... could people stop using phrases like "knowledge harvesting"!
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This blog is mothballed
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And how, pray, without knowledge harvesting, are we to make knowledge soup, or wisdom roast, or indeed data scones?
Are we to condemn to poverty, nay bankruptcy, the makers and operators of knowledge harvesters that ply the virtual fields, baling the information straw for the contemplative goats to eat; giving their rich thinky cheese for the cognitively intolerant?
And what about the microformat gleaners who pick over the stubble before it is burned into fertilizer for the edu-ploughs?
I'm sorry. Looks like the Prozac just kicked in again.
Posted by: Earl Mardle | October 19, 2006 at 01:51 AM
It's just a natural part of assimilation...
Posted by: Julian Elve | October 19, 2006 at 08:13 AM
it depends of course:
knowledge harvesting: good for explicit knowledge that does not run away,
as opposed to
knowledge capture: more difficult, needed for the evasive tacit knowledge ;-)
Posted by: christianhauck | October 19, 2006 at 08:49 AM
Both bollocks Christian!
Posted by: Euan Semple | October 19, 2006 at 08:54 AM
Ouch. That hurt.
Posted by: Stephanie Booth | October 19, 2006 at 09:31 AM
Euan
I'm sat in a meeting right now with some consultants who are helping us and I've just banned them yesterday from that horrid phrase, they are still smarting from that and licking their wounds (they seem to struggle to explain it anyother way, nor understand that humnas do this naturally so just get em talking!! - when will they learn. They may know SAP but what on earth do they know about people and what makes em tick......
Posted by: Andy | October 19, 2006 at 09:31 AM
Yeah and what about the Knowledge Harvest Festival, y'mean-spirited b*****d!?!
You'd like to see an end to little kiddies proudly placing a tin of Campbell's Condensed Cream of Idea Soup on the altar, would you?
If people like you ran the world, there'd be thousands of old people dying alone this winter without a single fact in their heads.
Bow your head in shame.
Posted by: Lloyd | October 19, 2006 at 09:36 AM
As a non-native speaker (german), my problem is that I don't always get the irony ironed out properly, when I want to ridicule an idea.
I once ran a 15 minutes workshop about the nonsense of building a knowledge repository when one simple rule for behavior solves all the problems. I thought that it would be clear and impressive (It was really dramatic, including paper and scissors and fire). Nevertheless, at the end, someone approached me and thanked me for the inspiration to actually do it. Do what, I asked. Build a repository (which is just what I had tried to show as wasteful, useless...).
Should I really revert to plain "that's the way it is!!!" ??
Posted by: christianhauck | October 19, 2006 at 01:24 PM
Excellent story and I am so releived to hear you were being ironic!
Posted by: Euan Semple | October 19, 2006 at 04:51 PM