I have a lot of extraordinary friends. They’re awesome and I learn a lot with them by exciting discussions through email about many assorted and interesting topics. I was wondering what if I could put all these conversations online such way other people could take advantage of that.

While I was thinking about this problem, I found that the knowledge representation is a hard problem and there’s a discipline only to study that, called Knowledge Management.

As time goes by, I am more pragmatic about applying all this science in my daily life. So, after some talk to my friends and loosely define our community, I started to think about the technology to implement this. Some results from my initial research include that blog is inappropriate to store knowledge that can evolve, and the best system for that is Wiki. Twitter s*cks. RSS is very cool and to create a mashup is a great way to spread the word (we don’t need twitter). Forum boards are an appropriate place to discussions, but most of users need to receive alert by emails – they go to their mail box, but don’t go to forum system without a reason.

Even very good willing people don’t have time to spend reading long and boring text, and nobody has time to moderate a community. The solution we found is to create a closed community to post information for a public audience.

We are still settling down our systems and rules. It requires a lot of time, but I hope we can just start something meaningful that we can use later. It’s a sparkle for a better way to spend our time online and share information. I hope that the know-how of this project can be used to help other people to manage their knowledge in a digital way, so they can reuse in other to create more sophisticate systems to help with their daily tasks. More information about it is coming soon.

First post usually tells something about the reasons for a blog. Well, let’s start talking about another site, the great TED: Ideas worth spreading. I go to TED looking for inspiration, references, and knowledge. It’s is about Technology, Entertainment and Design. I think that the mains propose of this blog to spread ideas about technology, science and culture is very close related with TED.
Ourson is a french word that means bear cub, a young bear, a teddy. It’s a funny cool word for me too. When I think about TED it reminds the teddy bear. This blog shares the ideals of TED, and following its example, I create this blog to share information and help to improve our world. This is my contribution.

Enjoy it. =)