I’ve been preparing (yeah, on a Sunday) for a series of hands-on training sessions I will be giving to knowledge workers in Ottawa this coming week and have been defragging and optimising the IM issues in my mind. Although I am a tech guy, I have always kept IM and KM issues close to my heart and remember… IT exists primarily to provide IM solutions!
It’s rare that I see such eloquently simplified presentations such as Clay Shirky has done in Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags …
There’s a good reason why that particular piece is PageRank 6! If you have to explain modern ways of managing information, or why the file system is dead (yes, the file system is dead, finito) and how the Internet has changed the way we manage information…
This article is a must to understand modern ontology…. and why it doesn’t always work.
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