The future of the media

EPIC 2014: food for thought. Will we spiral away in an everybody publishes everything, without any editorial formula or ethics? Or will we see complete liberation of information and ultimate personalisation? EPIC 2014 shows a possible future world that you may or may not like....

Business rules and rule-based systems

Business rules are quite popular these days, certainly the declarative specification of these things in computer programs in the shape of 'natural language' (yes, cool tools exist nowadays), so that core corporate decision logic (part of the corporate memory, so to say) is not hidden, but inspectable, maintainable and reusable. Hold on, say that again? What did we try to do back in the 80s (and some even earlier): try to build rule-based systems, using algorithms that I almost forgot, but I was quickly refreshed by the AI depot

Crossing borders

We know the world is full of interfaces: between people, organisations, cultures, countries, systems. Sometimes smooth and seemless, sometimes disjointed, full of noise, without a signal. But there are elegant ways to connect two worlds: I really like this image how Macau and mainland China connect their road systems (left hand drive and right hand drive!).

Lessons about lessons learning

Already back in 2002, the American watchdog on government, GAO, published a neatly structured review of a lessons learned programme teaching us that such programmes at least should:

• Provide guidance when and how to apply lessons available


• Have a clear procedure for validation whether implementation of lessons is successfull


• Provide an easy-to-use ICT infrastructure, that allows for intuitive search

Should I be competitive?

Will I get better in my next half marathon race, end of March? Time to beat is 1:34: I'm hoping to get close to 1:32. But, sometimes I'm tiring myself with the goal-setting that I do. With my 40 years, who cares about my time anyway? Inspired by Running over forty: I do! I don't want to live 'medical', but I know my self esteem gets a boost when I'm just a wee bit faster than the average guy in my age group. So, I train 3-4 times/week (taken up spinning recently, good fun), alternating swimming with running to protect the joints a bit, try to eat healthy and the good thing is, if you're doing long runs, you get to sightsee, think and exercise at the same time!

NASA and its unwritten rules

The NASA Watch: Culture Archives confirm that career management in a knowledge-based organisation needs good commandment of the unwritten rules (this unwritten rules thing got famous back in 1994, with Scott-Morgan's booklet on corporate culture). How are you learning the rules of your corporate game? NASA just puts them on a couple of slides in an online training....

Intelliseek's BlogPulse

Intelliseek's BlogPulse is interesting. Try checking the 'pulse' of the weblogsphere (what's hot and what's not), by doing trend searches using different words (please note that there seems to be no smart stemming algorithm or something, the terms you enter are matched exactly). I tried 'knowledge management', 'innovation management' and 'innovation', with a time frame of 6 months. Knowledge management seems to be a non-item, innovation management next to nothing, although innovation gets some attention. But, since blogpulse says it has identified over 22 million blogs and has indexed over 600K post in the last 24hours, even a percentage of 0.10% could represent quite a few postings for things that we wouldn't normally regard conversation material for everyday life...

Analysing your own social network

This sample report gives you a flavour how one could deploy SNA techniques to focus on an individual within a given network and to provide guidance for this indivual how to best use this network.

The picture shows another interesting example: a computer generated social network diagram based on IRC chat communication analysis, see http://www.jibble.org/piespy/

Dynamic Visualization of Social Networks

Dynamic Visualization of Social Networks. When you look at the stuff that Rob Cross is presenting on social network analysis (he calls it ONA, organisational network analysis), you think, hey, that's interesting, may be I could map knowledge networks and figure out any anomalies/interesting patterns. But: how? Many Social Network Analysis resources on the web show you the end result (i.e. a nice graphic of a network), but what sort of input is required to generate these graphs? The Netvis tutorial sheds some light on this matter.

InAxis | Museum voor Overbodig Beleid

InAxis Museum voor Overbodig Beleid. Deze mensen doen toch goede dingen voor Nederland...ga zo door!

Browse Happy

Browse Happy. Misschien toch overstappen?

Persona's voor succesvolle sites

Persona's voor succesvolle sites. Een prima aanpak, uitgewerkt voorbeeld.

Eindelijk een handig tooltje

Eindelijk een handig tooltje om direct vanuit Word te kunnen publiceren. Het resultaat zien jullie hierbij! Kun je hier krijgen…

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