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Tables, Taxonomies and Trends and causality too, but it doesn’t alliterate.Why do these appear to be “human nature” aspects of analysis and rationalisation ? “Emergent Properties” – hold that thought.

Started – Mechanisation of the Mind – the History of Cognitive Sciences by Dupuy (See below)Actually only read the 6-page preface so far and looking very promising. Not only do we encounter Poincare’s “dazzling intuitions” and self-organising systems in the first page – (the latter concept apparently pre-dating the intended scope of CogSci / Cybernetics … Continue reading “Dupuy’s History of Cognitive Sciences”

Finished Moby Dick.If it wasn’t obvious, from the helpful map provided on the route of the Pequod, that the voyage ended in disaster, the final chapters could be quite suspense filled. A bit of a spoiler that. Apart from the late chapters when Ahab, soliloquises (to Starbuck mainly) about his career widow (yes the “Ahab’s … Continue reading “Melville’s Moby Dick”

Irrational Knowledge Value Models in PracticeAt a knowledge interest group meeting today I experienced a microcosm of so many of the issues here. (1) The “General Motors / DeLorean effect” A failure of formal project teams to achieve scope execution and objectives desired and understood by the individual members, despite admissions that each member individually … Continue reading “Irrational Knowledge Value Models”

SWAP – Semantic Web & Peer to PeerI knew it. The power of peer to peer thinking fits so well with exploiting relationships between ontologies embedded in “knowledge” at each user in a peer to peer network. (Reference from Graham Moore of Empolis. Of course Empolis is part of Bertelsmann group who acquired Napster technologies … Continue reading “SWAP – Semantic Web And Peer-to-Peer”

Think Lean Learning – link from Leon

Message to self.So many important resource links now embedded in the body of the blog, I’m going to have to go through and re-build a fixed links section – I keep re-discovering links I already have.

I’m a Klogger apparently. Link from Leon.I’ve been running this KM-Blog for almost a year now, and now I find someone has just coined the phrase Knowledge Logging, keeping a “K-Log” of knowledge fragments. Link is to an article that exploits Microsoft Sharepoint to capture (say) employee blogs of knowledge with Sharepoint meta-data to capture … Continue reading “Klogging – Knowledge Web Logging”