Archive for March, 2007
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
I've been writing a lot here lately, working up to the previous entry about Penguicon. Whew! I'm probably going to drop back to a couple of entries a week for the most part, now that's done. I'm not sure how much it matters if the days are pre-set (e.g., Mondays and Thursdays?) ...
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Penguicon is an open source / science fiction con mashup. Penguicon 5.0 will take place April 20-22, 2007, in Troy, Michigan. They're estimating they'll get about 800 attendees this year. Geekery will abound, from Nanotech Safety to Security and Psychology to Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream. Guests ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
I came up with this term when I was discussing knowledge management (and where I come in) with Joe McCarthy in comments on my January entry "Learning". I was trying to come up with a term to describe where I fit in knowledge management (at the practitioner/encourager end rather than ...
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
My first job out of college was at Xerox, where I got a great foundation of training in many subjects. While I was working there, there was a big push on Document Management -- if there was going to be a "paperless office", Xerox didn't want to be left behind. ...
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
An unscheduled event at the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management was a presentation by Le Gruenwald from the NSF, all about their restructuring (what was going where, what was going away, and what new stuff was coming in) and what that meant to the grant application process. I wrote down ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
If you missed CIKM 2006, you could get a copy of the proceedings from the ACM. Conveniently, they distributed the papers to attendees (one disk of CIKM, one of WIDM). Some of the more interesting papers not mentioned in the links in my previous entry:
Mining Blog Stories using Community-based and Temporal ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Jeff Heard's review last week of his favorite paper from CIKM 2006 reminds me that I never got around to writing up the same ACM conference I attended in November (it was in DC ... the next one's overseas, out of my reach). I looked around to see if anyone had saved me the ...
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
This weekend I attended Lunacon, a science fiction/fantasy convention in New York (state). The most interesting panel I attended was "Libraries in Fact and (Science) Fiction" -- panelists included librarians (mostly academic, from what I could tell) and a science fiction writer. The moderator, Sharon Foster, had heard of the ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
In a way I've circled around (spiralled around?) to an area where I spent a fair portion of my college years. I don't think any of us there (profs, me, other students) called it knowledge management. Still, different classes touched on different aspects of it:
Metaphysics: What can we know, objective v. subjective, ...
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
I can't get over the missing e in usability, so I'm using the term I've seen from a colleague the last few months: user experience.
In his write-up of CHI 2006, Sebastien Paquet passes along this nugget from Jared Spool: The best links are 7-12 words (long).
It makes sense to me. I'm sure ...
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
When I lived in Rochester, NY, I gave small dinner parties occasionally. Now that I live in the DC area, where all my "local" friends are distributed up to an hour away, I usually go out to meet them (dancing, for instance) instead. But if I were to give a dinner party ...
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
It amuses me that on the current Connotea tag cloud display, "humor" and "humour" have about the same freshness (the redder, the newer) and popularity (the bigger, the more times a tag has been used).
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
I tend to be more interested in topics that don't fit neatly into one category: interdisciplinary, multi-faceted matters. This is why I was so happy when I discovered tags (and social bookmarking, serendipitously) -- a.k.a. "labels" in Gmail. I like the way tagging helps me organize and recall information I've come across on the ...
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Most of the time I'd rather point to good examples than spend anyone's time talking about bad ones. But I'm mystified at the ACM's new beta site -- they have Special Interest Groups for Design of Communication (SIGDOC) and Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), after all. Why would such an organization put up a site with ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Alas, I have begun getting comment spam (caught so far via moderation, so I don't think they've been visible to readers here). Weeds in my little knowledge garden.
From the Introduction to Knowledge Management book I reviewed earlier: Attention is the currency of the Information Age, and trust is the bandwidth.
If ...
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