of "software thinkers" are meeting at artima ( found by patrick). bill venners, el jefe de artime software inc. initiated the thing. i mean i didn't ask, but i assume.

here is the sound vacation (audio/mpeg, 117 KB) , there is the explanation.

going through material from "block"talk

david weinberger (application/octet-stream; name="weinberger.mp3", 319 KB) : publishing is build around the notion that there is a moment in time when a document is done ... weblogs are build on a different idea how time works.

"editors may have a problem with publishing first drafts of people thoughts." i wouldn´t be too sure on that. you find it less in "copy and paste" land, but otherwise ... it sounds a little bit like taking this crowd too serious. com' on. it's always a compromise because of time - and knowledge.