There’s been a lot of talk about the reporting of the Sago, West Virginia, mine tragedy. On Monday, an explosion trapped some miners. Rescue efforts began. Tuesday night, I saw a brief piece on the 11 pm news claiming the miners were still trapped. Wednesday’s morning paper carried a story saying the miners were supposedly […]
George Johnson expounds on the differences between Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia the recent Nature study highlights.
After explaining the complex differences in the number of siblings Dmitri Mendeleyev had, he observes that the number typically isn’t an important detail. For many people, though, one error–no matter how minor–jeopardizes the reliability of the entire source.
One of Wikipedia’s […]
Jenny reports that They Might Be Giants, a really cool, rockin’ band often featuring an accordion, offers a podcast: http://www.tmbg.com/_media/_pod/podcast.xml. A podcast probably isn’t such a big stretch for them because they’ve been doing something similar to a podcast with different technology for years: Dial a Song. They put a song as the outgoing message […]
Bill Ives of Portals and KM shares a short list of knowledge management blogs he recently discovered. He also links to two previous lists of such blogs.
No, I’m not just linking to him because he links to me. Some of you ask me about KM blogs and sometimes I talk about them in my presentations.