Resumen
This article focuses on a system capable of aggregating, annotating, indexing and searching a community's snippets. Capturing the snippets should be easy at a useful level of detail while causing minimal disruption to users' normal activities. Though snippets are likely to be scattered throughout an organization in a variety of locations and stored in a variety of formats, it should be possible to integrate them and perform some global search over the result. Information consumers can add value by enriching snippets at the point of use by, say, adding ratings, annotations, relationships and categories. Snippets are polymorphic. Depending on the task, people may reasonably want to capture email, Web pages, documents, text fragments, and images. Blogging's greatest benefit is social, not technological. First, ease of use makes it likely that more people will publish and publish more often, and that more information will be communicated. The structure of the information is often different from more static home pages, more like online journals, or a series of snippets.