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I’m flabbergasted. There’s a lot for me to read and to catch up on, a lot for me to digest, a lot for me to learn from. My thanks to all of you. Now I need to do justice to the comments and suggestions and criticisms, and it’s going to take a little time.
I’m also [...]

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Something David N Wallace said in his recent post triggered this train of thought.
There are people who think that Facebook is too open. And there are people who think that Facebook is too closed.
The Too Open crew tend to take a risk-averse enterprise view, and concern themselves with archival and retrieval and regulation and privacy and [...]

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A few days ago, I promised to share my thoughts about Facebook in the context of knowledge management in the enterprise. So here goes.
First off, some context. For many years people have not wanted to share their “little black books”, their contacts and addresses. For whatever reason, some people appeared to feel that they were [...]

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Just some of the stuff I’ve bookmarked over the years and never blogged about.

If you think, like I used to, that everything’s an illusion, then go here.
If you prefer to argue about angels dancing on the head of a pin, as I used to, then go here.
If, on the other hand, your God is Clapton [...]

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As some of you would have gathered by now, I’m a bit of a cricket nut. [If you have no idea what the game is about, take a look at the Wikipedia entry that I've linked to, it's a reasonably good place to start.]
Today was one of those frustrating days when I was sure Tendulkar [...]

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Tim Rice is rumoured to have come up with this in a recent letter to some cricketing journal. A fellow cricket aficionado, Tim has spent hours looking at the npower logo on the cricket ground. Upside down. And, given the font and style used, npower does look a lot like jemodu.
In typical cavalier spirit, he [...]

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Yesterday’s post on Facebook and the enterprise seems to have elicited quite a few comments, so I thought I’d carry on where I left off, catalysed by what you’ve had to say.
Tom Foremski raises the issue of Facebook’s addictiveness. I think this is really important.
What does this addictiveness represent? Ease of use? Simplicity and convenience? [...]

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Some Saturday evening strolling round the web, after spending the day out with the family.
If you haven’t seen the work of Chris Georgenes, do visit his portfolio site mudbubble. It’s a delight for anyone who enjoys watching what can be done with Flash. This particular short of Chris’s (then) 2-year old daughter singing Twinkle Twinkle [...]

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First, a piece of apocrypha:
A very long time ago. Two shoe salesmen make the long journey by boat from England to Africa. Coach. Very tired. And on the first night there, despite their tiredness, they both send urgent telegrams home. One says “Nobody wears shoes here. Catching next boat home.”. And the other says “Nobody [...]

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Apologies to those uninterested in cricket, I’ve just risen from a long and pleasant afternoon, unable to drag myself from the coverage of the Lord’s Test, with unavoidable and frequent sorties into Carnoustie to watch Padraig ease out Sergio. The match between England and India looks poised; the balance of power is with England, but [...]

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