Briton Held in China – Hmm.
Briton Held in China
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December 29, 2003 at 12:16pm
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Hilary Lawson – Openness and Closure
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December 29, 2003 at 10:59am
by Psybertron
Hilary Lawson – Openness and Closure – Interesting debate on BBC Radio 4 Start The Week (29 Dec 2003) with Andrew Marr. Not come across Hilary Lawson before, but previously published work was on “closure” – about the stories we create to describe the patterns we see in the world as closure on the potential [...]
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Ontologies of Knowledge In Denial
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December 12, 2003 at 2:46pm
by Psybertron
Ontologies of Knowledge In Denial – Geoff Cohen over at Coherence Engine one of many taking delight in the Rumsfeld “knowns we don’t know, etc ” quote, but picking up on the essential truth of the matter – it may be lousy communication, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. He also follows-up on truths [...]
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Arthur C Clarke on Information
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December 12, 2003 at 2:38pm
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Arthur C Clarke on Information – Interviewed by Nalaka Gunawardene in One World South Asia [via Slashdot] [via McGee] on information overload, pollution, regulation and discernment – Humanity will survive information deluge he says.
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Science – Fact or Fiction
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December 12, 2003 at 11:26am
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Science – Fact or Fiction – BBC Radio 4 Today had Humphries in a debate with Steve Jones and George Monbiot about science stories that have a big picture story or “grand narrative” overlaid on what must be hughely complex reality – UK MMR Vaccine, GM Foods, Cloning, Global Warming etc. The fact being that [...]
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The Last Post
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December 11, 2003 at 1:40pm
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The Last Post – Don Box via Leon. (Follow the link to the Richard Stevens Obit !). Interesting given the concern when Jorn went AWOL – just exactly how is your blog supposed to know when you’ve popped your clogs ? A new opportunity for lawyers perhaps – writing special instructions into wills ? [Jorn [...]
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More Dave Snowden
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December 10, 2003 at 12:04am
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More Dave Snowden – Kurz and Snowden in IBM’s Systems Journal [via Ton]The paper behind the slide presentation below.[Interview with Dave Snowden][Also here][And here] We also discover that ….Cynefin (pronounced kun-ev’in) is a Welsh word with no direct equivalent in EnglishAs a noun it is translated as “habitat,” as an adjective to convey “acquainted” or [...]
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w.bloggar
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December 9, 2003 at 11:58pm
by Psybertron
w.bloggar – Not seen this before. Picked-up via Seb Pacquet. Would be interesting if this piece of client software could add catgorisation to my blogger posts. Anyone know, Paul, Ton ? [Apparently not]
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Eco on Memory at the Alexandria Library
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December 9, 2003 at 11:26pm
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Eco on Memory at the Alexandria Library – Three subjects of mine in one. [via McGee] [Alexandria]
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KM Meets Pirsig
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December 8, 2003 at 8:47pm
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KM Meets Pirsig – I was impressed by David Snowden’s contribution to the European Knowledge Management conference as reported by Ton. Well I see David’s presentation at the launch of the London Knowledge Network includes a quote from Pirsig as his second slide. [Quote] Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best 20-20 [...]
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Whither Thou Goest and Why
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December 8, 2003 at 1:56pm
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Whither Thou Goest and Why – Claire Harrison at First Monday. Blogged earlier (but old link broken) – about classifying hyperlinks according to the reason for the link, not according to the object at the end of the link. I liked it then and I still do.
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Blogging Categorisation / Taxonomies
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December 3, 2003 at 11:55am
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Blogging Categorisation / Taxonomies – Been corresponding with Paul Kelly on this subject. I remember starting a similar thread with Seb at least a year ago, and notice [via Paul] that Tim Bray [ongoing] is well on top of this subject. (By the way guys, when we have the tools I have some good sources [...]
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Questia
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December 2, 2003 at 9:25am
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Questia $100 per year plus for a subscription, but this looks like a really well designed research tool. Cannot tell how good the library itself is (except its size) – no preview of its index. Tempting – maybe a trial anyway. (See the flash demo.)
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Where is Jorn Barger ?
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December 2, 2003 at 9:00am
by Psybertron
Where is Jorn Barger ? I queried this a couple of weeks ago on the WebSeitz Wiki, and it seems the grandaddy of blogging is truly AWOL. Eric Wagoner has created a Jorn search page too. Keep ‘em peeled. Last time he went AWOL in July, it created a lot of chatter about his personal [...]
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McLuhan’s Next
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December 1, 2003 at 5:00pm
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McLuhan’s Next – Noticed earlier that Paul Kelly had many references to McLuhan, and others who refer to him, Levinson and Postman for example. Recently I’ve been intrigued by the level to which McLuhan’s aphorisms turn up in day-to-day day-job contexts, not least in a recent white-paper by a Canadian day-job colleague. What is it [...]
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Life’s a Bitch
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December 1, 2003 at 12:41pm
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Reminded by Dave Pollard’s reaction in the previous post, to an ongoing difference of opinion with a colleague, which I guess is a variation of the cup-half-full / cup-half-empty syndrome. Life’s a bitch, …. and then you die ? orLife’s a bitch, …. unless you change it.Which are you ? Dave’s “How to save the [...]
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Fourth Turning
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December 1, 2003 at 12:27pm
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Fourth Turning – Pre-9/11 (1997 in fact) study on cultural / political global cycles – no obvious mention of underlying technological / economic cycles, but worth looking for parallels I suspect. Doomsday / holocaust prediction of 9/11-esque triggered events – it was ever thus etc. Salutory. [via Dave Pollard] Dave throws his hands up in [...]
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Emperor’s Suit of Clothes
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December 1, 2003 at 12:18pm
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Emperor’s Suit of Clothes – News just in – apparently it’s an age old problem – no really ? Is incompetence the last taboo ? asks Seb. Now we’re getting somewhere. Incompetence wins where it is rationally justifiable.
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Personal Knowledge Emergence
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December 1, 2003 at 12:11pm
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Personal Knowledge Emergence – Great summary from Luigi / Sharewood Tidings (Robin Good) on effectiveness of knowledge emergence thorugh blogs and other de-centralised / peer-to-peer / interactive systems. Links to many other KM’ers in blogland. [Also via Seb]. You can spot the angle from the opening paragraph referring to Autonomy and Siebel as “useless shelfware [...]
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John Patrick on Blogs
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December 1, 2003 at 12:00pm
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John Patrick on Blogs – Ex senior IBM’er has his own blog and is interviewed here on Jay Cross’ Internet Time about the significance of blogs in knowledge management. Nothing new under the sun but …. etc …. [via Seb] CIO’s wake up and smell the coffee.
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Barfield and Rorty
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November 23, 2003 at 10:14am
by Psybertron
(Broad-band internet link from Aotou, China enables this post !) Finished Barfield’s History in English Words and started Rorty’s Contingency, Irony and Solidarity on the flight. Barfield uses etymology of English words to paint a picture of the history of thought through language, not just through the stems and origins of the individual words, but [...]
