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 Wednesday, October 30, 2002
The Powerpoint Anthology of Literature. Playboy, Esquire, Fortune, Business 2.0 and Slate have all rejected Daniel Radosh's The Power Point Anthology of Literature. Fools.... [Semi-Daily Journal]
This is hilarious and an example of high-concept journalism taken to an extreme. 11:31:03 PM 
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The accountability matrix. Phil Windley is reading David Brin's amazing book, The Transparent Society. When I first read it a couple of years ago, I posted Brin's "accountability matrix" to my newsgroup for discussion. Phil had exactly the same reaction: ... [Jon's Radio]
This might work but will require some real changes in the social contract that most of us engage in. What happens in this system when someone engages in hiding things? How does society prevent this? But it will keep people more honest. In a small town, people are inhibited from doing bad things because everyone knows everything. In a large town, people can hid, escaping these inhibitions and permitting some awful things from happening. The downside is that conformity may become more important, inhibiting creative innovations. Small towns, transparent societies may not be the best ground for new inventions. MOst really creative innovations are initially created in seclusion, away from the prying eyes of other groups. What happens when there is no real seclusion? 11:05:00 PM
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KM as a tool against terrorism. Probably it[base ']s not something to write about in "professional" blog, but this is about learning.
These couple of days I hate having internet at home [^] I was on-line all the evening and morning following the story of hostages in Moscow theatre. It feels really bad[sigma] I worry, I can do nothing, I feel angry, I feel sad[sigma]
I knew that work pressure was good to cure many feelings, but yesterday I learnt something else. It[base ']s not the pressure, but the opportunity to create something makes it easier. I believe in KM as a tool against terrorism [^] mapping terrorist networks, catching small failures before it[base ']s too late, helping people to get together to make better things happen[sigma]
It[base ']s depressing to follow the news all the time, so I[base ']m trying to get into work. It gives a feeling that I can make things better. [Mathemagenic]
Using computing tools to identify social networks will make any sort of knowledge creation much more efficient. This is the power of high tech. In a normal group, humans can only keep the social network stright when there are less than 150 people involved. At that size, you know who the important connectors are, who the gossips are, who to go to in order to get the real dirt. At larger sizes, out brains lose track. This is something the military has known for hundreds of years, which is why the size of a company of men is less than 150 men. Without high tech tools, we create ARTIFICIAL networks based on hierarchies to deal with the complex social networks. This works but is inefficient. New computing tools should allow us to create more nature networks that will allow us to work with social networks much greater than 150 people. The computers will allow us to find the connectors in networks that are very large. This will permit us to create and disperse knowledge much more efficiently than ever before. At least if the company implements these tools. 10:59:33 PM
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Writing for the Web: "Tackle web-content writing like a journalist would. If you call yourself a content writer and haven't read a college newswriting textbook, then you are depriving yourself. The newspaper "formula" works on the web with slight modifications." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]
Some very good points, particularly when writing for a masss (or rather a wide demographic;-) audience. You have to start off from the top with something that will make them spend the time reading what you have to say. Funny how many times this is ignored. 10:53:18 PM
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