It is reported that one in six of US laptop sales was an Apple this June on NPD sales (retailers). Its overall market share at 5.6% (taking into account direct channels etc) put it in joint third place. My impression is that it has replaced the Thinkpad as the quality laptop of choice. I am […]
It’s only a few weeks to go until the first anniversary of this blog, and today saw comment number 1000 from Dave Davison to my salivating post on the iPhone. It starts Dave, here is what I thought about the iPhone …. Thanks to everyone who has contributed comments todate. With 360 postings (this will […]
While I was in Singapore for the RAHS forum, Gary Klein and I agreed to speak at an evening session for the IKMS. The results were recorded as four podcasts and you can see them here. I should warn you that I was in a belligerent mood on the failures of Knowledge Management at the […]
Lauchlan Mackinnon who I first encountered as Clint, but whose views I have since come to respect, has an interesting dissection of The Tipping Point, in three parts here, here and here. This quote illustrates his argument: Gladwell uses scholarly source material in an essentially rhetorical fashion, to tell a story from a single point […]
I have been tagged by Dave Pollard and Luis Suarez and possibly others to take part in a sort of chain letter. One confesses to five things that other people do not know about you, and select five victims to do the same. One of the starting points was Jeff Pulver The full history of […]
I will, as promised, consider the impact of natural numbers on virtual and physcial communities, but not immediately. Life got very busy this week and I want to think it through and take account of comments here on the blog and also in the originating list serve first. I also want to pick up on […]
I’ve enjoyed reading Richard Sambrook’s informative blog since he went public in August, despite the mispelling of my name on his blog roll! He has a great post today on the subject of conspiracy theories. It is a well worked article which argues that while conspiracy theories may be fun, its dangerous to take them […]
The skim leaders list serve has picked up recently on fuzziness in definitions of knowledge management (KM). In a recent exchange Steve Denning, formerly of the World Bank and now Chief Squirrel of organisational story telling had started to argue that a better definition of KM might now be required. He thought this might overcome […]
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