This means that the organization is fundamentally reality-based, even when the leadership gets warped by politics. I just read Revolution@State , a pretty amazing report by the Lowy Institute , an independent policy think tank, about the extent and depth of e-diplomacy initiatives at the State Department. Policy guidane was barely mentioned. MORE >>

Then, I talked briefly about networked knowledge, because that’s what the organizers wanted me to talk about. The phrase “story-telling” raises my skeptical scalp wisps. Richelle Parham on using stories to sell stuff. So, I went to the new “ Future of Story Telling ” conference with my skeptical hazmat suit on. MORE >>

They organize conferences and keep the servers up. ). It helps maintain drupal.org, organizes events, etc. Trade routes are like that: they were originally worn into the ground, but then become driven by commercial organizations, and finally are governed by the government. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. History. MORE >>

They also get in the way of people who are searching with a different way of organizing the topic in mind. 'Amanda Filipacchi has a great post at the New York Times about the problem with classifying American female novelists as American female novelists. Amanda makes both points. Wikipedia’s categories have been broken for a long time. MORE >>

Not all fields are organized in the same way. We can inform funding decisions: What’s been happening in different fields, how they affected by social organizations, etc. Where are projects being funded and how are they being organized? [ Note that this is cross posted at the new Digital Scholarship at Harvard blog. ]. MORE >>