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Adages, Idioms, Proverbs, are Lessons Learned

This post continues the saga of organization’s learning practices; tacit, or unwritten knowledge; and how things ultimately get better.  Based on the commentary by JennNippert, I elected to read the article by Brown and Duguid.  I decided to add some other articles that sounded cool and since I worked on the Space Shuttle program, a chance to revisit the Challenger program via the Kumar & Chakrabarti article shot to the… Read More »Adages, Idioms, Proverbs, are Lessons Learned

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 not always work well for me because often my listeners don’t always know what I’m… Read More »Sea Stories and Fairy Tales

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 casual about which articles you pick.  Some of the articles were wholly uninteresting to me… Read More »Strategy or S-tragedy?

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 two from column* A, one from column B).  Today’s aggregated postings have articles about wikis,… Read More »Spieglein, spieglein an der wand… wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?

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 others in my LIS 658 class, I relate strongly to the Bishop definition.  I work at… Read More »The bishop’s mitre

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 tools to figure out why.  Compressing the template would probably have helped but really, how… Read More »Performance tuning and improvements

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 tools to figure out why.  Compressing the template would probably have helped but really, how… Read More »Performance

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 medicine, but came away with a thought that this might be a much better choice… Read More »Argh! College!

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 finally get the system upgraded.  You can check out the pages in Piclens (photo wall… Read More »Piclens for photo gallery