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There’s a good reason why The Black Swan is a best seller. It’s written in a very lively style with great narratives, literary images, and vivid terms and phrases. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NNT) talks about scalability, non-scalability, Extremistan, Mediocristan, the fallacy of silent evidence, confirmation error or platonic confirmation, epistemic arrogance, future blindness, the lottery-ticket […]

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One reason why I haven’t blogged in the last week or so, is that a very active discussion about the Federal KM Initiative has been going on in the new FedKM google group. At one point in the discussions I had occasion to offer a first crack at an elevator speech for the Federal KM […]

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s (NNT) The Black Swan is a “best seller,” and therefore may be having a certain influence on our thinking in many fields including Knowledge Management. From the viewpoint of KM, The Black Swan isn’t about what we know, or about what we know we don’t know, but rather is a book that […]

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Today, leading Civil Liberties and Human Rights Groups met with President Obama to talk about the recent actions of the Administration in seeming to support Bush Administration policies and his continued reluctance to support investigations and prosecutions for War Crimes. Reportedly, the President […]

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Dave Snowden, whose work I’ve often discussed here, recently filed this post which really speaks to me. I think it’s right on the money, and is about both KM and politics, and also complexity and measurement. I’ll look forward to the next one, Dave.

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Marcy Wheeler who most frequently blogs at Firedog Lake as “emptywheel,” just filed a blog at Salon entitled: “The 13 people who made torture possible.” I have two comments. First, please note Newt Gingrich, John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh, and any other distraction-motivated warriors vitally concerned about Nancy Pelosi’s alleged, but non-existent, insult of CIA personnel, […]

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It’s interesting to look at torture as practiced by the Bush Administration from the perspective of Knowledge Management. In this case, from the perspective of the three-tier model. Let’s begin with the process of an interrogator trying to retrieve “knowledge” from another person. That’s a particular kind of knowledge integration called searching and retrieving (how […]

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy If you believe this Kit Bond bull puckey about the CIA never lying to Congress, then I’ve got a bridge to sell you! But as everyone who is anyone except, of course, for the MSM and those unhappy that the Republican Party isn’t […]

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The Obama Administration evidently wants desperately to put the war crimes of the past behind America, and to address the economic, educational, environmental, energy, health care, and hopefully, equality issues that it views as the issues of our time. The trouble is that the people who really care about the Constitution won’t cooperate. There are […]

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Dick Cheney keeps repeating his claims that “enhanced interrogation techniques” including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and others were effective in that they provided vital information, kept Americans safe, and saved many thousands of lives. He does this even while he continues to ignore the […]

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