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.

I’m engaged in many communities and forums discussing stuff that matters – like Slashdot but not only for nerds. Bright friends contribute with opinions and new links for other points of view. I was looking for a better way to share it in such way the information is not restricted to the discussion forums. During my quest to solve this problem, the system pligg appeared and I’ve settled Infodude. Feel free to participate:

http://darlinton.net/infodudes