Distributed KM. Italian research project: enabling distributed and autonomous management of knowledge The aim of this project is to develop research in information technology and software tools that support the Distributed and Autonomous Management of Knowledge. The goal will be achieved by: structuring knowledge in different “contexts”, that allow each different organization component to create, use […]

uiweb.com: How to run a design critique. In the early and middle phases of a project, teams need a way to understand and explore the current direction of the design. The challenge is to create the openness needed for good ideas to surface, while simultaneously cultivating the feedback and criticism necessary to resolve open issues. […]

Hate your TA? Now you have a home.. When Kyle's teachers got too liberal, Kyle's mom launched this Web site I laughed, I cried upon reading the Union-Trib article on student discontent with TAs at UCSD and around the country. Man, if I had a nickel for every time I heard, “Yes, I know that […]

Textfiles.com. Textfiles.com: Before the Web, before Google, we scoured Fidonet, absorbing the forbidden fruits of anarchy, occult and a lot of bad fiction. For better or worse, TEXTFILES are relics of that age. [MetaFilter] they aren't really artifacts of that age, they are artifacts of our age.

Technology anthropologists. Jim McGee in Doing anthropology cites Ernie the Attorney's post  about technology anthropologists Bold was math's i'm going to say that the more i think about this, i'm not sure that titles matter as practice, and the practice is ethnography.

Things to catch. Some of recent posts to catch: Content Management: Our Organized Future [elearnspace blog] Contagious Blogging [Ton's Interdependent thoughts] Conflicts of interest between publishers and information creators [Synesthesia] DeadJournal about LJ and blogging communities [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] Introducing: Seb's matchmaking service! [Seb's Open Research] Proxemics and knowledge management [McGee's Musings] [Mathemagenic] handy list…

More research questions about blogs. Olaf Brugman comments to the emergent KM research proposal emergent KM research proposal asking about research of weblogs (bold is mine):  I hope the research could contribute to: increasing knowledge transparency: I am enthusiast about the blogging phenomenon, with the way it can quickly form communities. However, I also find blogging leads […]

Articles on wikis. “Operation of a Large Scale, General Purpose Wiki Website” [Seb's Open Research] One of the first serious articles on wikis that isn't on a wiki (a previous one was The Reengineering Wiki (pdf)). , by susning.nu founder Lars Aronsson. Abstract: A Wiki website is a hypertext on steroids. Any user can create or edit […]

99 Trial Balloons – Bush's Fast-Vanishing Proposals. Plastic::Politics::Disaster: Seems like a lot of Bush's Great Ideas are vanishing into thin air. Is the administration really trying, or just sorta spitballin' here? [Plastic: Most Recent] we knew they wouldn't do anything worthwhile. or at least, i figured they wouldn't. not that their proposals were worth anythingl

Serving readers since 1999. I've been nominated for a Jeffie as “Best Old Time Blogger.” I nominate Bernie DeKoven as Best Fun Blogger. Currently on Deep Fun: Bonsai Potato. See? Not speaking of which, The Bernie Award is now the Major Fun Award. Which is appropriate, cuz Bernie not only has fun, but also shares […]