Saturday, May 18, 2002

Final Post of the Night  . .. In response to the Jim's post re: Apprenticing, I would suggest that he consider asking some of his better bloggers from our class to act as mentors to future classes.  Not only would the new students benefit from those who have gone before but I think that current bloggers could also learn from the questions and experiences of future bloggers.     10:54:21 PM     On May 14th, Jim posted A learning motto instead. In his post, he agrees with the statement "It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."  While I agree with the premise that "If you enter the argument with the eye toward developing deeper understanding and willingness to abandon your initial hypotheses, then you're learning and you're doing science."  He loses me when he equates this to "the intent of the argument".  To me, one must look to what the argument participants seek to achieve.  For example, if they seek a solution to the problem and neither participant understands the subject matter of the problem then the debate will be predicated on misinformation and incomplete hypotheses and a true solution may never be found.  However, if one person knows a little about one area of the subject and the other person knows a little about a different area of the subject then I agree that through spirited debate and the willingness to be open to new ideas and info both will gain a greater understanding of the subject.   10:31:30 PM     Further Commnetary to the Fuzzy Blog In the Fuzzy Blog's post entitled "What a Brave New World Blogging is Building", I question his assertion that blogging is "real Knowledge Management".  He admits that he put his marketing materials on his home page and then e-mailed someone in Norway and Italy letting them know that the materials were posted.  Wouldn't he have achieved the same result by creating a word document and then e-mailing that document to the same people.  I guess my point is that the people did not find the marketing materials through their own blogging efforts - - the Fuzzy Blog notified the people of the materials existence.  Now, had a person been blogging, reviewed Jim's home page, jumped to the Fuzzy Blog's home page and then reviewed the marketing materials I think that would be a better testimonial to the power of blogging. Don't mind me, I guess I'm just in a cynical mood!  10:16:05 PM     On Thursday, May 16th, Jim posted the Secrets of a High Volume Blogger which I read with great interest since I am having trouble finding time to Blog.  While the secrets were instructive, they only appear to be effective if you have access to your computer 24/7.  The Fuzzy Blog acknowedges that he works from home, has two computers and uses one for blogging while he is working on the other.  Unfortunately, we do not all have this luxury.  I blog from my home computer (not a laptop) and have been traveling a fair amount of time over the past couple of weeks.  As such, I would like to have Radio develop the capability of remote accessing a home page. It seems that I am not the only one with this problem since Russ Lipton comments "yes, I'm back form Austin, armed and dangerous" in Radio Demystified.  This comment leads me to believe that Russ could not blog because Radio is on a computer that is not mobile.  The work around that I have developed is to print of interesting postings, read them thoroughly and then write comments in the margins.  Then when I return home, I post my comments on my home page.  Rather inefficient don't you think?  I would also recommend that if Jim is going to offer the Knowledge Management class again, that he inform potential students that they will need a laptop on which they can install certain programs to effectively participate in the blogging experience. 10:01:58 PM

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