tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109817042024-02-08T14:58:39.109+01:00Evil KM - the dark side of knowledge managementchristianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-20751588119818784112007-06-25T13:53:00.000+02:002007-06-25T13:58:46.173+02:00Sex and PowerPoXXXThis <a href="http://www.azizcorp.com/press/2007-05-24.html">blurb</a> was commented by <a href="http://www.cognitive-edge.com/2007/06/sexlies_powerpoint.php">Dave Snowden</a>, <a href="http://theobvious.typepad.com/blog/2007/06/a-great-incenti.html">Euan Semple </a>and Chris Collison, among others. <br /><br />But the reverse would be much more interesting: how many executives think about business during sex?christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-52908740881788914662007-05-30T15:46:00.000+02:002007-05-30T16:02:19.237+02:00how to die when you're corruptin Japan:<br />Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka committed suicide suicide after a series of scandals.<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/28/japan.minister.ap/index.html">CNN story</a>.<br /><br />in China:<br />Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of SFDA (the agency responsible for drug approvals) from 1998 to 2005, has been sentenced to death for accepting over $800,000 in bribes (<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/29/news/international/china_death_sentence.reut/?cnn=yes">CNN story</a>).<br /><br />well ... just different.<br /><br />Or, as we say in German: Wer will, der darf. Wer nicht will, der muss.<br /><br />(did I already say that I consider capital punishment unethical? but who listens to me?)christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-40441909285150715512007-05-30T14:41:00.000+02:002007-05-30T14:54:17.088+02:00variants of the knowledge-based societyin Dubai: (via <a href="http://chriscollison.wordpress.com/">Chris Collison</a>)<br /><a href="http://www.mbrfoundation.ae/">http://www.mbrfoundation.ae/</a> <br />The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, says he is giving $10bn (£5bn) to set up an educational foundation in the Middle East. <br />The money is meant to improve the standard of education and research in the region, and aims to stimulate job creation, Sheikh Mohammed said.<br /><br />in Europe: <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/knowledge_society/index_en.htm">Lisbon 2010</a>:<br />"...to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion." (strategic goal for 2010 set for Europe at the Lisbon European Council - March 2000)<br /><br />well, things are just .... different.christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-43207470201037781042007-05-08T20:53:00.000+02:002007-05-08T21:16:17.979+02:0055 53 60 37 F2 12 75 01 83 F9 27 9C 64 01 23 99Great: I own the intellectual property to a number:<br /> 55 53 60 37 F2 12 75 01 83 F9 27 9C 64 01 23 99<br />got it from here <a href="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1155">http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1155</a><br /><br />Don't you ever use it to decryp this:<br /><br /> We own integers,<br /> Says AACS LA.<br /> You can own one too<br /><br />The haiku is copyright 2007 by Edward W. Feltenchristianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-27554292365232214592007-03-05T22:08:00.000+01:002007-03-05T23:11:30.252+01:00Blogs that make me thinkNo, <a href="http://www.cognitive-edge.com/">Dave Snowden</a> did not <a href="http://www.cognitive-edge.com/2007/03/another_meme.php">tag me</a>. I would <a href="http://evilkm.blogspot.com/2006/12/un-tagged-spoilsport.html">not have liked that</a>. He invited people, and I was hooked.<br />So Q.E.D. - one of these blogs that make me think - and act(?) is <a href="http://www.cognitive-edge.com/">http://www.cognitive-edge.com</a> , but I'm not sure if passing the meme back is appropriate.<br />Thus, five others:<br />- <a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/">We make money not art</a> ; Regine's worldview is very different from mine: art, not business ; esthetics, not pragmatism. It's a life I'd like to live if I had a second one.<br />- Bruno Giussani's <a href="http://www.lunchoverip.com/">http://www.lunchoverip.com/</a> : People, places, technologies and ideas from a very Swiss European Worldwide perspective.<br />- <a href="http://www.danablankenhorn.com/">Dana Blankenhorn</a> helps me to understand the world of the critical, moderately conservative US , the approach to politics, business, the idea of always-on and how the individual relates to society - a society which is quite different from the one that I experience.<br />- <a href="http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/">Athanasium Kircher Society</a> is just weird and fun and extreme and inspiring - yesteryear's future. Before steampunk (memedropping just for the fun of doing it).<br />- <a href="http://peterrost.blogspot.com/">Peter Rost's Question Authority</a> - Ego the size of a planet, ex-Pharmacia, ex-Pfizer executive whistleblower, with challenging ideas about (my) industry. He just stopped blogging because he want to focus on his movie - about <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=zottmann5-20&path=http%3A//www.amazon.com/Whistleblower-Confessions-Healthcare-Hitman/dp/193336839X">his book </a> - no, latest news, he's on again: claims to be addicted. That's what he says now. Let's see tomorrow.christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-20422859769606563162007-03-01T10:31:00.000+01:002007-03-01T11:05:50.519+01:00Patent and IP rights or wrongsIntellectual property and patents rights may indeed encourage creativity and innovation : rather than keeping your wisdom secret (hermeneutic <a href="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/">alchemy</a> like <a href="http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/">Coca-Cola</a>), you publish what you know, and a bigger force (the state, the legal system...) grants you exclusivity in return for a certain period - not too long, not too short. And then it belongs to the commons.