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 Thursday, October 10, 2002
Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research. Quote: "In this document, I analyze an emerging form of knowledge sharing that I call personal knowledge publishing. Personal knowledge publishing has its roots in a practice known as "weblogging" that has been rapidly spreading on the World Wide Web over the last three years. It is a new form of communication that many expect will change the way people work and collaborate, especially in areas where knowledge and innovation play an important role."
Comment: Nice, lengthy piece. [Serious Instructional Technology]
This is a useful article. I'll have to incorporate some of its ideas in my thoughts. 8:37:48 PM 
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Thank You Dawn ! Ten Best Things to Say If You Are Caught Sleeping At Your Desk. Thank You Dawn ! Ten Best Things to Say If You Are Caught Sleeping At Your Desk
10. They told me at the bloodbank this might happen.
9. This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to.
8. Whew! Guess I left the top off the white out. You probably got here just in time.
7. I wasn't sleeping. I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm.
... [ More ] [The FuzzyBlog!]
These are great. I just wish I was still working at a desk so I could use them. 8:23:13 PM
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Bush's Science Advisers Drawing Criticism. Democrats say the advisers are being selected for their ideology and ties to industry. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg. [New York Times: Science]
The government needs to be very careful about this, especially when it concerns the FDA or CDC. Both of these organizations are designed to protect public health. It will undermine each organization if iceive to put business first. This will need to bear watching. 8:02:05 PM
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Pyrosequencing Sharpens the Axe [GenomeWeb]
I love it. Lay off 20% of your staff in order to 'accelerate the road to profitability.' Just think how profitable you could be if you laid everyone off. 7:45:56 PM
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IT advances to drive lots of job cuts, Gartner predicts. I always like to read the forecasts done by IDG, Gartner, Forrester or the other market research firms. Especially when they taht a particular market will increase from $10 million today to $50 billion two years from now. And I really enjoy reading these forecasts two or more years after their first publication.
Anyway, with this particular report, Gartner gives almost no numbers. It's more qualitative than quantitative. So I suppose their experts cannot really go wrong with this forecast.
Here is how Thomas Hoffman starts his review about the latest Gartner's analysis of the IT market.
The good news, according to Gartner Inc. prognosticators, is that technology is going to continue to help companies become more efficient.
The bad news is that it could cost you your job.
Gartner said it expects successful companies buoyed by a stronger economy and continued advances in technology to lay off millions of employees starting within the next two years.
Here are the ten predictions done by Gartner.
- Adding bandwidth will become more cost-effective than buying new computers
- Most major new systems will be interenterprise or cross-enterprise systems
- Despite the complexities, interenterprise systems will provide a macroeconomic boost to companies
- Companies will lay off millions of employees
- The consolidation of vendors will continue in many segments of the IT market
- Moore's Law will hold true through this decade
- Banks will become the primary providers of "presence services" by 2007
- Business activity monitoring will hit the mainstream within five years
- Business units, not IT, will make most application decisions
- The pendulum swings back to decentralized IT operations by 2004
Source: Thomas Hoffman, Computerworld, October 7, 2002 [Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends]
Now this is really scary. It will be an interesting few years;-) 3:01:47 PM
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Genetics giants share Nobel [Nature Science Update]
Sydney Brenner richly deserves a nobel prize. He is one of the best scientists around and a genuinely nice man. He is one of a handful of Nobel winners I have had the opportunity to talk one-on-one with.A wonderfully creative man. 2:57:42 PM
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September Unemployment Report. Briefing.com's reports on economic numbers are available for free if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal online. Well worth reading... WSJ.com -- Reports from Briefing.com: September Nonfarm PayrollsCommentary and background from Briefing.com. Updated: 04-Oct-02 Updated: 04-Oct-02 | Archive | Glossary Return to Economic Calendar Highlights September payrolls -43K, unemployment 5.6%, earnings 0.3%, workweek 34.3 hours. Key Factors Nonfarm Payrolls: First decline since April follows strong upward revision to 107K in Aug. Service-producing payrolls -5K after six months of gain, 118K average over prior... [Semi-Daily Journal]
I WILL have to check this out, particularly after reading the Gartner report about how many jobs will be lost in a recovering economy. 2:54:58 PM
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Wikipedia: alive and kickin'.
Wikipedia. the Free encyclopedia breaks 50,000 articles. For those of you who don't follow along, the Wikipedia is a Free, a multi-language, online-encyclopedia licensed under the GFDL that is created and edited by anyone and everyone. It has recently broken the 50,000 article mark (Brittanica has 85K). Wikipedia aims to one day have more and better articles than the Brittanica. Wikipedia's are currently available in 25 languages. [kuro5hin.org]
In the comments, Erik and the Cunctator have done a respectable job of defending the validity of the Wikipedia development model against the usual horde of naysayers. Another member explained pretty well what Wikipedia is good for. [Seb's Open Research]
I love wikipedia. It has been very useful when I need some up-to-date facts. It is an interesting model though. I would think it would only work well on topics with high transparency. 2:51:09 PM
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