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.:Sixorg: Federated Search is dead, dead, dead...
Dated article - and makes lots of assumptions about certain implementation models of federated search.
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Content Strategy - a knol by Jeffrey MacIntyre
Sadly content strategy is practiced by few, and almost exclusively only in consumer-facing situations, in my experience. That said, worth looking through this knol.
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Role Based Provisioning and Access Control | RBAC
Meet another of the core meta-layers needed to unify silo/app sprawl.
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The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek
And now for something completely different - fascinating article on the serious decline of American creativity/innovation. Extending from childhood through to adults.
Absolutely agree with this article - see the same problems and opportunities every time we run an Innovation Workshop. Most adults have been taught specifically to give up on innovation - unless they are "designers" of some sort. That cedes far too much innovation energy to an incredibly small area of any given organization.
"Overwhelmed by curriculum standards, American teachers warn there’s no room in the day for a creativity class. Kids are fortunate if they get an art class once or twice a week. But to scientists, this is a non sequitur, borne out of what University of Georgia’s Mark Runco calls “art bias.” The age-old belief that the arts have a special claim to creativity is unfounded. When scholars gave creativity tasks to both engineering majors and music majors, their scores laid down on an identical spectrum, with the same high averages and standard deviations. Inside their brains, the same thing was happening—ideas were being generated and evaluated on the fly.
Researchers say creativity should be taken out of the art room and put into homeroom. The argument that we can’t teach creativity because kids already have too much to learn is a false trade-off. Creativity isn’t about freedom from concrete facts. Rather, fact-finding and deep research are vital stages in the creative process. Scholars argue that current curriculum standards can still be met, if taught in a different way."
- 1990 is when the overzealous drive for standardized testing and curriculum began. Go figure. - post by Jeffrey Fuller
- We say that we do the same as far as problem based learning, but our problem is how to get kids to pass a standardized test. In truth, other countries are taking on learning methods that we discarded in the late 1980s, we are taking on a learning approach that they have abandoned after 1000 years of practice. Our own educational leaders are all in denial about this. - post by Jeffrey Fuller
- Edutainers, don't get your hopes up for synchronized dance interpretation of math problems. Using creativity is great, but it must also be relevant. - post by Jeffrey Fuller
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Blog on Federated Search sponsored by Deep Web Technologies - interesting coverage.
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Parsing Findability Problems, Part Two
Just finding an old post from Sid at Attivio regarding our research on Findability from 2 years ago. Great troubleshooting advice on findability - part 2 of 2 articles.
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Just finding an old post from Sid at Attivio regarding our research on Findability from 2 years ago. Great troubleshooting advice on findability - part 1 of 2 articles.
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