Information on the Assembly Line. Rats…it's a class night, and I've got to catch up on a couple chapters. So I can't do much more than make a quick blog entry for Jason Nichols' very intriguing looking masters thesis called Information on the Assembly Line (subtitled A review of Information Design and its Implications for… [IDblog]

this looks like it is some interesting work, though from what i've seen it lacks any critical theory, so now someone needs to write the same one only with critical theory…:) but it is an interesting bit of research.

Michael Polanyi & Tacit Knowledge. We can know more than we can tell. Consider The Tacit Dimension by The Tacit Knowledge and Intuition Website has title=”When Polanyi talks of tacit knowledge, he is more often referring to a subconscious process than a set of things we know or could know subconsciously. In his words, ''Knowledge is an activity that would be better described as a process of knowing.''”>Polanyi's concept of tacit knowing. Karl Erik Sveiby also has an interesting page in Tacit Knowledge and provides you the opportunity to Test Your Tacit Knowledge. Tacit knowledge and
Implicit learning provides yet another view. I don't pretend to understand much of this and yet I feel the concept has merit–ah, as Wittgenstein observed, Of that of which we can not speak, we must be silent.
If you know what I mean… *rolls eyes* [MetaFilter]

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Tacit Knowledge is a key concept for most user oriented processes, john seely brown has a nice page on it….

BERLIN (Reuters) – German women fed up with their partners' grumbling on weekend shopping trips can now dump them at a special kindergarten for men offering beer and entertainment.

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i shop differently than many people, in that i don't really shop. i tend to identify a category of things that i need or want, then get one. so if i want a book, i go to a bookstore identify some things there that are interesting then buy them, but i don't really shop for them, thus whenever i go shopping with others there are problems because some people shop, some people browse, etc. this would be perfect, i could get what i want, then go relax.

Vog Exhibition. Two of my vogs have been accepted for the forthcoming Slowtime…QuickTime as an artistic medium show. As an academic who apparently is developing some sort of artistic practice I find it odd to send my work to these sorts of… [Vlog 2.1]

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video logs are interesting phenomena.

he contributed to many fields, wrote many interesting books including amusing ourselves to death,technopoly, and teaching as a subversive activity. he passed away sunday evening.

the obituaries started appearing wednesday night

nyt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/09/obituaries/09POST.html?ex=1066276800&en=285513c2b7425648&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

toronto star:

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1065607300564&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968705899037