McGee’s Musings

I started this blog in October of 2001 using Radio as my blogging tool. The blog has been hosted with its own domain from the beginning so the archives are already here. I am gradually porting them over to WordPress. In the meantime here are links to archived posts that have yet to be converted.
2002/12

• Enjoy the holidays!
• Applying IT to IT - no longer shoemaker’s children
• Neal Stephenson - In the beginning was the command line
• It was Dorothy after all
• Learning to frame problems with the case method
• Weblogs, knowledge management, and communities of practice
• More on the internet and intellectual property debates
• Knowledge management and horizontal organizations
• O’Reilly on file-sharing and the ecology of publishing
• SodaPlay Java-toy
• Gary Hamel on Innovation
• Hurray for structured procrastination
• Penciling in that weblogs in meatspace conference
• Threats to the link between knowledge and prosperity
• Sci-Fi Today
• The trouble with pesky data
• A mathematical lens on lacing
• Treating customers like people - what a concept!
• Information architecture theses
• The limits of rational economic actors
• Asking productive questions

2002/11

• Engelbart 1968 demo video
• Who’s the pirate?
• Figuring out CSS
• Southern hospitality with Buzz
• Talking about technology and strategy in Orlando
• FTP problems and general breakage
• Wicked problems
• Categorizing knowledge
• Sucks-Less Writing
• Polite software design
• Control over design deliverables
• Linking two social networks
• 11/5/2002; 10:29:06 AM
• A little breakage witth the move

2002/10

• We’ll be moving the weblog soon
• Feeding my gadget habit
• Fueling the thinking engine - JD Lasica on where net luminaries go for news
• Blogging in the classroom, Part 4. Plugging into the conversations
• Doonesbury on blogging
• Blogging in the classroom, Part 3. Developing an initial view on klogging
• Blogging in the classroom, Part 2. Forced blogging = flogging?
• Blogs in the classroom
• We still need bridges between technology and business
• Blogging in the Library
• Yes, I’m an RSS bigot too
• Case study of Microsoft’s intranet
• Bush photos - I’ll see it when I believe it

2002/09

• Dan Gillmor’s reply to Jack Valenti
• Smarter learners, smarter teachers
• Knowledge management at the personal level - data point
• Tapping customer knowledge
• Upcoming Chicago blogging panel
• Why knowledge management now
• Hollywood’s side of the digital restrictions management debate
• Weblog bibliography
• Tools in my toolkit
• Picking the right target for creative energy
• Internet Access in Schools
• Overview of high-end document management
• Teaching information architecture - case study
• PopTech is coming
• Design and value
• Case study advice
• Livetopics released
• Writing and knowledge sharing
• Jenny’s back
• Blogging from the Harvard Business School
• Definitions of knowledge management
• I wanna be your blog
• Community and knowledge sharing
• Knowledge sharing and transparency
• Update to weblogRecentPosts
• Knowledge sharing and leadership
• Masticating in public
• The machines punch out at night
• Obeying demand
• Another improvement to Radio as a blogging tool
• If knowledge creates value differently, then you manage it differently
• Attacking friction in knowledge work processes
• Innovation and Turing machines
• Digging deeper into knowledge hoarding
• KM wiki resources
• Knowledge sharing, knowledge logs, and the unexpected
• Computer humor
• Knowledge repositories are not the driving problem in knowledge management
• Art, economics, and time
• Moving design mainstream
• Thinking about new things
• Blog and other resources from Michalski
• Weblog as my backup brain
• Prairie bloggers convocation
• Solving for pattern

