We’ll take his word. We’ll take his word: Peter Carlson, the WaPost’s “Magazine Reader” columnist, reviews some nudist magazines and comes to this conclusion:
“The best thing about nudist magazines is that they give you a newfound appreciation for clothing.”
Year: 2004
Syndication and Aggregation
Nick is absolutely right. Thank you “Dave” for all you’ve done to make weblogs and syndication part of my information world.
Five years ago today, Dave Winer wrote about syndication and aggregation. Dave, thanks for all you efforts to promote weblogs and syndication – you’ve helped open a lot of possibilities for a lot of people.
By Nick Bradbury. [Nick Bradbury]
Weblogs and literacy for knowledge workers
Substitute “knowledge worker” for “information literate student.”
Which raises the next question. How good a job are we doing at preparing people to be knowledge workers in today’s world?
“The information literate student validates understanding and interpretation of the information through discourse with other individuals, subject-area experts, and/or practitioners.”
—ALAI’ve been working through some ideas for a piece about Weblogs and wikis and all these new tools and their impact on “literacy.” In a nutshell, the Internet has changed the requirements of what it means to be literate. While just about everything we used to teach with was a finished, edited text, the Web now provides us with a gazillion unedited texts, which means it’s no longer enough just to be able to read; we have to read critically. And now that the Internet is a read AND write technology, part of our literacy has to include skills to communicate and collaborate with a much larger, less contrived audience. Finally, since there will no doubt be an ever-growing body of information out there to deal with, we need to be literate in managing information what we find relevant and meaningful.
In my travels this morning, I landed on the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education put up by the American Library Association. It gives some pretty in depth definitions of information literacy, and lists 23 performance indicators for information literate students. What struck me is how many of them can be addressed by blogging:
The information literate student retrieves information online or in person using a variety of methods. The information literate student extracts, records, and manages the information and its sources. The information literate student summarizes the main ideas to be extracted from the information gathered. The information literate student articulates and applies initial criteria for evaluating both the information and its sources. The information literate student synthesizes main ideas to construct new concepts. The information literate student compares new knowledge with prior knowledge to determine the value added, contradictions, or other unique characteristics of the information. The information literate student validates understanding and interpretation of the information through discourse with other individuals, subject-area experts, and/or practitioners. The information literate student applies new and prior information to the planning and creation of a particular product or performance. The information literate student communicates the product or performance effectively to others. The information literate student follows laws, regulations, institutional policies, and etiquette related to the access and use of information resources. The information literate student acknowledges the use of information sources in communicating the product or performance.Weblogs are such a great tool for doing much of this, and they offer a transparent, organized way for teachers and students to measure these proficiencies and others. [Weblogg-ed News]
Innovation Conference in Melbourne
This looks like it could be interesting. Now, if I could only find a way to get myself down to Melbourne.
Innovation Conference in Melbourne. I’ve been talking with a few guys like Buzz Bruggeman, Frank Arrigo and Mick Stanic about running a conference in Melbourne around the Nov/Dec timeframe that focuses on IT innovation. The theme I’m particularly interested in is “examining which businesses… [cameronreilly]
How Many of These are In Your iPod?
Not all of them…yet.
This is the kind of thing that could get expensive. Fortunately, music industry execs are still so wrapped up in preventing people with no money from “stealing” music, that they make it hard for people like me with some disposable income to spend it as easily as I might (for which my wife is thankful). But any of these I can find at itunes will be on my iPod shortly.
How Many of These are In Your iPod?.
via Zannah: Palm Beach Post’s 50 best rock intros.
Friday Fun: The Killer App
I am definitely going to need this app over the next few months.
Friday Fun: The Killer App. Friday Fun: The Killer App —
Now that’s a menu for a power user. [Frank Patrick’s Focused Performance Blog]
Synergetics Online
Appropriate enough given that Fuller was doing hypertext before any of us had a term for it.
One of my prized possessions is my copy of Synergetics by Buckminster Fuller. Well, I happened to browse to the Buckminster Fuller Institute which has a link to a an online version of the text of the book. It has the contents, the index, and is searchable! As a young man fascinated with Fuller’s work I checked this book out from the public library in Norton KS and just boggled at the amazing density of concepts on every single page. Now you too can do that from the comfort of your own home. Where else are you going to read about the cheese tetrahedron?
The grassroots are where knowledge management must begin
There’s been a running debate around the notion of personal knowledge management. See the recent posts by Nancy White, Roland Tanglao’s excellent coverage of the recent BlogTalk 2.0 sessions (here and here), and any of Denham’s recent posts on the subject. Denham has consistently argued that the notion is a dry hole and that you can’t talk about knowledge management without talking about social and small group interaction.
My decision to focus on the individual knowledge worker as a starting point for knowledge management grew out of my disappointments with large-scale, centralized approaches to knowledge management. I’ve seen too much technophilic empire-building delivering marginal organizational value to believe that any real progress can come from that direction.
The grassroots are where knowledge management must begin. Either the individual knowledge worker or the workgroup can be powerful starting points. Both are more promising than well-intentioned efforts from a center out of touch with the mess and chaos to be found down in the dirt.
I prefer starting at the individual knowledge worker because it is a strategy that requires no permission from anyone to implement. Whether you are in an organization that is smart or stupid about knowledge work and knowledge management, you can put your own house in order. You don’t stop there, of course. That lets you contribute that much more to Denham’s workgroup focus.
Community of one?. In a recent article, Steve Barth makes the case for mastering “mundane”(PKM) tools and techniques before individuals can really contribute to community knowledge practices. Steve recalls that “we can each only perceive our networks from the perspective of our own… [Knowledge-at-work]
CIA Fact Book
The new CIA factbook is in! The new CIA factbook is in!
Full text RSS feeds make me happy!.
Add my vote for full text RSS feeds (for the 27th time). I was flying today and could have gotten much more done with full text feeds.
Full text RSS feeds make me happy!.
Ed Bott: “Robert Scoble, are you happy now?”
Yes! Full-text RSS feeds make me very happy. Why? Because I can read them on the way home on the plane.
They give me freedom to read your content the way I want, in the place I want. Subscribed!