Keep it simple, stupid

Intranets became powerful because they were simple. And they're still powerful things, but we seem to have lost the simplicity. Worse than that, we've created an industry around the simple things and in the process, made them un-simple. As so often happens, we've lost sight of the things that inspired us all at the beginning. Some intranet managers and technologists now look upon the next wave of technology as a threat to the comfortable status quo, not the fantastic opportunity it is. Oh, how easily the machine grinds us down. Shame on us.