Menarik | 2009

Online Information 2009 – A Twitter Timeline

By Paul Matthews ⋅ December 9, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

An interactive timeline of tweets from Onine Information 2009

The Bristol Community Twitterati

By Paul Matthews ⋅ November 27, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Preliminary report on analysis of the Bristol “twolar system”..

Social epistemology as a foundation for information services

By Paul Matthews ⋅ July 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

An article arguing for social epistemology as a foundation and theoretical framework for information science.

ICTD2009: Selected Cuts

By Paul Matthews ⋅ April 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Some personal highlights and observations from the Information and Communication Technologies for Development conference in Doha, Qatar, 17-19th April

Two types of mind

By Paul Matthews ⋅ April 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

“Wells spoke of two types of mind. The majority of people, he said, are retropective in their habit of reasoning interpreting the things of the present solely in relation to the past. The other type of mind, much in the minority, is constructive in habit, interpreting the things of the present in relation to things [...]

Capital from Community

By Paul Matthews ⋅ March 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A paper which explores how social capital, underemphasised in early KM, needs to be factored into the design of knowledge sharing tools. Image: Nicolas Haskins

Cognitive Flexibilty Theory, Hypertext, and the Post-Gutenberg Mind

By Paul Matthews ⋅ February 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A naysayer to the dumbing down discourse Cognitive Flexibilty Theory, Hypertext, and the Post-Gutenberg Mind: Rand Spiro’s Home Page.

Information systems and theory : adhocracy v pluralism

By Paul Matthews ⋅ February 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Some exploratory work to get an overview of the IS field and to explore the range, origin and utility of theories applied by IS researchers in their work.

Image:chrisjfry

Metafilter as a CoP > Noisy Signals

By Paul Matthews ⋅ January 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

A study of the massive community blog Metafilter and its conformation (or not) to CoP patterns of identity, organisation and knowledge exchange

Mozilla corporation – why do people contribute?

By Paul Matthews ⋅ January 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Interesting podcast from Mitchell Baker, talking about why people are motivated to take part in Firefox & other projects. Delegation of authority seen as a major factor, though group decision making also needs to be tight to meet release dates:
http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1683