Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:26:14 -0400

Mr. Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net
The Welch Company
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111 2496

Subject:

Tools for Communication Metrics

Dear Rod,

[Responding to your letter today, September 4, 2001...]

How did I hear about CM?

I was actually searching Google for some help with a printer problem after I installed an old SCSI card for an old scanner on my PC. One of your documents showed up. I saw all the line numbers, details, and links and was intrigued.

I think I remember stumbling across a similarly formatted doc some months ago, was equally intrigued, but never followed up.

Lotus Notes Work Product demonstrating back-end

I can't think of one specifically, aside from the standard Journal and Discussion templates, but I may be interested in developing a simple prototype. Before doing so, I'd need to learn more about the basic functional requirements, some of the mechanics, and more about the big picture, w.r.t. [Communication Metrics] CM

I'm curious about the line numbers, the sections in a doc, and the front-end used to manage and index all the docs. On the surface, it appears ideally suited for Notes.

Ad Hoc Comment...

The detail and 'richness' of your reply is clear evidence of the value of [Communication Metrics] CM. I have always been verbose in most communication, as I feel it is demanded by the nature modern communications, and, as an engineer (EE) respect and appreciate technology immensely. Unfortunately, with just a few exceptions, my observations have been that this 'respect and appreciation' (and utilization) is only done in the military.

What's the deal? After 10 years delivering Lotus Notes solutions to many commercial corporate organizations, I can truthfully say that less than 10% leverage that platform for what it is capable of delivering simply in the area of structured and unstructured information management, along the lines of what I from you.

I'd be interested in changing that.

Are you familiar with LifeStreams? It is an interesting technology that you would relate to. I just researched and found that it has transformed into a commercial product:

Scopeware.

http://www.scopeware.com/

Some background on the early technology:

http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi96/proceedings/videos/Fertig/etf.htm http://www.cs.yale.edu/Linda/lifehype/life.html http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/4353.html

By the way, in what precise area of technology does this stuff belong? Systems Science? Informatics?

Sincerely,

Skylimit Resources Corporation

Dave Campbell
President
dave.campbell@skylimit.com