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Friday, 27 September 2002 |
Why knowledge management now. Very thoughtful reflection.
Why has knowledge management come to prominece now. I was asked the other day why has knowledge management come to prominence now. There is a short answer that is summed up in that one word called "Internet". Connectivity, capacity and access for all make it possible to share knowledge. But the point is - we always have and we always will. The Internet is change in means and mode, not a root cause. I think knowledge management's prominence has deeper roots in an individual's need to learn at this point in history. People are finding they need to become more reliant and old ways don't serve them any more. We are no longer content to take what the boss gives us and seek greater choice. We are starting to see the need to learn again and that is best done in a community. Knowledge sharing/management is a community based activity. The change we are facing is nothing new. Changes of this magnitude have happened before and will happen again (Industrial revolution anyone?). It's just this time around we have a name.
[thought?horizon :: non inferiora secutus] [McGee's Musings]
I beg to differ, this revolution is qualitivly different from the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution involved the spread of knowledge of how to build things quicker/bigger/better. This revolution is the end result of eliminating the need for humans to be involved in manufacture.
The funny thing here is that most people are trained to see scarcity becuase scarcity is a basis for wealth creation, or so the traditional creed goes. But now, due to the wiring of the planet, we have the inverse problem. We have a flood of information chaffing for the scarce resource called human attention.
What knowledge management should really be about is creating new ways for the routing of information such that it is in the minds of the people who need to know it at the instant they need to know it.
The person who creates an organisation, a software suite, a process, or even the mere idea of how to do this is going to be remembered for all time.
11:59:26 PM 
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Solaris bug..... Here is a stupid Solaris
bug I found out today. I mean how can you have tar broken?
The sad part was that it documented right on the download page. DOH! [A cup of joe]
Something all commercial unix sysadmins should do right after installing a box. Install all the gnu command line tools. They actually work as advertised. Rates up there with installing gcc and perl in my mind. Oh, add bash and xemacs while you are at it. ;)
11:17:49 PM
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Blogs as therapy?. Apologies to all if the blog output has been a bit slow the last few days - I broke up with my girlfriend of almost 5 years on Wednesday night, so I've been wandering around in a bit of a strange trance since then. [rebelutionary]
Well, when you want beer, or company, or someone to throw something at, let me know. Hell, bugger that. Charles? We need to organise another night in a pub in the city. Pronto!
11:06:08 PM
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EclipseUML update.... It turns out to have been pilot error though an easy mistake to make. You must use this 20020604 version of GEF to work wtih EclipseUML, not the recent build of GEF thats the main download on the IBM page linked to by the EclipseUML site.
So EclipseUML does work afterall - and looks quite good from first glance.
Incidentally, quick tip for eclipse users. If you've problems with a plugin, click on the pull down menu Window -> Show Views -> Other... then click 'Error Log and you'll see all the errors. [James Strachan's Radio Weblog]
I have had a few dramas with a few of the plugins I have tried. I wish I had found that error output. Oh well, here for eternity to remind me.
10:59:05 PM
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Int'l Fujitsu Hard Drive Fiasco. I wonder if IBM buys hard drives from Fujistu? They seem to have similar reliabiity rates. [blog cognosco v 0.1]
If I recall correctly IBM sold their shoddy disk drive manufacturing organisation lock, stock and barrel to Fujitsu.
10:55:25 PM
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Here is a little residual thought left over from a week of studying business law for an assignment on a case study covering contractual breach due to failure to deliver a software system.
- Go into a Music store with the intention to buy some music. Find some music you like on CD. Take music to counter.
- Ask the sales clerk whether the CD will work properly in your PC, as you enjoy programming to [insert name of artist/band/etc here].
- If the sales clerk says yes, buy the CD, along with noting the time and the employees name.
- If it then doesn't work in your PC, you can return it for failure to be "fit for the purpose for which it was purchased".
That little gem comes from the Sale of Goods Act, which in my juristiction was passed in 1923. Most of the legal systems derived from the english tradition have Sale of Goods Acts, ie all of Australia, Canada, and I believe New Zealand. They are all basically copies of the original British Sale of Goods Act. Someone tell me if America has a comparitive peice of Law. Actually come to think of it, that sort of law is probably on a state by state basis. Erk.
