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Category: Research

Research on a particular subject, be it a technology, event, concept, etc.

  • A study in class photographs, 1912-2002

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    A study in class photographs, 1912-2002

    As a result of a conversation I had last week on reaching 50, and how that event might be a point for reflection, over the last few days I have posted a series of my school photographs. The photographs are from my time at St. George’s School in Vancouver. Looking through my collection, I came…

  • Web 3.0

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    A colleague forwarded to me an article from the New York Times, Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense. The essence of the discussion is the evolution of the Web, and in saying web I mean the content–the documents, images, sounds, descriptive data, etc–not the technology of the Internet. The article refers to this…

  • An inquiry into Stupidity, Part 1

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    The Lens, a program on the CBC, recently aired a program on stupidity. It prompted me to better understand the nature of stupidity. This journey into understanding comes about because many of those interviewed on the program seemed to have a great deal of difficulty answering the question what is stupidity. Dictionary.com includes the following…

  • Complexity

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    Complexity seems to be emerging as the latest cause. Things are just too hard. Or is it that they are too hard to understand. Or is it that we’re just getting older and dumber. The definition of complexity is: Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite Our word comes from the Latin complexus, to entwine.…

  • Research: Social Bookmarking #3

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    I have come to conclude that a name change often reflects some deep, dark, unstatible failure rather than what the typical marketing spin might suggest: some better alignment with ‘what ever.’ So, it is not without some trepidation that I refer to PKM, the successor name to KM (Personal + Knowledge Management). Dave Pollard summarizes…