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Interesting Article on KM in Japan

As many people are saying these days, Japan is either on the brink of a recovery (selective or general) or it is on the brink of disaster. Being a fan of optimism, I always look for signs of a Japan recovery. I recently read this article called "Knowledge Communities in Japan: A Case Study" published in "Knowledge Board: The European KM Community" by Hideo Yamazaki, ph.D. of NRI. It gave me some hope for the future of Japan.

. Mr. Yamazaki gives examples of companies that successfully used KM to improve their performance and agility. I had assumed that tradtional Japanese companies like Q.P. Mayonnaise and Sumitomo Life would not be interested in or ready to use these ideas yet. I was wrong.

The idea that IT departments and young workers were leading whole companies into KM is a very hopeful sign. The individualists will make a difference in Japan, despite all the efforts of the "salaryman". This is a ray of hope for me.

Let's hope that this trend continues, and that Japanese companies shift from being "stagnating information swamps" to "flowing rivers of information".

Back from Korea - PubSub and MyStack

I got back home after being in Seoul for the IETF meeting. It has been an extremely busy week. In the meantime, the only news I have to offer is about a new service from PubSub. PubSub is a very interesting new company that is offering real-time alert services, including Blog feed notifications, SEC filing notifications and other services. Their new service is called MyStack. With MyStack, you can create custom stacks that show matching blog entries that match your chosen topic or link to your chosen URL. I am testing this service on the right side of my blog. It looks good so far!

In Korea for IETF-59

I am in Korea this week attending IETF-59. It has been an interesting meeting, with great support from the Korean hosts.

One big topic that was on everyone's mind seems to be SPAM. It sounds like the IETF community is going to get serious about fixing some weaknesses in the e-mail infrastructure by standardizing a way for authorizing SMTP senders withing a specific domain (for more info, see the charter.)

I also went to the night market at Dongdaemun, and saw how much people in Seoul like to shop at night.

I hope to put some pictures up here soon.