Long Haul. If that’s the way governments get to behave, we can live with that.”. The people want it. You rent them. MORE >>

In my two earlier posts on this subject I started by challenging the knowledge management orthodoxy of codification and then proceeded to make some more sophisticated points about the nature of explicit knowledge. also suggested that we see intuition as compressed experience. wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable. which are needed. Reflections MORE >>

TechCrunch has reported (and close-as-dammit confirmed) that Yahoo! will close down Delicious. If so, it's close to a tragedy. Social bookmarks have been one of the defining aspects of Web 2.0. As described in our Web 2.0 Framework , sharing in very simple ways can create value for many. Many have called for Yahoo! But I’m not holding my breath. MORE >>

At a meeting about the possibility of making some data available, Patrick Yott of Northeastern suggested that instead of looking for a killer app that uses the data, we ought to be talking about a killer carrot. killer app attracts users. killer carrot attracts those who enable killer apps. Killer carrots live! “Move their food.&# MORE >>

I talked a couple days ago with the CIO of a huge global organization. Like a lot of his peers these days, he was pretty interested in Enterprise 2.0 , and was digging in on figuring out what it meant for his company and putting a plan together. His company had just finished a lengthy effort to draft its social media policy, which was also lengthy. MORE >>