What, Why & How do we Know ?
Still reading Eco at the moment, though finding only brief moments to do so, but still looking very good and building on Nietzsche, Kant and Peirce. Obtained Steven Pinker’s latest last night – The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. If the introductory chapter is anything to go by this is right on … Continue reading “Reading Matter”
Collaboration. Some interesting developments in various blogs collaborating. This particular idea from Seb’s blog. Suggested linking initiative to John Robb’s Kloggers Forum. Other interesting things happening at Seth’s blog and Danny’s too. Using this idea at KnoWBlog [dead link] too, though still in set-up & evaluation at present.
Knowledge Management Technology. Good IBM paper by A D Marwick (via Danny). Interesting to note that the analysis builds on Nonaka’s model of organizational knowledge creation – something which captured my imagination earlier. [I’m experiencing very slow / erratic publish / refresh from either Blogger or my ISP at the moment.]
Small World. Danny’s Blog includes a link to the on-line edition of WROX XML Meta-Data text. I actually spotted this link to Danny some months ago when at the same time spotting Daniel R-M and Ann W as co-authors, and colleagues of mine at KnoW – when this text turned up with the developers at … Continue reading “Small World”
The MS vs Mac Scam. This story, linked from Adam Curry, has been circulating in many forms, including amongst colleagues at work. Adam makes the strong point – Why are we surprised ? One commentator says – Why do we go through the motions of appearing offended ? Interesting that in the workplace the main … Continue reading “The MS vs Mac Scam”
Why Science Needs Us to be Afraid. From Cringely, quoting a letter from Australian engineer scientist Richard Worsley. [Quote] … I’ve done my time in the trenches …. therefore feel able to comment on the lot of the scientist today….. science is not separate from society …. what you are seeing is a symptom …. … Continue reading “Why Science Needs Us to be Afraid”
The Pepys Connection. Atlantic Online review (via Jorn) by Philip Hensher of “Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self” by Claire Tomalin. Interesting angle on the plethora of seemingly irrelevant first person details being key to why Pepys’ record represents a more important body of knowledge than any other 17th and 18th century objective accounts. Good advert … Continue reading “The Pepys Connection”
Kurzweil’s Paradigm. Report on talk by Kurzweil by Weinberger of JOHO [Quote] Killer soundbyte from Kurzweil: The genomic information about the brain is 12 million bytes of compressed data, “smaller than Microsoft Word.” [Unquote]