howard rheingold at hp labs

Howard Rheingold gave a talk at HP Labs today, as part of a Distinguished Speaker series. Readers of Smart Mobs already know the story, but it was interesting to hear Howard starting to weave his more recent theme of Collective Action into the mix of anecdotes about texting, ubicomp and blogging. We had a good exchange over lunch about the value of blogging inside the corporation, as a bottoms-up, emergent way to tap into the hidden knowledge assets of a company; since I don't need to be told three times, I decided to start an internal work blog and to try to bootstrap an HP blogger community to put this concept to the test. So I guess we'll see.