http://www.karlnelson.net/weblog/000804.html A few years back a professor I had talked about the shelf-life of knowledge. His point was that informaiton goes stale quickly, especially in the technology world. There isn't much value in keeping it locked away. The value, in the information and knowledge space, is in sharing what you know. This has stuck with me. This is good, because this was about the only worthwhile thing to come from this particular professor. One obvious outgrowth of this concept is this weblog. Sure, I could keep it private, and use it as a place to store links and thoughts solely for myself. At one point, before the explosion of weblogs, I did keep a personal knowledge database. I find the weblog much more useful and interesting, not to mention easy to use (google indexes the weblog; no way it could get to my personal DB). Anyway, I'm reminded of all of this thanks to a post from Evelyn Rodriguez: I have a feeling this applies beyond professional services. I am always surprised by how much consultants hoard knowledge and even how I've been tempted to guard against "leaking" too much of my expertise. Even professional service firms talk about their "proprietary"... en-us http://www.firstnightcharleston.com/poker-games.html poker games texas hold em party poker<...]]> http://texas-hold-em-poker.kbkx.com texas hold em poker texas holdem poker.]]> http://www.hold-em-k.com texas hold em texas hold em hold em hold em]]> http://www.kmentor.com/linkblog/archives/000862.html Information Management Weblog: Open Source Knowledge... http://jackvinson.com/archives/2004/07/25/open_source_knowledge.html Karl Nelson writes in his Information Management Weblog about Open Source Knowledge A few years back a professor I had talked about the shelf-life of knowledge. His point was that informaiton goes stale quickly, especially in the technology world. Ther...