Today is the last official work day of the year, with the University closing down until January 4. I plan to spend the next week lounging on beaches, wandering in a National Park, eating great food, and sampling many great wines. I’ll also be thinking about a number of KM and non-KM related topics including:

Lilia’s […]

Between other things I’m part way through a response to Lilia’s challenge regarding some of the comments I made earlier about Bob Galliers. Lilia’s question is: "what is the point in formalising bottom-up processes?" My response so far has been:

Maybe you read more into what I mean by ‘formalisation’ - I don’t mean it as […]

This is a bit to the left of the normal themes of this blog, but is a topic I have a deep interest in…
I’m all for open, honest, and challenging debate on issues. I’m also a skeptic at heart. In this context I welcomed the publication of Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist, as a catalyst […]

In Sydney I had another fascinating time observing and interviewing forecasters. If any of the people I spoke to are reading this, then thank you again for your cooperation and hospitality.
Just a few quick comments and observations about my Sydney trip:
It was a particularly wild time for weather, and weather forecasting. Swirling winds, wild storms, […]

I’m flying up to Sydney tonight for the final data collection round for our study of forecasting systems at the Bureau of Meteorology. I’ll be looking at system used to produce the Sydney Weekend Boating Forecast - a sample version is reproduced on the right. It is going to be very interesting this time, because […]

Here’s a challenge, and a huge waste of time: try to solve the Quzzle. Described by its creator as “the world’s hardest simple sliding-block puzzle�?, this is one mighty distraction. You can read more about the Quzzle in The Economist.
[Edit: Yay - I solved it in 105 moves. See here.]
[Edit2: Got it to 85 […]

From Wired via Slashdot

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week began providing weather data in an open-access XML format, alleviating concerns that commercial providers would continue to play a dominant role in how weather data gets to the public.…Earlier this year, NOAA made the data available in XML as a test, called the National […]

Bob Galliers’ keynote at ACKMIDS2004 was titled "On knowledge creation and sharing across frontiers: an information systems strategy perspective". He drew much of the presentation from his recent publication "Reflections on Information Systems Strategizing", in Avgerou, Ciborra & Land, The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology (OUP 2004). As always, his presentation was entertaining […]

Some brief highlights from this weeks’ 7th Australian Conference for Knowledge Management & Intelligent Decision Support, hosted by the School of Information Management and Systems, Monash University. The program was diverse and of high quality, and the keynote addresses were stimulating and generated heated discussion.
Bob Galliers’ opening keynote address was, as you’d expect, entertaining and […]