My yoga class in the Perth hills
Feb 26th
Prop suggestions for a presentation
In a couple of weeks I’m giving a presentation for upto 30 people on:Knowledge Management as...
Feb 26th
Wisdom of crowds book p213
Virtue of decentralisation - “Instead of having to make constant resort to orders and threats,...
Feb 26th
Wisdom of crowds book p213
Virtue of decentralisation - “…the more responsibility people have for their own...
Feb 26th
Wisdom of crowds book p212
“…people with local knowledge are often best positioned to come up with a workable and...
Feb 26th
Wisdom of crowds book p209
“…essential part of what markets do: encourage people to find new valuable information...
Feb 26th
Wisdom of crowds book...p209
“Companies tend to pay people based on whether they do what they’re expected to do. In a...
Feb 25th
90-9-1 rule
In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a...
Feb 24th
The Thinking Process
Feb 24th
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
“…knowledge…unlike other commodities [does not] get used up as it is consumed and...
Feb 23rd
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
“…for collaboration to be successful it has to make each individual…more...
Feb 22nd
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
“Modern capitalism made the idea of trusting people with whom you had ‘no prior personal...
Feb 22nd
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
“Aggregation…is…paradoxically important to the success of decentralisation.”...
Feb 17th
The Wisdom of Crowds book mentions “corporate strategy is all about collecting information from many...
Feb 16th
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
“Decentralisation’s great strength is that it encourages independence and...
Feb 16th
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
Decentralisation’s “power does not fully reside in one central location…important...
Feb 16th
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
“The fundamental problem with cascades is that people’s choices are made sequentially,...
Feb 15th
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
Imitating is effective “as long as people are willing to stop imitating and learn for...
Feb 15th
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
“Invention may still be an individual enterprise…but selecting among inventions is a...
Feb 15th
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
“Information cascade” is not conformity, “…people fall in line because they...
Feb 15th
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
Unlike conformity, “social proof…is the tendency to assume that if lots of people are...
Feb 15th
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
“…diversity contributes not just by adding different perspectives to the group but also...
Feb 15th
From the Wisdom of crowds book...
“The negative case for diversity is that diversity makes it easier for a group to make...
Feb 15th
A group is like a toolbox; having a diverse set of tools is going to be more effective in problem...
Feb 15th
Watch
Feb 13th
Conditions for wise crowds
1. Diversity of opinion 2. Independence (no influencing opinions) 3. Decentralisation (Local...
Feb 11th
Bayes's Theorem
A way of calculating how new information about an event changes your preexisting expectations of how...
Feb 11th
Feb 10th
Feb 10th
The predictive text on my phone thinks a "nectarine" should be "nectargod"
Feb 10th
Gull - my local petrol station
1 schweppes lemonade is $4.25, but last week it was 2 for $4, I don’t get it. I was told...
Feb 9th
“Contagiousness is in larger part a function of the messenger. Stickiness is primarily a...
Feb 8th
“The essence I am trying to get to is that we are looking for...”
— http://adventurekm.typepad.com/...
— http://adventurekm.typepad.com/...
Feb 5th
“An informal social network includes ties that cut across the...”
— http://www.annezelenka.com/2007...
— http://www.annezelenka.com/2007...
Feb 5th
“Connection, not collection: That’s the essence of knowledge...”
— http://joitskehulsebosch.blogsp...
— http://joitskehulsebosch.blogsp...
Feb 5th
“…strong ties may breed local cohesion”
— http://www.boxesandarrows.com/v...
— http://www.boxesandarrows.com/v...
Feb 5th
“Its critical to realise that no one will refuse people...”
— http://www.cognitive-edge.com/b...
— http://www.cognitive-edge.com/b...
Feb 5th
The broken window theory
If a town, facility, object, person, etc is expressing a neglected standard then this will attract...
Feb 5th
mobile phone art
Feb 4th
8.28am train to Perth city
Train driver announces sorry about the delays and congested carriages, just to let you know we are...
Feb 4th
Blogs
Blogs are my main reading source. - user generated content - immediacy - instant discussion - many...
Feb 4th
Mavens-one who accumulates knowledge-more socially motivated than experts
Feb 3rd
LINKS - The People Formerly Known As The...
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/06/27/ppl_frmr.html...
Feb 2nd
The People Formerly Known As The...
Information flow is no longer one-to-many, the paradigm has changed to many-to-many, and the...
Feb 2nd
"…move from the 'web of pages' metaphor — based on hypertext and publishing...
Feb 2nd
I practice passing on info, of stuff that has no interest to me, to my friends. But I don’t do...
Feb 1st
With social networks u get the benefits of connections-the strength of weak ties-the power of...
Feb 1st
The 3 rules of the tipping point - the law of the few, the stickiness factor, the power of context...
Feb 1st
Rigatone - garlic saute of zucchini, spinach, asparagus, salmon, and mascapone PROVINCIAL HOTEL...
Jan 31st
A lady at work has the exact same voice as my friends mum, and my wife’s friend has the same...
Jan 31st
What will charity money shakers do in a cashless society
Jan 31st
“society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow” AUTHUR...
Jan 31st