From apophenia: an aversion to mailAs i get older, i learn to despise all forms of mediated communication. The problem is that context is lost. When i look focused, my roommates know not to interrupt. With mediation, i can usually...
Harvard Weblogs: Weblogs at the Harvard Law SchoolA milestone case study from the Shorenstein Center was released on Friday last week. It tells the story of Trent Lott, his talk at Strom Thurmond's birthday party in December 2002, and how...
From Carlos Ghosn, in Les Echos of yesterdayMany [business] alliances finally end up destroying value. For us [Renault and Nissan] the alliance is a tool for optimizing the performance of each one of the two companies. Such flexibility is not...
Supporting enterprise knowledge management with weblogs: A weblog services roadmap by Michael Angeles though Jim Robertson is one of the most inspiring presentations I ever saw. Indeed, weblogs have a very important role to play in the innovation process, and...
Report from a Blogwalk 1.0 discussion last Friday. The topic was: "Can blogging replace communities of practice ?" Background of discussion: Before the development of weblogs, « online community » tools like forums, mailing lists and bulletin boards were predominantly...
I just came back from Blogwalk 1.0, an informal conference on weblogs for business organized by Ton, Lilia and Sebastien at the Telematica Instituut in Entschede, Netherlands. It took me ages to get there and to come back, and I...
From Sebastien Paquet (le bien nommé), this quote...one can view blogging as a personal "coming out" experience, going public with what was once private. And I think this process that many people are undergoing has the effect of speeding up...
Dunbar is an anthropologist at the University College of London who hypothesized that there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, and predicted that 150 is the "mean group...
From Dan Gillmore's online book project "Making the News" News organizations in recent times have operated as if the news was a lecture -- we told you what the news was, and you bought it (or you didn't). Tomorrow's news...
My boss has decided that two people to run a corporate KM program was one too many, and my colleague and friend Gilbert Brault has been reassigned somewhere else in the company. Bad news. Reflecting on four years working...
A quote from David Perkins As a generalization, pooling physical effort is easy, but pooling mental effort is hard. It's a lot easier for 10 people to collaborate on mowing a large lawn than for 10 people to collaborate on...