Blogs and Knowledge SharingAlready in January I pr …. Blogs and Knowledge SharingAlready in January I promised Denham Grey to write something about blogs as a medium for knowledge sharing. Denham and I seem to have different views of the capacity of blogs in this regard (Read his comment on KnowledgeBoard regarding blogs). Promises are […]

Coevolving collaborative tools mailing list. The Blue Oxen folks and friends are having great forward-thinking, eyes-wide-open conversations on collaboration technologies over on the yak-tools mailing list. Here are a few nuggets that I found quite interesting: Social network visualization from mailing list data using Java-based Apache Agora by Stefano Mazzocchi, someone I recently discovered and should be watching […]

The Social Web and its implications. I will be speaking at the Constellation W3 event on the future of the Web in Montréal on March 15th. The tentative title of my talk is The Social Web and its implications. All kinds of interesting people that I'd been meaning to meet for a long time should […]

Tools for Electronic Democracy. One of the promising conversational threads at the Emergent Democracy Happening was the discussion of tools. There are various types… [BookBlog] participation not presence is central to democracy.

Culture Jamming. We saw a lot of interesting talks at the 030303>Collective Play conference yesterday, but I wanted to quickly mention one… [game girl advance] this looks interesting and fun, i could see people who are frustrated with things on tv create change through this. I'm conceptualizing right now a mutable tv system based on […]

Transdisciplinarity in KM. Recent comments to ?Emergent KM Research? ? proposal from Quaerere to KAngels continue the discussion about multi-/trans-/inter-disciplinary approaches to KM. At this stage reading the discussion can make you totally confusing, so to pieces: Definition of transdisciplinarity (cited by Peter Troxler from Transdisciplinarity – New Structures in Science) a scientific (…) principle that […]

Blech. You know, I thought I'd gotten the Naked Juice Protein Zone before, but obviously I hadn't. And I've obviously forgotten… [Inside Gretchen's Head] I like green machine too. I tried the carrot one the other day, blech, tasted like watered down carrots and nearly gagged me.

Origins of science. Timeline of early science. A good read, albeit it ignores Atlantis, and it's source of unlimited power. [via Robot Wisdom] [MetaFilter] interesting enough, it has a pretty good general account of early science.

Vout-aroonee with a Floy-Floy. Vout-aroonee with a Floy-Floy. Slim Gaillard was immortalized by Jack Kerouac, wrote great songs, was a jive pioneer and even appeared in Charlie's Angels. [MetaFilter] time comes and goes along these lines far too frequently….

to reflect so poorly. Plagiarism is an ugly word. Ung Lee, a Princeton Graduate, has one numerous awards for his writing, under the tutelage of Joyce Carl Oates. It's just that so many of those words were not his own. [MetaFilter] i wonder did they take the awards away?