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Thursday, February 27, 2003

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Frank Patrick's Focused Performance Blog writes about Knowledge Creation: "My sense is that knowledge can be created, or at least modified, through techniques and processes that uncover and invalidate erroneous assumptions and paradigms, and that while it is helpful to have explicit outside stimulus involved, it's not absolutely necessary. Although implicit outside stimulus, accessed through the human ability to recall memories, make connections, and discover patterns is definitely a necessary part of the process; fodder upon which the tools and techniques operate."

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The Scobleizer Weblog writes "I like Mike Sanders weblogging advice" and points to know why you blog:

Physical Pleasure - advance your professional career and make more money.
Positive Emotional Pleasure - increase and enhance your relationships with your fellow Earthlinks.
Other Emotional Pleasure - draw more attention to yourself to convince others (and yourself) that you are (or should be) at the true center of the Web.
Pleasure of meaning - blog for a worthy clause.
Pleasure of creating - create something to educate, enlighten or entertain others.

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Powerpoint is evil: "I hate Powerpoint. [...] Actually - I don't hate Powerpoint. I hate the presentation culture that expects me to stand up and talk in front of a screen full of silly dot points. [...] I write well, and I speak fairly well. I love telling stories as part of my presentations - I watch the audience, and stories are the parts that people really listen to. [...] However, when I'm forced to distil an otherwise good story into a few dot points, all of the power of the story and the elegance of the narrative disappears. I am held to the rigid listing of points on a screen. They control me and try to make me elaborate on each as a point, rather than weaving them together into something lovely." [DonnaM]

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Today appeared my new column about weblogs. I realized that I had listed only weblogs kept by men, not women. I pointed to Lawrence Lessig, Doc Searls, and Aaron Swartz. (See further pointers in my blogroll.) But I did the same thing most men do: forgot the weblogs kept by women: Kat Donohue, Halley Suitt, Kasia Trapszo, Michelle Legare, Donna Maurer, Tara Sue, and Jenny Levine, among others. Is it too late to make amends?