Suw: Excellent piece on productivity paradigms and how old school time-and-motion attitudes clash with web-based ways of working and being.

Suw: Title should read “Corporate bloggers create echo chamber as comfort blanket; refuse to accept criticism or talk to any real experts out there”. Read, and cringe. Oh, and notice lack of comments on their ‘blog’. Oh, the irony.

Suw. The problem with E2 in the corp environment: “people who use the new tools heavily — who post frequently to an internal blog, edit the corporate wiki a lot […] — will be perceived as not spending enough time on their ‘real’ jobs.”

Suw: How do teleworkers prove they’re working? “Workstreaming, the publishing of work-related activities and events to your remote colleagues, usually via RSS.” Hm, if you have to prove you’re working, you’re in the wrong job.

Suw: In short: Theory X = people are all lazy buggers; Theory Y = people may be self-motivated. An old theory, but relevant to the busy/bursty view and Enterprise 1.0 vs Enterprise 2.0.

Suw: Some completely wrong-headed thinking. Tools enable behaviours (you can’t cut with a fork, but you can with a knife); changing behaviour slowly changes culture. You can’t change culture without the right tools to support new behaviours.

Suw: Leisa Reichelt’s seminal post on ambient intimacy.