2002/08

• Looping the loops
• Life in the Aggregator
• 8/27/2002; 5:00:17 PM
• Klog examples
• Making people smarter isn’t the point
• Knowledge needs to be shared before it can be managed
• More on solving the right problem
• Solving the right problem
• Sharing time and expert knowledge management
• On the naming of things (klogs as knowledge sharing notebooks)
• Unplanned outage cleared
• Brenda Laurel and Purple Moon
• Online link to Schneier’s Atlantic Monthly article
• Sizing the knowledge deficit
• KM in law firms
• Tips for Writing the Living Web
• Added relative font sizes
• Mini-case of CRM plus knowledge management at Itron
• Background on Institute for Applied Autonomy
• Smile, you’re probably on camera
• Conflict in the information age
• Rethinking mundane processes
• Importance of information architecture
• 14 Days, in the Groove - still seeking Rhythm, and Blues
• The innovators look ahead
• Incompetence and progress
• The value of useless knowledge
• New resource on tinkering
• Connecting data to context
• Understanding collaboration tools
• Storytelling and knowledge management
• Jon Udell on ActiveWords
• Self-correcting feedback in the blogging community
• The value of linking
• Visualizing projects
• K-logs, knowledge sharing, and social capital
• Carrying packets
• The internet as design case study
• Blogtree link
• Knowledge sharing and understanding knowledge work
• Ozzie on tools for knowledge work
• Knowledge sharing is a two-way phenomenon
• Knowledge sharing and responsibility
• Well, I feel so much safer now
• Joining the activeRoll roll
• Doc Searls on Infrastructure
• Doc Searls on Janis Ian
• Troubling thought experiments about fair use and DMCA
• Translucent databases
• It’s knowledge sharing not knowledge management
• The price of ignorance
• Copyright as corporate welfare
• CMS goals - from Column Two
• Sterling on Open Source
• Ray Ozzie’s blog
• Linking controversies
• Government interference with technology security
• Simple-minded knowledge management
• KM resources from Column Two
• Blogs in business
• Community at work
• Earthviewer
• Organizing IT
• Church of Questions
• Still more Traction
• Rhetoric of weblogs
• Artists and copyright
• Just write
• Harrow Technology Report
• KM at scale
• Personal KM - PEP
• Organizational myopia and technology disruption
• More on Traction
• Crazy Years Continue
• e-learning at CISCO

2002/07

• Once again, laziness triumphs
• Blogging and engagement
• Enterprise Information Architecture
• ActiveRenderer Rocks
• Winograd interview
• Idea volume
• Smart Daves
• Succeeding by ignoring the conventional wisdom
• PopTech
• Knowledge worker or information worker
• Silly email disclaimers
• Learning all around
• Design for knowledge work
• KM in a dot-com environment
• Perseids
• Dealing with too much information
• Looking at Traction
• 7/21/2002; 9:00:28 AM
• klogging in the state of Utah
• Knowledge and decision making
• Readerware - personal library app
• Integrating storytelling into knowledge management systems
• Radio as k-logging platform
• 7/19/2002; 8:43:34 PM
• Smart mobs
• Reflecting on reflecting
• Remembering the range of user needs and interests
• KM, blogging and health care
• Weblog as the interface to a person
• Traction? How about Radio?
• Singularity introduction
• Contribute to the next blogging book?
• Connecting technology systems and systems-thinking
• Digging for ideas
• Project Level Knowledge Management
• On a rich network, all news finds its way to you
• Watching great minds at work
• 7/12/2002; 10:18:11 AM
• John Robb interview defining k-logs
• Can knowledge systems lie as well as information systems?
• KM as a technology issue
• KMpings
• Blue dot special
• Celebrating 50 years
• 7/4/2002; 10:56:21 PM
• 7/4/2002; 10:55:50 PM
• 7/4/2002; 10:49:31 PM
• Weblogs as lab notebooks
• Still more on NPR and Linking
• More on NPR Linking
• NPR linking policies

2002/06

• I want an executive assistant
• 6/20/2002; 11:08:20 PM
• 6/20/2002; 11:06:42 PM
• 6/20/2002; 11:03:48 PM
• 6/20/2002; 10:55:22 PM
• 6/18/2002; 1:05:11 PM
• 6/18/2002; 9:23:24 AM
• 6/17/2002; 8:51:39 PM
• Summer reading lists
• Some new knowledge management resources
• 6/16/2002; 7:43:14 PM
• 6/15/2002; 6:16:26 PM
• Internal knowledge management at Google
• 6/15/2002; 5:08:55 PM
• Sharing with yourself
• 6/13/2002; 11:18:31 PM
• Column Two: Two excellent KM mailing lists
• Blogs and community
• Diagrams of the weblog environment
• p i x e l v i e w - behind the screen with A. K. M. Adam
• More useful distinctions about knowledge
• Augmentation not automation to improve knowledge work productivity
• If I only had a brain
• 6/7/2002; 3:38:08 PM
• 6/7/2002; 1:52:11 PM
• Time to start ‘grooving’ again
• 6/7/2002; 1:36:45 PM
• 6/7/2002; 11:39:45 AM
• Google and personal knowledge management
• Wrapping your head around ActiveWords
• Students blogging inside my class
• Have weblog, will learn
• 6/6/2002; 2:04:14 PM
• Doctor’s orders
• Weblogs as distributed conversations
• Blogging as part of a personal knowledge management strategy
• Final class session
• 6/4/2002; 11:36:09 AM
• Copy protection redux
• 6/3/2002; 9:34:43 AM
• Improving knowledge work productivity
• 6/1/2002; 1:15:17 PM

