(cross posted at Future Tense) One of the most profoundly important (and disturbing) things about the Internet is that fundamentally no one is in charge. One of the individuals responsible for that design is David Reed, a computer scientist from MIT. As far back as Jethro and Moses in Exodus, we’ve applied hierarchy to bring [...]
(cross posted at Future Tense). Interesting article in this morning's NY Times on computer science education and efforts to develop a richer and deeper perspective on how technology skill connects to other skills and needs inside organizations. It strikes me as another case example of a broader trend to find a new balance between specialization [...]
Lots of rich material and suggestions. 31 Days to Building a Better Blog. 31 Days to Building a Better Blog: Name of the link says it all. This is growing into an incredible set of links, pages, blogs, articles and talent. Every blogger that is remotely interested in blogging as an art/profession/talent/something they can improve, [...]
A nice overview article from InformationWeek on the productivity benefits of RSS inside the organization. By way of Frank Patrick. Order From Chaos Via RSS. Order From Chaos Via RSS — If you haven’t gotten into having the web fed to you, you’re missing out on a productive way of webbing. [Frank Patrick's Focused Performance [...]
I've shut down Trackbacks on this blog. 98% of the trackbacks I've gotten in the last six months have been trackback spam and I'm tired of cleaning it up.
I have a new column up at ESJ that takes a look at how you might be more systematic about on-the-job learning. Here’s a small sample: What we do know about learning is that we generally learn best by doing. Practice, rehearsal, and performance is where real lessons are learned. We learn near the edges [...]
This is indeed a succinct and useful introduction to knowledge management in the context of knowledge intensive organizations. Sharing Knowledge. Sharing Knowledge (.pdf) has been receiving quite a bit of attention in various knowledge management blogs. It’s essentially a case study of how to create a knowledge sharing environment in smaller organizations. Most of the [...]
Dowload of The Day: BartPE. BartPE is a free utility that lets you build a live CD-based copy of Windows XP that can be used for data recovery. Bart's PE Builder helps you build a “BartPE” (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, [...]
WP plugin: LinkNotes. WP plugin: LinkNotes Produce footnotes in WordPress blogs. [Weblog Tools Collection]
WP Plugin: Amazon Media Manager (New Version). WP Plugin: Amazon Media Manager (New Version) with added cooler features and internationalization. For those uninitiated, The Amazon Media Manager lets you add items from Amazon's catalogue to your wordpress blog. It keeps a list of things you've added, too, so you can choose what to display, how [...]
