Imported from an old blog.

Heidegger has come up quite often in my own personal ramblings about the nature of work, collaboration, and information and knowledge representation. A few days ago, Aldo posted some information about the foundations of the Language Action Perspective (social constructionism, Heidegger, the notion of breakdowns …

Imported from an old blog.

When I was in school I took an Information Architecture class that required a readings journal. Some of those entries deserve revision.

I was, at the time, especially in the difference, similarities and interrelationships between classification and categorization. What follows began life as Studer: Classification …

Imported from an old blog.

When I was younger, my friends, lovers and associates would pride themselves with statements similar to "I have no regrets" or "If I had to do it all over again I wouldn't change anything". I was suspicious of that feeling then and know it to …

Here's some more of a continuing exploration of the politics of collaboration.

I find it helpful to distinguish between two dimensions of collaboration: Emergent versus Imposed and Loose versus Tight. There are presumably many more.

Emergent collaboration comes about in response to a discovered need that is shared amongst a …