Mopsos

I realized a few weeks ago that as soon as you adopt a publish-subscribe model for information feeds, the Information Management model for a "knowledge cell" (individual or community) becomes very simple.

The process goes like this:

1- The "knowledge cell" subscribes to the relevant information sources (feeds) it has been given access to by their owners,
2- It uses those information feeds to create new information,
3- It then fires new processed information in several different community-specific warehouses (again as feeds) each one characterized by its access rights for individuals or groups to subscribe to.

Step 2, Processing information, can consist of simply enhancing the quality of an existing information by adding metadata. It can involve more complex operations like summarizing, translating or categorizing it in a different way. Finally, it can also consist in writing something completely new from scratch using the information and knowledge available within the "cell".

This very simple diagram which I made two weeks ago epitomizes for me the basic social cell of knowledge management. I made this slide thinking about communities of practice, but it works the same if the "cell" is limited to one individual. That's exactly how blogs work.
Put all those cells (aka neurons) in a worldwide network, and it starts looking like a huge brain of collective intelligence.

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