Comments on: Just freewheeling on a Sunday afternoon http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/05/13/just-freewheeling-on-a-sunday-afternoon/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JP Rangaswami http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/05/13/just-freewheeling-on-a-sunday-afternoon/comment-page-1/#comment-132126 JP Rangaswami Mon, 14 May 2007 18:42:23 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/05/13/just-freewheeling-on-a-sunday-afternoon/#comment-132126 I agree. I too am fascinated by the mud. But what I have learnt over the years is that my customers want the pies, they are less interested in the mud. And when it comes to showing them what can be done with the mud, pies are useful. It lets them know what is possible. Some of them get interested in the mud as a result. But not everyone. So I show people the pies. And continue to study the mud. I agree. I too am fascinated by the mud. But what I have learnt over the years is that my customers want the pies, they are less interested in the mud.

And when it comes to showing them what can be done with the mud, pies are useful. It lets them know what is possible.

Some of them get interested in the mud as a result. But not everyone.

So I show people the pies. And continue to study the mud.

]]> By: Stephen Smoliar http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/05/13/just-freewheeling-on-a-sunday-afternoon/comment-page-1/#comment-132055 Stephen Smoliar Mon, 14 May 2007 15:29:38 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/05/13/just-freewheeling-on-a-sunday-afternoon/#comment-132055 I am less interested in showing off the mud-pies, as J. M. Thorburn put it, and more interested in studying what it is about the mud that yields such interesting pies. The particular mud that seems relevant here is the tight coupling of working, learning, and innovation, about which John Seely Brown has written so eloquently. I raise it because, in Brown's context, the question of whether or not the information is structured becomes secondary (if not irrelevant). If it can be drawn upon in the course of work (one way or another), then it becomes a knowledge source that others learn and some then engage in innovative ways. I am less interested in showing off the mud-pies, as J. M. Thorburn put it, and more interested in studying what it is about the mud that yields such interesting pies. The particular mud that seems relevant here is the tight coupling of working, learning, and innovation, about which John Seely Brown has written so eloquently. I raise it because, in Brown’s context, the question of whether or not the information is structured becomes secondary (if not irrelevant). If it can be drawn upon in the course of work (one way or another), then it becomes a knowledge source that others learn and some then engage in innovative ways.

]]> By: Vincent Clark http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/05/13/just-freewheeling-on-a-sunday-afternoon/comment-page-1/#comment-131958 Vincent Clark Mon, 14 May 2007 09:40:05 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/05/13/just-freewheeling-on-a-sunday-afternoon/#comment-131958 I like your vague meanderings into new technologies and your unstructured approach to learning about them. I believe that you are on to something when you link enterprise information and education because any time you allow many people unstructured access to information they will find their own ways to use it (all the while teaching others what they have learned). One enterprise knowledge management tool I have found like that is <a>General Knowledge Base</a>. It is a free form relational database which is securely shared across the internet with client/server technology and can be designed from the bottom up by regular users. I like your vague meanderings into new technologies and your unstructured approach to learning about them. I believe that you are on to something when you link enterprise information and education because any time you allow many people unstructured access to information they will find their own ways to use it (all the while teaching others what they have learned). One enterprise knowledge management tool I have found like that is General Knowledge Base. It is a free form relational database which is securely shared across the internet with client/server technology and can be designed from the bottom up by regular users.

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