2002/05

• 5/28/2002; 11:09:43 PM
• 5/26/2002; 9:17:32 PM
• 5/26/2002; 6:06:05 PM
• 5/26/2002; 5:57:19 PM
• 5/26/2002; 4:26:49 PM
• RSS aggregators
• More blogging insights from 5th constituency
• 5/24/2002; 10:16:03 PM
• KM at McKinsey
• After the knowledge problem?
• The attack of unstructured data
• A big “thank you” to Jenny
• Rebuilding my laptop
• Knowledge Management Research Group - Sweden
• 5/18/2002; 8:20:31 PM
• 5/16/2002; 7:14:07 AM
• Blogs as Disruptive Innovation
• A learning motto instead?
• 5/14/2002; 2:20:53 PM
• 5/13/2002; 8:39:27 PM
• 5/13/2002; 10:23:06 AM
• Apprenticing to improve knowledge work skills
• Blogs as “arbiters of relevance”
• 5/12/2002; 3:14:09 PM
• 5/12/2002; 1:07:11 PM
• I second that emotion
• Leading grassroots KM efforts
• Leading by example
• 5/7/2002; 10:44:32 AM
• 5/6/2002; 11:47:46 PM
• Controlling my knowledge environment
• 5/6/2002; 9:42:47 PM
• 5/6/2002; 5:09:22 PM
• How do we encourage cluefullness?
• 5/3/2002; 1:45:20 PM
• Moving the Library of Congress in 30 minutes
• Thoughts on leveraging time in knowledge work
• Please Mr. Kellner, may I go to the bathroom?
• Drawing as a knowledge management tool?

2002/04

• I resemble that remark
• Science and democracy
• We are not worthy
• 4/28/2002; 2:38:10 PM
• 4/28/2002; 12:03:57 PM
• 4/28/2002; 12:01:21 PM
• 4/27/2002; 3:23:57 PM
• 4/26/2002; 2:46:18 PM
• Designing for knowledge management
• KM in through the backdoor
• Thoughts on Tuesday’s Class - Satisficing Knowledge Management
• 4/24/2002; 4:17:33 PM
• 4/24/2002; 4:10:07 PM
• Quality and productivity in knowledge work
• 4/24/2002; 10:53:48 AM
• 4/24/2002; 10:46:30 AM
• Trickle Up Theory - Knowledge Management Research Center
• More on end-to-end design
• Fun things to learn on the web
• 4/22/2002; 10:17:09 AM
• We’re being watched
• Eliminating “organizational slack”
• 4/18/2002; 2:18:04 PM
• Bootstrapping weblogs at the Kellogg School of Management
• Uncommon sense
• 4/14/2002; 3:22:51 PM
• LEGO resources
• Insight on demand? Improving the environment for knowledge work
• Weblogs as a disruptive innovation
• Simplifying knowledge sharing to promote sharing
• 4/11/2002; 9:03:47 PM
• Looking for value in knowledge management
• Building expertise and authority over time
• Apologies to Ellen Parrr
• Knowledge Management: Value Is Relative
• Knowledge management as a residual problem
• Lenses on knowledge management
• The Roots of Knowledge Management
• Instant Outlining and Course Delivery

2002/03

• 3/31/2002; 8:04:46 PM
• Getting a grip on all those bytes
• Taking a short break
• Knowledge work, craft work, and visibility
• Lower entry costs and raise payoffs to make KM take root
• 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Tweaking the corporate immune system
• 3/18/2002; 12:29:56 PM
• Knowledge work as new craft work
• When do we declare the revolution?
• 3/16/2002; 10:53:20 PM
• Making context visible
• 3/16/2002; 11:49:43 AM
• 3/16/2002; 11:46:20 AM
• Dissecting Golden Geese: Leaving Design Space Open
• 3/15/2002; 5:26:09 PM
• 3/15/2002; 5:25:50 PM
• 3/15/2002; 10:06:34 AM
• 3/15/2002; 9:50:05 AM
• Apprenticing with mind tools
• Cultivating Serendipity
• 3/13/2002; 9:03:19 PM
• 3/13/2002; 8:47:06 PM
• Trying to legislate pi=3
• What if Chicken Little is Right?
• 3/11/2002; 2:52:40 PM
• Pulling on the oars or inventing sails
• 3/9/2002; 10:35:09 AM
• 3/8/2002; 4:06:18 PM
• 3/8/2002; 11:24:30 AM
• 3/8/2002; 10:53:55 AM
• 3/8/2002; 10:51:22 AM
• 3/8/2002; 10:40:34 AM
• 3/8/2002; 10:18:18 AM
• 3/5/2002; 9:46:10 PM
• 3/5/2002; 10:45:53 AM
• 3/5/2002; 8:58:20 AM
• 3/5/2002; 8:57:12 AM
• 3/5/2002; 8:56:44 AM
• 3/5/2002; 8:45:32 AM
• 3/5/2002; 8:42:54 AM
• 3/4/2002; 9:24:35 AM
• 3/4/2002; 9:21:45 AM
• 3/4/2002; 9:21:09 AM
• 3/4/2002; 9:05:09 AM
• 3/3/2002; 8:49:27 PM
• 3/3/2002; 8:11:00 PM
• 3/1/2002; 10:49:02 PM
• 3/1/2002; 10:43:50 PM
• 3/1/2002; 8:11:03 PM
• 3/1/2002; 4:29:55 PM
• 3/1/2002; 4:29:24 PM
• 3/1/2002; 3:44:18 PM

