Two types of mind

“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

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

Information systems and theory : adhocracy v pluralism

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

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?

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

Wisdom is …

..fuzzy, according to a new paper that looks at understanding of the concept of wisdom in the literature and amongst aspiring info. pros

Liked this quote from Picasso

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
- Pablo Picasso

BGDD Plenary: Mobiles and new approaches to ICT in Africa

Some brief notes from the EPSRC network meeting on Bridging the Global Digital Divide, where amongst other debate some great speakers talked about work going on with communities in South Africa, and a new, light touch approach to ICT design

Online Info 2008

Some notes from various presentations on social sofware, search and libraries

Knowledge, the ens and the outs of it

A comparison of approaches to KM – from the static to the dynamic and (not) back again.