Like many others I have been watching Dave Pollard’s postings within a mixture of interest and growing concern for several months now; especially since a discussion in San Jose where I discovered the degree of his engagement in Second Life. His Christmas Eve posting on polyamorism disturbed me greatly. OK I didn’t have Matt’s ironically […]
One beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar found Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise sitting under the trunk of a fallen tree. They could not run away, and so Stickly-Prickly curled himself up into a ball, because he was a Hedgehog, and Slow-Solid Tortoise drew in his head and feet into […]
Some time ago Nick Carr, who for me writes one of the most intelligent technology blogs, made an offer to apply for a free advance reading copy of his new book The Big Switch. I am not sure what the criterial for success was but I am pleased to say that I made the cut. […]
We had the obligatory family outing to see The Golden Compass last weekend. I was nervous going into it, a similar feeling to the first of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. A series of books that I had read and enjoyed; would the cinematic version betray the original? It was also more important than […]
My podcast with Jon Husband on social computing continues to have a high take up, including six commentaries from Luis Suarez which start here and conclude here. Luis is also a Mac convert who works for IBM and his reflections on sitting in a room of Thinkpads is entertaining and educational. Reading the various links […]
There is a lot of talk about communities and networks not only within KM, but in many other areas. I want to explore some new ideas here, and it is early days in that exploration, bringing teams and crews into the equation. I see an atomistic and individualistic set of assumptions behind most of the […]
James Dellow hopes that this paper will will cause a bit of stir in the knowledge management community. The following extract from the paper’s summary may explain why: we find that sharing codified knowledge in the form of electronic documents saved time during the task but did not improve work quality or signal competence to […]
I am writing this blog with tears in my eyes to the sound of the Llanelli Male Voice Choir singing Calon Lan at the funeral of Ray Gravell. For those who don’t know him Grav was an outstanding centre from the great Welsh sides of the 1970s. A British Lion in 1980 and a member […]
One of those great sayings from Gaping Void. Generally if you look at an organisation and trace back the various rules and regulations they can normally be seen as arising from past failure and the attempt to correct it. There is a sub-class here, of controls arising from a re-engineering exercise. In this case we […]
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