My posting in KnowledgeBoard's article on Weblogs and communities:

Blogs are great for commentary on issues and
musings. However I am not sure how they can actively aid
community building, unless there are directories of blogs, which
can be facilitated by Google.com's acquisition of Pyra Labs which
is the company that started Blogger.com...As the joke goes, are we
ready to Bloogle ??

And another item on Knowledge Work as Craft Work

I agree with your observation that the mental
paradigms driving knowledge work are industrial in nature and not
'craft' oriented...that would explain the overabundance dependence
on 'tools' and not 'apprenticeship' to share knowledge