I’m just back from a fascinating visit to the South Australian regional office of the Bureau of Meteorology. I was there to have an in-depth look at the trial implementation of the new Australian Marine Forecasting System (AMFS). AMFS is already being used operationally in a number of places:

Tasmania: for the Coastal Waters […]

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How good is Firefox now? The live RSS bookmarks feature is sensational.

Today is a strike day at Monash University, so I really shouldn’t do any work. Actually, I really should be out on the picket lines like some of my more noble colleagues. But for some reason I am a tad ambivalent about this strike. Don’t get me wrong - I fully support the taking of […]

In last weeks blogging on PKM Tom Collins pointed me to this interesting debate he is having with Denham. In this discussion here is what Denham says:
Knowledge happens in the mind of an individual vs. it emerges through social interaction!
My test for your assertion is this - If you are alone on a desert island […]

My ‘provocative’ post on PKM yesterday did its job, eliciting a number of interesting responses. Best of all it prompted Lilia to clarify and defend her position on PKM in this blog entry. She also provided an link to her excellent Personal KM Q&A - an essential read for anyone interested in this topic. Her […]

I haven’t posted anything really provocative for a while (if at all), so here goes:
My suspicion is that there is something seriously wrong with the recent fad of interest in “Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)“. At the least it is of minimal importance to KM as I understand it, because it is of little use for […]

Just a quick follow up to my previous post on the upcoming election. Robert Manne has written this interesting opinion piece in today’s Age.
It is good to see that at least one intellectual is getting a voice in our generally crass and simplistic media. And just to emphasise how bad our media can be, […]

I have just added the current draft of a new paper to my Papers & Publications page: “What is the task? Applying the Task-based KM framework to weather forecasting.” Here we present our views on what the task of forecasting is, a topic I raised in a previous blog post here.
I was reluctant to put […]

Yesterday our research group met for our monthly ‘Journal Club’, where we discussed Ron Weber’s “The Rhetoric of Positivism Versus Interpretivism: A Personal View” editorial from MISQ, March 2004. I’ve already had a bit of a rant about this piece, and it was interesting to get some other perspectives on it.
The strongest reactions to […]