Flow My Thoughts, The IT Professor Said

Giving Each 2nd Lieutenant A Map

http://www.masternewmedia.org/2003/11/28/personal_knowledge_mapping_and_the.htm

The deafening buzzing of this particular bee in my hive-like bonnet is simply the result of intense frustration at the organizational barriers to effective knowledge use, when breaking down those barriers is a win/win situation. Here is a richly annotated article on "Personal Knowledge Mapping And The Concept Of Data Emergence" which simply bristles with insights relativeto this isuue, particularly in explaining expensive implementation failures.

There was an old motto of the Whole Earth Catalog: "We are as gods, so be better get good at it" and that applies here in spades. We have the tools, but cannot see how to apply them [nor, in truth, is such application straightforward, cheap, or easy]. But it requires some iron in the nerves, and some appreciation of "Victory, dammit!, Victory".