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deusx : Evolving Web: Scotch, Apples and Time to Think - "Sometimes walking away from the computer is the best way to use the computer."
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nelson : Timeline of knowledge representation - Amateur, but full of interesting links and stuff
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Linkorama : Business 2.0 ] - Organisations will differentiate and compete on adding intellectual capital above and beyond what is publicly available, rather than try to milk a trade secret or cash-cow such as the Coca-Cola recipe. This will require more and more "knowledge worke
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Linkorama : All hail the information triumvirate! - Three things have happened, in a blink of history's eye: (1) a single medium, the Web, has come to dominate the storage and supply of information, (2) a single search engine, Google, has come to dominate the navigation of that medium, and (3) a singl
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20 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn't: Judy Jones, William Wilson: Books - I'm interested in attempts to summarise everything one needs to know and this sounds vaguely promising.
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Is KM Dead? - Larry Prusak, Dave Snowden, Patrick Lambe video
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23 month ago
philgyford : David Weiss: Metacognitive Miscalibration - Thinking things are easy when you don't know enough to tell. "There's a great difference between 50 years of experience and 1 years worth of experience repeated 50 times." (via Daring Fireball)
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25 month ago
Linkorama : Socrates and the Children's Party - One of the most successful metaphors for complexity I have ever created was the Childrens' Party story, which has developed with variations (such as the Appreciative Inquiry ending) over the years. Some time ago Christopher Bellavita wrote up a variation
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25 month ago
gleuschk : Random facts from female pornstars - my current favorite: "Philosopher Albert Camus played in goal for the Algerian national football team"
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Linkorama : What's Most Important for Success in Enterprise 2.0? - I spoke earlier this week at the FASTForward conference in Orlando, and used the opportunity to toss out some conjectures about the factors that differentiate successful Enterprise 2.0 deployments from unsuccessful ones. These conjectures were not develop
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26 month ago
joshua : The Bottom is Not Enough - on peer production
Linkorama : Bottom up demands time - The bottom-up hive mind will always take us much further than even seems possible. It keeps surprising us in this regard. Given enough time, dumb things can be smarter than we think. At that same time, the bottom-up hive mind will never take us to our end
deusx : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - "I think the top-down function of editors -- to select, prune, guide, solicit, shape, and guide the results from the crowd -- is essential to excellence."
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26 month ago
Linkorama : How Google, Wikipedia Have Changed Our Lives -- For Better and Worse | PBS - And that’s the trade-off: What you gain in speed of delivery you often lose in quality of information, not to mention the most intangible benefit of the way we used to get information: seeking it out slowly, wondering, theorizing, discovering and feelin
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27 month ago
Linkorama : Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike - This so-called curse of knowledge, a phrase used in a 1989 paper in The Journal of Political Economy, means that once you’ve become an expert in a particular subject, it’s hard to imagine not knowing what you do.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Dave Snowden on Everything is Fragmented - His point of view is information models don’t apply to humans. We are pattern recognition devices. We recognize and act based on partial data sets.
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Dave Snowden and Jon Husband - Jon Husband’s recent interview of Dave Snowden regarding “The impact of Web 2.0 on Knowledge Work and Knowledge Management” is an outstanding KM 1.0 retrospective requiem
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30 month ago
Linkorama : Web 2.0 & Support knowledgewikis - To help customers get better educated, the Service & Support Professionals Association (SSPA) and Socialtext today released an on-demand webinar specifically about leveraging Web 2.0 technologies to accelerate support and call center operations.
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32 month ago
Linkorama : It’s not about creativity, it’s about curiosity - I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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33 month ago
deusx : mengwong - Has the Internet has passed the da Vinci point? - "After da Vinci, thanks to the Renaissance which he personified, the efflorescence of human knowledge outpaced any one individual's ability to understand it all."
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Old Revolutions Good, New Revolutions Bad - Clay's response to Gorman
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34 month ago
Linkorama : Enterprise 2.0 - Knowledge Exploitation? - Steve Hodgkinson of Ovum speaks about the implications of Enterprise 2.0 for CIOs. I second him on everything he says except the phrase he uses to describe this phenomenon - knowledge exploitation.
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35 month ago
Linkorama : Busyness vs. Burst - Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive -- but innovate
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37 month ago
gleuschk : Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert - Map of the system of human knowledge - Imagination == Poetry
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40 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How Matt Haughey Beat Google - How Matt Haughey Beat Google: Anil compares the workings of Ask MetaFilter to Google Answers
Linkorama : How Matt Haughey Beat Google - In short, Google doesn't have a community to leverage.
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40 month ago
Linkorama : Wordie - Like Flickr, without the photos
Rod Begbie : Wordie - "Like Flickr, without the photos". Make lists of words. Pointless and lovely. [via] #
jkottke : Wordie is "like Flickr, but without the photos" - Wordie is "like Flickr, but without the photos". "Wordie lets you make lists of words -- practical lists, words you love, words you hate, whatever. You can then see who else has listed the same words, and talk about it." Lots of people love schadenfreude. [via]
jimray : Wordie - "Like Flickr, but without the photos" Fucking hilarious!
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40 month ago
Linkorama : Liberating Wikipedia in China (almost) - "Marxism-Leninism fails to compete in a knowledge economy, where markets are conversations," he says. "When the world's greatest source of free knowledge cannot be accessed, the long-term impact must be considerable."
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