Tom Reamy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:52:42 GMT

This looks like a good start to discussing an important and interesting topic, EIA. Look forward to more.

Tom Reamy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:41 GMT

Thanks and good question. The answer is that EIA’s can and should be change agents—but then so can everyone. What I was getting at was that I don’t think that change agent is something that should become a part of the definition of what an EIA essentially is. In part this is because the term has no discrimintive power (everyone is/can be a change agent) and in part because I don’t see it as an essential part of what an EIA *is*, rather it is a description of the impact that an EIA can have.

That being said, considering an EIA as part of a semantic infrastructure rather than part of this or that intranet project, has the potential for truely powerful change.

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Tom Reamy