Terry Frazier highlights in this piece the most relevant challanges that we face about this kind of organizations.

I basically agree, most issued have already been risen with almost all the people I discussed about this.

Most of these people are also saying that it would be nice if it could work, so it's probably worth trying.

I also agree that the main challange is

That may seem strange if you're reading knowledge-focused weblogs because you're already using it. But you are among a tiny minority, and there are a whole bunch of folks out there -- with skills we need for success -- who aren't in that group. Experienced, talented people in sales, marketing, fulfillment, service delivery, training, customer service, research, legal services, education, and other areas could be a boon to our efforts, but may have no clue how or why they should collaborate.

So, ok, we've plenty of challanges... any solutions out there?

These two machines are about 5 years apart. The first one has 2Gb of HD, 64Mb of Ram and leather on the keyboard, the second 60Gb of HD, 512Mb of Ram and a great OS. The Bose speakers sound still better than the Harman Kardon ones. They both look great imho.

APPLE -- I SWITCHED FROM USING & WRITING ABOUT PCS FOR A LIVING, TO USING & WRITING ABOUT APPLE. Fix, this, please!!

--Nancy C. Hanger
Columnist, BYTE.com

I was tempted to write something like "I only write on my weblog, I have only about 300 regular readers, 22% of them are Mac users, but please Apple, fix this also for me!".

I didn't post it there, but I'm posting it here.

There are about 10 tcp connections open at all time, web, mail, a few IM clients, Radio doing its things. But also things like the help system of MacOS X relies on a connection and doesn't work if it cannot ask something to a central server. Same with all .Mac based services (iSync and Backup).

The thought that so many people still live on a modem connection makes me wonder why I don't hear more people saying that the Internet sucks.