Oren Harari responds to an Economist article with "Knowledge Workers (That's Us!) Need a New Organization." Oren is particularly interested in the juxtaposition between what knowledge workers need and how companies approach it.
Oren Harari responds to an Economist article with "Knowledge Workers (That's Us!) Need a New Organization." Oren is particularly interested in the juxtaposition between what knowledge workers need and how companies approach it.
Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide's Neurolearning Blog give us some insight into blogging in "Blogs as Our Brains: Can We Escape Chaos?" They touch on a couple aspects of blogging and cognition that make things chaotic: tagging, learning preferences, and even organizational skills.
Malcolm Ryder turned up an entertaining picture of the home computer of 2004 from a 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine in The History of the Future. They have a few things wrong.
I attended the Web2.0 and Communities distributed conference from CPSquare during the past four weeks. It was very instructive to me, as a person fairly well versed in the technology end of the spectrum. There are some lessons about online conferences to be learned as well.
Kaye Vivian has written up a list of concerns that managers have voiced over many conversations in her organization: "Managers Look at the Risks of KM." It's a great (or scary) list of barriers and concerns that need to be addressed for any big change project.
The next KM Chicago meeting will be 14 Feburary, at it's normal time from 5-7 pm. The topic is "KM in the Asia-Pacific region."
Malcolm Ryder has some fun with "Business Intelligence versus Business Knowledge: Who Cares?" I particularly like his thoughts about business intelligence, or more accurately, the process of seeing patterns in the constant wave of data, information and knowledge.
John Tropea has posted some thoughts on more advanced mechanisms to get recommendations, based on what you read and write. My best recommendation engine is the people I am already reading, can recommendation engines take advantage of that?
Erik Hollnagel does Cognitive Systems Engineering research in the area of human performance and accident analysis / prevention. He has a brief write-up on The principle of Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off (ETTO) that I found interesting. The bottom line: it is the system that has to be diagnosed to understand why an efficient "short cut" failed when it normally worked just fine.
Catastrovision is that wonderful effect when you get so wrapped up in your own world that it seems like everything is about to end. [Reposted]
"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" by John P. A. Ioannidis describes a statistical test for the likelihood of research being false, first without researcher bias and then a second test that includes bias. The result: it doesn't look good.
I'll be on a panel at the Knowledge Management for the Modern Law Firm conference that the Ark Group is organizing in New York City, 22-23 February 2006.
Tris Hussey found a nice list of tips to improve your blogging from Make You Go Hmm. These cover a lot of ground, and they don't make sense for all bloggers, but they give a positive way to think about blogging. I like the focus on passion in a few of these.
Bill Ives has done his first podcast with the Otter Group's Learning2.0 podcast series. His topic is Blogs as Personal Knowledge Management, and he does a nice job of summarizing in six minutes what blogs are and how Bill (and others) use blogs as their "backup brain."
I was talking with some students at Northwestern about blogs, and the question of trustworthiness and accuracy arose, particularly if one is planning to site a blog in a research paper. I came up with some criteria that turn out to be similar to those in a publication from Google.
Amy Gahran has a nice list of "10 Reasons Why Blogs Are an Awkward Conversation Tool" that talks about how blogs hinder the flow of a conversation. I agree, and yet conversation still happens.
I discovered Anti-Knowledge by Bruce LaDuke recently. What struck me was the central role he gives to the power of the question in his framing of how human knowledge develops.
Thomas Vander Wal has a nice essay, describing his views of his Model of Attraction and Personal InfoCloud, The Come To Me Web. His view is that we are moving from a place where "I go get" what I want to a situation where what I want "comes to me."
Rashmi Sinha has another nice piece on tagging, "A social analysis of tagging." I like the way Rashmi talks about the blurry line between the individual act of tagging and the social use of those tags.
Howard Rheingold links to an interesting look at social networking services in "Unraveling the Taste Fabric of Social Networks." Short version: the authors describe a mechanism for describing people's interests as a fabric of tastes with some browsability components.