Category: Uncategorized

Brian McDermott’s weblog looks interesting. Came across it from a cross-hit on his page of knowledge related quotes. I know – cliche – but some good ones.

Not sure whether these guys independently verified this stuff, but my Pirsig Timeline forms the basis of the biography of Robert Pirsig on the web site of the American Society of Authors and Writers.

Says Johnnie Moore, quoting Peter Block’s book title.

The antidote to Analysis-Paralysis is Can-Do / Just-Do-It.

Spookily the instant after returning from commenting on Johnnie’s blog, I found a hit on my own blog with the search string “How can knowledge be shared in weblog“. Answer = Yes, you dummy.

Sad day yesterday. Ironicaly, we were just talking about how well Cloughie was looking recently when watching his player/manager son Nigel at Burton Albion; I guess his chronic illness enforced healthier living in recent years. He’ll be missed.

John Udell quoting Ray Ozzie about what we must all recognise as situation normal these days; Having better (more flexible) tools on our domestic PC than on an IT Dept controlled work PC, and the flexibility of being able to transfer results between machines via USB Memory Drives. We all do it.

Planning & control are anathema to progress. [See here][and here][and …]

A variation on fractals, these are strange attractor images. [via Apothecary]

Also via Apothecary – the Watermelon carving story. Now I geddit.

Send us your money and we’ll save the world. Hmmmmmm says Rivets. Weird.

Jeremy Bentham came up yesterday. Louise led us through University College past the Jeremy Bentham room, past where his mummified body or “Auto-Icon” is generaly displayed [here’s why], but alas it was not there. See also [BenthamLinks][BenthamWorksOnLine]

Bentham (a contemporary of Blake, blogged below) coined “utilitarianism” as used by J.S.Mill, later evolved into “pragmatism”.

[Mopsos][via ScaleFree] Anu was hooked by this quote “Ultimately, the economics of knowledge have something to do with the economics of love.”

What’s lurve got to do with it ? Well it’s the extreme end of implicit trust, and we all know trust is the number one item in information at the moment. Top level of the W3C model, FOAF and the bozo-bit to name a few examples. Without it there is no knowledge worth sharing.

Mentioned in the previous post that I’d been at BlogWalk yesterday in Bloomsbury, based in the Old Crown on New Oxford Street. Many thanks to Johnnie Moore and Lilia Effimova for organising and facilitating the stimulating day.

Attendees were for me all first time meetings.
Lilia Efimova (Mathemagenic)
Johnnie Moore (JohnnieMoore)
Ed Mitchell (KnowledgeBoard)
Chris MaCrae (ValueTrue)
Riccardo Cambiassi (CodeWitch)
Mark Brady (Mark Brady)
Julian Elve (Synesthesia)
Lloyd Davis (Perfect Path)
Paul Graham
Louise Ferguson (City of Bits)
Martin Roell (Das E-Business)
Anu Gupta (ScaleFree)
Suw Charman (Choc’n’Vodka)(HeadShift)
Omar Green (Savaje)
Desiree Gosby (Savaje)
David Wilcox (Designing Civil Society)

Topic was blogging as Social Software in Organisations – Inside the Firewall. Led to much business debate about internal vs external communication – where is the boundary, is it clear, or fuzzy, or variable ? The issues were all business & social communication, independent of the blogging medium, everything from formal external announcements & press-releases to whilstle-blowing leakage, taking in internal community building and need-to-know issues. Some thoughts in my previous post.

Highlight of the day was that Lloyd and Louise knew the Bloomsbury area of London well and walked us around, taking in the British Museum, Russel Square, London University Senate, University College and Bedford Square. Lots of “Bloomsbury Group” blue-plaques. Very much the same “Fitzrovia” educational patch used by INFED.

Another minor personal highlight was re-acquaintance with the Princess Louise for lunch. Dark (Victorian ?) ceramics and mirrors still survive over 100% of the walls and ceiling, and so too the enormous marble and iron urinals.