Article in the Guardian on Ad Vingerhoets’ research into people who get ill whenever they stop work… Other work published by Vingerhoets is listed here
Been reading up on FOAF and RDF generally – here are some links for my own reference.
The Weblog MetaData Initiative: Next Step: HTML [meta] Experiment. [ N.Z. Bear]2 says: We’ve had a great deal of useful and productive discussion in the forum, but it seems that some practical experimentation would be of use to us as well at this point. We seem to have reached a rough consensus on what data we want to track — and are getting bogged down in the many, many possible approaches of how to track it.
Rick Klau recaps on experiences introducing Knowledge-logging into his company, with a pilot group of 12 users (out of 125 people in the company)
[via a klog apart]
SynapShots cites Everyday Leaders: The Power of Difference by Debra Meyerson “Nearly everyone feels at odds with the organizations they work for at one time or another. Managers who are also parents struggle to succeed — and be there for their families — in companies that don’t offer flextime. Women and people of color want to open doors for others like themselves — without limiting their own career paths. Teachers want to motivate students and make their material relevant in schools or school districts that require strict adherence to curriculum.
Joel On Software says “learn how to do it manually first, then use the wizzy tool to save time” The article is about software writing, but I reckon it’s generalisable to any form of technology… Code generation tools which pretend to abstract out something, like all abstractions, leak, and the only way to deal with the leaks competently is to learn about how the abstractions work and what they are abstracting.
Just found Lilia Efimova’s site Mathemagenic. Interesting selection of articles on Knowledge Management and Learning. Here are a few: Citing Styles, Baking knowledge into the work processes of high-end professionals, Why Blogging 2, Blog as a learning tool, Corporate objectives and learner-centered learning. And one that struck a chord with me: It takes courage to blog
Samsonsite’s Bluetooth-enabled luggage [via Boingboing]
Added Phil Ringnalda’s PHP blogroll to the site.
Strategy+Business have an article by Art Kleiner on Karen Stephenson’s Quantum Theory of Trust (registration required) (via Ross Mayfield)
Think back to a conversation you had months ago with someone you know well enough to trust, but with whom you havent spoken since. Chances are youll remember only vague outlines of the exchange. Call the person and raise the same subject again, though, and more likely than not, the two of you will find yourselves picking up where you left off, remembering the details of significance and expanding into new areas.
To Karen Stephenson, a maverick yet influential social network theorist, the association between trust and learning is an instrument of vast, if frequently untapped, organizational power. The act of reconnecting and talking with a trusted colleague generally triggers a resurgence of mutual memory, opening the gates to fresh learning and invention. This phenomenon, Professor Stephenson contends, is just one example of the direct cognitive connection between the amount of trust in an organization and its members ability to develop and deploy tacit knowledge together. Because networks of trust release so much cognitive capability, they can (and often do) have far more influence over the fortunes and failures of companies from day to day and year to year than the official hierarchy.