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 horror at the fatalistic conclusions of the paper – I suspect I’ll feel the same if we can’t learn something more pro-actively useful from this.
Month: December 2003
Emperor’s Suit of Clothes
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.
Personal Knowledge Emergence
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 systems”.
Oliver Wrede also picked-up this thread, and highlights this summary quote “In other words, content providers should not be trying to guess how I want to interact with their information. They should just be providing the information. I will customize my experience as I see fit.” Interesting in a day-job context where we are working on de-coupling “acquisition” from “characterisation”, and saying to source applications – give me your raw data – tell me what you know in your own words – ie don’t second guess how you think I want to see or use it.
John Patrick on Blogs
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.