Month: October 2001

SiliconValley.com part of San Jose Mercury News – by Dan Gillmor – Can government balance civil liberties, security? In an interview at the annual Agenda technology conference, Baker gladly acknowledges a shift in the balance between liberty and risk. But it's the people, he says, who are demanding it, even more than the politicians. If… Continue reading Mercury News

Washington Post – Editorial Op-Ed – Stampeded in the House: The bill has enormous implications for civil liberties, on which it arguably infringes in a number of serious ways while conferring additional powers on law enforcement officials to combat terrorism. Days after the vote, no one knows the extent of the infringement, save that there… Continue reading Washington Post

SiliconValley.com part of San Jose Mercury News – Support grows for Ellison's national ID card proposal: Silicon Valley software mogul Larry Ellison's proposal to create a national ID card has gained substantial ground — and the interest of top Bush administration officials — in a signal that the controversial idea may be closer to reality… Continue reading Mercury News

Transaction costs, flat firms, and K-Logs.  There is a concept in economics called transaction costs.  These costs are mainly associated with information discovery (I don't know what is in your head, and you don't know what is in mine).  The impact of transaction costs on corporate structure was developed by the economist Ronald Coase in 1937 (see a synopsis of his… Continue reading The Nature of the Firm

Fortune: Don't Go There. Michael Schrage. Substituting bandwidth for presence misunderstands both technology and human nature. People will always travel; people will always telecommunicate. The question is, How well are travel and telecommunications coordinated and integrated? [Tomalak's Realm]

Zeus rips platform to splatter Apache. Version 4, Zeus' first major release since 1997, is 45 per cent faster than Apache in delivering dynamic content such as PHP and “roughly equivalent” in Java performance, executives from Zeus told us today. [The Register]

LiNE Zine: Our Shared Playground. Q&A with Michael Schrage. Looking at the arc of my work, if I have a single “Big Idea” it's the idea of shared space and the media that people use to collaborate, invent, and innovate. Shared spaces were at the core of my first book, Shared Minds, which is about… Continue reading Our Shared Playground

New London Tube map: The traditional, copyrighted London Tube map is a wonder of information design, one that shows the relationship of the lines clearly and concisely. But it's a conceptual map, more about navigating the Tube than about understanding the geographical relationship between the stations. This new Tube map from QuickMap explores both the… Continue reading New London Tube map

APQC: Building and Sustaining Communities of Practice. Quote: “Vestal, who serves as a senior KM consultant and trainer at APQC, said that forcing people to be part of a community would probably not work well in an organization. However, harnessing a common theme will draw people together” [Serious Instructional Technology]

21st Century Knowledge Management: Continuing the thread that Kevin Werbach started. There are three main structures you can hang knowledge off (knowledge is the new word for content). A calendar, a search engine, and a taxonomy (which is a fancy word for directory). He's right that getting people to use special tools to gather knowledge… Continue reading 21st Century Knowledge Management: