I don’t like that meme that Social Software is bottom-up by definition. And that enterprise software is simply bad. As long as there is something like a corporation or an organisation it’ll have high interests to provide tools that fit the enterprises needs. It is nonetheless a cultural question if that has to be controlled by the enterprise or imposed from above.

the German journalist of Social Software, Web 2.0, and blogging just published a nice one in the German Technology Review.
Disclosure: I’m quoted on the issues pf presence and power (even in the real world) that are involved when talkin about such phenomena.

very interesting lineup of the culture of filing vs the one of describing. It’s all about if aou work on an endless taxonomy vs. you just decribe what you observe. In any case it has severe implication for user-interfaces and metaphors.
Another issue is if a certain target group of users is either or.

Austria’s new media law breeds again the debate about the phenomenological chasm of journalists and bloggers. I’d support this initiative below though I def. do not understand myself as somehow journalistic; and I do have a kind of imprint on my blog.

Keine Pflicht ohne Repräsentation: “Wenn Bloggern dieselben Pflichten wie kommerziellen Medien auferlegt werden, müssen ihnen auch dieselben Privilegien und Rechte zugestanden werden.