judith meskill's knowledge notes...: haitech haiku™ Archives

May 10, 2004

informal learning...

informal learning
fine fuel for 'formal' futures
so semiotic.

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©2004 judith meskill
inspired by Lilia Efimova's prolific PhD research and a paper that Lilia pointed me to in the past--Beneath the Surface of KM and OL -- beyond Informal Learning through 'Semiotic Learning'--by Angela Nobre...

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May 09, 2004

small social knowledges...

small group knowledge,
situated software stage,
see some synergy?

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©2004 judith meskill

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May 05, 2004

spring photo haiku...

my sister manages an art store on "main street" in a small, scenic, new jersey town. every year she decorates the store window and creates a stunning flower box right below the window. then there is a juried competition - which she often wins. this year she placed first in this competition, and honored me by having one of my spring haiku painted onto the front window of the store.

i penned this haiku one early morning in may - while parked on the cherry blossom strewn street before anyone else was stirring but the soulful mourning dove.

main street still slumbers
pink snow drifts on blacktop road
mourning dove coo coos...

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©2004 judith meskill

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March 27, 2004

haiku more spring...

jete into spring
a DNA spiral dance
silken spun substance

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©2004 judith meskill

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March 21, 2004

haiku valdis krebs...

social networking
valdis is visionary
connecting the dots...

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©2004 judith meskill

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March 20, 2004

haiku spring salute...

plasmic sun kisses
celestial equator
vernal equinox

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©2004 judith meskill

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March 01, 2004

autonomic nets...

neural networks and
autonomic computing -
modeled after us...

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©2004 judith meskill

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January 27, 2004

constant conversation...

through myths and shadows
footsteps of the archetypes
fade in windblown snow

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©2004 judith meskill

inspired by a post in dina mehta's weblog on jung, combined with the steady snowfall outside my window tonight...

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November 25, 2003

sociable particles...

sociable bosons
anti-social fermions
BEC Friendsters

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©2003 judith meskill

inspired by an article in The New York Times today on: Big Step in Conductivity: More Sociable Particles

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November 14, 2003

aneurysmal annulment...

stowe boyd's survival
september birth month memoirs
timing is crucial...

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©2003 judith meskill

inspired by stowe's surgical success - stowe is a strong presence in real-time, collaborative and social technology spaces

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October 31, 2003

f2f with dina in philadelphia...

dina mehta and judith meskill

sunny autumn day
the art of conversation
smoothly skipping stones...

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©2003 judith meskill

inspired by meeting dina mehta in philadelphia today - a clear, warm fall day, a simple meal and simply wonderful conversation... dina and i were instantly comfortable - like old friends picking up on an ongoing chat with confidence, ease, and trust...

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October 28, 2003

f2f conversations with dina...

dina mehta's blog
on california and friends
fine face to face fun...

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©2003 judith meskill

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can knowledge be reaped?...

if you aspire to
reaping a knowledge havest
switch your metaphor...

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©2003 judith meskill

read denham grey's harvesting knowledge - can we really do it? post...

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October 23, 2003

happy belated blogiversary...

jim mcgee's musings
fine fodder for fomenting
knowledge work wisdom...

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©2003 judith meskill

in celebration of jim's two year blogiversary and his generous 'virtual' accessibility...

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October 11, 2003

knowledge domain visualization...

the knowledge landscape
superstring revolutions
explore in 3D

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©2003 judith meskill

Visualizing a Knowledge Domain's Intellectual Structure

Knowledge Management and Knowledge Work are enhanced by effective information modeling and visualization tools. Knowledge domain visualization (KDV) assists in recognizing patterns of citation, not only in scientific journals but also in how organizations, industries, and the world at large refer to each other and give attribution or citation. Being a "visual" type, I find this area of study into visualizing a knowledge domain's intellectual structure in a three-dimensional spatial model compelling.

