Author: matthewc100
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Sea Stories and Fairy Tales
What’s the difference between a sea story and a fairy tale? Fairy tales start, “Once upon a time…” and sea stories start, “No shit, there I was…” I may have mentioned this before: I am a movie buff and I love using movie scenes as allegories and metaphors to illustrate a point. Sadly, this does…
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Strategy or S-tragedy?
As I mentioned in a previous post, this class on Knowledge Management is designed to generate different perspectives on the concepts around knowledge, knowledge sharing, and knowledge management. The idea is to pick three academic articles from a list and then talk about them. Truthfully, this week I learned a lesson: don’t be too…
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Spieglein, spieglein an der wand… wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?
Today’s post could rightly be called a reflection. I’ve been spouting off about big data, documenting it all, tacit knowledge (that stuff that everyone knows but no one writes down), web technologies, etc., etc., etc. So naturally in the Knowledge Management class we have to read and review a few articles from the syllabus (pick…
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The bishop’s mitre
Xie and Matusiak introduce several different definitions of digital libraries in their book, Discover Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice. One of the most workable definitions of a digital library I found was the one by (Bishop, et al., 2003) that digital libraries are “sociotechnical systems – networks of technology, information, documents, people, and practices”. Like…
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Knowledge Management taught like Rashomon
This is the excerpt for your very first post.
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Performance tuning and improvements
Nope, not an ad for increasing your sexual performance. I think we all get enough of those. My spam filters just can’t keep up with it. No, this is about website caching and performance techniques. I have long noticed that the ol’ family website is a bit slow to load but really didn’t have any…
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Performance
Nope, not an ad for increasing your sexual performance. I think we all get enough of those. My spam filters just can’t keep up with it. No, this is about website caching and performance techniques. I have long noticed that the ol’ family website is a bit slow to load but really didn’t have any…
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Argh! College!
A friend of mine talked to us about the college she attended, Claremont McKenna. I was expecting a typical recital of, “It was a good college… ” but instead she spoke how it was a transformational experience. Ostensibly my wife and I were looking into feeder colleges for child #2, who wants to go into…
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Piclens for photo gallery
When I read that Gallery2 (Gallery2.3 rc-2 is just out) was going to support Piclens, well I just rushed right out and tried to upgrade the system. While that was bit of a pain with the current host – who is having PHP issues and still really has not worked them out – I did…