2002/02

• Using Sturgeon’s Law
• 2/28/2002; 3:27:41 PM
• 2/28/2002; 10:39:14 AM
• 2/28/2002; 9:45:07 AM
• 2/27/2002; 9:44:25 PM
• 2/27/2002; 8:29:48 PM
• 2/27/2002; 8:26:52 PM
• The Magic Number 300: Knowledge and Community
• 2/25/2002; 9:54:35 PM
• Technology and senior management
• 2/21/2002; 10:31:06 PM
• 2/21/2002; 10:06:43 PM
• 2/21/2002; 10:05:21 PM
• 2/21/2002; 9:45:18 PM
• 2/21/2002; 6:18:30 PM
• 2/21/2002; 5:48:24 PM
• 2/20/2002; 11:55:51 AM
• 2/19/2002; 5:22:36 PM
• 2/19/2002; 11:32:55 AM
• 2/14/2002; 8:31:21 PM
• 2/14/2002; 1:48:42 PM
• 2/13/2002; 11:49:19 PM
• 2/13/2002; 11:45:26 PM
• 2/13/2002; 11:24:19 PM
• 2/13/2002; 10:16:11 PM
• 2/13/2002; 1:08:26 PM
• 2/11/2002; 10:18:02 PM
• 2/11/2002; 1:18:54 PM
• 2/8/2002; 3:57:31 PM
• 2/8/2002; 9:44:54 AM
• 2/7/2002; 10:19:35 PM
• 2/7/2002; 3:22:56 PM
• 2/7/2002; 3:12:01 PM
• 2/6/2002; 10:25:04 AM
• 2/6/2002; 10:20:58 AM
• 2/5/2002; 10:24:43 PM
• 2/5/2002; 10:02:29 PM
• 2/4/2002; 11:22:18 PM
• 2/3/2002; 4:57:34 PM
• 2/3/2002; 4:55:06 PM
• 2/3/2002; 4:35:37 PM
• 2/3/2002; 4:32:52 PM
• 2/3/2002; 4:12:30 PM
• 2/3/2002; 4:05:16 PM
• 2/1/2002; 2:27:29 PM
• 2/1/2002; 11:19:17 AM
• 2/1/2002; 11:16:04 AM
• 2/1/2002; 11:14:59 AM
• 2/1/2002; 11:12:37 AM
• 2/1/2002; 11:06:47 AM

2002/01

• 1/31/2002; 7:17:23 PM
• 1/31/2002; 5:25:46 PM
• 1/31/2002; 5:22:07 PM
• 1/31/2002; 4:41:11 PM
• 1/31/2002; 4:25:50 PM
• 1/31/2002; 3:40:31 PM
• 1/31/2002; 3:11:04 PM
• 1/31/2002; 2:53:26 PM
• 1/31/2002; 2:43:24 PM
• 1/31/2002; 2:38:01 PM
• 1/28/2002; 11:23:01 AM
• 1/27/2002; 6:42:43 PM
• 1/27/2002; 5:13:14 PM
• 1/27/2002; 4:10:15 PM
• 1/27/2002; 4:00:38 PM
• 1/26/2002; 4:43:16 PM
• 1/26/2002; 4:35:34 PM
• 1/26/2002; 4:05:36 PM
• 1/26/2002; 3:44:33 PM
• 1/26/2002; 3:41:51 PM
• 1/24/2002; 9:29:34 PM
• 1/24/2002; 9:46:49 AM
• 1/23/2002; 4:48:59 PM
• 1/23/2002; 10:14:44 AM
• 1/23/2002; 10:09:47 AM
• 1/21/2002; 3:12:10 PM
• 1/20/2002; 10:42:52 PM
• 1/20/2002; 10:03:47 PM
• 1/20/2002; 4:34:30 PM
• 1/20/2002; 4:33:55 PM
• 1/20/2002; 4:30:57 PM
• 1/18/2002; 10:23:35 AM
• 1/17/2002; 4:36:14 PM
• 1/14/2002; 10:12:30 PM
• 1/14/2002; 9:56:25 PM
• 1/14/2002; 9:24:54 AM
• 1/9/2002; 1:41:16 PM
• 1/8/2002; 4:52:49 PM
• 1/7/2002; 12:46:47 PM
• 1/6/2002; 6:11:06 PM
• 1/6/2002; 5:29:50 PM
• 1/6/2002; 5:03:48 PM

