The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy – David Weinberger – Harvard Business Review

October 20th, 2011 by John No comments »

Addressing the Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom hierarchy by Ackoff (or Eliot? or Zappa?), David Weinberger argues that “knowledge is not a result merely of filtering or algorithms. It results from a far more complex process that is social, goal-driven, contextual, and culturally-bound.”

via The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy – David Weinberger – Harvard Business Review.

Is DIKW a simplification? Yes. An over-simplification? Maybe. But that’s what computer scientists, as Mr. Weinberger argues, crave — drilling down into the information, filtering out the extra, and refining the unnecessary to reach the real raison d’etre.

Applying Sentiment Analysis to the Bible « OpenBible.info Blog

October 19th, 2011 by John No comments »

What happens when you look at the language in the Bible, try to determine who’s happy and who’s not, then graph it all out?

OpenBible.info has done just that and posted a nice, circular graphic showing the ebbs and flows of positive and negative vibes in the Bible. It’s a pretty vanilla linguistic analysis, and the circle is just for aesthetics (see the author’s comment to the post), but it’s still interesting. Accurate? That’s another question — one that I’m not so positive about…

Three people who should not be writing your content | Siegel+Gale

September 24th, 2011 by John No comments »

 

 

Three people who should not be writing your content | Siegel+Gale.

Think of three people who shouldn’t be anywhere to the content creation process in your office. Who would they be? Why?

Sarah Negugogor, at Siegel and Gale, has posted a concise argument against using lawyers, engineers, or managers to write content. I found myself nodding in agreement all the way through…

Staffordshire Hoard is coming to America – Medievalists.net

August 13th, 2011 by John No comments »

 

Sword pyramid (image from StaffordshireHoard.org.uk)

Sword pyramid (image from StaffordshireHoard.org.uk)

Staffordshire Hoard is coming to America – Medievalists.net.

Wonderful news! Can’t wait to see the exhibition. Given the current collaborators, I’m sure it will be top notch. It has been a long time since I’ve seen a world-class medieval exhibition, the last one being “The Making of England” at the British Museum/Library some twenty years ago.

For more information about the hoard, see the website. In late 2009, the British Museum Press published a small (48pp) volume on the hoard (ISBN: 978-0714123288), with a sampling of photographs.

HT to Medieval News

Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings [Kieran Healy's Weblog]

July 31st, 2011 by John No comments »

Relating text editors to The Lord of the Rings… Clever…

Kieran Healy’s Weblog – Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings.

The list makes clever use of reality and fiction. I wonder what JEdit would be?

Which text editor do you use?

HT R-bloggers