bottoms up

The decentralized web made of blogs and open publishing inspired PKM. Traditional knowledge management (KM) was top down, as Dave Pollard noted in 2005, “So my conclusion this time around was that the centralized stuff we spent so much time and money maintaining was simply not very useful to most practitioners. The practitioners I talked to about PPI [personal productivity improvement] said they would love to participate in PPI coaching, provided it was focused on the content on their own desktops and hard drives, and not the stuff in the central repositories.” It was obvious 20 years ago that top-down knowledge management does not work for people. Then the open web created a way to curate knowledge bottom-up. It was fuelled by bloggers and sharing on social media. I started this blog in 2004. This worked for a couple of decades until generative AI and large language models scraped everything we collectively had shared online and now big tech offers it back to us served from a…