<br />It gets tricky in the details. See Novartis' case for <a href="http://www.novartis.com/about-novartis/corporate-citizenship/india-glivec-patent-case/index.shtml">Glivec in India</a>. (disclaimer: I work for Novartis)<br />However, it's reported that the head of the <a href="http://www.wipo.int/">World Intellectual Property Organisation WIPO</a> , the responsible UN agency <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/3971717a4560.html">behaves in an irresponsible way by lying about his age</a> . Looks like this was the way to get a job which he would otherwise not have qualified for.<br />More blows to the credibility of the IP and patents system - as exemplified by their leaders - and we might want to go back to the old days of the alchemists, the guilds and the Mafia.<br /><br />Oops - I should not have said that ... ?christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-23018708088517468252007-02-05T10:18:00.000+01:002007-02-05T10:23:59.750+01:00Vista speech recognition hackit's not importaqnt if <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/02/01/vista_lets_peop.html">this</a> is true or not - I just happen to like a cool idea when I see it: hacking a computer (runnig Microsoft's Hasta La Vista) by sending an mp3 file containing spoken commands ('command delete all') that would control the computer through voice recognition.<br /><a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/02/01/vista_lets_peop.html"></a>christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-24264587808383828352007-01-31T09:33:00.000+01:002007-01-31T09:38:19.121+01:00The truthis here: <a href="http://scq.ubc.ca/?p=677">http://scq.ubc.ca/?p=677</a><br />truth by googlebombing? The truth is what google shows to those who are feeling lucky.christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-47098385002259417152006-12-30T15:05:00.000+01:002006-12-30T15:15:25.673+01:00evil spammers don't replyI get too much spam. Conventional wisdom says "don't reply, because then they know that it's a valid mail address".<br /><br />Recently, I replied. The first one was "borderline". I did not know (or did not remember) her, but at least it was a "real" person. And she replied, explaining how I got onto her list. Would I prefer to be removed? No, fine.<br />And I replied to another mail, with several fake addresses in the body pof the mail and as alleged sender. Trying to sell me his spamming service, so I could annoy others. No reply.<br />But it just felt good to write "U bastard".<br /><br />Two good reasons why I might reply more often in the future.christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-21375149406327395872006-12-22T15:57:00.000+01:002006-12-22T16:32:28.229+01:00virtual chefI like <a href="http://www.cognitive-edge.com/">Dave <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Snowden</span></span></a>'s recipe book user vs. Chef metaphor so much that I just copy and paste from one of his <a href="http://www.cognitive-edge.com/2006/12/sitting_on_the_bench_is_no_way.php">recent blog entries</a> :<br />"A recipe <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">book </span>user will want your kitchen to be properly equipped with everything in the right place and proportions and all the ingredients neatly arranged in small bowls on the work surface before they even start to cook a meal. The Chef, who knows, will take what ever you have available and make it into a wonderful meal."<br /><br />Yet: modern technology can help stupid non-Chefs to act AS IF they were experienced: <a href="http://www.cookingbynumbers.com/frames.html">http://www.cookingbynumbers.com</a> lets you enter what you have available, and then gives a recipe that takes into account these current <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">constraints</span>.<br /><br />Which leads to the question: Does the (a, any) tool make you MORE intelligent - allowing you to achieve more; or LESS intelligent - because the success is achieved by the prosthetic device, not by the naked <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">youman</span></span> being.<br /><a href="http://www.cookingbynumbers.com/frames.html"> </a>christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-79056584603616502362006-12-22T15:20:00.000+01:002006-12-22T15:26:01.436+01:00un-tagged spoilsportThe one thing that you did not know about me: I don't participate in pyramid schemes, chain letters, etc.christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-79420916082568448772006-12-15T09:45:00.000+01:002006-12-15T09:57:37.390+01:00personality transplants<a href="http://theobvious.typepad.com/blog/2006/12/enterprise_20.html">Euan Semple</a> commented on Jevon MacDonald's predictions for <a href="http://socialwrite.com/?p=111">2007: The year of Enterprise 2.0</a> ..... "The big consulting firms are circling this stuff at the moment but as I said to someone on IM recently they would need personality transplants. I don't mean that rudely but most of them just don't get this stuff."<br />But even if you could do do the transplant, there is still the issue of immune reactions. And I'd love to see them.<br />I might even see them during my normal job in a big pharma company. The company that was involved, decades ago, with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclosporin">means to overcome immune reactions to transplantation</a>?.<br /><br />Looking forward to 2007. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times">May you live in interesting times</a>.christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-27307549579841730862006-12-11T14:21:00.000+01:002006-12-11T14:30:31.364+01:00to twitter ot not to twitterSo <a href="http://matt.blogs.it/">Matt</a> cancelled his <a href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter</a> account. Too much noise, too much distraction, not enough "flow". With me, it's the opposite: I (almost) always want things happening around me. And twitter is unobtrusive enough - and meaningless enough - not to take it too serios. It just happens, and fades into the background.