Pollard Predicts the Future of Communication – An interesting analysis of patterns of communication now and in the future from Dave Pollard.[Quote]I see the weblog becoming a ubiquitous communication medium, a proxy for every individual, where everything you want to know about that individual (which they have given you permission to see) can be called [...]
Entries from August 2003
Pollard Predicts the Future of Communication
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August 31, 2003 at 11:07pm
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Complete BBC Archive On-line
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August 28, 2003 at 3:37pm
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Complete BBC Archive On-line [Oblomovka] [via Jorn] Will it ever really happen ?
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Chance and Stupidity have Changed History
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August 28, 2003 at 3:34pm
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Chance and Stupidity have Changed History – Top Ten history books by Terry Deary in the Guardian [via Jorn]. Particularly interested in No.7 The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity have Changed History by Erik Durschmied. Reminds me of “Tipping Point” [see Ton]. One of my themes is chaos / catastrophe and the fact that [...]
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Res Cogitans
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August 26, 2003 at 12:02pm
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Res Cogitans – Interesting blog from Steven Fettig in Wisconsin. Makes link to Spike Halls’s blog. Added to side-bar.
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John F Sowa
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August 18, 2003 at 10:53am
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John F Sowa – An interesting source of more philosophically based knowledge modelling material for the world of electronic communications from an ex-IBM consultant John F Sowa. [via Onno][via Matthew]. Biog includes MIT, Harvard and VUB (home of Heylighen and Principia Cybernetica), and as well as on-line parts of Sowa’s “Knowledge Representation” he includes a [...]
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Coherence Engine
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August 16, 2003 at 12:01pm
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Coherence Engine – An interesting new blog from Geoff Cohen.
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West Met East – Metaphorically Speaking
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August 16, 2003 at 11:46am
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West Met East – Metaphorically Speaking – Resturned from China. Suprisingly I didn’t get to read Northrop as much as expected, because I’d just received Lakoff and Johnson’s “Metaphors We Live By” the morning I departed. I’ve just finished the book itself on the flight back, just the afterword added to the 2003 edition to [...]
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Be Happy
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August 8, 2003 at 10:42pm
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Be Happy – A page from Francis Heylighen at Principia Cybernetica that I hadn’t noticed before. Interesting in a Pirsig / Values / MoQ context ?
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West Meets East
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August 8, 2003 at 10:34pm
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West Meets East – Off to China for a week’s buisness. Will anyone believe me, that it’s purely coincidence I’m in the middle of reading Northrop’s Meeting of East and West ?!
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Holochory Rules OK
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August 8, 2003 at 10:24pm
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Holochory Rules OK – The world really is just a hologram, well maybe says Scientific American. [indirectly via Apothecary questioning the Delphic Oracle]. Seems this concept is becoming more mainstream after previously being touted by the British Computer Society and its Quantum Information Processing mission statement. Suspend disbelief ….The world IS information.Information IS a fundamental [...]
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Business Blogging
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August 6, 2003 at 8:59am
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Business Blogging – A collection of links from Lilia Efimova, selling the value of K-Blogs to businesses. An excellent presentation from Nick Finck, plus this quote via John Robb [Quote] knowledge workers spend 35% of their productive time searching for information, while 40% of the corporate users report that they cannot find the information they [...]
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Minority Groups, Women and Julian Baggini
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August 4, 2003 at 1:11pm
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Minority Groups, Women and Julian Baggini – Julian Baggini writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education [via NIBBS] on the Philosophy, Science and Humanities triangle as perceived on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Some interesting points actually, though personally I have trouble with Julian’s style.
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More Nature v Nurture of Psychology
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August 4, 2003 at 1:04pm
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More Nature v Nurture of Psychology – Shankar Vedantam writing in the Washington Post [via NIBBS] on the subject of evolutionary psychology – well sex actually, it sells newspapers apparently.
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Tom Peters is still at it
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August 4, 2003 at 9:44am
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Tom Peters is still at it – The latest buzz on web innovation from Tom Peters [via Seb] [via Russell Beattie] [via Dave Weinberger].
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Psychological Feedback Over The Web ?
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August 2, 2003 at 3:18pm
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Psychological Feedback Over The Web ? Interesting piece from Spike Hall’s blog, also picked-up by Oliver Wrede. I posted comments on both. Illustrates how important the psychological feedback aspects of knowledge communication are. Metaphorically, if you can’t see into the eyes of the people you’re interacting with, how do you detect understanding, uncertainty, emotion, intent [...]
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Monstrous Knowledge Management
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August 2, 2003 at 2:31pm
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Monstrous Knowledge Management – This article from Ton Zijlstra’s Interdependent Thoughts blog, similar to the post I made about the KM Bandwagon devaluing core intent of KM very rapidly, which prompted comment from Dave Pollard. Also interestingly, Ton’s next post is on the drying-up of blog-like networks. I posted on reduced blogging rates here too, [...]
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East Meets West #2
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August 2, 2003 at 12:09pm
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As you know, I’ve just started reading Northrop [Previous] [ Previous] and already hooked because he is straight into the pragmatic effects of the Catch-22 of the recursive argument about how absolute can a metaphysics be that includes it’s own definition. [Quote] the basic paradox of our time [is that] “sound” theory tends to destroy [...]
Urizen
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August 1, 2003 at 5:22pm
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No evidence Urizen has any common link with Zen ? Sparked off to look at Blake’s Urizen by the material on the home page of Brian Bauld, who hosts a copy of Geore Steiners “Uneasy Rider” New Yorker review of ZMM, amongst a lot of other gems. The Wikipedia entry on Urizen says [Quote] In [...]
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East Meets West
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August 1, 2003 at 9:38am
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Just received “The Meeting of East and West” by F.S.C. Northrop (MacMillan, 1946, 1st ed, 2nd impression) (just said that) and what a book. This is the volume that so influenced Pirsig on his troopship return from Korea in 1948. The book that turned a lateral drifter into pursuer of something important (ZMM25 p124). Anyway, [...]
Clicks Meets Used Bricks
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August 1, 2003 at 9:07am
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Just received “The Meeting of East and West” by F.S.C. Northrop (MacMillan, 1946, 1st ed, 2nd impression) from MGBooks used bookstore @ URL:// 1013 Brice Road, Rockville, Maryland, 30 hours after confirming a standard flat-rate US-snail-mail order through Amazon’s used book service. I’m very impressed – with Marcy George, Amazon, the US Postal Service and [...]
