Blogging and knowledge management

Sifting through my old blog accomplishments, I see that I already in 2003 had some interresting thoughts regarding the use of weblogs as a knowledge management tool. Referring managing knowledge work, I note that weblogs may be able to bridge the gap between codified and personalized knowledge.
Personalized and codified knowledge is described thusly:

  • Codification: Knowledge is is carefully codified and stored in databases where it can be accessed and used readily by anyone in the company (p. 107 in Hansen et al.)
  • Personalization: Knowledge is closely tied to the person who developed it and is shared mainly through direct p2p contacts (ibid)
  • (havent found the correct reference to Hansen et al. – working on it…)

    As such, blogs may be described as a connecting medium between the two extremes ‘codified’ and personalized knowledge, as that is what blogs do: personalizing knowledge in the process of codifying it (writing it down). Furthermore the comment/trackback functionalities facilitates p2p interaction.

    The above is a commented translation of the post found at the shared knowledge blog.

    Blogit pyramid scheme?

    Is blogit a cunning pyramid scheme, or is it a clever way to capitalize your onlne writing efforts?
    I don’t know yet, but I alway get suspicious when I have to pay a monthly fee to get access to earn money whilst I get paid to recruit more users, who have to pay a monthly fee, to earn money while they get paid to recruit even more users…
    If I choose to become a member of blogit and pay the memebership fee (or what they call it) I also get paid accordingly to the number of people reading my blog – and I get unlimited access to a vast amount of blogs. But I get that for free on Google and Technorati – so what’s the idea?
    So to cut things short: poor/unsuccesful writers pay a monthly fee to better good/successful writers.

    Matrix screensaver

    Admitted – I am a huge fan of the Matrix trilogy – thus I searched for and found this matrix code screensaver. Wohoo.

    Related: my purchase of matrix-style sunglasses.

    Ekstremt vejr i Danmark

    Hej med jer!
    I en sådan tid hvor orkanerne, stormene og vulkanerne hærger resten af verdenen.
    Så vil jeg gerne lige sende en mail ud til alle for at minde jer om at vi faktisk også har vejrforhold i Danmark der kan være modbydelige.
    Vi skal ikke ret lang tid tilbage før en af mine bekendtes dagligdag blev udsat for noget lignende. Det var her på Sjælland.
    Der er ikke så meget at sige, jeg vil hellere lade billedet tale for sig selv.
    Jeg synes bare ikke at man skal underkende vejret i Danmark.

    Ekstremt vejr i Danmark.

    Venlig hilsen / Best regards

    Jakob Hertz

    A whole lotta bookmarks

    Squarefree has a lot of bookmarklets which gives your browser extra funktionalities in categories such as search, SEO, forms and validation. Choose your favourite browser and drag single bookmarklets or whole menus to your toolbar. I bet the functionalities of all the listed bookmarklets can be found as firefox extensions, but the drag and drop actions on the squarefree site, is quite nice.

    En kristen ateist

    Søndag morgen kørte jeg ud til til amager for at hente skruer og lyttede undervejs til en prædiken på P1 – det er ikke noget jeg normalt gør, for min ateistiske selvopfattelse gør at jeg (semi-automatisk) blokerer for enhver kommunikation, der bygger på religiøse værdier. Prædikenen handlede om en mand, der var så besat af at holde døden fra døren, at han helt glemte at leve – egentlig en sørgelig, men meget menneskelig reaktion. Jeg er som sagt ikke-troende, men dog bevidst om at jeg er vokset op i en kristen kultur, og mine grundholdninger derfor i vid udstrækning er baseret på kristendommen.
    Pludselig gik det op for mig, at det jo egentlig er ganske absurd at man partout skal hænge en livsindstilling op på tilbedelse af en eller anden metafysisk entitet. Gud, Muhammed eller Jahve – det kommer i mine øjne ud på et; for mig er det vigtigste at have respekt for andre mennesker, og at acceptere andres meninger – også på trods af at de er komplet uforståelige for mig.
    Det eneste jeg tillader mig ikke at acceptere, er religiøs missionering.

    Tiki Wiki – a possible solution?

    I am definately going to do a test-install of tiki-wiki. Tiki-wiki looks as if it could be the cross between cms, groupware and wiki, I am hoping to get my job to use. Especially the calendar/reminder featueres look interresting – if that could be brought to interact with outlook calendar… anyone?

    Update:
    Tikiwiki is not easy to install! My third attempt was a near miss. Important information for tikiwiki-installers: chmod tikiwiki-dir to 755 or 777 before anything else…