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December 2003 Archives
Are Enterprises Ready for Social Networking?
link to an eWeek piece about online social networking within the enterprise, with quotes from Stowe Boyd read full post
The Internet and the 2004 US Presidential election
The Dean-Internet ticket is picking up more and more excited coverage; is it just another novelty that will be adopted by all parties eventually or does it presage real change in the US electoral system? read full post
Technology tail wagging the policy dog?
Updated: debate about the way technology leads policy - do we need to focus more on the social and legal aspects of technology-mediated behaviour? read full post
Historians as commentators
Isn't it great that we can follow the research of historians without waiting years for them to deliver it in book-sized chunks? read full post
US e-government review
US e-government review of 2003 from the Washington Post read full post
"We-learning": Social Software and E-Learning
Eva Kaplan-Leiserson pulls together thinking about why social software is becoming so popular and how this can be applied to suppport learning read full post
Who owns the linkages?
Louis Rosenfeld thinking about EIA as corporate IP - bring on the lawyers! read full post
Is physical presence necessary for community?
Can there be such a thing as "online" community or does it only exist in the real world of phyical contact. read full post
Intrusive communications devices as a challenge for interaction design
fabio sergio thinks about the interaction design implications of intrusive communication devices read full post
Networks and narratives in support of learning
discussion of the role of personal network development in learning, and the role of narrative in facilitating this process. read full post
The Guardian on weblogs
The Guardian goes weblog-a-gogo with a new section, winners of their weblog competition and some good related pieces read full post
Why do we not routinely encrypt?
Clay Shirky looks at government and corporate attempts to prevent widespread P2P encryption and concludes the RIAA will inadvertently encourage uptake read full post
All I want for Christmas is....
Tim Bray outlines the characteristics of an ideal search engine read full post
Fallibilism and the open enterprise
Mark McElroy's paper Understanding 'The New Knowledge Management' makes a case for KM helping to create the Open Enterprise (cf. Popper's Open Society) read full post
Jon Udell: LinkedIn's stupid questions
Jon Udell wants online social networks to make more of an effort to derive our interests and relationships from published info rather than present us with crude categories to choose from read full post
UK E-government progress
50% of us have home connections, but 96% have access to a connection; 66% of e-gov services are now online read full post
review of e-gov issues in 2003 and preview of 2004
Denmark's Dr John Gotze looks back at e-gov issues in 2003 and thinks 2004 will be about Digital Identity Management read full post
Powerpoint makes you dumb - official
NYT piece that argues that powerpoint is barrier to effective knowledge sharing read full post
Updated: Social Software Reader
Social Software reading lists are coming thick and fast read full post
Online neighbourhoods and geo-data
Three links about geo-data, neighbourhoods and local weblogs. read full post
London Business Support Network knowledge centre wins best intranet award
The London Business Support Network Knowledge Centre last week won the Best Intranet or Extranet Project category of the International Information Industry Awards 2003 read full post
The potential impact of replacing social values with market values
Jenni Russell writes in the Guardian about the impact of market values on our social relations and social norms read full post
Social bookmarking in linklogs
Social bookmarking / linklogging tool read full post
Robot Wisdom - a collector's tale
Profile of Robot Wisdom's Jorn Barger from FEED magazine. read full post
Report on "Selling Social Software" event
Short report and presentation links from our "Selling Social Software" event earlier this week read full post
Two gurus vs the Semantic Web
Matt Jones links to Lou Rosenfeld echoing Clay Shirky's opposition to the Semantic Web read full post
My Society civil society incubator launches
MySociety launch event sees dozens of ideas presented for review read full post
The Big Conversation: is it two-way?
New Labour's Big Conversation has been, supported by an online consultation Web site, but is it really a two-way process? read full post
WYFIWYG: experience design
Chris Heathcote muses on the nature of interaction / experience design read full post
Privacy concerns over online social networking
provacy and authenticity concerns from Weinberger and Dyson about onlinje social networking services read full post
CIO magazine KM tips
Some useful corporate KM tips - but fails to mention some of the more informal tools and techniques that can break down barriers to participation read full post
An interesting conversation about turning ideas into action
An interesting conversation about using our blogging networks to help each other turn evolving ideas into action read full post
Rushkoff's reading list on interactivity
Douglas Rushkoff's reading list for his NYU course on theoretical perspectives on interactivity. read full post
