Adding Value to Information – Why aren't libraries doing this? Amazon continually finds ways to add value to records, helping people access what they're looking for. Just yesterday, we were talking about Blackwell's ridiculously expensive Table Of Contents service at a reference meeting. We agreed that adding TOC info to the catalog would be a… Continue reading
Month: October 2001
Personal Knowledge Management
Personal Knowledge Management – We live in a sea of data. Our challenge is knowledge and its management. This is not a new concept, even though we may feel it more acutely now. In T.S. Eliot’s 1915 poem Choruses from “The Rock”, he said: Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is… Continue reading
Dave
Dave mentions that we are using a combo of outlining and instant messaging to power internal communications. It's great. E-mail count has gone down by 100 a day (the e-mail DoS attack on my brain has eased!) and now I can parallel process internal communications with my co-workers. Savings: 1/2 hour a day reading a serial e-mail stream vs. scanning outline posts… Continue reading Dave
SchoolBlog Updates
Great SchoolBlogs appearing again today. Check out the SchoolBlog Updates to access them. Remember that the Updates Page will only pick up a new blog if the homepage has been edited. Notice too how Tim has created a SchoolBlog specifically for his two day course. Weblogs are great for events. I created an 'event' weblog for our School Exhibition Week… Continue reading SchoolBlog Updates
Amy Wohl
How to create a K-Logger: Amy Wohl wrote a great article on Weblogs and KM recently. In it she said that companies are willing to purchase solutions that 1) preserve and organize knowledge (so it isn't lost when someone quits), 2) use that knowledge to train new employees quickly, and 3) provide current employees with a resource that lets… Continue reading Amy Wohl
Adam Curry rants
David Winer on Email: Adam Curry rants eloquently about email. BTW, we have the problem licked. We're using a new system at UserLand, it replaces our largely email-based internal communication system. It's a combination of instant messaging and outlining. I'm sure it's not for everyone. But for workgroups whose product is thought (like my company),… Continue reading Adam Curry rants
recent DaveNet
David Winer on Distributed Systems: I commented on this in a recent DaveNet, but no one picked it up as far as I can tell. “The economics of software favor small independent developers.” Double-click on that, and look at the ways the Big's try to undermine the Little's, but it's mostly bullshit. Where are the… Continue reading recent DaveNet
Surprise: E-Biz is Doing Fine
Surprise: E-Biz is Doing Fine. Despite the seemingly endless cycle of bad and depressing news, online purchases increased in September compared to a year ago, according to studies. By Farhad Manjoo. [Wired News]
Pop Tech's Unbroken Connection
Pop Tech's Unbroken Connection. Futurists and tech pragmatists convene to discuss the possibilities of always being online. 'We're not far from a world where all of human knowledge is accessible to you instantly from the ether,' says Pop Tech's founder. Mark K. Anderson reports from Camden, Maine. All of human knowledge? That's got to be… Continue reading Pop Tech's Unbroken Connection
NYT
NYT. McKinsey study finds that recent US productivity growth was driven by only 6 of 59 sectors of the US economy. Computer productivity rose from 45% to 66% a year. Wow. This makes the point I made yesterday about knowledge worker productivity on the K-Logs group: Most knowledge workers are not productive. Fully 70% of… Continue reading NYT