It is my great pleasure to proudly announce the recent birth of the squidblog. This blog has had a rather long gestation time, having been conceived (unknowingly) more than a year ago … and even before then the idea was preceeded by years of squid trivia obsession by a small but enthusiastic community. So squirm […]

Burstein & Linger (2003) represent their Task-based Knowledge Management (TbKM) approach in this diagram. However, I must admit it isn’t at all obvious to me what this diagram is trying to describe, what the components represent, and (importantly) how it can help our understanding and analysis of complex work environments. So I thought I’d try […]

Via one of the biggest distractions out there, Geisha asobi blog:
THE 100 SCARIEST MOVIE SCENES OF ALL TIME!
Inevitably, a list such as this will have its problems. I’m not such a huge fan of The Shining, so I think it is a bit over-represented here. I also would have liked them to include the […]

Just looking at the OKLC website it appears that the link to the online conference papers has disappeared. It now just links to a page where you can order the proceedings on CD-Rom for 50 EURO. However the page with the online papers still exists here.

In April I attended the Fifth European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities OKLC2004, in Innsbruck Austria. As well as being held in a most stunning town the conference itself was well worthwhile. I certainly have a much richer view of the sort of work being done under the label “Knowledge Management”, and I […]

I’m pretty new to all this KM stuff. Although I am now part of a KM research program, my background is really in philosophy (and to some degree mathematics and environmental science). One thing that immediately struck me when I first encountered the KM literature was the way the term “knowledge? is used. When philosophers […]

…and finally I use the blog for my research.
At the moment I am writing up some of the field work Henry Linger and I did in Tasmania at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The idea is to apply Henry and Frada Burstein’s Task-based Knowledge Management (TbKM) framework to this case study, as outlined in […]

In my post About “Dubbings and Diversions” I wrote:
“Despite the enormity of the blog universe…”
On reading this Jacqui pointed out to me that, contrary to popular usage, enormity actually means “Extreme or monstrous wickedness”, just as enormous means “Deviating from ordinary rule or type; abnormal, unusual, extraordinary, unfettered by rules; hence, mostly in bad […]

Since I used to collect photos of crazy church signs I couldn’t resist posting this:

Photos of many more real church signs can be found here. On this site you can also make your own church signs, if you are that way inclined.

I thought I’d begin by answering a few fundamental questions about this blog.
Motivation: Self indulgence, curiosity/experimentation, geekness, procrastination … I’ve been following the evolution of blogs for a while, but didn’t really think seriously about doing one myself until quite recently. The main reason for this has been the influence of a few other bloggers, […]