Wikipedia, the copyleft wiki-based encyclopedia, reaches one million articles. Amazing what people in collective can do.

Great conference – for free!:
Three outstanding talks at the Legg Mason Funds Management Investment Conference. [via Emergic]
Bill Gurley, “I.T. is All that Matters.” [transcript, webcast]
Jeff Bezos, “It’s Day One for the Internet” [transcript, webcast]
Paul Depodesta, “The Science of Winning an Unfair Game” [transcript, webcast]
Put aside three hours and get some perspective!

SmartMeetingDesign. Helping Organizations Manage Knowledge and Collaboration

Scopeware – the David Gelernter startup – has drasticly reduced their scope of their and produced the new Vision 2.1 release which functions as a file browser, newsreader, etc.

Smarter, Simpler, Social – An introduction to online social software [PDF]. Brilliant paper by Lee Bryant

Investors In People – interesting uk standard for companies improving their performance through their people.

Collaboraid dotLRN seminar
Coming to you live via wifi this is a live coverage of Collaboraid’s dotLRN seminar.
Lars Pind has managed to bring together 70 people from 11 countries around the globe for this seminar on the OpenACS based opensource dotLRN learning management platform
Ongoing picture coverage in this special mblog section
After the coffee break all the developers are introducing themselves. Developers are working on projects like SCORM compliance, openaces oracle 9i database adapter, jabber integration, etc. Developers are from everywhere – Norway, Finland, Sweden, France, USA, Denmark, etc.
Some notes from …

Arena
– openspace meeting about creating an open space.

Networks are what we are!
Network theory’s new math. Good article from strategy+business giving a thoughtful overview of a couple of the breakthrough books that have tried to explain network theories to us the masses.
Most of the focus is on “Linked” by Albert-László Barabási. I read it a couple of months ago and like my friend Martin Von Haller-Grønbæk i can only declare it the most eye-opening must read of 2002.

Ray Ozzie on openness
Ozzie elaborates on making our communication totally open. Very much like the meme i’ve been trying to spread the last couple of years.
“Why do we take for granted that everything should be closed? What if we started taking for granted that everything should be open? Instead of asking: “why should we be open?” started asking: “why should we be closed?”… This goes for software, information, organizations, etc. I’m not suggesting that everything should be open – just that we considered everything to be open as default and …