In case you were wondering why I’ve taken such an interest in this case, and deviated from my usual diversion topics, one of my aims was to try to get search engine hits for Terri Schiavo to link to good summaries of the case.
Now that Crooked Timber is back on line there are a few […]

I just want to contribute my A$0.05 to the Terri Schiavo debate. I wouldn’t normally be so bold, but after doing a google search for information on Terri I was dismayed by the lack of balance in the results. I had to go about 5 pages into the search to find a page that wasn’t […]

I didn’t end up going to the Dave Snowden workshop last Saturday, even though I was interested in going. For one thing, I was appalled at the $725 registration fee. I know that the workshop is intended mainly for industry people, and is part of the Cynefin certification program for practitioners and researchers. However, as […]

As usual, it only takes a few words from Lillia to push my research in an interesting direction.
Reflecting on the task-based KM approach we’ve been developing, we’ve recently been talking a lot about making the invisible visible. And now Lilia points us to the “Invisible Work” issue of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
Quoting from the […]

Sorry, but I need to vent my spleen over this (apparently this is good for my health)…

Just a quick follow up to “Egan and Shera on Social Epistemology“, with some more notes for next week’s journal club.
To put the somewhat difficult Egan & Shera article into a contemporary context you may also wish to have a look at David Schwartz’s recent article “The Emerging Discipline of Knowledge Management”. This article […]

Dave Snowden is coming to Australia, and will be giving a full day seminar in Melbourne titled “Capturing The Knowledge of Staff Before They Leave”.

[Oddly, this event is sponsored by Monyx, who are Monash University’s service provider. Monyx are the company that was set up a few years ago to run the services that used […]

For the next SIMS* “Journal Club” we will have a look at Margaret Egan and Jesse Shera’s “Foundations of a theory of bibliography” (1952) Library Quarterly, 44, 125–137.
I’ve chosen this paper for a number of reasons:

Egan & Shera have been credited with first introducing the term “social epistemology” in this paper. Thus this paper is […]