Of course, if the the clerk says "No", or "I dunno", or something else, leave the CD on the counter, while again taking note of the time, and the clerk's name. Then write a polite letter to the head of said franchise group (whose name you can get by telephoning said franchises main number and asking the secretary nicely), while CC'ing it to the store owner of the store you targeted, stating that you entered [store X] with intention to buy [CD of choice], but the sales clerk [Name] could not affirm that the CD would work properly in your PC.
If a bunch of people did just that, say once a month, the music stores would pull the recording industry into line on these DRM thingies faster than you can say "Lost Sales".
10:51:17 PM
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Pep Talk from Dan Wood. Watson developer Dan Wood, in an interview with O’Reilly, gives Mac developers a great pep talk: “It’s actually possible to get a new product built and selling with a minimal outlay of time and money. Of course, you need a good idea, and you have to work hard, but it is possible to make a living and build a successful software company, even in today’s economy, even deploying on a ‘minority’ operating system like the Mac, even Mac OS X only.”
There’s more, of course—just go read the article already. [inessential.com]
A reason to learn Objective-C?
9:51:04 PM
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IPv6: Revitalizing the Internet Revolution. This article by Silvia Hagen, author of IPv6 Essentials, puts IPv6 into perspective with a look at the bigger picture. It also discusses some of the myths that exist and explains IPv6's background, so that you can form your own opinion. [O'Reilly Network Articles] [Stephen S Kelley's Web Surfing]
I some how doubt we will ever see people dispense with NAT firewalls. They are too widely used as an easy way to secure a set of insecure operating systems published by a certain Redmond company. Sadly, this will make true p2p apps a pita to build. Which is why p2p apps should work by publishing xml on a pub-sub model instead of a synchronously connected model.
9:50:05 PM
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Go. Anyone able to recommend some good sites for people who are just starting to learn to play Go? After watching Hikaru no Go I keep finding myself kind of curious about the game. But when I play the computer in the version I found I get my ass continually kicked.
I guess the other option would be to find someone who is a more experienced player to help me really get a feel for the game. Since teaching myself isn't working real well. [life - listed chronologically]
Do yourself a favour, get a Go client that can talk to one of the Internet Go servers, and just set about losing your first 50 games as quickly as possible. Then learn up on the opening patterns, the koseki, and plan on losing another fifty games as quickly as possible. Then, you may be ready to start learning Go. :)
12:25:06 AM
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OpenJNLP. I spent some time with OpenJNLP tonight and am impressed. I have used JNLP (WebStart) in the past and really,... [moatas]
So, colour me stupid, but what is the advantage of OpenJNLP over Sun's JNLP? Is it a better implementation? Is it less buggy? Are there license restrictions on Sun's implementation?
According to the OpenJNLP website:
Sun's Java Web Start (JWS) is the reference implementation of JNLP. Sun has made little effort to separate JWS from JNLP in the public's mind. While Java Web Start certainly does a fine job of implementing JNLP, it supports only a limited number of platforms. The user interface and performance are not as good as they should be. It is also not Open Source Software.
So, in theory, you could get people to download a small'ish app that includes OpenJNLP to pull down the rest of the code, auto-updating as time rolls on. I think that we are going to see the return of thick applications. Except, they will be web enabled this time.
12:17:03 AM
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WiFi Trek badges. Brian sez: Vocera Communications has developed what is essentially a Star Trek: TNG-style lapel communicator device that uses WiFi to transmit voice across networks.
The Vocera Communications System consists of Vocera Server Software, residing on a customer premise server, and Vocera Communications Badges, which operate over a wireless LAN (802.11b). The badge - which weighs less than 2 ounces - includes a microphone and speaker, LCD readout to display text messages, and an 802.11b wireless radio. It can be clipped to a shirt pocket or collar, or worn on a lanyard.
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(Thanks, Brian!) [Boing Boing Blog]
Want one.
12:01:41 AM
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