That Now Grow, Evolve, and Defend Against Attack is an interesting read. The Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey Three dozen community foundations, other funders, and the Saguaro Seminar of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University joined together to ask these questions of nearly 30,000 people in the largest-ever survey on the civic engagement of Americans. Good introduction to metadata. However, the most significant building block has been collaboration. Could be good, could be crap.
Usability is about psychological research, data collection, and data analysis.
It is not really about design, or marketing, or programming. Today's insight is a good one, I find. I am sure somebody has talked about the collective web before, but I haven't searched thoroughly for whom. The collective web category will be used for gotzeblogs on stuff like P2P, syndication, collaborative web services, community networks, online communities of practice, and the like. I start with some general observations.