...To make knowledge visualizations clear and easy to interpret, the authors have developed a method that extends and transforms traditional author co-citation analysis (ACA) by extracting structural patterns from the scientific literature and representing them in a 3D knowledge landscape. Integrating citation and co-citation patterns provides a rich, ecological representation of a knowledge domain. Users can apply visualizations to discover patterns and make valuable connections among data. The authors' approach extends conventional ACA by integrating structured modeling and information visualization techniques to provide a 3D knowledge landscape based on citation patterns. Their four-step procedure introduces Pathfinder network scaling to replace multidimensional scaling. It also integrates Pathfinder and factor analysis to visualize specialties in the underlying domain knowledge and visualizes the citation frequency of scientists to track changes in their influence over time. This knowledge visualization approach identifies intellectual groupings based on extending the traditional ACA, augmenting the existing document- and concept-centered approaches to knowledge visualization. The 3D knowledge landscape has practical implications in knowledge visualization, digital libraries, domain analysis, and subject domains, providing powerful tools for tracking intuitively scientific knowledge...

For access to downloadable PDF papers in this area:

Dr. Chaomei Chen - is an Associate Professor in the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University. His research interests include information visualization, digital libraries, visualization of knowledge structures, and social dynamics in multi-user virtual environments. He is the author of Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments (Springer, 1999) and the Editor-in-Chief of a peer-reviewed international journal Information Visualization.

Katy Borner - is an Assistant Professor in Information Science at Indiana University. Trained as an engineer, her major interest has always been a concern with how existing technology can be applied to enhance and extend human capabilities. In particular, she focuses on information visualization and the usage of 3-D technology to build collaborative, intuitive and efficient human-computer interfaces to electronically available data such as text and image digital libraries.

For more information on Knowledge Domain Visualization, Google It!

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October 10, 2003

woolly bear legend...

maple tree

thickly clouded sky
maple tree bursting orange
woollies seek shelter

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©2003 judith meskill

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October 09, 2003

conspicuous consumption...

Monocerotis
Star Light, Star Bright, Last Planet I Eat Tonight...[astronomy.com]

planet munching star
brightens upon swallowing
three planetwiches

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©2003 judith meskill

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October 08, 2003

on liz lawley's AoIR despair...

link aggregators
or electronic yentas?
people as filters

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©2003 judith meskill

inspired by liz lawley's reference - in her desiderata and despair post - to Alex Golub's people as filters essay.

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on techknowledgy...

stirring support soup
technology and knowledge
tasty winter brew

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©2003 judith meskill

Today, in response to Dave Pollard's piece on "Techknowledgy", I posted the following comment on Dave's weblog:

When I was with SBC Communications' Internet Company, we called our group the "TechKnowledgy" group. The concept and practice - to embed knowledge into all of our technology initiatives. Our charter was as outlined in your post here Dave. Spooky, and yet validating.

We created an expertise locator, personal content management and collaboration tools, and we maintained a centralized bibliography or repository of tools and templates to effect solutions more quickly and with high quality. We did this for the front-line organizations and won a landslide of awards and praise from our customers, employees, industry pundits and publications.

We presented our "TechKnowledgy" vision to most of the C-level executives of SBC, with positive feedback. The challenge in socializing this vision more widely was in penetrating the more rigid operational silos of this large organization.

CIO magazine did a piece on some of our initiatives that you might find interesting: First Lines of Defense - Customer Service

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October 07, 2003

denham grey's caution...

on knowledge landscapes
denham grey paints metaphors
hills and peaks to climb

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©2003 judith meskill

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October 02, 2003

particle physics & cosmology...

in momentum space
magnetic monopole's mass
furtive fingerprints

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©2003 judith meskill

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forming blogs to inform...

research, aggregate
synthesize and analyze
pollard's prescription...

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©2003 judith meskill

inspired by dave pollard's october 1st post - How to Make Your Blog More Valuable to Readers

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October 01, 2003

ephemeral epiphenomena...

powerpoint presents
slogans as your solutions
looknfeel folly

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©2003 judith meskill

inspired by a comment posted today, october 1st, to my august 23rd post regarding tufte's powerpoint article [accessible through "looknfeel" link above]

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