Creating knowledge

Written by danny on 25.07.2008 | knowledge management, web 2.0

Liz Orna also makes the point (in Information Strategy in Practice) that it’s humans that create knowledge, not machines.
And for knowledge production, the creation of new knowledge, the development of theories and ideas, do we need such high inputs of technology? Back to Darwin; a great many of his observations that helped to develop his […]

technology, evolution and thinking

Written by danny on 24.07.2008 | technology

I hestitate to say much about whether the technology meltdown is still with me…some of it is; there has been a great deal of use of pencil and paper (I find at night these are much more ergonomic and satisfying tools to use; there is a more pleasant aesthetic in sitting on the sofa with […]

Technology meltdown….

Written by danny on 10.07.2008 | technology

Extraordinary week just gone for technical problems.
Tuesday - laptop stops working - ie there’s a light on but nobody in. No surprise there really as it’s around five years old and has regularly been bashed into lampposts while in rucksack, or thrown onto floor of pub (not in aggressive way - it’s just sometimes you […]

we are all records managers

Written by danny on 03.07.2008 | records management

Good point - from Julie McLeod’s excellent lecture at Northumbria University this evening. Julie asked a number of questions about photographs, our own family albums, our digital photos and whether we edit, save, organise them and add metadata. Of course we all do, to a lesser or greater extent. Which makes us all records managers, […]

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