The Changing Face of Knowledge Management March 19, 2008
Posted by Eyal Sivan in Producer.Tags: blogs, knowledge management, taxonomy, top-down, web 2.0, wikis
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In a past life, I worked with E&Y‘s Knowledge Management (KM) division to help them build their first Web-based Knowledge Sharing tools, and develop their KM practice. One of the tools my company built for them, brilliantly named KnowledgeWeb, was a Web-based Document Repository. It featured all the trappings one would expect: top-down, hierarchical categories based on a common taxonomy; discrete roles and permissions; and an administrative back-end to manage it all.
The Message of Television March 17, 2008
Posted by Eyal Sivan in Defining the Connective.Tags: broadcast, mcluhan, medium, message, television, top-down
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Marshall McLuhan based much of his philosophy on the idea that all technology is media, and that all media is an extension of human faculties, as in: the shovel is an extension of the hand, and the car an extension of the foot. The more pervasive a medium is, the more it represents an extension of all of human culture. As media go, television is about as pervasive as it gets.
