Category — General

Research List of Lists. Research List of Lists
http://www.aoir.org/list.php

A very comprehensive list of lists related to research. Listservs® have been available on the Internet for years and still represent the number one way of staying current on the areas of your profession even though RSS feeds are breathing down their necks! [Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker]

we probably need to update the list of lists though:)

Internet pioneers. Scott Griffin's masters project features enjoyable bios of internet pioneers.
[Seb's Open Research]

le petit mort. Weblogging, the fad most poplular amongst teenage girls, is dying. The “blogosphere” will number ten million souls by the end of 2004, but almost all of them will be dead. [MetaFilter]

maybe not the best internet statistics out there, but interesting enough.

Answering Thomas' Question.

Thomas Roessler asks a question
in his blog – “What kind of innovation should be encouraged (or dicouraged)“?

Let me answer that by citing my First Law of the Internet: 
(See my blog entry at

http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000059.html)

The First Law of the Internet

Every person shall be free to
use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly
detrimental.

• The burden of demonstrating
  public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.

  • Such a demonstration shall
    require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.

• The public detriment must be of
  such degree and extent as to justify the suppression of the private activity.

I believe that there is massive evidence, evidence that is both
clear and convincing, proving that Sitefinder creates not only present damage to
the internet but also substantially compromises the future development of the
internet.  That, to me, is a public harm that is of such a degree and
extent as to justify the suppression of Sitefinder.

[CaveBear Blog]

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innovation should be encouraged if and only if it does not directly harm others or disempower them in significant ways.

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