2001/12

• 12/17/2001; 7:47:35 AM
• 12/13/2001; 10:19:48 AM
• 12/12/2001; 4:39:23 PM
• 12/12/2001; 4:36:24 PM
• 12/8/2001; 4:05:59 PM
• 12/6/2001; 9:49:11 PM
• 12/6/2001; 9:38:07 PM
• 12/6/2001; 9:30:39 PM
• 12/6/2001; 9:28:58 PM
• 12/6/2001; 9:18:06 PM
• 12/6/2001; 8:17:52 PM
• 12/6/2001; 12:41:50 PM
• 12/6/2001; 12:08:20 PM
• 12/6/2001; 12:01:01 PM
• 12/6/2001; 11:59:16 AM
• 12/6/2001; 11:51:12 AM
• 12/6/2001; 11:50:06 AM
• 12/5/2001; 5:21:24 PM
• 12/4/2001; 10:19:58 PM
• 12/4/2001; 10:23:08 AM
• 12/4/2001; 9:46:18 AM

2001/11

• 11/29/2001; 8:05:39 PM
• 11/29/2001; 8:01:52 PM
• 11/29/2001; 7:41:45 PM
• 11/29/2001; 9:10:07 AM
• 11/29/2001; 9:00:33 AM
• 11/29/2001; 8:58:50 AM
• 11/29/2001; 8:54:27 AM
• 11/27/2001; 9:34:26 PM
• 11/27/2001; 5:21:59 PM
• 11/25/2001; 3:19:58 PM
• 11/25/2001; 3:07:18 PM
• 11/25/2001; 3:03:07 PM
• 11/20/2001; 11:08:58 AM
• 11/15/2001; 9:53:35 PM
• 11/15/2001; 9:52:52 PM
• 11/15/2001; 9:52:14 PM
• 11/15/2001; 9:51:21 PM
• 11/15/2001; 9:50:49 PM
• 11/15/2001; 9:50:23 PM
• 11/15/2001; 9:48:47 PM
• 11/15/2001; 9:48:18 PM
• 11/15/2001; 9:47:56 PM
• 11/15/2001; 9:47:31 PM
• 11/15/2001; 9:47:06 PM
• 11/15/2001; 9:46:40 PM
• 11/15/2001; 9:45:47 PM
• 11/14/2001; 2:12:07 PM
• 11/12/2001; 12:47:30 PM
• 11/12/2001; 11:08:35 AM
• 11/12/2001; 11:03:41 AM
• 11/12/2001; 10:49:19 AM
• 11/9/2001; 12:10:35 PM
• 11/9/2001; 11:20:32 AM
• 11/9/2001; 11:19:43 AM
• 11/7/2001; 12:26:25 PM
• 11/7/2001; 12:13:17 PM
• 11/7/2001; 12:12:08 PM
• 11/1/2001; 9:26:01 AM

2001/10

• 10/30/2001; 9:50:55 PM
• 10/30/2001; 7:49:57 PM
• 10/30/2001; 9:28:33 AM
• Scoble on Activewords
• Nielsen on Conceptual Models
• NY Times on too many passwords
• 10/28/2001; 9:58:35 PM
• 10/28/2001; 9:57:51 PM
• 10/28/2001; 9:54:46 PM
• E-Live and Well - E-learning
• designSHOP - Instructional Design Resources
• How to Eat a Dead Cow
• ACM on information overload
• GE and knowledge management - If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It
• Duncan’s Jotter - Knowledge Logging
• Life On The Internet: Could Blogging Assist KM?
• Technology Review on syncing
• Tech giants pan anti-piracy mandate
• Albertson’s web commerce plans
• K-logs in organizations - technical and organizational challenges
• Technology Review on the semantic web
• Technology Review on digital preservation