<br />What makes "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furniture_music">musique d'ameublement</a>" different from "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak">muzak</a>" is the fact that it's being played by real people - I would not want to read twitter timeline updates from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak">A.L.I.C.E.</a> or similar.christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-52025060918099376622006-12-04T12:03:00.000+01:002006-12-04T12:05:37.689+01:00evilKM 2.0 - just re-activated this blogthanks to Euan - I'm envious, I also want a spam comment. purlease.christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-32673205435383703002006-12-04T11:59:00.001+01:002006-12-04T12:00:28.869+01:00spam comments... I want more ... they don't even ignore me ... crying ...christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-1113835852789110502005-04-18T16:47:00.000+02:002005-04-18T16:50:52.790+02:00artificial stupidity accepted for a scientific conferenceAccording to <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4449651.stm">BBC news</a>, a collection of computer-generated gibberish in the form of an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference, to the delight of hoaxers.<br />Are compuers getting smarter (think <a href="http://www.wetmachine.com/cheap/index.shtml">Cheap Complex Devices</a>), or are people getting stupid?christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-1110876631135449482005-03-15T09:38:00.000+01:002005-03-15T09:50:31.136+01:00borgification into the overmindwhen (if?) we're all connected, is this good or bad? <a href="http://www.wetmachine.com/">Wetmachine</a>'s John (Sundman) and Stearns debate about <a href="http://www.wetmachine.com/index.php/item/239">Inventing the Future: connectivity and freedom</a>.<br />My 2cents, of course: <a href="http://www.christianhauck.net/who_is_we.htm">who is we</a>?christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-1109770546071751312005-03-02T14:12:00.000+01:002005-03-02T14:35:46.073+01:00We're all sinners... if we sing the song "<a href="http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/8902/midi/birthday1.mid">happy birthday</a>" in public without making sure that the royalties go to the legal owner of the song (<a href="http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TWX">check poor Time Warner's share price</a>). Thanks to <a href="http://www.unhappybirthday.com/">http://www.unhappybirthday.com</a> for that important information. And now that you know it, please make sure that all your friends know it, too. Spread the meme. Do it. Now. Go! Don't waste any time here at EvilKM.<br /><br />Go away!<br /><br />Do you want to continue infringing Intellectual (??) Property Rights? Welcome at EvilKM. Continue to do so, sabotage innovation (remember what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Property">Intellectual Property </a>Rights were invented for), and make the world an evil place.christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-1109752468405279002005-03-02T09:16:00.000+01:002005-03-02T10:05:54.246+01:00Let someone else do the linkinglike, for instance, <a href="http://toolbar.google.com/">Google Toolbar</a>. It's autolink feature claims that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN">ISBN numbers</a> refer to <a href="http://www.amazon.com">Amazon</a>, and even <a href="http://www.boingboing.net">BoingBoing</a> applauds: <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/01/google_toolbar_like_.html">"...like a beloved butler..."</a>. Reminds me of the weird 1986 cult movie "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005KHJN/qid=1109752226/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/104-5770906-8003927?v=glance&s=dvd#product-details">Link</a>", where an OrangUtan serving as butler gets evil. Very Good. Let THEM do the linking, let others do the thinking. And let ME do your eating.<br />More explicitely: it helps THEM establishing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIN">ASIN</a>. The one for Link (the movie, not the hyperlink), is B00005KHJN . And the link (the hyperlink, not the movie) is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005KHJN/">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005KHJN/</a> . Guess what the "A" in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIN">ASIN</a> stands for? Right (<a href="http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AMZN">check the AMZN current share price</a> to find out why this is a good idea). And guess what the "I" in ISBN stands for? "International". Public property. A stupid idea from old Europe.christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-1109527202011956062005-02-27T18:56:00.000+01:002005-02-27T19:00:02.013+01:00Evil sharingJust started this blog, and it's already worse: thanks to some bad guy (leave a comment if you want to out yourself) who sent me a really evil gif-file for the header. Much better - much more evil - than the original text.christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-1108999575850061362005-02-21T16:20:00.000+01:002005-02-21T16:29:03.060+01:00ChoicePoint shares ...<a href="http://www.choicepoint.com/">ChoicePoint</a> is said to help sharing precious information <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/18/213239&tid=158&tid=219">(via slashdot)</a>. Great! Let's share and have some fun! Knowledge shared is power squared!christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10981704.post-1108995425014156852005-02-21T15:16:00.000+01:002005-02-21T15:17:13.516+01:00Evil KMThe dark side of knowledge management. There's nothing that you can't abuse.christianhauckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17450257378522270301noreply@blogger.com0